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Yeti scalp in display case

Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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Yeti scalp in display case
Image credit: CC-BY-SA-2.5 Nuno Nogueira

Uploader comment: This alleged yeti scalp is kept safe and is considered to be an important relic at Khumjung monastery.

Image status: EXPLAINED Tests conducted on a 'yeti scalp' recovered from the same monastery in the 1960s by Sir Edmund Hillary identified it as being from a Himalayan species of goat, the serow.


Recent comments on this image
Comment icon #7 Posted by Matthew Davids on 12/14/2010
stupid goat
Comment icon #6 Posted by Miketar on 12/15/2010
Why do they LIE???????????????????
Comment icon #5 Posted by d e v i c e on 12/18/2010
Let people have their traditions,but this is the scalp of a bear. I saw a doco about it years ago.
Comment icon #4 Posted by E-K-A-99 on 5/14/2011
Thats really nasty why keep a yeti scalp what'cha going 2 do? touch it everyday? EWW!!
Comment icon #3 Posted by kitco on 6/18/2011
yeah i think it is a bear or a ass
Comment icon #2 Posted by kippa on 12/20/2012
these people base a lot of there whole belief system on this scalp and the yeti in general.its just not as simple to say they are lying. many people in the area where this monastery is situated are actually comforted to beleive that the yeti lives in there area. there is a elderly woman who lives high up in the mountains who tells a story of a yeti who attacked her and ripped the throat out of the mountain goats she was walking. not only does she truly beleive this but the lady is revered as a wise woman because the yeti didnt kill her. tradition is a hard thing to break, especially in more su...
Comment icon #1 Posted by Erudite Celt on 1/24/2013
What ever it was it's gone now. It was stolen from the monastery a few years back and has cost them a lot in tourist revenue.
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