Tajikistan: In Search of the Yeti Stand Point

British journalist Ben Judah goes in search of the mythical wild man - or "clever monkey" - of the Asian mountains, finding a fair number of citizens willing to swear on the Koran that they have seen the Yeti or evidence of its existence. As Judah puts it, "(I)n Romit, I touched a living myth." Judah compares the beliefs of the impoverished Tajiks in the legend of the Yeti to the beliefs of the European peasants prior to the French Revolution. With images. Elsewhere, Jon Downes comments on a YouTube video that appears to show you can fool some of the people all of the time, especially when it comes to such things as the Return of the Jenny Haniver. With video. Downes also has commentary today about an item from a 1947 edition of a newspaper published in China that appears to attest to an impossibly long-lived tortoise, as seen, with relevant questions, in Canton's 1000 Year Old Testudine. Meanwhile, the latest information about one of the year's most highly anticipated Fortean events is available in New at the Weird Weekend.