# Whatever happened to the "Monkey Man"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005 "2003-07-26T01:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/1 "2003-07-26T01:32:17Z")
Remember that story a year or two ago about that “Monkey Man” that was running around attacking people in, I think, India? Whatever happened to that? Was it a hoax or what? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/2 "2003-07-26T01:51:38Z")
Moi? I’m working in Redmond, WA. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/3 "2003-07-26T01:51:59Z")
Mass hysteria. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/4 "2003-07-26T03:02:27Z")
He’s probably related to Springheel Jack, the Chupacabra, Bigfoot and the mothman. These kind of things come and go, eventually fading away entirely. I haven’t heard of Chupacabra for a few years now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/5 "2003-07-26T04:47:27Z")
Wasn’t there also some reports about a Bear-Man or something like that in the same area of India right after the Monkey Man sightings? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/6 "2003-07-26T18:13:51Z")
The Bear-Man turned out to be a pair of wolves who’d gotten an appetite for human flesh… they were carrying off children at night, and suspicious villagers kept reporting that it was some kind of animal spirit. Happens from time to time, especially around the Deccan and in the more rural areas of Maharastra. ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/7 "2003-07-26T18:57:00Z")
Here I was thinking this was a Travelling Wilburys thread. Hmph. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/8 "2003-07-26T19:10:24Z")
…and what about those recent sightings of a bigfoot-type creature in China? I haven’t heard a followup in the news. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/9 "2003-07-28T01:41:26Z")
> [@](#): > > and what about those recent sightings of a bigfoot-type creature in China? I haven’t heard a followup in the news. That’s Yao Ming. He’s resting at home in the off season. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/10 "2003-07-28T03:14:14Z")
Maybe he and Nessie ran off somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/11 "2003-07-28T18:12:51Z")
[He’s appearing at minor league baseball games now](http://www.worldfamousmonkeyboy.com/). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/12 "2003-07-31T04:19:57Z")
He just couldn’t leave the limelight. At least he turned away from his life of crime. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-monkey-man/191005/13 "2003-07-31T05:43:08Z")
Perhaps you’re referring to Charlie the Australopithecine? ([http://www.ucomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/07/12/](http://www.ucomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/07/12/))