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travelbangaijin
It sounds like the forest mushrooms are a must-try to see these big smiling monkeys
JboneInTheZone
I look like that
Fighto!
Wonderful story - and harmless fun in this serious and scary era. There are too many folk "monster" legends in villages around Japan to count!
If tales like "Hibagon" keep tourism ticking along in these remote areas, then it's all good.
USNinJapan2
All I can say is someone with a gorilla suit really had some fun doing this 50 years ago...
mountainpear
I want that sign!
WatanabeBuddha
Maybe its just a man in a suit
earsay
Who knew such a beast existed in Japan? I've hiked near there. This article is genuinely chilling.
BeerDeliveryGuy
Why don’t you tell that to Disney?
Seigi
It could be a mutation of a Japanese monkey. From time to time, a giant would exist from a certain specie, just like humans...
Ken Holcomb
Got to wonder how his relationship with his relatives went after this story went public.....
Mocheake
Why the propensity to make everything look cute? I'm sure when it's ripping you to shreds and slowly ingesting your vital organs, it won't be smiling and you won't be thinking "kawaii."
kurisupisu
Anything different in Japan becomes “a monster”
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Pathetic!
Jayel
How rude!
Moonraker
Wouldn't expect anything else. Okonomiyaki in the shape of Hibagon's face and serpentine monster udon coming up.
Aly Rustom
Believers still pursuing Hiroshima mystery beast 50 years after sightings
Maybe one of us foreigners before the Japanese knew we existed.
dagon
Mulder throwing out a hypothesis:
Possibly a descendant of a native Japanese simian subject to genetic mutation as a result of background radiation from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima.
Gaijinjland
Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So let's all help keep Bigfoot possibly alive for future generations to enjoy unless he doesn't exist.