Descriptions of the Monkey Man of India, first mentioned in police calls on May 13, 2001, have shown little consistency. So far, some described the entity as having a metal claw or claws, while others likened it to a cat with glowing eyes. Another claimed it had flaming red eyes and that green lights glowed upon its chest. These descriptions were but a few among many.

Whether the creature that so many feared was like a monkey is a matter of dispute. Witness claims also described it as agile and feline, as a bandaged figure, or as a helmeted thing.

Even more unusual theories made it out to be a foreign robot assassin. A thirty-five-year-old shopkeeper named Anim Keshri thought it to be a remote-controlled computerized creature -- since how else could it leap four stories and disappear?

whats your thoughts on this monkey man?

I believe that it's the work of a very disturbed youth gang in India... From the news stories I have read on this, a criminal act is perpetrated as well (theft), and often, the victims are scared versus attacked... Many have even committed suicide in such fear, as it builds off of many local myths... Pretty ingenious of the gang really, but also rather disturbing....

Some of the more fantastic feats, can be attributed to fear, as well as multiple gang members similarly attired, and then mistaking one on the roof, for the one that just vanished on the ground....

[Edited on 5-9-2003 by Gazrok]

Thanx! william one sac!!

So is this just happening in poorer countrys?

If you didn't see it, check the article in the first post of the linked thread... It should allow you to draw your own conclusions....