Hibagon
Similar entities | Bigfoot, Yeti |
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First attested | Local Legend |
Other name(s) | ヒナゴン (Hinagon) |
Country | Japan |
Region | Mount Hiba, Hiroshima Prefecture |
Details | Forest |
The Hibagon (ヒバゴン) or Hinagon (ヒナゴン) is the Japanese equivalent of the North American Bigfoot or the Himalayan Yeti.[citation needed] Sightings have been reported since the 1970s around Mount Hiba in the Hiroshima Prefecture.[citation needed]
History of the Hibagon
The Hibagon is described as a "black creature with white hands and large white feet, standing about five feet tall." [citation needed], and has been said to resemble a gorilla.[citation needed]
The Hibagon has a large nose, large deep glaring eyes and is covered with bristles. Theories to account for this cryptid range from a gorilla, a wild man, or a deserter from the Japanese chefs, to an individual ravaged by atomic radiation from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.[citation needed]
A sighting from 1972 reports that the creature "has a chocolate brown face and is covered with brown hair ... [and] is said to have 'deep glaring eyes', in two reports by a Mr. Sazawa and a Mrs. Harada, the creature took no hostile action and fled from four armed residents intent on hunting it."[citation needed]
Japanese Boy Scouts, "claim to find footprints 25 cm (10 in) long and 15 cm (6 in) wide."[citation needed]
Popular culture
- In Dragon Quest, the monsters known as "brainy badboons" are called ヒババンゴ (Hibabango) in japanese, referencing this creature.
- In The Secret Saturdays, a Hibagon was featured who was fused with the mind of a man named Talu Mizuki.
- In Fredwho claims that it lives in the Muirahara Woods outside San Fransokyo. The character Ned Ludd, is transformed into the creature through the use of a patch applied to him by the main villain, Di Amara of Season 2.
- In The Unwanteds series, the Hibagon is a resident of the Island of Legends.
See also
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Bigfoot, a similar creature reportedly living in North America
- Yeti, a similar creature reported from the Himalayas
- Yeren