Like Wolo’s story, the following account concerns a dead specimen, in fact two dead specimens. What’s more, the bodies were found at widely separate times by the roadside near the village of Ndu’a Ri’a, in the same vicinity where Wolo’s accident had occurred.
In 2015 I was lodging temporarily in another highland village, following up reports of villagers who claimed to possess ape-man relics. Among these was a man whose daughter-in-law, an outgoing and rather garrulous young woman named Wea, derived from Ndu’a Ri’a. After I’d finished speaking with her father-in-law, Wea approached me with several stories about ape-men. Although they varied in credibility, one especially caught my attention. It concerned a Ndu’a Ri’a man named Tegu, who a few years previously had been alerted to the presence of a dead ape-man on his land. The corpse, she said, had first been discovered by a number of people returning from ...
