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THE ORANG PENDEK OF SUMATRA

Reports concerning a small, unidentified bipedal creature known locally as Orang Pendek (“short person”) originate from the forested regions of Sumatra, Indonesia, particularly within and around the Kerinci Seblat area. Testimony from local inhabitants has been recorded for generations, describing encounters with a short, upright, hair-covered figure moving through dense jungle terrain. In the late twentieth century, these accounts were documented by field researchers and conservation workers operating in the region, who collected consistent witness descriptions but obtained no confirmed specimen. The creature’s existence remains unverified in the zoological record.

Below is a fictional event I’ve written of what many are experiencing.

In the interior forest, where the canopy closes and the ground remains dim even at midday, movement was sometimes seen between the trees.

Those who walked the jungle paths spoke of a figure shorter than a man, upright, covered in dark hair, crossing the forest floor without sound. It did not approach villages. It did not follow men. It passed between trunks and was gone.

Hunters reported seeing it at a distance, standing still before turning and moving into thicker growth. Footprints were found in soft earth — small, human-like, yet not matching any known animal of the region. The tracks appeared, continued for a span, and ended where the ground hardened or the undergrowth closed.

Some who worked long in the forest spoke of brief encounters: a shape watching from shadow, then withdrawing; a presence sensed before being seen; the sound of light movement where no known animal was visible.

No capture was made. No body was found. The forest remained as before, and the figure, if seen, was seen only briefly, passing through the dimness and leaving no clear trace beyond uncertain marks upon the ground.

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A brief and lesser-noted account preserved among monastic relations of northern England records that, in the late fourteenth century, unusual lights were reported near the grounds of Byland Abbey in Yorkshire. Witnesses described a moving glow seen at night along the outer fields and near the burial ground. The phenomenon was observed on several occasions by members of the monastery and nearby villagers. No natural cause was confirmed in the surviving notices, and the matter was not extensively recorded beyond short mention in local testimony.

Below is the tale according to how the locals may have experienced it.

The fields lay quiet beyond the abbey walls. Night had settled, and no wind moved across the grass.

Then a light appeared.

It did not fall from the sky, nor rise from the earth, but moved low above the ground as though carried by an unseen hand. It passed slowly along the outer field, pale and steady, without flame, without smoke, without sound.

Those who saw it did not approach. From the cloister edge they watched as it turned toward the burial ground and lingered among the stones, drifting where no path lay. No figure walked beside it. No voice followed it. Only the light moved, and the darkness gave way before it.

For a time it remained, neither brightening nor fading. Then, without sign or trace, it was gone.

On other nights it was seen again, always silent, always alone, crossing the same ground where no fire burned and no lantern was carried.

Nothing was found where it had passed. No mark remained. Only the memory endured, and the quiet fields returned to stillness.

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