Barmanou
Encyclopedia
The barmanou is said to be a bipedal primate
living in the mountainous region of Afghanistan
and Pakistan
. Sightings have been reported by shepherds living in the mountains. The zoologist Jordi Magraner, a Spaniard
living in France
, researched the barmanu extensively.
The term Barmanu is used in several languages including Khowar, Shina
, Hindko and Kashmiri. The Barnanu is the Bigfoot of Pakistan, In additon to the name Barmanu there are several other local names too.
The proposed range of the Barmanu is in the Hindukush and Karakoram ranges, between the Pamirs and the Himalaya. Thus this puts its range in region between the ranges of two more famous cryptids, the Almas
of Central Asia and the Yeti
of the Himalayas.
The Barmanu is supposed to possess both human and apelike characteristics and is said to abduct women and attempt mating with them. It is also reported to wear animal skins upon its back and head. The Barmanu appears in the folklore of the Northern Regions of Pakistan and depending on where the stories come from it tends to be either described as an ape or a wild man.
In 2010, a team from Peshawar is dispatched to Naran to discover and help promote to educate people about Ansoo Lake and its beauty, in order to increase tourism in K.P. This team includes the team leader Wali Ullah Khan commonly known as Doctor-Saab in Naran, Mr. Muhammad Javaid, Mr. Seyaf Fasal and a 20 years old Local guide Mr. Muhammad Idress. This team local high altitude journeys were originally headed by a Local team guide a 65 years old famous trekker Mr. Tahir from Naran.
This team discovered and mapped-down the possible various routes to Ansoo Lake and the possible benefits each rout can offer. Moreover, it describes the length and toughness and, the camping and weather conditions of the various routes to Ansoo. The team was also given the task to collect evidences if found of the unknown cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid primate, commonly recognized as the Ice Man (local name Barmanu, Borbund or Burbundu or Bala-Burbando). The team only once however, strongly denied those news and expressed it as a form of disinformation and propaganda. Since then no word about the Ice Man on behalf of the team was heard in the media. The team even denied their proper organogramic set up, chain of command and hierarchy in themselves, and the team funding by the government of Pakistan, states that they were friends and mere common tourists. Latter they even denied their travel to Naran, Chitral and Ansoo Lake however, the home media with the help of local people did exposed some pictures of the team members (including Wali Ullah Khan); posing on high altitudes and near the Ansoo Lake.
The first search in Pakistan for cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid human primate commonly known as wild man / ice man was carried out by a Spanish zoologist Jordi Magraner from 1987 to 1990. He wrote a paper `Les Hominidés reliques d'Asie Centrale` on Pakistani cryptid – the wild man.
The wild man is known around the world by different names like bigfoot, windego, yeahoh, rugaru, Hibagon, sasquatch, Ren Xiong, Dzu-teh, The Duende, Migoi or Mi-go, Minnesota Ice man, Dev, Salvaje, Chuchunya, omah, ulak, uluk, bogs, Abominable Snowman, Mawas, Curupir, Urayuli, Hantu Hutan, Arulataq, Bushman, Goblins, Tent Monster, Meh-Teh, Nant'ina, fantasma humano, Hlo mung, Woodsman, Sisimite, Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chorti u tcur witsir, woodwose, Skookum, Yeren, mapinguari, Kang Admi, Mirka, Amomongo, Wudewas, Almas, Mande Barung, Batutut, Hibagon, Moehau, L'Homme Sauvage, Ebu Gogo, Batutut, Ujit Maero, Rapuwai, Mawa, Yeren, Orang Dalam, hantu jerang gigi, mi rgod, Yowie, metoh-kangmi, Ucumar, Nuk-luk, Mulen,Người Rừng, Xing-Xing, forest man, mountain man, Salish, Yeti, Stick Indian, Ts'emekwes, Yahoo or Yahoo–Devil , yuho, ape yoho, Cax-vinic, Grassman, di-di, Maricoxi, Ban-manush, Fouke Monster, Am Fear Liath Mòr, Yen Hsiung they all are an ape-like cryptid and are akin to Pakistani Iceman / Wildman.
Jordi Magraner main attention, however, gets diverted when he saw the extreme low level of poverty in this part of the globe. From 1988 onwards he involved mostly in humanitarian works and poverty alleviation in Chitral District of Pakistan.
In May 1992, a search in Shishi Kuh valley, Chitral, Dr. Anne Mallasseand is reported to have said that once in late evening she heard unusual guttural sounds which could only be produce by a primitive voice-box. Nothing further progress could be made thereafter. In addition to this, Dr. Anne Mallasseand was not able to record the sound at that moment.
Before 2010, all these searches were only limited to some specific and small selected areas of district Chitral in Northern Pakistan.
In 2010, a team from University of Peshawar is dispatched to Ansoo Lake to discover and help promote to educate people about Ansoo Lake and its beauty, in order to increase tourism in K.P. It is said that the team was primarily consist students from Peshawar Business School and funded by the Government of Pakistan and they were directly monitored and directed from the Wild Life Pakistan and Pakistani PM secretariat. This team includes the team leader Wali Ullah Khan commonly known as Doctor or Doctor-Saab in Naran, Dir and Chitral district, Mr. Muhammad Javaid, Mr. Seyaf Fasal and a 20 years old Local guide Mr. Muhammad Idress. This team local high altitude journeys were originally headed by a Local team guide a 65 years old famous trekker Mr. Tahir from Naran.
This team discovered and mapped-down the possible various routes to Ansoo Lake and the possible benefits each rout can offer. Moreover, it describes the length and toughness and, the camping and weather conditions of the various routes to Ansoo. The team was also given the task to collect evidences if found of the unknown cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid human primate, commonly recognized as the Wildman or Ice Man (local names Zangalyan, Adzhina, Benmans, Barmanu, Zangale, Borbund, Burbundu, or Bala-Burbando Barmanou , Zangale Insanan, Zangale Khalaq, Jengle insan, Gulbiyaban). The team only once however, strongly denied those news and expressed it as a form of disinformation and propaganda.
Since then no word about the Ice Man on behalf of the team was heard in the media. The team even denied their proper organogramic set up, chain of command and hierarchy in themselves, and the team funding by the Government of Pakistan, states that they were friends and mere common tourists. They questioned the audience with counter questions like how one could relate a group of business students searching for Burbando? What on earth the Government of Pakistan will sponsor us – the business students and a business institute Peshawar Business School will send its business students to search for a cryptid? Latter they even denied their travel to Ansoo Lake however, the home media with the help of local people did exposed some pictures of the team members; posing on high altitudes and near the Ansoo Lake.
In the following year 2011, The Government of KP arranged a festival in line with the recommendations given by the team members to promote tourism in KP. The team members, however were not allowed to talk about the findings of the evidences of the cryptid bipedal humanoid commonly known as ice man, that they found in Naran, Dir, Chitral and near Ansoo Lake.
It is said that the team members were indeed said to have discovered purported hominid cryptozoological specie, the Almas near Naran and follow it right from Dir to Chitral district. (almas is believed to be more akin to wild man in appearance, characteristics and habits than yeti and bigfoot ) the team was actually after hominid species whose existence has not been conceded by modern science yet. The team members are said to have visited various places of Chitral in May 2010, Malakand, Patrakh, Batal, Manshera, Kohistan and Dir, but the visits, their funding source inside the Government of Pakistan, and the discoveries itself are kept very secret by the Pakistani government. It is said that the team discovered and documented a human-like bipedal creature – an adult male Almas (local name: Biabin-guli, Golub-yavan, Gulbiyaban) with a child on his shoulder but the location of their discovery is kept secret. Some says it was a Pakistani bigfoot (Male big foot local names Barbando, Benmans, Barmanu, Borbund, Burbundu, Barmanou or Bala-Burbando) holding a child on its shoulders. Nothing can be said confirmed however. What come across to the team members during their search for the Ice Man, and whatever is known, are actually told by the local guides accompanying the team member in the mountainous regions of KP, already known for their diverse flora and fauna populations. One of the local guide clams to have heard (Dr.) Wali Ullah Khan as saying to his team members. “The question is not to announce the discovery of wild man on a world forum, the question is how to dealt with the ethical dilemmas that will arise due to vast immoral and unethical experiments on iceman that will follow after the announcement of the discovery of wild man – this world is very unkind and cruel, we humans did very terrible things, In the pretext to help, we humans cause more problems and harms, we did more bad than good, I don’t want the Wildman to be suffered this time”
The 20 years old local guide clam to have heard the team leader discussing a possible legislation to be passed soon in the National Assembly of Pakistan, which will ban all research consulting the mixing up, combining of gametes, cloning, DNA and somatic cells manipulation of the Wildman / Pakistani big foot”.
On June 25, 2011 on the occasion of Kaghan festival at a private gathering the team members and (Dr.) Wali Ullah Khan is heard as saying, we don’t know how much species of human primate are out there but according to our knowledge and search there are 4 types of wildmen population in K.P. Pakistan, they are:
Now here the situation took a bad turn when in 1932 the entire laghar population came under epic diseases and thousands die. The laghar people were very egoistic they never asked the technologically advanced Swat Prince for help, and hence the entire population vanished. The prince when know the situation on the other side of the border (beyond Pat-Rak) he was very upset of the situation and did send many teams of doctors but they found not a single laghar person, the entire villages of laghar people were deserted. It is said that few fragments from those population still exist individually today. As they follow the centuries old tough traditions to honour the agreements therefore even after 80 years their egoism did not allow them to come to the surface. These people adopt themselves to the Jangle environment. As they are so culturally different from the local Dir / Swat societies that the Swat and Dir people make laghar people seem non-human to them, even though they are indeed modern human.
The laghar people live in the alpine climate, but in the far lower alpine climate, as compare to other Pakistani unknown hominids. The alpine climate for where laghar people live are at high elevation but the tree line is not crossed. Alpine climate is where the plant community and alpine tundra
grow together. It is also said that the laghar people live in the alpine climate or above alpine climate but at night and specially during the winter months they move down to lower altitudes where the probability to find food is high as compare to the high altitude.
The other three are Barmaro, Almas People and Yeti.
Primate
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living in the mountainous region of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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and Pakistan
Pakistan
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. Sightings have been reported by shepherds living in the mountains. The zoologist Jordi Magraner, a Spaniard
Spain
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living in France
France
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, researched the barmanu extensively.
The term Barmanu is used in several languages including Khowar, Shina
Shina language
Shina is a Dardic language spoken by a plurality of people in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan and Dras in Ladakh of Indian-Administered Kashmir. The valleys in which it is spoken include Astore, Chilas, Dareil, Tangeer, Gilgit, Ghizer, and a few parts of Baltistan and Kohistan. It is also spoken in...
, Hindko and Kashmiri. The Barnanu is the Bigfoot of Pakistan, In additon to the name Barmanu there are several other local names too.
The proposed range of the Barmanu is in the Hindukush and Karakoram ranges, between the Pamirs and the Himalaya. Thus this puts its range in region between the ranges of two more famous cryptids, the Almas
Almas (cryptozoology)
The Almas, Mongolian for "wild man" , is a purported hominid cryptozoological species reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia. The creature is not currently recognized or cataloged by science...
of Central Asia and the Yeti
Yeti
The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology...
of the Himalayas.
The Barmanu is supposed to possess both human and apelike characteristics and is said to abduct women and attempt mating with them. It is also reported to wear animal skins upon its back and head. The Barmanu appears in the folklore of the Northern Regions of Pakistan and depending on where the stories come from it tends to be either described as an ape or a wild man.
In 2010, a team from Peshawar is dispatched to Naran to discover and help promote to educate people about Ansoo Lake and its beauty, in order to increase tourism in K.P. This team includes the team leader Wali Ullah Khan commonly known as Doctor-Saab in Naran, Mr. Muhammad Javaid, Mr. Seyaf Fasal and a 20 years old Local guide Mr. Muhammad Idress. This team local high altitude journeys were originally headed by a Local team guide a 65 years old famous trekker Mr. Tahir from Naran.
This team discovered and mapped-down the possible various routes to Ansoo Lake and the possible benefits each rout can offer. Moreover, it describes the length and toughness and, the camping and weather conditions of the various routes to Ansoo. The team was also given the task to collect evidences if found of the unknown cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid primate, commonly recognized as the Ice Man (local name Barmanu, Borbund or Burbundu or Bala-Burbando). The team only once however, strongly denied those news and expressed it as a form of disinformation and propaganda. Since then no word about the Ice Man on behalf of the team was heard in the media. The team even denied their proper organogramic set up, chain of command and hierarchy in themselves, and the team funding by the government of Pakistan, states that they were friends and mere common tourists. Latter they even denied their travel to Naran, Chitral and Ansoo Lake however, the home media with the help of local people did exposed some pictures of the team members (including Wali Ullah Khan); posing on high altitudes and near the Ansoo Lake.
Search for Cryptid Species in Pakistan
There are many isolated and remote regions in Northen Pakistan, they include the areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa (K.P, Old name: N.W.F.P), FATA, and Gilgit Baltistan. These areas are home to numerous mammal and bird species, the highlight however is undoubtedly the search for the near human or subhuman creatures, the Wild Man of Pakistan.The first search in Pakistan for cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid human primate commonly known as wild man / ice man was carried out by a Spanish zoologist Jordi Magraner from 1987 to 1990. He wrote a paper `Les Hominidés reliques d'Asie Centrale` on Pakistani cryptid – the wild man.
The wild man is known around the world by different names like bigfoot, windego, yeahoh, rugaru, Hibagon, sasquatch, Ren Xiong, Dzu-teh, The Duende, Migoi or Mi-go, Minnesota Ice man, Dev, Salvaje, Chuchunya, omah, ulak, uluk, bogs, Abominable Snowman, Mawas, Curupir, Urayuli, Hantu Hutan, Arulataq, Bushman, Goblins, Tent Monster, Meh-Teh, Nant'ina, fantasma humano, Hlo mung, Woodsman, Sisimite, Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chorti u tcur witsir, woodwose, Skookum, Yeren, mapinguari, Kang Admi, Mirka, Amomongo, Wudewas, Almas, Mande Barung, Batutut, Hibagon, Moehau, L'Homme Sauvage, Ebu Gogo, Batutut, Ujit Maero, Rapuwai, Mawa, Yeren, Orang Dalam, hantu jerang gigi, mi rgod, Yowie, metoh-kangmi, Ucumar, Nuk-luk, Mulen,Người Rừng, Xing-Xing, forest man, mountain man, Salish, Yeti, Stick Indian, Ts'emekwes, Yahoo or Yahoo–Devil , yuho, ape yoho, Cax-vinic, Grassman, di-di, Maricoxi, Ban-manush, Fouke Monster, Am Fear Liath Mòr, Yen Hsiung they all are an ape-like cryptid and are akin to Pakistani Iceman / Wildman.
Jordi Magraner main attention, however, gets diverted when he saw the extreme low level of poverty in this part of the globe. From 1988 onwards he involved mostly in humanitarian works and poverty alleviation in Chitral District of Pakistan.
In May 1992, a search in Shishi Kuh valley, Chitral, Dr. Anne Mallasseand is reported to have said that once in late evening she heard unusual guttural sounds which could only be produce by a primitive voice-box. Nothing further progress could be made thereafter. In addition to this, Dr. Anne Mallasseand was not able to record the sound at that moment.
Before 2010, all these searches were only limited to some specific and small selected areas of district Chitral in Northern Pakistan.
In 2010, a team from University of Peshawar is dispatched to Ansoo Lake to discover and help promote to educate people about Ansoo Lake and its beauty, in order to increase tourism in K.P. It is said that the team was primarily consist students from Peshawar Business School and funded by the Government of Pakistan and they were directly monitored and directed from the Wild Life Pakistan and Pakistani PM secretariat. This team includes the team leader Wali Ullah Khan commonly known as Doctor or Doctor-Saab in Naran, Dir and Chitral district, Mr. Muhammad Javaid, Mr. Seyaf Fasal and a 20 years old Local guide Mr. Muhammad Idress. This team local high altitude journeys were originally headed by a Local team guide a 65 years old famous trekker Mr. Tahir from Naran.
This team discovered and mapped-down the possible various routes to Ansoo Lake and the possible benefits each rout can offer. Moreover, it describes the length and toughness and, the camping and weather conditions of the various routes to Ansoo. The team was also given the task to collect evidences if found of the unknown cryptid species Bipedal Humanoid human primate, commonly recognized as the Wildman or Ice Man (local names Zangalyan, Adzhina, Benmans, Barmanu, Zangale, Borbund, Burbundu, or Bala-Burbando Barmanou , Zangale Insanan, Zangale Khalaq, Jengle insan, Gulbiyaban). The team only once however, strongly denied those news and expressed it as a form of disinformation and propaganda.
Since then no word about the Ice Man on behalf of the team was heard in the media. The team even denied their proper organogramic set up, chain of command and hierarchy in themselves, and the team funding by the Government of Pakistan, states that they were friends and mere common tourists. They questioned the audience with counter questions like how one could relate a group of business students searching for Burbando? What on earth the Government of Pakistan will sponsor us – the business students and a business institute Peshawar Business School will send its business students to search for a cryptid? Latter they even denied their travel to Ansoo Lake however, the home media with the help of local people did exposed some pictures of the team members; posing on high altitudes and near the Ansoo Lake.
In the following year 2011, The Government of KP arranged a festival in line with the recommendations given by the team members to promote tourism in KP. The team members, however were not allowed to talk about the findings of the evidences of the cryptid bipedal humanoid commonly known as ice man, that they found in Naran, Dir, Chitral and near Ansoo Lake.
It is said that the team members were indeed said to have discovered purported hominid cryptozoological specie, the Almas near Naran and follow it right from Dir to Chitral district. (almas is believed to be more akin to wild man in appearance, characteristics and habits than yeti and bigfoot ) the team was actually after hominid species whose existence has not been conceded by modern science yet. The team members are said to have visited various places of Chitral in May 2010, Malakand, Patrakh, Batal, Manshera, Kohistan and Dir, but the visits, their funding source inside the Government of Pakistan, and the discoveries itself are kept very secret by the Pakistani government. It is said that the team discovered and documented a human-like bipedal creature – an adult male Almas (local name: Biabin-guli, Golub-yavan, Gulbiyaban) with a child on his shoulder but the location of their discovery is kept secret. Some says it was a Pakistani bigfoot (Male big foot local names Barbando, Benmans, Barmanu, Borbund, Burbundu, Barmanou or Bala-Burbando) holding a child on its shoulders. Nothing can be said confirmed however. What come across to the team members during their search for the Ice Man, and whatever is known, are actually told by the local guides accompanying the team member in the mountainous regions of KP, already known for their diverse flora and fauna populations. One of the local guide clams to have heard (Dr.) Wali Ullah Khan as saying to his team members. “The question is not to announce the discovery of wild man on a world forum, the question is how to dealt with the ethical dilemmas that will arise due to vast immoral and unethical experiments on iceman that will follow after the announcement of the discovery of wild man – this world is very unkind and cruel, we humans did very terrible things, In the pretext to help, we humans cause more problems and harms, we did more bad than good, I don’t want the Wildman to be suffered this time”
The 20 years old local guide clam to have heard the team leader discussing a possible legislation to be passed soon in the National Assembly of Pakistan, which will ban all research consulting the mixing up, combining of gametes, cloning, DNA and somatic cells manipulation of the Wildman / Pakistani big foot”.
On June 25, 2011 on the occasion of Kaghan festival at a private gathering the team members and (Dr.) Wali Ullah Khan is heard as saying, we don’t know how much species of human primate are out there but according to our knowledge and search there are 4 types of wildmen population in K.P. Pakistan, they are:
The Laghar People
They are found in the K.P regions of upper and lower Dir and Swat District situated 35° North Latitude and 72° and 30° East Longitude. They are not wild people and they do had known to the local population till 1932. They worship pre-historic religions and wear garment consisting of two very small sheets of unhemmed cloth, for that’s why they were known as lagahr people (means the naked one). In 1931, the ruler of the princely state of Swat Wale-e-Swat Miangul Golshahzada Abdul-Wadud Badshah Sahib signed an agreement with the laghar people and a demarcation was lead in an area latter known as the Pat-Rak area. Pat-rak means the place where stones were lead; it was the place of the demarcation between the lands of the Prince and the laghar people. The agreement was that no member of the laghar people will come to prince’s state side as laghar women makes our (Swat’s) women un-pure and due to yours (laghar’s) women our women become/tented to vulgarity. No person from our side will come to your side, you are free in your own land, with your own law. The laghar people are free to nominate their own Sardar (king).Now here the situation took a bad turn when in 1932 the entire laghar population came under epic diseases and thousands die. The laghar people were very egoistic they never asked the technologically advanced Swat Prince for help, and hence the entire population vanished. The prince when know the situation on the other side of the border (beyond Pat-Rak) he was very upset of the situation and did send many teams of doctors but they found not a single laghar person, the entire villages of laghar people were deserted. It is said that few fragments from those population still exist individually today. As they follow the centuries old tough traditions to honour the agreements therefore even after 80 years their egoism did not allow them to come to the surface. These people adopt themselves to the Jangle environment. As they are so culturally different from the local Dir / Swat societies that the Swat and Dir people make laghar people seem non-human to them, even though they are indeed modern human.
The laghar people live in the alpine climate, but in the far lower alpine climate, as compare to other Pakistani unknown hominids. The alpine climate for where laghar people live are at high elevation but the tree line is not crossed. Alpine climate is where the plant community and alpine tundra
Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra is a natural region that does not contain trees because it is at high altitude. Alpine tundra is distinguished from arctic tundra, because alpine soils are generally better drained than arctic soils...
grow together. It is also said that the laghar people live in the alpine climate or above alpine climate but at night and specially during the winter months they move down to lower altitudes where the probability to find food is high as compare to the high altitude.
The other three are Barmaro, Almas People and Yeti.