Local's
sightings of the Yeti 
Where you need to go, if you are interested in the Yeti
People living in the Himalayas have seen the Yeti many times, although not all sightings have been reported. I have put some entries on the The History of the Myth, and Famous Sightings, but here are even more of the occasions I can find.
One time a yeti came every night to a village in the mountains to take whatever it wanted. Drinking the village water supply, and crops and stores, ruining outbuildings and ruining clothes. The villagers, who normally accepted the Buddhist principle of not hating living things, decided to defeat this monster. They gave out large bowls chang a beer-like liquid. The gluttonous monster, fell asleep on this, and was so weakened by it, the locals were able to kill it.
Some shepherds in Tibet saw a mi-te it attacked their sheep, then ran away on gun fire, others identified it as a bear.
On another occasion some shepherds in Tibet saw a mi-teh that sometimes moved on 4 legs, sometimes on 2, It was walking at 15000 feet above sea level, far way. It was covered in reddish brown hair. They saw it's footprints in the snow.
Some sherpas say they often see the Yeti, but he is harmless
In 1974 it was able to be reported that a 19 year old yak herder was assaulted by a 4 foot tall yeti . Which killed 5 of her yak by twisting their horns, Nepali police it is claimed, though I am not sure, confirmed the act, and a photographer recorded footprints. The Sherpa lady who was attacked was called Lhakpa Domani. Some sources also claim her brother was knocked out. This was North East of the village of Machermo
In 1974 it was reported in the Sunday Times, that a 19 year old Sherpa yak herder Lhakpa Domani was assaulted by a 4 foot tall yeti. Which killed 5 of her yaks by twisting their horns. Nepali police it is claimed, though I am not sure, confirmed the act, and a photographer recorded footprints. Some sources also claim her brother was knocked out. This was North East of the village of Machermo. This was in the North of Nepal, some miles south west of Everest. It was in the pasture of a mountain.
In the 1950s US Oil tycoon Expedition attempt to discover the Yeti, he reported that in the few years before 1957 possibly 5 people had been beaten to death by a Yeti of some kind, at least just in some areas of Nepal.
In the late 20th Century before or maybe at least before 2001, a Tibetan lady from South East Tibet claims to have seen a Yeti a hairy giant hominid that appeared in front of the pigsty, looking at them, in the Virgin forest of Medog County.
In
1958 Tibetan villagers of Tharbaleh, not far from the Rongbuk glacier, claim they
saw a drowned Yeti, according to Myra Shackley in her 1983 book on wildmen.
Villagers
described the creature as a small man with a pointed head, covered by reddish-brown
fur.
Varindra
Vitachi, from Sri Lanka, told someone, that in the late 1950s in Nepal's Shivapuri
Forest, a very religious man, called the Shivapuri Baba lived in the forest. He
rarely saw anybody except just on the forest fringe. Philosophers and writers,
from worldwide often used to come to hear him speak though. Vitachi said at one
event while the religious man was speaking a huge hairy hominid creature was on
a cliff behind but above the man. It looked onto the group. The holy man smiled
and said, his type are the guardians of the forest worldwide. The creature then
went back onto the forest, so was only seen for a while. This is a local sighting
in the sense that it was by a Nepali so was local in that sense.
In Northern Kashmir, outside the Yeti area really, Workers on a sheep farm heard then saw a 4-foot hairy yeti-style animal attack a boy, who hit it with a pot in January 1987
In 1953 John Hunt the leader of the Everest expedition of 1953, said he heard that it was common for Sherpas to see of the Yeti.
In 1953 a testimony of a Sherpa Nima Pasang, was collected of him having seen a yéti to the south-west of the Everest, at a 4300 metre altitude.
A
1954 book gives these accounts of the Yeti, there was a claim about Yeti of Macherma,
at 4876 metres above sea level, south of Everest, being 1 metre 50 high, brown-russet-red
coloured, a biped, with features of a monkey, and conical cranium, very long hair
covering the eyes, very large mouth, projecting teeth, angry behavior: and that
it runs round, tearing off stones and tufts of grass. leaves broad footprints.
The
schoolmaster of Darjeeling, stated however that there are two species of yétis,
large (in the area of the Everest) and small (it indicates the lower valley of
Dudh Kosi, in the south of the Everest).
In
1952 Dr. Wyss-Dunant tells the discoveries of several foot prints of yéti
of different sizes: from 20 to 30 cm length. The tread of the traces of 20 cm
made 35 cm. According to the depression of the largest traces, it estimates the
weight of the animal between 80 and 100 kg. It distinguishes 5 fingers including
three armed with claws. Claiming it can jump off rocks with 4 legs.
Another local claim is a account of a local in the era of the 1940s or 1950s, they saw a yéti the size of a man of small size, having very long hair, the belly and the thighs furnished with long hairs. The face, the chest, and the legs below the knee appeared less hairy. Its fur was “at the same time dark and clear and its reddish chest”. It went upright, almost like a man and leaned from time to time to scrape the ground in the search of roots. To the sight of the men it ran towards the forest, on two legs, but on side and almost with let us move back, while pushing an acute cry.
Also
according to the sherpas, in one account there are two types of yétis:
one is large, which goes on all four legs at times, and attacks the herds of yaks,
so many say it could be the red bear, and, also the small, size of a 14 year old
boy but built like a man, covered by russet-red hairs, more slightly on the chest,
equipped with a long hair reaching the belt and with a head very lengthened in
the shape of cone. It lives in the rock areas deprived of trees below the snow
line. It is biped but can run on all fours to go more quickly.
More accounts
of locals: a yéti seen with a head very pointed and covered in russet-red
hairs very clearly, yaps like a dog.
In Tibet, there was one with a cry resembling a call, chatter, with footprints 20 cm long, of a biped, resembling much those of a human foot whose finger would be all the same length.
In 1947 there was by the village of Pangbochi (undoubtedly beside the monastery of the same name in the south of the Everest), a yéti of the size of a small man, long hair, broad shoulders, was brown-red, with the sight of the indigenous witness named Dahku, it takes some steps towards him, upright, then tears off grass tufts with agitation.
Description of a yéti, seen by an local born witness, close to the monastery of southern Thyangbochi of the Everest): approximately 1m67, without tail, hairs brown-red, high and pointed head, going generally upright but current with four legs.
In March 1949, in Pangbochi: a local named Mingmah, saw a yéti. He hid in a stone hut, and lives very close, the yéti by a slit which approached him looked like a : cut of a squat teenager, resembling a man, hairs very brown reddish and stiff, on the top of the body the hair was drawn up and it fell down low. The chest was slightly clearer than the remainder of the body, the particularly hairy feet. The hands resembled a man. The head very pointed, the hair hung like a human hair, but a band of very short and very stiff hair. The face was beardless, flatter than that of a man and less than that of a langur monkey Feeling observed, it showed the teeth and thundered. The size of the teeth was striking to the witness. It went upright, with great strides, slightly ahead leaning, with the arms during.
In October 1952, a fellow named Anseering of the village of Thammu saw a yéti sheltered under a rock in extreme cases higher of the trees lives. It escaped by climbing the rocks with four legs. It was brown dark, squat and smaller than a man.
In
winter 1952, in Phorchi (north-oust of Tiangbochi), 5 villagers discovered footprints
of a yéti (visible toes) size of a foot of child. They followed the track
and saw traces of hands and feet indicating it sat down on a rock, then that it
had climbed rocks with four legs. The remainder of time it went upright. They
found hairs of red-brown of a few very stiff and very hard centimetres.
Testimony
close to Namche Bazaar: a yéti of approximately 1 metre 75 covered in long
brownish hairs, with a large tuft falling from the face to the eyes. His/her uncle
declares it a yéti female
In 1957: forwarding of Tom Slick, American
billionaire, impassioned by the science and mysteries of the animal world, had
a base in the valley of Arun, in North-East Nepal, not far from the border with
Sikkim: heard of three tracks of 30 cm length biped prints, and fifteen testimonies
reporting that the yéti resembled a gorilla with a pointed head of 2 metres
40.
In 1958: Tom Slick in the the valley of Arun: heard of a few prints, a yéti of small size seen at night by a Sherpa, with a cave being used as a place, a den with a yéti discovered in the high valley Dudh Kosi. According to some sherpas. It is also said supposedly a Yeti had a nest of branches like gorillas have nests, the sources say they saw excrement containing remains of crushed bone and hare hairs, and remains of rodents.
1959: another Tom Slick, mission, brought back excrement containing the remains of rodents, insects and plants. Bernard Heuvelmans studied them, and said they had unknown parasites indicating that they were the excrements of maybe a species unknown, each species of mammal having its own parasites.
Khonjo
Khumbi a Khumjung village elder in Nepal in 1986 claimed he had seen many Yeti
furs on sale in Tibet.
The student lamas of the monastery claimed when they go into the mountains to pray that Yetis make shrill noises, upsetting their prayers. So they then return to the monastery. Once it is claimed a Yeti was banging on the doors of a monastery. and the roof for a long time.
In this in 1986 one Sherpa said he saw footprints of a yeti, but these just led to those of a Rabbit carcass.
It is said that somebody in almost every Sherpa family claims to have seen a Yeti. The Sherpa population in Nepal is about 150,000 as of the 2001 census in nepal.
Reports from the 19th Century as said in The History of the Myth, and Famous Sightings seem to indicate that yeti sightings from Sherpas were as common then as now. With real fear supposedly shown against the creature, more than now it seems.
Myra Shackley's books, and works, state that at least 10 sightings of the Yeti had been recorded in 1962-1976.
There have been many claims of sightings of wildmen even since the 1970s in the Chinese area of the Yeren. The yeren reported is supposedly seven foot tall The descriptions are not that unlike that of the big yetis.
They also are said to resemble the look of Bigfoot in some estimations. Many Chinese cryptologists are inclined to believing in the story of the Gigantopithecus being the Yeren.
It is also said thousands of people have documented in some form claims of seeing the Bigfoot.
Very many dozens of claimed sightings of Nessie have also occurred. One source claimed there have been 3000 sightings of the creature since 1933 alone.
In 1961 the Yeti was said to officially exist by then then Nepali government.