The mysterious semi-aquatic and hairy "Kenan" from Japan

South of the main Japanese Islands is a group of the Ryukyu Islands, stretching from Kyushu island to the Taiwan. The largest of these is the island of Okinawa. This area is known for its beautiful scenery and virtually unspoiled beaches. As well as a mysterious creature from the category of cryptids that have seen many hundreds of years, but so far no one has proven it a reality.

The creature is outwardly described as hairy and walk on two legs monkey is called Kenmon (Kenmun) or Cijenama (Kijinuma) in the South. It is most often observed on the island of Oshima in the Northern Ryukyu archipelago.

The descriptions of the growth kenana 1 meter or 1.3 meters, with about five children, but the creature is not sickly, and with developed muscles and feet to the head covered with curly reddish or black hair that looks dirty and matted. Face kenana describe as a monkey, but sometimes as a dog. It is reported that hunt this creature at night and he had burning red eyes. It walks on two legs, with hands much stronger and long compared to the legs (much like a orangutan).

The creature is described as a very strong and able to deftly climb trees. In General, the description Kenan looks like a not yet discovered species of large Primate, but he not only cleverly climbs trees, and likes to swim in the ocean that not every monkey knows and loves. Kenan lives because of his love for the water in the coastal zone and during sailing to hunt for octopus, crabs and fish. To find housing kenana as they say easy on the piles of shells under the trees, it likes to eat mollusks, sitting in a tree and throw the empty shell down. Kenmon not considered dangerous to people, but his fame as disgusting stinking creatures.

Its smell is described differently as the smell of a goat, horse or the smell of rotten yams. This smell deters Kenan presumably from other animals. In 1973, a local owner of the cows said that was going to bring their animals on pasture, but they suddenly froze and refused to go on the field. They were thus frightened and the farmer had never seen such behavior from their cows. A little later, the farmer sensed on the field is thick, pungent and strange smell, apparently it was afraid of cows. When the smell wore off, the animal quietly went on the field. Similar behaviors were reported about dogs and horses.

Kenan widely reflected in local folklore. There he likes to challenge people to fight the fight, and even steal from the fishermen their fishing rods. Sometimes he's aggressive and can start to throw stones at people.

There have been cases of observation comuna people. One man one night I saw on the beach a small dark sitting on stones figurine, which he took as a child. But when he came closer and spoke to a "child", then saw it was a hairy monkey. The monkey started to throw stones at him and even chased him to his house.

In 1986, one man was seen on the shore of a strange, curved tracks and even photographed them (photo available in very poor quality). A single line of footprints stretched for 500 meters.

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