Mapinguari

And they have a...

Mapinguari, I think is how it's pronounced.

I'll check the pronunciation guide later.

But oh, yeah, no, I said it right.

We shouldn't have come here.

Why do we leave Jonathan? And then she's like, what do you mean it lured him? It was a beast, right? It wasn't, you know, like, what was it? And he describes it as this Mapinguari which meant, which means starving maw in Oerican.

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boogeyman.

So like, you know, envision this like a Warican that's like, you know, almost like a shifter that has like opened himself up.

And now he has like a mouth on his belly because he's so insatiably hungry that he's just eating continuously.

So that's the Mapinguari.

So they say, you know, this Mapinguari is what killed their son Danil.

I believe in you.

Mapinguari Amburana Wood.

It is part of their Cryptid series.

This is a Holton Capon blend of 7- and 8-year high rye bourbons, 57.35% alcohol by volume, or 114 proof.

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Let's give it a try.

What's really cool on the bottle, the Mapinguari is also, since it's our cryptid series, this one is the sloth monster of Brazil.

Really? Yeah, so it ties into the wood they use in the region with the...

What Central American supernatural dog has two forms, a white one protecting travelers and a black form luring people to their deaths? El Cadejo 6.

In Brazil's, locals talk about what foul-smelling creature with thick red fur, backward feet, and a mouth on its belly? Mapinguari 7.

What is the local name for the giant earthworm of Brazil? Minhocão.

Supposedly, they're responsible for collapsed riverbeds and uprooted trees.

The name Yeti derives from a Sherpa expression, often pronounced yeh-teh, which is associated with cliff-dwelling bears.

But legends about tall, hairy, and two-legged cryptids exist all over the world, including the Sasquatch in North America, the Orang Pendek in Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Mapinguary, which is said to inhabit the Amazon.

In the interest of transparency, until I started researching this week's episode, my knowledge of the Yeti and of cryptozoology had been fairly limited to what I've seen in the movies, and so I am certainly not laying any claims to be an expert.

I'm also not entirely sure how I feel about the legend, but I was struck by a quote from the famed primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall that was reproduced in issue 53 of Little Shop of Horrors Magazine.

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Well, for some theorists out there, it may have been the Mapinguari, a mythical monstrous creature that's said to live amongst the dense foliage of the Amazon.

According to Brazilian folklore, the Mapinguari can stand on two or four legs, is at least seven feet tall standing upright, has shaggy hair, and possesses a cyclops eye.

Okay, I know what you're thinking.

This sounds like some prime Hollywood fiction.

However, according to rainforest biologist David Oren, there have been more than 80 reported Mapinguari sightings over the years.

So is there really some crazed cyclops creature roaming the rainforest? Well, probably not.

Zoologists who've heard stories of the Mapinguari believe the most likely explanation is a case of mistaken identity.

Yeah.

Our next one is called the Mapinguary.

The Mapinguary.

Okay.

Um, it is the...

But in Central America, I mean, Bobo has some stories and I've heard a few whispers here and there, you know, a couple other couple people I know have actually gone down poking around for stuff in Belize, etc.

But south of there, you hear about the Mapinguari and that's it.

Okay.

Kathy Strain dug up a list of named like local names for wild, you know, for the local Sasquatch sort of things.