Orang-bati

The orang-bati is a winged cryptid rumored to inhabit the Indonesian island of Seram. According to local folklore, the bat-like or somewhat monkey-like creatures abduct children and carry them away to be eaten. Other accounts sound more like encounters with living Pterosaurs.^[1]

It is said that islanders of Seram were faced with this creature when it raided villages to abduct infants and children to its home in Mount Kairatu.

Encounters

• Missionary Tyson Hughes, an English man who became a believer in Orang-Batis was originally skeptical about "Orangutans with wings", but was stunned when he actually encountered one.
• Missionaries on Seram as long ago as the 15th century were told about the beast and how it raided the town of Uraur.

See also

• Ropen, a Pterosaur-like beast reported from Papua New Guinea
• Kongamato, another Pterosaur-like beast reported from Zambia
• Ahool, like a Orang-Bati, reported from the Indonesian island of Java.

References

1. ^ It is said islanders of Seram in Indonesia was faced with this creature when it raided villages to abduct infants and children to is home in Mount Kairatu. Shuker, Karl P N (2003). The Beasts That Hide From Man. Paraview. ISBN 1-931044-64-3. 

Further reading

• Newton, Michael (2005). "Orang-Bati". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 354. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7. 

External links

• Orang-bati at American Monsters
• Orang-bati at the Cryptid Zoo

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