Barmanou

The Barmanou (or Barmanu or Baddmanus) is a bipedal humanoid primate cryptid said to be 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 Barmanou extensively.

The Barmanou is the Pakistani equivalent of the Bigfoot or North American Sasquatch, as it known in popular culture. The term Barmanou is used in several languages including Khowar, Shina, Hindko and Kashmiri. In addition to the name Barmanou there are several other local names too.

The proposed range of the Barmanou 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 Barmanou is alleged 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 Barmanou 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.