Eli Harrington, who is a communications volunteer this summer working in China, has recently returned from exploring some little known Yeren sites.

One of the Chinese posters used in local villagers to encourage eyewitnesses to tell Yeren researchers about their sightings.

Chinese researcher Yuan Zhenxin with the cast of an alleged Yeren from Hubei province’s Shennogjia Nature Reserve.

While in China, Harrington took a few side trips to see the crypto-parts and other wonders of the country. Highlights he has mentioned include the horseback riding in the Mongolian grasslands, archery/airsoft gun games, the Buddhist temple with world’s largest wooden Buddha, drinking Mongolian horse milk liquor, hiking sledge-hammer rock, staying at a Mongolian-Yurt hotel, flying around on ATVs 802-style airplanes, listening to drunken karaoke with Chinese government officials, eating roasted lamb leg, and experiencing friends’ food poisoning from goat meat.

He writes also of cryptozoology, and he emails me that he

…was up near some potential Yeren territory a few weeks ago in northern Hebei Province (not to be confused with Hubei province, the home of the Yeren and concentration of sightings), right near the border with Inner Mongolia at the Saihanba Nature Reserve.

It is absolutely gorgeous–a huge, very-well-preserved wilderness area with thick forests (coniferous, deciduous, and birch) and protected from development under law. Seems like a potential Yeren hide-out.

We also crossed over the border into Inner Mongolia with its sprawling, beautiful grasslands and hilly terrain–made me curious to know if there is any sort of Mongolian equivalent of a Yeren…that’s to say, some sort of legendary cryptid that patrolled the grasslands? Interesting to think about.

Needless to say, I told Eli Harrington about the Almas.

Some Mongolian Almas are vividly described by witnesses.

Harry Trumbore’s drawing (directly above) of the Chinese yeren in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006).

Trumbore’s drawing of an Almas in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006).

Eli Harrington may be attempting to recruit some of the Yerens for Coach Varney’s Brandeis University baseball team, but that’s only a secondhand rumor.

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