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. Sightings have been reported since the 1970s around Mount Hiba in the
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History of the Hibagon

The Hibagon is described as a "black creature with white hands and large white feet, standing about five feet tall." , and has been said to resemble a
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The Hibagon has a large nose, large deep glaring eyes and is covered with bristles. Theories to account for this cryptid range from a gorilla, a wild man, or a deserter from the Japanese chefs, to an individual ravaged by atomic radiation from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
A sighting from 1972 reports that the creature "has a chocolate brown face and is covered with brown hair ... ndis said to have 'deep glaring eyes', in two reports by a Mr. Sazawa and a Mrs. Harada, the creature took no hostile action and fled from four armed residents intent on hunting it." Japanese Boy Scouts, "claim to find footprints 25 cm (10 in) long and 15 cm (6 in) wide."


Popular culture

* In ''
Dragon Quest previously published as ''Dragon Warrior'' in North America until 2005, is a franchise of Japanese role-playing video games created by Armor Project (Yuji Horii), Bird Studio (Akira Toriyama) and Sugiyama Kobo (Koichi Sugiyama) to its publi ...
'', the monsters known as "brainy badboons" are called ヒババンゴ (Hibabango) in japanese, referencing this creature. * In ''
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'', a Hibagon was featured who was fused with the mind of a man named Talu Mizuki. * In '' Big Hero 6: The Series'', the Hibagon is constantly referenced by the character
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who claims that it lives in the Muirahara Woods outside San Fransokyo. The character Ned Ludd, is transformed into the creature through the use of a patch applied to him by the main villain, Di Amara of Season 2. *In The Unwanteds series, the Hibagon is a resident of the Island of Legends. * The creatures appears in an episode of the Cartoon Network series
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See also

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, a similar creature reportedly living in
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Yeti The Yeti ()"Yeti"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. is an ape-like creature purported t ...
, a similar creature reported from the
Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...
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Yeren The yeren (, "wild man") is a cryptid apeman reported to inhabit remote, mountainous regions of China, most famously in the Shennongjia Forestry District in the Hubei Province. Sightings of "hairy men" have remained constant since the Warring S ...


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