Yeti · 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།, 中国 · 1922
XX-1922ID case-ae339e4c26Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Apr 1922to the month
- Where
- 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།, 中国to state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
William Hugh Knights reports seeing a wild man on the slopes of Everest who was pale yellow, covered in matted hair, and holding a crude bow.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།, 中国
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Apr 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-ae339e4c26
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 12 of The Bridgeport times and evening farmer (Bridgeport, Conn.), April 7, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-04-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.