Case file · Cryptid
The Didi, Guiana's wild man
Surveyor Charles Barrington Brown is credited with reporting, around 1868, Guiana stories of the Didi, a hairy, man-like forest being about five feet tall that walks upright.
1868 CE · 5.40, -59.30 · status: legend
The account
The report is usually cited from Brown's book Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana (1876). The Didi was later described in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Position approximate.
The sceptical view
Proposed explanations include misidentified monkeys or giant otters standing up, or a folklore figure; no specimen exists.
Connections in the atlas
- Magistrate Haines meets two Didi
- David Oren's mapinguari search
- Kaieteur and Old Kaie
- Fawcett and the Maricoxi
- De Loys' ape