Case file · Cryptid
Jordi Magraner's barmanou hunt, Chitral
French zoologist Jordi Magraner spent some fifteen years in Chitral, Pakistan, collecting accounts of the barmanou, a hairy wild man of the Hindu Kush; he was murdered in the Bumboret valley in August 2002.
2002 CE · 35.69, 71.68 · status: claim
The account
Magraner gathered dozens of witness reports from Kalash and Chitrali herders, describing a robust, hair-covered biped that wears animal skins. His killing, never fully solved, ended the most sustained field search.
The sceptical view
No physical evidence was published. The barmanou belongs to a wider Central Asian 'wild man' tradition that includes the almas.