Case file · Cryptid
The sisimito of the Maya Mountains, Belize
Archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson recorded in his 1930 ethnology of southern British Honduras the sisimito, a large hairy wild man of the forests whose feet point backward and who carries off women.
1930 CE · 16.60, -88.75 · status: legend
The account
Versions of the creature (sisimite, itacayo) are told among Maya, Garifuna and mestizo communities from Belize to Honduras. People say that if you see one, you must not meet its eyes.
The sceptical view
No physical evidence exists. Folklorists see it as a moral and boundary figure of the forest, comparable to wild-man figures worldwide.