Bigfoot is big business in Malaysia. The Nepalese Buddha Boy has vanished. And Indian TV-star yogi Swami Ramdev has been cleared of necromantic accusations.

Late last year Malaysian fish farm workers claimed to have had a sighting—Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Yeti—mythical creatures often relegated to the pseudo-science known as cryptozoology. Three enormous and hairy humanoids were spotted roaming the jungle of Johor. While the Malaysian wildlife department investigates these reports, photographs of the 17” footprints circulate the internet alongside reports of large odorous hairs.

Perhaps it’s something astrological that’s stirring up the cryptozoological: on the same day that BoingBoing posted about Loren Coleman’s Cryptozoology Top 10, the BBC features an entertaining video on the woolly mammoth, which discusses building a real woolly mammoth from newly discovered DNA. (Heck, while we’re at it, maybe there’s a cryptozoological explanation for the NYC subway strike…)