Yeti

The existence of the Yeti has been questioned for hundreds of years. The idea of a 2 metre bipedal fury brown human-like creature is difficult to believe without scientific proof. And yet there are numerable cases of sightings, prints and tales told by mountaineers and locals. There are also numerous hoaxes, photographs and fake stories of people trying to make fun of the situation. I've personally always been thrilled by these cryptology creatures and myths, so I decided to do a little research on this specific tale. I found out the following facts:

-In the 19th century:
* Hodgson's guides claimed to have seen a bipedal creature with long brown hair which Hodgson said must of been an orangutan.
* Large human-like footprint sightings in 1889 where later disqualified as the ones a bear.

-In the 20th century:
* Four different people from four different expeditions said they'd seen a large animal walking through the snow on it's hind legs.
* More than 5 different sightings and some photographs of supposed yeti footprints have been found.
* A scalp and a hand where found in a Buddhist monastery and sent by Hillary for analysis.
* Expeditionists on their mission for finding yeti proof found a feces which contained a new parasite that had not yet been found and claimed it to belong to an animal also unclassified.

-In the 21st century:
* A group of Japanese expeditionists found footprints and the leader is said to have seen one in 2003 and is determined to capture one on film.
* Hair samples are found and analysed, the tests where inconclusive.
* In 2008 a footprints where found by the American TV presenter Joshua Gates, the prints measured 33 cm long and 25 cm across at it's widest.

That's about as much proof as I could find, but I'd probably like to go to the Himalayas some day and see what more I can discover.