The Real Life Monsters of Indonesia

The Ebu Gogo are legendary gluttonous creatures from Indonesian folklore. Researchers suspect these tales actually describe real, ancient human-like species that once lived alongside our ancestors.

Local stories describe these small, hairy beings as ravenous foragers who could eat almost anything. Scientists theorize these myths might be ancestral memories of Homo floresiensis, a distinct hominid species that lived on the island of Flores until relatively recently. This suggests that prehistoric humans may have interacted with other human-like species for much longer than we once assumed.