Could you imagine having to wax all that?

I need to find that video now, just cause 😂.

Nope I'm not trolling.

Do you know that we've barely explored the earth? New apes are discovered all the time. I think one was just discovered in 2017. Also, have you ever read the etymology of the word "gorilla?"

The word "gorilla" comes from the history of Hanno the Navigator, (c. 500 BC) a Carthaginian explorer on an expedition on the west African coast to the area that later became Sierra Leone. Members of the expedition encountered "savage people, the greater part of whom were women, whose bodies were hairy, and whom our interpreters called Gorillae". It is unknown whether what the explorers encountered were what we now call gorillas, another species of ape or monkeys, or humans.[6] Skins of gorillai women, brought back by Hanno, are reputed to have been kept at Carthage until Rome destroyed the city 350 years later at the end of the Punic Wars, 146 BC.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla (they called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia. The name was derived from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (gorillai) 'tribe of hairy women', described by Hanno.

I didn't always have an opinion on this topic. I used to think it was stupid to even worry with such a thing. But I discovered this really fun guy named Bob Gymlan. He makes amazing videos on cryptids, and approaches this topic in a very careful and considerate way. I highly encourage you to explore what he has to say, for no other reason than to knock one more thing down that you've been lied to about. I've watched all his videos, some of the more recent ones aren't so good.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVPvKc3b_tjIk0qji7kSIa1RbnUEx2wQJ

Edited to add, are you a Bible believer? Essau in the Bible was covered in hair like a goat. In my studies I've come to the conclusion that these people are descendents of nephilim.

Hypertrichosis is what modern science likes to classify the remnants of this genetic mutation.

https://dnascience.plos.org/2012/12/27/the-curious-genetics-of-werewolves/

Oh I forgot what really got me into looking into this. On one of my husband's combat deployments he used to ruck through the mountains of afghanistan. The locals would point and say, no go, and the translator would tell him there were yetis in the mountains. Almost everywhere you go where there are indigenous people, there is also knowledge of these kinds of "creatures." The fact that these guys were telling him not to go and seemed afraid really piqued my interest.

Are you certain these weren't searchlights of some sort? And were you under the influence of anything?

Drugs are bad mmmk