Bananas, Crates, and Maybe-Monkey Debates: The De Loys' Ape Story | 463
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Summary
Picture this:
You and 19 of your closest coworkers go into the jungle looking for oil. Three years later, only four of you come out. You’ve buried most of your friends, you almost died of disease, and somewhere along the way you shot what might be the first ever “American ape.”
Or...you shot a spider monkey, cut off its tail, and accidentally invented one of the dumbest racist “missing link” hoaxes in history.
Welcome to this week’s saga, the De Loys’ Ape, on Hysteria 51!
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Core historical & zoological background
1. Wikipedia contributors. “François de Loys.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. (accessed 2025).Wikipedia
2. “De Loys’ Ape.” Swiss National Museum Blog (2025). nationalmuseum.ch/swiss-monster-hunters
3. “De Loys’ Ape – History of Geology.” History of Geology blog, Feb 2011. historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com
4. David Bressan, “De Loys’ Ape Was a Well Played Anthropological Fraud.” Forbes, Jan 2016.Forbes
Montandon, taxonomy, and racist theory
5. “Proto-Nazi Hoax: The ‘Ape’ in Green Hell.” Cryptomundo (Loren Coleman), 2007.cryptomundo.com
6. “Ameranthropoides loysi.” Biology Online archive / Monstropedia entry.Bio Dictionary Online+1
Tejera letter & debunking
7. “The Truth About the Venezuelan Monkey.” Interciencia / ResearchGate summary.ResearchGate
8. Strange Animals Podcast blog, January 2019 entries discussing De Loys’ ape and Tejera’s letter.strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net+1
Morphology and spider monkey identification
9. Karl Shuker, “A Picture of Monkey Business – Or, How a Small Furry Pet Became a Giant Mystery Ape.” ShukerNature blog, July 2017.karlshuker.blogspot.com
10.“MonoGrande, DeLoy’s Ape.” Bigfoot Encounters / Mono Grande essay quoting Ivan T. Sanderson.Bigfoot Encounters+1
South American cryptid primates (Mono Grande & others)
11.“Mono Grande.” Wikipedia.Wikipedia
12.“Mono Grande – South American Ape.” Fortunecity / Bigfoot Encounters archive.FortuneCity Community
13.“Mono Grande.” Cryptid Wiki / New Cryptozoology Wiki and related pages.Cryptid Wiki+1
14.Occultopedia entry on “Mono Rei / Mono Grande / Di-Di.”m.occultopedia.com
General cryptid / cultural references
15.“De Loys’ Ape | Cryptid Wiki.”Cryptid Wiki
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a fourth-hand production. |
| 0:02.9 | Picture this. |
| 0:04.3 | You and 19 of your closest co-workers go into the jungle looking for oil. |
| 0:10.5 | Three years later, only four of you come out. |
| 0:14.8 | You've buried most of your friends. |
| 0:16.8 | You almost died of disease. |
| 0:18.4 | And somewhere along the way, you shot what might be the first ever American ape. |
| 0:26.7 | Or you shot a spider monkey cut off its tail and accidentally invented one of the dumbest racist missing link hoaxes in history. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome to this week's saga, the Deloise Ape on Hysteria 51. |
| 0:42.1 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 0:44.1 | From city to city, an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:47.0 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:50.2 | We tell these fools. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm not crazy. |
| 0:52.7 | You're hysteria. |
| 1:22.6 | You can't handle the truth. This brain is gone. This is Hysteria 51. The truth is out there. It's alive. But you won't find it here. They're coming for you. Look! That comes one of them now. Welcome in Hysteria Nation to a crypticentric episode of Hysteria 51. Holy shit. |
| 1:23.6 | Did you find the supposed beast that will actually have sex with you two Alphajotes? If so, we need to capture it and study it to see why it is so fucked up in the head. That doesn't deserve a response. You don't deserve air. What about cheese muffins? Where do you fall on those as far as deserving? Kyle, seriously, shut the ever-loving fuck up. Stop flirting with him. Jesus Christ. Anyway, uh, back on track. Unfortunately, that's the norm. We are broadcasting from the lower, lower fourth dimension, also known as Nashville with a, we're going to call a neck leash leading to parts unknown, Colorado. I'm Brenthand. He's David Flora. |
| 2:01.7 | Hello. |
| 2:02.4 | Or Dave Flora. |
| 2:03.2 | If you're nasty. |
| 2:04.0 | And, of course, the bots are here. |
| 2:06.0 | So that makes this hysteria 51. |
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