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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Hunting For the Yeren: A True Story

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard of Bigfoot, the Swamp Ape and so on. Western science largely dismisses the existence of these cryptids. Yet: Did you know there's another associated cryptid in China? Unlike Bigfoot, or the closely-associated Yeti, the Yeren became a subject of intense scientific scrutiny out in the hinterlands of interior China. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore China's multimillion dollar endeavor to prove the existence of their own Bigfoot.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.9

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:11.9

A production of IHeart Radio.

0:25.8

Hello, welcome back to the show.

0:26.6

My name is Matt.

0:27.8

My name is Noel.

0:29.4

They call me Ben.

0:33.5

We're joined as always with our super producer, Andrew the Triforce Howard.

0:35.8

Most importantly, you are you.

0:37.1

You are here. That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know

0:41.1

and fellow cryptid fans friends and neighbors we have something special for you this evening uh i

0:49.0

i i think we're all excited about this i hope that's a a case. We all love a cryptid episode, right?

0:55.1

Did we talk about in the past?

0:56.4

We had to, because this seems like a question that would obviously come up.

0:59.2

Are there no cryptid, like, fighting games or sort of Pokemon style or Magic the Gathering style card games?

1:07.0

I feel like one came up.

1:09.1

There are characters that occur in there.

1:11.4

There are, I feel like that you're right,

1:13.6

there has to be one because we know there are a couple of deity fighting games.

1:18.5

We talked about that previously.

1:20.2

And we know there are crypto-zoological characters that occur in like magic,

1:25.0

the gathering, and so on.

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