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Skeptoid #302: De Loys' Ape

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A geologist claimed to have discovered a new species of great ape in Venezuela in the early 20th century.

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0:00.0

Today I've got a very personal episode for you, personal to me because it centers on

0:08.0

a single photograph with a hair-raising story behind it.

0:12.2

It is Deloise Ape, a primate that would be unknown except for a single photograph of

0:17.8

its recently shot corpse propped up, a frightening grimace on its ape-like face.

0:24.0

It's the photograph that, as much as anything else, drove me toward a career investigating

0:29.7

the strange.

0:31.4

The truth behind Deloise Ape is today unskeptoid.

0:41.1

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1:30.1

Today we're going to point the skeptical eye at one of the many cryptids known from some

1:34.0

scant evidence.

1:35.7

Our subject is Deloise Ape, also called Amaranthropoides loisie.

1:41.4

It is said to be an unknown species of primate, walking bipedally through the jungles of

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