It stands ten feet tall, covered in black and gray fur, and lives in the dense jungles of northeastern India. Villagers have seen it lurking behind the trees and have spotted its claw marks and massive footprints. They call this ape-like creature “mande barung”…

Skeptics call it an Asiatic bear or maybe a wild boar rearing on its hind legs. But according to the BBC, new testing of the bizarre hair samples has turned up something even more startling: this creature is neither bear nor boar; indeed, its hair has a “startling resemblance” to those of another mysterious creature… the Abominable Snowman.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first European to conquer Mt. Everest, had brought back hair samples from an ape-like creature he claimed to have sighted during his adventure. For years, they were stored by a museum in the UK and quietly forgotten.

Then came the discovery of giant “dragon teeth” in the stores of Chinese apothecaries. These teeth were identified as belonging to gigantapithecus: a giant prehistoric ape that had once roamed this area.

Now come the mande barung hairs. Preliminary microscopic testing has been conducted by primate expert Ian Redmond, who noted, “We now know for definite that these hairs do not belong to Asiatic black bear, they do not belong to a wild boar and they do not resemble hairs from various species of macaque monkeys. These hairs remain an enigma.”

Now it’s up to DNA testing to see if the abominable is identifiable…