For over two thousand years, the Yeren — China's legendary wildman — has haunted the mountains and folklore of rural China, inspiring fear, government bans, and even a state-funded scientific expedition. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa traces the creature's origins from ancient poetry to modern eyewitness accounts, and follows the researcher who spent fifty years hunting for proof. What he found raises a fascinating question: what if the monster was never a monster at all?

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