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Roy told the Reuters news agency that bites attributed to the thing were actually animal bites, according to consulted physicians.
Three thousand extra men in Delhi were assigned by police, as of May 21, to track down the Monkey Man. Police also offered a reward equaling $1,065 U.S. dollars (in rupees) for the creature's capture.
Monkeyman Redux is a new journal documenting strange goings on around the globe.
monkeymanredux.blogspot.com   (1457 words)

  
 Mass Hysteria Said To Have Created India's 'Monkeyman' h   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The monkeyman never did exist concludes a report filed by a special team of forensic experts and psychiatrists.
It was mass hysteria which caused the entire monkeyman episode, states the report filed by a special team of forensic experts and psychiatrists.
Though the police has not yet made public the contents, sources said the report concludes the monkeyman was a mere figment of the imagination of `emotionally-weak' people.
www.rense.com /general11/hyst.htm   (354 words)

  
 Asia Times: India's monkeyman casts a magic spell
NEW DELHI - With almost predictable regularity, India every few years throws up a bizarre story to confirm its reputation for the exotic.
Sushil Kumar Lal, a senior Delhi police official, says the force has requested a halt to overnight power stoppages and even the darkest nooks and crannies of the city are being given electric light all night long, though it is summer and the time of perennial power shortages.
Areas in Delhi which daily undergo at least two- or three-hour power cuts several times a day are now reaping unexpected benefits from the monkeyman hysteria.
www.atimes.com /ind-pak/CE22Df03.html   (1446 words)

  
 GN Online: 'Monkeyman' sightings subside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sightings and alleged encounters with a shadowy beast known as the "monkeyman" subsided yesterday in the Indian capital as police cracked the whip on rumour mongers.
Delhi Police control said it had received "fewer distress calls" and reports of close encounters with the monkeyman after it began arresting people for spreading rumours about the alleged creature.
Delhi police announced that people making hoax calls and wasting their time would now be looking at a six-month jail term or finding themselves paying fines to the tune of Rs5,000 ($106).
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=17714   (444 words)

  
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New Delhi: With the incidents of attacks by the mysterious ''monkey-men'' growing everyday in the Capital, the Delhi police today geared up itself and decided to form a special team to nab attackers who have spread panic among Delhiites.
NEW DELHI, Wednesday: Mass hysteria is sweeping across India's capital after reports of a superpowered "monkey man", with hairy body and sharp metal claws, attacking people as they sleep on their roofs in the sweltering heat.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fear gripped some suburbs of the Indian capital on Tuesday after dozens of residents reported attacks by an ape-like creature able to leap from roof to roof.
www.geocities.com /oneobiwan/monkeymanfiles.html   (3436 words)

  
 Farshores CryptoCorner News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
NEW DELHI, The monkeyman mystery that shook Delhi not long ago refuses to die.
But most later instances of monkeyman attacks were found to be cases of self-inflicted injuries.
What has perplexed doctors is that in as many as five cases the ``monkeyman'' had simultaneously been sighted by several persons.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/indochu9.htm   (544 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Monkey man' fears rampant in New Delhi - May 16, 2001
NEW DELHI, India -- "Monkey man" hysteria has swept the Indian capital following the confirmation that injuries sustained by victims are animal bites.
Police said Wednesday that they were no closer to solving the mystery of an ape-like creature which residents accuse of clawing and biting dozens of people in New Delhi suburbs over the past fortnight.
The public's fear of the monkey man is so great that residents of Noida, a New Delhi suburb, caught and beat up a 4-foot-tall wandering Hindu mystic, mistaking him for the simian terror, the Statesman said.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/16/india.monkeyman   (641 words)

  
 CNN.com - Reward offered for 'Monkey Man' capture - May 17, 2001
NEW DELHI, India -- The Delhi police have announced the formation of a crack team dedicated to nabbing the elusive 'Monkey Man' and offered a reward for his -- or its -- capture.
Two terrified residents of the city's suburbs, including a pregnant woman, fell to their death earlier this week on hearing cries in the neighbourhood warning that the attacker was nearby.
However, in the first reported case of an indoor attack, an 18-year-old boy claimed he was attacked and scratched by a creature with "brown fur, resembling a monkey" in his residence on Wednesday afternoon.
cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/17/india.monkeyman/index.html   (637 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> ‘Hordes of monkeys spark monkeyman rumour’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
New Delhi: A huge wild rhesus monkey basking luxuriously on the rooftop of a multi- storey apartment in Delhi is no big deal.
Is it any wonder then that Delhi, where they've been worshipped and cursed alike for hundreds of years, spins the ghoulish magic real tale of the biting, scratching, flying devil of a "monkeyman"?
And ridding the city of monkeys or blaming them for the monkeyman nightmares is an idea that doesn't appeal at all.
newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/05/22/22monkeys.html   (333 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Monkeyman existed only in imagination: Delhi cops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
New Delhi: The "monkeyman" who struck terror in the Indian capital and made international headlines last month never existed, says a police report on the mysterious phenomenon that will be submitted on June 19.
The "monkeyman" wrecked havoc last month, sparking mass hysteria in parts of the city's poor neighbourhoods.
Some victims alleged that the "monkeyman" was a man disguised as a monkey, while others insisted that it was indeed an animal that jumped from roof to roof and disappeared as quickly as it emerged.
newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/06/18/18monkeyman.html   (341 words)

  
 MonkeyMan Katha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
But they were still to solve the case of the mysterious "monkey man" attacks despite narrowing down suspects in the week-long saga that has created hysteria in the city.
Delhi Police have offered a reward of 50,000 rupees ($1,063) for information leading to the capture of the "monkey man" which they now believe is not an animal but human.
Some people have said it had a metallic claw, others that it was like a cat with glowing eyes and one said it had flaming red eyes and green lights glowing on its chest.
www.audarya-fellowship.com /showflat/cat/WorldNews/23375/34/collapsed/5/o/1   (421 words)

  
 The Indian Express: Top stories: Full story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
As more and more of Delhi’s edges are bathed in floodlit brightness, as the police force goes nocturnal and patrols the streets to frighten away both the Monkeyman and popular fear, questions must be posed beyond the mere queries about when and how he will be apprehended.
That this is no innocuous propaganda is obvious from the tragic deaths of Delhiites who have jumped off their rooftops on hearing rumours of the Monkeyman’s arrival and the injury inflicted upon Monkeyman suspects.
The Monkeyman may yet be caught, or he may stealthily escape into pop mythology a la Springheel Jack, but if current trends persist the rest of us will probably soon find another cause for terror.
www.indianexpress.com /ie20010519/ed2.html   (480 words)

  
 Monkey Man NewsTracker, New Delhi, India
MMNT News House, 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001, INDIA.
Meanwhile MMNT received reports of Jackie Shroff's New Delhi mansion being attacked by a group of protesters.
THE DELHI Police said on Saturday they believed they were close to solving the case of the mysterious "monkey-man", blamed for attacks in which dozens of people have been bitten and clawed over the past few days.
www.geocities.com /saltrange2000/monkeyman   (2081 words)

  
 GN Online: Vigilantes prowl Delhi for 'monkeyman'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The warning came after a band of armed men overnight beat up a man returning home and attacked the occupants of a car on suspicions that they were part of a gang that aided the creature.
Television news reports also said that many of the city's residents were taking the matter into their own hands, trawling the streets at night armed with hockey sticks and batons.
Star News said one frenzied mob caught and beat a man in the east of the city, only to discover that he was an innocent bystander.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=17532   (612 words)

  
 "The monkey has come!" - www.ezboard.com
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - ``Monkey man'' hysteria is sowing panic in India's capital, with media reporting that two terrified residents fell to their death on hearing that an ape-like attacker was nearby.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police in the Indian capital said Monday the marauding ``monkey man'' that terrorized the city over the past week was neither man nor monkey but a result of public hysteria.
The incident follows close on panic triggered in the capital New Delhi, by a mysterious "monkey man" which police now believe to have been imaginary, as well as in the neighbouring desert state of Rajasthan.
p206.ezboard.com /ftheaugfrm6.showMessage?topicID=95.topic   (1830 words)

  
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NEW DELHI, India- The mass hysteria over reports of a "monkey man" that attacks people sleeping on roofs in the sweltering heat has disappeared as mysteriously as it came.
Last week, New Delhi police recieved more than100 reports nightly about a swiftly moving 4 foot hairy creature who could jump 20 feet.
Roads in several parts of New Delhi and its adjoining towns, Noida and Ghaziabad, were deserted during the panic.
www.angelfire.com /mn2/mnbf/monkeyman.html   (320 words)

  
 Dr. Zaius, I Presume?
A New Delhi news agency reported that one monkey-kill-posse beat some guy three ways 'til Tuesday, only to discover later that he was not a half man-half monkey hybrid, but an innocent bystander.
Others, such as the National Human Rights Council held a religious ceremony in the heart of New Delhi to "pray for the city's release from the clutches of the ape-like menace".
They believe the horror to be the work of a gang of youth hell bent on instilling fear in the hearts of the people of New Delhi.
www.lowcrats.com /Tales/Crackers/Zaius/zaius.htm   (621 words)

  
 Pakistani Defence Forum -> New Delhi Terrorist Capital Of The World
In 2001 before Secretary of State Colin Powel’s visit to the region it was the “false alarm” hijacking that went on for four hours on India’s New Delhi airport.
Delhi residents aren't the first victims of this phenomenon.
The Sena's Delhi unit believes that the monkey-man is part of an ISI plot that the party has vowed to foil.
www.pakistanidefenceforum.com /index.php?showtopic=6758   (3081 words)

  
 GN Online: Police offer bounty for 'monkeyman'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Indian police offered a reward yesterday for the capture of a mysterious creature known as the "monkeyman" who has struck terror in the capital by clawing and biting dozens of people.
Police in New Delhi said they were not sure whether the attacker was indeed a monkey, as some of its victims have claimed, or simply a human "mischief-monger".
Delhi Police have requested assistance and extra manpower from the federal government to help tackle the emergency.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=17478   (737 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Inside Delhi
They may have been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the recent past, even holding patients to ransom when it came to proving their point, but the Capital still has pharmacists who don't mind going the extra mile to help an ailing person.
And to further ensure that the customer had no doubt, the man made her speak to the doctor too, who said the medicine was a good replacement for what he had prescribed.
For residents of North-West Delhi, it was like living in Lord Voldermort's reign for all of this past week.
www.hinduonnet.com /2005/03/22/stories/2005032207290300.htm   (814 words)

  
 GN Online: Shoot on sight orders for 'monkeyman'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
According to the PTI, the Delhi Police received 29 distress calls from the eastern and north eastern parts of the Indian capital on Monday night, as the "monkeyman" struck at about 50 places.
In Ghaziabad, one person had died and 19 others were injured after attacks by the "monkeyman", a police spokesman said.
The police were also baffled by reports the "monkeyman" could jump down from multi-storey buildings and sprint long distances in seconds, media reports said.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=17299   (384 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
With no scientific rationale found behind menace of the mysterious "Monkeyman", scientists feel Government is not doing enough to dispel the myth flooding about the "unknown creature" that has caused havoc in the national capital and surrounding area for past many days.
Police, though themselves might not believe whether there is any miscreant, by increasing their strength wanted to assure people that they are there for help, he said adding the way people claimed to be attacked showed a very systematic approach on the part of the assaulter which was "far fetched".
People are waiting for an assertive voice to refuse the story of "monkeyman", he said adding his interaction with people in one such colony resulted in convincing of half the people present there.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01may21/national.htm   (3214 words)

  
 Archive: 05-17-01
Delhi Police now believe that the much hyped "Monkeyman" could be an attack launched by is being the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
Police are blaming a band of men in masks for what they call hysteria among residents of New Delhi, who claim a mysterious ``monkey man'' has been attacking people late at night.
Reisdents armed with swords and tridents have been mobilised to protect people from attacks by the fierce creature we have come to know as the monkey-man. The Sena's Delhi unit believes that the monkey-man is part of an ISI plot that the party has vowed to foil.
www.glennbeck.com /archives/05-17-01.shtml   (1196 words)

  
 Sports Afield: Monkeyman's reign of terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
NEW DELHI, INDIA-- According to a Los Angeles Times story, rumors about a half-man, half-monkey creature attacking people have caused near panic in India's capital city.
Some members of India's Parliament insist the monkey-man was sent to New Delhi by Pakistan as a sinister plot to destabilize the government.
More than 2,000 rhesus monkeys live in New Delhi where they are revered as minions of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3775/is_200109/ai_n8961046   (342 words)

  
 Skeptical News
The new ribozyme, generated by David Bartel and his colleagues at the Whitehead, can carry out a remarkably complicated and challenging reaction, especially given that it was not isolated from nature but created from scratch in the laboratory.
NEW DELHI: Looking back at the origin of the mass hysteria that prevails in low-income group residential colonies in the national capital region, it is amazing how a bunch of mischief-makers have been able to terrorise so many people for so long.
The bizarre case of the monkeyman took a new turn on Thursday night when a man was badly beaten up at Geeta Colony in East Delhi and his vehicle smashed by a restive crowd which mistook him for the elusive creature who has spread panic in and around the Capital.
www.ntskeptics.org /news/news2001-05-22.htm   (15192 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
The administrative committee condoled the deaths of a Nedunzheyian, Salem West district secretary and son of former minister Veerapandi S Arumugam, and Tirupattur V Muthu and Pollachi Nagaraj, the two party cadres who committed self immolation after the party’s defeat.
After rejecting the theory of existence and attacks by the ‘monkey-man,’ the Delhi Medical Association (DMA) has decided to conduct a detailed investigation into the various psychological factors responsible for the spread of mass hysteria and to stop their recurrence in future.
With Dehra Dun getting the status of the interim capital of the new state, several events of national importance are now being held here this summer, giving an unfamiliar air of heightened activity to the once quiet and sleepy town.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01may24/national.htm   (2926 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A youth, mistaken to be the assailant "monkey man", was beaten up in New Delhi while mass hysteria continued to grip the streets of the Indian capital, reports said.
According to the United News of India (UNI), one of the people arrested was a doctor who was flening surgical gloves and throwing them around to scare people.
Terrified residents were turning to prayer as new reports of attacks added to hysteria in the city.
onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,40466-1-9,00.html   (500 words)

  
 New Delhi Metro Definition / New Delhi Metro Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
New Delhi Metro Definition / New Delhi Metro Research
new Delhi metro is the most popular show in town, writes Catherine Philp in today's Times.
New Delhi Metro is the metro system of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited.
www.elresearch.com /New_Delhi_Metro   (413 words)

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