5 Indonesian Folklore Creatures

5. Ebu gogo

In the Flores folklore, they are short hominoids of approximately 1 metre tall, covered with hair, has a pot belly and big ears. Technically an ape but were known to repeat human words like a parrot would do.

They eat anything they can get, this includes human babies. According to lore, the people of Flores tried to coexist with the creature by offering them food so that the Ebu Gogo doesn’t destroy their crop. But the Ebu Gogo crossed the line of kidnapping a human child.

Because of that one incident, the people of Flores started hunting them down and most probably hunted them down to extinction.

In 2003, anthropologists actually found the remains of a hominoid of the same feature of an Ebu Gogo. They call their findings, Homo Floresiensis as it was found in the Flores Island. So its not quite far fetched to say that they might have actually existed.