Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What legendary monster did U.K. Representative B. H. Hodson claim to see in Nepal in 1832?"
...U.K. Representative B.H. Hodson reported an extremely hairy creature attacking his servants while in Nepal in 1832. Locals spoke of a legendary beast called "rakshas," meaning "demon." In a report published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Hodson described the creature as abnormally large and appearing like an "upright orangutan. (Point of fact: orangutans only live in tropical jungle climates of Malaysia and Indonesia. It appears that Hodson's report is the first official sighting of the Abominable Snowman made by a Western visitor to the region of Nepal. Source: Occultopedia.com
