A British journalist and former travel writer. Debbie Martyr first came to Sumatra in 1989 and climbed Mount Kerinci, where she heard of the orang pendek, a small upright primate of local folklore. She did not believe in Bigfoot. By 1994 she was back in Kerinci Seblat National Park, and her own sighting there followed. She later co-led Project Orang Pendek and, with Jeremy Holden, took the hunt into the forest with plaster casts and camera traps. The archive names her as a successor to the Oostingh encounter of 1917 and van Herwaarden's account of 1923.
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Debbie Martyr's orang pendek sighting, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra (1994)
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Witness; British journalist and former travel writer, later co-leader of Project Orang Pendek
