Dozens of people were hospitalised with fractures and severe injuries due to the attacks of a mysterious creature called Monkeyman.

Beginning in April 2001, The Times of India reported that a “rogue monkey” or a “masked man” was creating hundreds of casualties, causing panic across the Ghaziabad district in India. The first reports came from victims who slept on the roofs of their houses. The creature was biting his sleeping victims before running away at high speed. By the end of April sightings had moved to a nearby village and during one night of activity people fired shots and threw stones at the Monkeyman.

The best description of the Monkeyman came from a doctor; she said he was “four and a half feet tall and jumped like a monkey. He looked like a black shadow with a monkey like face and red lights emitting from his eyes”. For over two months the Monkeyman prowled an area over 200 square miles and was spotted by hundreds, if not thousands of people.

The last sightings occurred in early July 2001 with experts and newspapers blaming mass hysteria rather than an actual physical entity.