Venu Ishta (1890-1965)

A Hawaiian Cryptozoologist. Father was from India and his mother from Hawaii. Born in Oahu and moved to India for his collegiate studies. Studying cryptozoology. After his schooling he moved back to Hawaii, married and had a daughter. He focused his studies on the folklore of the Hawaiian Menehune, legendary people of the Hawaiian islands. In his later years, after hearing reports of a Hawaiian wild man creature "Kane Hihui" he focused his efforts on their existence. He found records of great earthquakes starting from the outer coast of  Washington State, The Great Holocene Earthquakes some 7,000 years ago. These epic quakes formed massive tsunamis that carried huge amounts of debris in some cases tiny islands of logs mud and brush slamming against the Hawaiian islands shorelines. He believed with the massive waves and islands of debris came the Skunk Ape or Hawaiian Bigfoot. Most discounted his efforts as a joke and discredited any of his findings. In on e recorded interview he said it was "plausible their (Skunk Apes) arrival to the Hawaiian Islands."