This chapter consists entirely of another of Bruno Lacombe's emails, in which he addresses correspondents' questions about why H. sapiens stands alone as the sole surviving human species. Bruno admits he has long upheld this doctrine of human solitude, but suggests it deserves questioning, given that nearly every culture preserves legends of other human strains still living in the wild.

Bruno catalogues these legends globally: Sasquatch and Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, the mungo of Nepal, the Bear Man of Gansu, the Man-Beast of Nanshan, and the Almas of the Gobi Desert. He emphasizes the consistency of described features across vast distances, including heavy brow ridges, enormous teeth, and a distinctive cry.

He recounts the work of Soviet cryptozoologist Boris Nevsky, originally a scholar of medieval French peasant revolts, who came to believe such uprisings were led by people of Neanderthal heritage. Denied a visa to research the Pyrenees, Nevsky headed the Commission to Study Relic Hominids and spent thirty years collecting sightings in Central Asia. Over time, Nevsky stopped treating the stories as myth and came to believe the Wild Man was real.

Bruno acknowledges skepticism, even his own, conceding the researchers may be deluded or fraudulent. Yet he argues that whether or not such beings physically exist in remote regions like the Guyenne Valley, they unquestionably live in human imagination and culture. He concludes that these enduring legends serve as quiet resistance against Big Science and pessimism, offering comfort that H. sapiens may not, in fact, be alone.