The Bukit Timah area is now a biodiverse Nature reserve. During World War II, the Japanese soldiers stationed in Singapore glimpsed a strange version of Bigfoot there. Many reported seeing a primate-like creature covered in grey hair and standing up to 2 metres tall in the Bukit Timah rain forest. There are also a few present-day sightings reported every now and then. The last sightings took place in 2007 when visitors told the stories that they had seen an ape-creature being run over by a taxi and another scratching around in trash cans.