Who is the yeti: is there a bigfoot? Legends and real stories about Bigfoot Bigfoot how else to call

Publications about Bigfoot have long moved from the category of world sensations to the category of entertaining reading matter. Back in the 1970s, the well-known journalist Yaroslav Golovanov noted that on yeti worth the "stigma of a smile." And in recent years, almost not a single journalistic investigation on this topic can do without a certain amount of scoffing.

Representatives of "big" science call the researchers of the problem amateurs, arrogantly rejecting their discoveries. Nevertheless, research in this area continues and is replenished with more and more new evidence. DISCOVERY magazine begins a series of articles about Bigfoot and other unknown, controversial and extinct creatures.

It is generally accepted that in Russia the study of Bigfoot began a century ago. Back in 1914, the zoologist Vitaly Khakhlov, who since 1907 had been searching for the “wild man” and surveying the local population on the territory of Kazakhstan, sent a letter to the leadership of the Academy of Sciences, in which he substantiated the existence of human-like creatures.

Khakhlov gave them the species name Primihomo asiaticus (the first man of Asia) and insisted on organizing an expedition to find viable individuals. But the letter fell into the category of "having no scientific significance", and the events that followed, including the First World War, completely postponed the solution of this problem for many decades.

Bigfoot (aka Bigfoot, Yeti and Sasquatch) first attracted the attention of the general public in the 1950s, when climbers from many countries began to "explore" the highest peaks on the planet. A little more than half a century ago, in 1954, the first special expedition to search for the yeti in the Himalayas took place.

It was organized by the British tabloid Daily Mail on the initiative and under the direction of the newspaper's employee, journalist Ralph Izzard. The impetus for the preparation of the expedition was photographs of the traces of a mysterious bipedal creature in the snow, taken by the Englishman Eric Shipton during the climb to Everest in 1951.

Evidence has been found in high-altitude monasteries proving that the Himalayas are inhabited (or at least lived) by huge humanoid creatures covered with wool.

Izzard very thoughtfully approached the preparations of the expedition, which took almost three years. During this time, he got acquainted with all the publications on the topic in the libraries of different countries, carefully selected specialists for the main part of the expedition, and agreed on the assistance of the Sherpas, the indigenous inhabitants of the high mountains of the Himalayas.

And although Izzard did not catch Bigfoot (and such a task was also set), many reports of meetings with him were recorded, and evidence was found in high-mountain monasteries proving that huge humanoid creatures live (or at least lived) in the Himalayas covered with wool. According to the descriptions of local residents, an English anthropologist, the son of emigrants of the first wave, Vladimir Chernetsky recreated the appearance of the Yeti.

A unique photograph taken during an expedition in the forest near Vyatka (Orichevsky district) in 200B: a shaggy creature moving on two legs was filmed from a distance of about 200 meters, after which it ran away, leaving giant footprints.

In 1958, the USSR Academy of Sciences created a "Commission for the Study of Bigfoot" and sent an expensive expedition to search for the Yeti in the Pamir highlands, but, unlike Izzard, did not bother with any serious preparation. The mission was headed by the botanist Kirill Stanyukovich, and among his colleagues there was not a single specialist in large mammals.

Needless to say, the result turned out to be depressing: considerable funds were spent, as they would say today, on “non-targeted expenses”. It cannot be argued that Stanyukovich did not justify the hopes of high officials at all. Based on the data obtained, he created a geobotanical atlas of the Pamir highlands, but after his expedition, the Academy of Sciences officially closed the topic of studying Bigfoot. Since then, all searches for the Yeti in our country have been carried out exclusively by enthusiasts.

YETI ON FILM

Nevertheless, in the short period of its existence, the commission managed to collect a large number of eyewitness reports about meetings with "mountain dwellers". Several editions of information materials have been published. All work was carried out under the guidance of Professor Boris Porshnev, who founded a new direction in the science of man and his origin - hominology.

In 1963, marked “For Official Use,” with a circulation of only 180 copies, his voluminous monograph “The Current State of the Question of Relic Hominids” was published, in which Porshnev outlined the available data and the theory based on them.

These ideas in subsequent years were developed by the professor in articles in popular science publications and summarized by him in the book "On the Beginning of Human History" (1974), which was published after the death of the author. Boris Porshnev died of a heart attack when the publication of this work was canceled at the last moment, and the set of the book was scattered.

In his writings, Porshnev expressed the idea that "snow people" are Neanderthals who have survived to this day, adapted to natural conditions without tools, clothing, fire, and, most importantly, speech as a means of communication. Speech, according to the scientist, is the most important distinctive quality of a person, distinguishing him from the rest of the animal world.

In the 1960s, expeditionary work moved mainly to the Caucasus. The main merit in this belongs to the doctor of biological sciences Alexander Mashkovtsev, who traveled along and reproached several regions of the Caucasus and collected rich material.

The expeditionary work was headed and led by Maria-Zhanna Kofman for many years. Participants of the search exchanged information about the results obtained at the meetings of the seminar on the problem of relic hominids, founded in 1960 at the State Darwin Museum in Moscow by the famous naturalist Peter Smolin. After Smolin's death, the seminar is headed by Dmitry Bayanov to this day.

While in the USSR the Bigfoot problem was discussed from a theoretical position, in America and Canada there was a serious breakthrough in the field of field searches.

On October 20, 1967, American Roger Patterson managed to film a female hominid in a forest in Northern California and make several plaster casts of her footprints. The film was coldly received by the scientific community, without any study was rejected by the Smithsonian Center and declared a fake. Patterson died five years later from brain cancer, but materials still appear in the press trying to accuse him of falsification.

But back in 1971, Russian hominologists, among whom was your obedient servant, as a result of painstaking research, recognized the film as genuine. Our study of the film is still the most important testament to its truth. American specialists have only recently begun a serious study of it and are already confirming the conclusions made in the USSR almost 40 years ago.

EXAMINATION STUDYING THE PATTERSON FILM, RUSSIAN (THEN SOVIET) SCIENTISTS CONCLUDED THAT IT IS GENUINE. THEY BASED THEIR CONCLUSIONS ON THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS:

The exceptional flexibility of the ankle joint of the creature depicted on the film is unattainable for a person.
Greater, compared with a person, the flexibility of the foot itself is in the back direction. Dmitry Bayanov was the first to draw attention to this. Later, the American anthropologist Jeff Meldrum also confirmed this, which he described in his publications.

The Bigfoot's heel protrudes more backwards than a human's. This corresponds to the typical structure of the Neanderthal foot. For a creature of great weight, this is justified from the point of view of the rational application of muscle strength.

In researching the film, Dmitry Donskoy, Ph.D., then head of the department of biomechanics at the Institute of Physical Education, came to the conclusion that the creature's gait is completely atypical for Homo sapiens and practically cannot be reproduced.

In the film, the play of muscles on the body and limbs is clearly visible, which rejects the assumptions about the costume. The whole anatomy of the body and especially the low head set distinguishes this creature from modern man.

Measurements of the frequency of hand vibrations and comparison with the speed at which the film was shot testify to the high growth of the creature (about 220 cm) and, given the physique, large weight (exceeding 200 kg).

BIGFOOT CLAN IN TENNESSEE

In December 1968, two world-famous cryptozoologists, Ivan Sanderson (USA) and Bernard Euvelmans (France), examine the frozen corpse of a hairy humanoid creature. Later they publish the report in the scientific press. Euvelmans identified the deceased as a "modern Neanderthal", declaring that Porshnev was right.

Meanwhile, the search for Bigfoot continued in the USSR. The most significant results were given by the work of Maria-Jeanne Kofman in the North Caucasus, the search for Alexandra Burtseva in Kamchatka and Chukotka; very large-scale and fruitful expeditions were carried out in Tajikistan and in the Pamir-Alai under the leadership of Igor Tatsl and Igor Burtsev from Kiev, and in Western Siberia and Lovozero (Murmansk region) Maya Bykova conducted the search to no avail, Vladimir Pushkarev collected a lot of information in Komi and Yakutia.

Pushkarev's expedition ended tragically: in September 1978, he went on an expedition alone to the Khanty-Mansiysk District and went missing.

In 1990, search expeditions practically ceased due to a sharp change in the socio-political situation on the territory of the former USSR. After some time, thanks to the development of the Internet, Russian researchers were able to establish strong contacts with European and overseas colleagues.

In recent years, interest in the Yeti has intensified, and new regions of discovery of hominids have appeared. In 2002, Janice Carter, a farm owner in Tennessee, said in an interview that a whole clan of Bigfoot has been living near her property for more than half a century. According to the woman, the elder of the "snowy" family was about 60 years old, and "acquaintance" with him took place when Janice was only seven years old.

In the next issue, we will take a closer look at this amazing case and the main characters in the story. You will find a story about unique finds and incredible discoveries.

The mysterious creature from Burganef really looks like a Neanderthal

Janice Carter meets Bigfoot. The drawing was made from the words of a woman and accurately shows the proportions of the creature and demonstrates how their communication took place.

Some time ago, Russian hominologists accidentally stumbled upon information that in 1997 in France, at a provincial fair in the town of Bourganef, a frozen body of a “Neanderthal” was shown, allegedly found in the mountains of Tibet and smuggled from China.

There are many unknowns in this story. The owner of the trailer that carried the Neanderthal cold store disappeared without a trace shortly after images of the body of the dead Bigfoot were leaked to the French press.

The trailer itself has also disappeared with its priceless contents, all attempts to find it for 11 years have been in vain. Photos of the frozen body showed Janice Carter, who with a high degree of probability confirmed that this was not a falsification, but really the corpse of a Bigfoot.

Despite serious difficulties, mainly of a financial nature, research on the Bigfoot problem continues. The recognition of such anthropoid beings as official science will lead to serious changes in many branches of knowledge related to the study of man, will allow one to penetrate the secret of his origin, and will have a serious impact on the development of culture, religion, and medicine. Using the terminology of Porshnev, this will lead to a scientific revolution and to a fundamental revolution in the question of defining a person as such and separating him from the animal world.

An unusual structure made from tree trunks and branches, discovered in Tennessee. Similar structures are often found in difficult forests. Their purpose is still unknown, but, apparently, this is how the yetis somehow mark their territory. Igor Burtsev (pictured) is convinced that a huge Bigfoot family lives in Tennessee.

HUMAN AND ANIMAL HYBRID

Even Michel Nostradamus warned about the appearance of a hybrid of man and animal. Experiments on vivisection, that is, surgical intervention in a living organism in order to create another creature, in particular a person (or similar to him), were carried out back in the 19th century, but they did not lead to anything.

There is no such data about earlier "studies". At least, the doctors and alchemists of the Middle Ages did not resort to such experiments (it was the way to the fire of the Inquisition), being content with attempts to grow homunculi in test tubes.

Experiments on breeding humanoid creatures became widespread (in certain circles) in the early 1920s. A student of academician Ivan Pavlov, biologist Ilya Ivanov, began to conduct experiments on crossing humans and chimpanzees by artificial insemination. The experiments were carried out on volunteers and lasted more than 10 years, until Ivanov's death in 1932, which followed under very mysterious circumstances.

Why were these experiments carried out? The reason is simple at first glance - the possibility of creating some hybrids for working in difficult and harmful conditions and, possibly, for organ donation. However, the results of the experiments are unknown. True, there is unverified evidence that somewhere in the mines, Gulag prisoners met hairy ape-like people.

But is it possible to create such creatures and other humanoid monsters? Geneticists answer this question in the negative, since humans have 46 chromosomes, and chimpanzees have 48, which means that artificial (as well as natural) fertilization is simply impossible. But Ivanov, when exposed to the egg, could well use chemicals, drugs, radiation, and any other potent methods. After all, what is sometimes impossible in nature is quite possible in the laboratory.

JAPANESE VERSION

A Japanese climber claims to have uncovered the mystery of Bigfoot, and now this problem, which has been troubling the minds of seekers of mysterious phenomena for decades, is over. After 12 years of research, Ma-koto Nebuka concluded that the legendary yeti from the Himalayas is nothing but the Himalayan bear (Ursus thibetanus).

“Reality is rarely as terrifying as the imagination,” says a smiling Nebuka, one of the leading members of the Alpine Club of Japan, at a press conference in Tokyo for the release of his book, summarizing years of research into the Bigfoot problem.

In addition to unique photographs. Nebuka was also engaged in linguistic research. In particular, an analysis of interviews with residents of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan showed that the notorious "Yeti" is a distorted "Meti", that is, "bear" in the local dialect. And the myth almost became a reality due to the fact that the Tibetans consider the yeti honey to be an omnipotent and terrible creature with supernatural powers.

These concepts combined and became Bigfoot, explains Nebuka. As proof of his position, he shows a photograph of a yeti bear, whose head and paws are kept by one of the Sherpas as a talisman.

DO YOU KNOW THAT...

The name "snowman" is a tracing paper from the Tibetan "metoh kangmi", as this creature is called there.
. Scientists studying Bigfoot agree that the life span of this creature is 250-300 years.
. Cryptozoologists have not only casts of footprints, hair and yeti excrement, but also fragments of his dwelling, built on the ground and on trees. Scientists are convinced that it takes a lot of strength and intelligence to build a structure out of twigs and seal the walls with grass, foliage, earth and excrement.
. Finnish scientists tried to offer the most incredible version of the appearance of Bigfoot. They claimed that the yetis are aliens, and when they disappear, they are transported to their planet.
. In Malaysia, the yeti is considered a deity, they call it "Hantu Yarang Jiji" (literally translated - "spirit with widely spaced teeth"), and in the Endau-Rompin National Park there is even a small chapel with a sculpture of a bigfoot, to which believers come to pray.
. The American Society of Cryptozoologists and in Tucson, Arizona, announced a reward of $100,000 to anyone who finds and delivers the corpse of Bigfoot to scientists, and $1 million to those who manage to catch him alive.

Igor Burtsev
Magazine "Discovery" No. 5 2009.

Bigfoot - myth or reality? Billions of people on Earth want the answer to this question.

Are you interested in the topic bigfoot photo or bigfoot video film? This article is about just that! Bigfoot or, as he is also called, bigfoot, hominoid, sasquatch is a humanoid creature that is believed to be found in the highlands and forest regions of the world. There is an opinion that this is a mammal that belongs to the order of primates and to the genus man, preserved from the time of human ancestors. The Swedish naturalist, the creator of a unified classification system for the animal and plant world, Karl Linnaeus, defined it as Homo troglodytes, or, in other words, a caveman.

Descriptive Characteristics of Bigfoot

There is no exact description of Bigfoot. Some say that these are huge four-meter animals that are distinguished by mobility. Others, on the contrary, say that his height does not exceed 1.5 meters, he is passive and swings his arms strongly when walking.

All Bigfoot researchers are inclined to conclude that the yeti is a good creature, if it is not angry

According to unconfirmed reports, the yeti differs from modern humans in a pointed skull, a denser physique, a short neck, longer arms, short hips and a massive lower jaw. Its entire body is covered with reddish gray or black hair. The hair on the head is longer than on the body, and the beard and mustache are very short. It has an unpleasant strong odor. Among other things, he is excellent at climbing trees.

It is believed that the habitat of Bigfoot is the snowy edge, which separates forests from glaciers. At the same time, forest populations of snowmen build nests on tree branches, while mountain populations live in caves. They feed on lichens and rodents, and, before eating, the caught animals are butchered. This may indicate a close relationship with a person. In case of hunger, yeti approach people, and thus behave carelessly. According to the villagers, in case of danger, the humanoid savage makes a loud barking sound. But Chinese peasants talk about how snow people weave simple baskets, and also make axes, shovels and other elementary tools.

Descriptions suggest that the yeti is a relic hominoid that lives in married couples. However, it is possible that some people with overdeveloped unnatural hairline are mistaken for these creatures.

Early references to Bigfoot

The very first historical evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is associated with the name of Plutarch. He talked about how Sulla's soldiers caught a satyr who, according to the description, matches the appearance of a yeti.

In his short story Horror, Guy de Maupassant describes the meeting of the writer Ivan Turgenev with a female Bigfoot. There is also documentary evidence that in the 19th century there was a woman named Zana in Abkhazia, who was the prototype of the yeti. She had peculiar habits, but this did not prevent her from safely giving birth to children from people who, in turn, were distinguished by mighty strength and good health.

In the West in 1832 there were reports of a strange creature living in the Himalayas. B. G. Hodtson, an English traveler and explorer, settled in a highland region to study this mysterious creature. Later Hodtson B.G. in his works he talked about a tall humanoid creature, which the Nepalese called a demon. It was covered with long thick hair, differed from the animal in the absence of a tail and upright walking. The first mention of the Yeti Hodtson was told by local residents. According to them, for the first time about Bigfoot was mentioned in the fourth century BC.

Half a century later, the Briton Lawrence Waddell became interested in savages. At an altitude of 6,000 meters in Sikkim, he found footprints. After analyzing them and talking with local residents, Lawrence Waddell concluded that predatory yellow bears, which very often attack yaks, are mistaken for humanoid savages.

The growth of interest in bigfoot was observed in the 20-30s of the twentieth century, when one reporter called the hairy savage "a terrible bigfoot". The media also reported that several Bigfoot were caught and imprisoned, after which they were shot as Basmachi. In 1941, the colonel of the medical service of the Soviet army Karapetyan V.S. made an inspection of a snowman caught in Dagestan. Shortly thereafter, the mysterious creature was shot dead.

Bigfoot theories and film

To date, scientists do not have sufficient data to make an official confirmation of the validity of one of the theories. However, scientists are voicing rather bold hypotheses about the emergence of the Yeti, which have the right to exist. Their opinions are based on the study of hair and footprints, photographs taken, audio recordings, sketches of a strange creature, as well as video recordings that are not of the best quality.

For a long time, a short film directed by Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson in 1967 in Northern California was the most compelling evidence for the Yeti's existence. According to the authors, they managed to capture a female Bigfoot on film.

This happened in the fall, when Bob and Roger rode horses along a densely forested gorge in the hope of meeting a yeti, whose traces were repeatedly seen in these places. At one point, the horses were frightened of something and reared up, after which Patterson noticed a certain large creature that was squatting on the bank of the stream near the water. Glancing at the cowboys, this mysterious creature got up and walked away towards the steep slope of the gorge. Roger was not taken aback and, having taken out a video camera, ran to the stream for the creature. He ran after the savage, shooting him in the back. However, he realized that it was necessary to fix the camera and follow the moving creature, after which he knelt down. Suddenly, the creature turned and started walking towards the camera, but then, turning a little to the left, it left the stream. Roger tried to rush after him, however, thanks to his fast walking and large size, the mysterious creature quickly disappeared, and the film on the video camera ran out.

The Gimlin-Patterson film was immediately rejected by specialists from the most important scientific center in the United States - the Smithsonian Institution - as a fake. American experts said that such a hybrid with a hairy chest, gorilla head and human legs simply cannot exist in nature. At the end of 1971, the film was brought to Moscow and shown to a number of scientific institutions. Specialists of the Central Research Institute of Prosthetics and Prosthetics positively assessed him and became very interested in him. After a detailed study of the film, a written conclusion was made by the professor of the Academy of Physical Culture D.D. Donskoy, who noted that the gait of the creature on the film is completely atypical for a person. He regarded it as a natural movement, in which there were no signs of artificiality, and which is characteristic of various deliberate imitations.

Renowned sculptor Nikita Lavinsky also believed that the Gimlin-Patterson film was authentic. Based on the frames of this film, he even created sculptural portraits of a female Bigfoot.

The participants of the seminar on hominology Alexandra Burtseva, Dmitry Bayanov and Igor Burtsev undertook the most in-depth study of this film. Burtsev made a photographic reproduction with various expositions of stills from the film. Thanks to this work, it was proved that the head of the creature on the film was not a gorilla, as the Americans claimed, and not an ordinary person, but a paleoanthropist. It is also clear that the hairline is not a special costume at all, since the muscles of the back, legs and arms are clearly visible through it. The Yeti also differs from a human in its elongated upper limbs, the absence of a visible neck, the landing of the head, and an elongated barrel-shaped torso.

The arguments on which Patterson's film is based are:

• The ankle joint of the mysterious creature, filmed, has exceptional flexibility, which is unattainable for a person. The foot in the dorsal direction has more flexibility than a human. Dmitry Bayanov was the first to draw attention to this. Later, this fact was confirmed and described in his publications by Jeff Meldrum, an American anthropologist.

• The Yeti's heel sticks out much more than the human heel, which corresponds to the structure of the Neanderthal foot.

• The then head of the department of biochemistry at the Academy of Physical Culture, Dmitry Donskoy, who studied the film in detail, concluded that the gait of a strange creature on the film is completely not inherent in Homo Sariens, which, moreover, cannot be recreated.

• The film clearly shows the muscles on the limbs and body, which in turn eliminates the assumption of a suit. The whole anatomy distinguishes this mysterious creature from a man.

• A comparison of the frequency of hand vibrations with the speed at which the film was shot proved that the hairy creature was rather tall, about 2 meters 20 centimeters, and if you take into account the complexion, then it weighs more than 200 kilograms.

Based on these considerations, Patterson's film was deemed authentic. This was reported in scientific publications in the USA and the USSR. However, if the film is recognized as authentic, then the existence of living relic hominids, which are considered extinct tens of thousands of years ago, is recognized. Anthropologists cannot yet agree to this. Hence the endless number of rebuttals of the authenticity of excellent film evidence.

Among other things, ufologist Shurinov B.A. contrary to popular belief, claims that Bigfoot is of alien origin. Other researchers of the yeti mysteries insist that the origin is associated with interspecies hybridization on anthropoids, thus putting forward the theory that Bigfoot occurred as a result of crossing monkeys with humans in the Gulag.

Bigfoot photo real. Bigfoot family in Tennessee (USA)

Real photo of a frozen yeti

In December 1968, two famous cryptozoologists, Bernard Euvelmans (France) and Ivan Sanderson (USA), examined the frozen corpse of a hairy hominoid found in the Caucasus. The results of the survey were published in the scientific collection of cryptozoologists. Euvelmans identified the frozen yeti as a "modern Neanderthal".

At the same time, active searches for Bigfoot were also carried out in the former USSR. The most significant results were given by the studies of Maria-Janna Kofman in the North Caucasus, Alexandra Burtseva in Chukotka and Kamchatka. Scientific expeditions in Tajikistan and Pamir-Altai led by Igor Tatsl and Igor Burtsev ended very fruitfully. On Lovozero (Murmansk region) and in Western Siberia, Maya Bykova successfully searched. Vladimir Pushkarev devoted a lot of time to the search for the Yeti in Komi and Yakutia.

Unfortunately, the last expedition of Vladimir Pushkarev ended tragically: due to lack of funds for a full-fledged expedition, he went alone in September 1978 to the Khanty-Mansiysk district in search of bigfoot and went missing.

Janice Carter has been friends with the Yeti (Bigfoot) family for decades!

In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the Yeti, and new regions of the distribution of modern Neanderthals have appeared. In 2002, Janice Carter, a Tennessee farm owner, said in a television interview that a whole family of Bigfoots had been living near her farm for more than fifty years. According to her, in 2002, the father of the "snowy" family was about 60 years old, and their first acquaintance took place when Janice was a seven-year-old girl. Janice Carter met Bigfoot and his family many times in her life. This drawing was made from her words and clearly shows the proportions of the yeti and its peacefulness.

Recently, Russian hominologists (Yeti researchers) found information that in 1997 in France, in the small town of Bourganef, a frozen body of a Bigfoot was demonstrated, allegedly found in Tibet and smuggled from China. There are many inconsistencies in this story. The owner of the refrigerator in which the corpse of the yeti was transported disappeared without a trace. Gone was the van itself, with its sensational contents. Photos of the body were shown by Janice Carter, who confirmed that she did not rule out that this was not a falsification, but the real Bigfoot body.

Bigfoot video. Yeti speculation and falsification

In 1958, Ray Wallace, a resident of the American town of San Diego, launched a sensational story about the Bigfoot, which is a relative of the yeti living in the mountains of California. It all started with the fact that in August 1958, an employee of Wallace's construction company came to work and saw huge footprints around the bulldozer that looked like human ones. The local press dubbed the mysterious creature the Bigfoot, and thus America got its own kind of Bigfoot.

In 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, his family decided to reveal the secret. The footprints, 40 centimeters long, were cut from boards at Ray's request, after which he and his brother put these paws on their feet and walked around the bulldozer.

This prank captivated him so much for many years that he could not stop and periodically delighted the media and the society of lovers of the mysterious either with a recording on which he makes sounds, or with photographs with blurry monsters. But the most interesting thing was that the relatives of the deceased Wallace announced the falsification of the film, which was shot by Patterson and Gimlin. Many experts assumed that the footage was genuine. However, according to relatives and acquaintances, this filming was a staged episode in which Wallace's wife starred, dressed in a specially tailored monkey costume. This statement was a solid blow to enthusiasts who are trying to find a humanoid mysterious creature.

But back in 1969, John Green consulted the Disney film studio, who created monkey costumes for the actors, in order to determine the authenticity of the film. They said that the creature that was filmed was wearing real skin, not a suit.

It should be noted that hundreds of volumes of scientific literature are devoted to the observations of the hominoid. But there is still no concrete answer to the question of its origin and existence. On the contrary, the longer the research and search lasts, the more acutely questions are raised. Why can't catch Bigfoot? Can small populations of these creatures survive in unconnected areas? And there are many more questions that have not yet been answered...

I bring to your attention an excellent film about the Yeti with good video quality, dedicated to all aspects of this most interesting topic, which has been exciting the minds of people around the world for many years.

Man has always been interested in various inexplicable events, mysteries of nature, strange cases. Almasty, Bigfoot, Yeti are no exception - the most famous as Bigfoot - mysterious, mystical creatures. Since ancient times, there have been many legends and myths associated with them. Does Bigfoot really exist or is it all fiction and fairy tales? It is not possible to give a definite answer to this question. Many scientists believe that Bigfoot does not exist and are trying to find a scientific explanation for this. Meetings with them take place all over the world, but end very quickly. According to eyewitnesses, tall hairy creatures literally disappear before our eyes. They also find unusual traces that they leave. In the depths of the forests, strange structures are often found out of uprooted trees, such a simple person cannot do.

Most often, these creatures live in places that are difficult for people to reach: high in the mountains or in the wilderness. Huge footprints were discovered in the Himalayas in 1936. In this region, the fact of the Yeti's existence is taken very seriously. So, in Tibet, they believe that Bigfoot guard the entrance to the mystical city of Shambhala. In some Tibetan temples, fragments of the remains of humanoid beings are kept. At the beginning of the 20th century in Mongolia there was a case of meeting with a cub of Almasty. Unfortunately, he died, but eyewitnesses say that they saw a small body covered with wool. In 1967, the Americans managed to capture unique footage on video: a tall, hairy figure was running along the bank of a stream. It is believed that it was a female yeti. At the beginning of the 19th century in Abkhazia, an unusual creature was caught by Prince Achba, who turned out to be a wild woman. The appearance of the savage was quite specific. She was about two meters tall, her muscular body was covered with thick dark brown hair, her eyes were red. The woman's face, broad with rough and large features, had a flat nose, the lower jaw with powerful teeth protruded forward. She had rather thick and long fingers on her hands. Due to her appearance, the captive received the name Zana.

Bigfoot Zana, yeti

Later, it was presented to Prince Ece Genaba. He kept the snow woman in a palisaded pit because of her extraordinary strength. The wild woman frightened those around her with her abilities, she was incredibly hardy. She also behaved quite aggressively, rushed at people. However, over time, she was gradually calmed down and tamed. A hut was built for her, into which she was later moved. The Almasty female learned to enter the premises only with the permission of the owner, she was able to perform simple tasks. Thanks to her strength and power, she easily coped with hard work. Zana did not know how to talk, but she understood human speech, she was not picky about food, she refused to wear clothes. Only towards the end of her life did she begin to put on a loincloth. But she constantly participated in the prince's festivities, during which she often drank alcohol and had connections with men. The most interesting thing is that she had no outward signs of aging. Presumably, the female Bigfoot died at the end of the 19th century during childbirth.

Having given birth to her first child without outside help, the woman wanted to bathe him in the river, but the water in it was too cold, the baby caught a cold and died. The same thing happened with the second child. After these cases, people began to select and educate newborns from Zana. She had four children: two girls and two boys. All the children of the woman grew up as absolutely normal people, albeit with their own characteristics. Almost nothing is known about the fate of two of them, but the boy Khvit and the girl Gamasa grew up in the same family. There was a rumor that Ece Genaba himself was their father. Zana's daughter died in the 1920s, Khvit lived to be almost 70 years old and died in 1954.

Direct descendants of Zana

Zana's children grew up with ordinary children and did not differ much from them. They all had their families, children, occupied a certain place in the community. Zana's son had dark skin, large black lips, and straight, coarse hair. Khvit was tall, like a mother possessed superhuman strength. Local old-timers said that he could lift a chair with a person sitting on it with his teeth and dance at the same time. He also had an explosive temper, often getting into fights, as a result of one of which he lost his arm. Even with one hand, the descendant of the snow woman was excellent at gardening and field work.

Khvit - son of Zana

Khvit was married twice and had three children. An incredible force was transferred to his son Shaliko, the man lifted the set table with his teeth. Khvit's son died in an accident in the mountains.

Son of Khvit

A tragedy also occurred with his daughter, she died from an electric shock. They say that during her lifetime, Raisa had a unique gift - a woman could see with her skin: she stood with her bare feet on a newspaper and read what was written word for word.

Khvit's daughter in her youth

Khvit's daughter

Gamasa also had a strong physique, like her brother, her skin was dark in color, her body was covered with hair. The woman died at the age of 60. Details about her life are unknown.

On the left is Khvit's skull, on the right - presumably Zana's

Igor Burtsev with the skull of Khvit, son of Zana

Scientists have been looking for an answer to this question for years. Through various studies, it was found that the skull of the son of a yeti in structure is significantly different from an ordinary human. It combines the structural features of the Neanderthal and modern man. The skull is unique and has no analogues in nature. Also erroneous were the assumptions that Zana was an African slave, her DNA did not match the genes of Africans, because the yeti and her descendants had straight hair, which is a significant distinguishing feature from the representatives of the Negroid race. Igor Burtsev himself is absolutely sure that the wild woman belongs to the Neanderthals, and her son is a hybrid with modern man.

Historian Porshnev also believes that Yetis are Neanderthals. Presumably, these predecessors of modern man have not disappeared, but continue to coexist with humans. This fact is confirmed by the structure of the Bigfoot skeleton.

Some scientists speculate that Bigfoot does not actually exist. These are ordinary people with mental disabilities who have left their place of residence and hide in the forests away from society.

Although from the point of view of science there is no evidence of the existence of Almas, someone leaves traces of huge feet, patches of dark long wool in different parts of the globe. There is an assumption that yetis come to us from a parallel world, perhaps that is why they appear from nowhere and go nowhere. Also, structures made of trees found in the forests can serve as a portal for mysterious creatures. One thing is known that disputes around Bigfoot will continue for many years to come. However, some mysteries must remain unsolved.

Instruction

The science of cryptozoology is full of various secrets and mysteries regarding the existence of certain animals. Among them is a bigfoot, or yeti. This creation is perhaps one of the most amazing mysteries of modern mankind. As soon as Bigfoot is not called in the modern world: in Canada he is Sasquatch, in North America he is Bigfoot, and in Australia he is Yaui.

At present, enthusiasts have collected a great variety of all kinds of information testifying to the meetings of people with this huge and shaggy creature resembling a man. At the same time, most of these meetings allegedly took place in hard-to-reach areas of the planet, where practically no human has set foot.

One of the most common indirect evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is supposedly his footprints left on the snow or soft ground, as well as shreds of allegedly his fur. Researchers have studied and classified hundreds of such observations, but so far no evidence of its existence has been presented. In the process of studying the Yeti, many caves were explored in various parts of the world.

It is curious that in the Russian cave of Aigul, located in Altai, speleologists discovered strange rock paintings on which the same Bigfoot was depicted. Moreover, scientists who have studied ancient handwritten books from some Altai monasteries claim that they also contain images of these mysterious hairy humanoid creatures. But the main information about the existence of a Bigfoot is not rock paintings and books, but photographs, amateur videos, casts from huge prints of unknown feet and, of course, numerous eyewitness accounts.

Unfortunately, the lion's share of such "evidence" is scientific inaccuracies, confused information or deliberate forgeries. Even the hair, which many hunters passed off as yeti hair, turned out to be deer or bear after careful examination. That is why there is still no official confirmation of the existence of Bigfoot! It is worth noting that the numerous testimonies of meetings with the yeti are so picturesque and vivid that many people have little doubt about their true authenticity, despite the lack of significant evidence.

There is an interesting opinion regarding the existence of Bigfoot. Some zoologists and anthropologists believe that the Yeti is a relic hominid. In their opinion, Bigfoot is a mammal belonging to the order of primates, but to the genus of people. They do not rule out that the Yeti miraculously survived from prehistoric times to the present. It is curious that the current governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev promises to pay a reward of 1 million rubles for the capture of Bigfoot.

Yeti is the well-known Bigfoot that lives in mountains and forests. On the one hand, it is a mythological creature whose secret is being tried by thousands of scientists around the world. On the other hand, this is a real person who, due to his disgusting appearance, hides away from human eyes.

Today, a new theory has emerged that possibly proves that Bigfoot lives in the Himalayas (mountains of Asia). This is evidenced by strange footprints on the snow cover. Scientists suggest that the Yeti lives below the Himalayan snow line. To find irrefutable evidence, dozens of expeditions to the mountains of China, Nepal and Russia were assembled, but no one could prove the existence of the famous "monster".

Features

Yetis are easy to spot and recognize. If you suddenly travel around the East, then keep this memo for yourself.

"Bigfoot reaches almost 2 meters in height, and its weight varies from 90 to 200 kilograms. Presumably, it all depends on the habitat (respectively, and on nutrition). This is a muscular big man who has thick hair all over his body. Coat color it can be both dark gray and brown. In fact, this is just a general portrait of the famous Yeti, because in different countries it is represented in different ways. "

Bigfoot Story

Yeti is a character of ancient legends and folklore. The Himalayas greet their guests with old stories, where the formidable and dangerous Bigfoot is the key figure. As a rule, such legends are needed not to scare travelers, but to warn against wild animals that can easily harm and even kill. The legends about the famous creature are so old that even Alexander the Great, after conquering the Indus Valley, demanded proof of the existence of the Yeti from the locals, but they only said that Bigfoot lives at high altitude.

What evidence is there

Since the end of the 19th century, scientists have been collecting expeditions to find evidence of the existence of the Yeti. For example, in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary visited Everest and there he discovered the scalp of an unknown animal. A few years later, research confirmed that it was not a scalp, but a warm helmet made from a Himalayan goat, which, after a long stay in the cold, could appear to be part of Bigfoot's head.

Other evidence:

Russian expedition

In 2011, a conference was held, where both biologists and researchers from all over Russia were present. This event was organized with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation. During the conference, an expedition was assembled, which was supposed to study all the data on Bigfoot and collect irrefutable evidence of its existence.

A few months later, a group of scientists said they had found gray hair in a cave that belonged to a Yeti. However, the scientist Bindernagel proved that all the facts were compromised. This is evidenced by the work of Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology in Idaho. The scientist said that the twisted tree branches, photographs and collected materials were handicrafts, and the Russian expedition was needed only to attract the attention of tourists from all over the world.

DNA samples

In 2013, geneticist Brian Sykes, who teaches at Oxford, announced to the whole world that he had materials for research, which were teeth, hair and skin. The study examined more than 57 samples, which were carefully compared with the genomes of all animals in the world. The results were not long in coming: most of the material belonged to already known living creatures, such as a horse, a cow, a bear. Even the teeth of a polar-brown bear hybrid that lived over 100,000 years ago have been discovered.

In 2017, a series of studies were conducted, which proved that all the materials belonged to Himalayan and Tibetan bears, as well as a dog.

Theory adherents

Despite the fact that there is still no evidence of the existence of the Yeti, entire communities dedicated to Bigfoot are organized in the world. Their representatives believe that the mysterious creature is simply impossible to catch. This proves that the Yeti is a smart, cunning and educated creature that is carefully hidden from human eyes. The absence of irrefutable facts does not at all mean that such beings do not exist. According to the theory of adherents, Bigfoot prefers a reclusive lifestyle.

Neanderthal mystery

Researcher Myra Sheckley, in her book Bigfoot, described the experience of two hikers. In 1942, two travelers were in the Himalayas, where they saw black spots moving hundreds of meters from their camp. Due to the fact that tourists were located on the ridge, they could clearly distinguish the height, color and habits of unknown creatures.

"The height of the "black spots" reached almost two meters. Their heads were not oval, but square. It was difficult to determine the presence of ears from the silhouette, so perhaps they were not there, or they adjoined too close to the skull. Broad shoulders were covered with a reddish "brown hair that hung down. Despite the fact that the head was covered with hair, the face and chest were completely naked, which made flesh-colored skin visible. The two creatures emitted a loud cry that spread throughout the mountain range."

Scientists are still arguing whether these sightings were real or are an invention of inexperienced tourists. Climber Reinhold Messner concluded that large bears and their tracks were often mistaken for Yetis. He wrote about this in his book My Search for the Yeti: Confronting the Deepest Mystery of the Himalayas.

Does Bigfoot really exist?

In 1986, tourist Anthony Woodridge visited the Himalayas, where he also discovered the Yeti. According to him, the creature was only 150 meters from the traveler, while Bigfoot did not make any sounds and did not move. Anthony Woodridge for a long time tracked down unnaturally huge footprints, which later led him to the creature. Finally, the tourist took two photographs, which he presented to the researchers upon his return. Scientists have long and carefully studied the pictures, and then came to the conclusion that they are genuine and not a fake.

John Napira - anatomist, anthropologist, director of the Smithsonian Institution, primate biologist. He also studied the images of Woodridge and said that the tourist is too experienced to confuse the image of the Yeti with a large Tibetan bear. However, more recently, the images were re-examined, and then a team of researchers came to the conclusion that Anthony Woodridge took a photograph of the darkened side of the rock, which stood upright. Despite the indignation of true believers, the pictures were recognized, although real, but did not prove the existence of Bigfoot.