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Living mammoths in our time. Siberian mammoths. Transitional forms of animals. Lack of evidence

Mammoths are not extinct! They still live in Siberia today, hiding underground and water. Many eyewitnesses saw them, and there are often notes about them in the press.

Where do modern mammoths live?

Local guides explained that the unusual “elephant”, i.e. The mammoth is inviolable because it is a meat reserve in the event that animals used for food disappear in the taiga.

Legends about mammoths

From Barents Sea to Siberia and today there are beliefs about shaggy colossi having a temper underground inhabitants.

Eskimo beliefs

This is a mammoth, which the Eskimos living on the Asian shore of the strait call “Kilu Krukom,” which means “a whale whose name is Kilu.”

There is a legend that says about a whale that had a quarrel with sea monster named Aglo, which washed him ashore.

Since the whale is extremely heavy, it sank deep into the ground, settling forever in the permafrost, where, thanks to its powerful tusks, it obtains food for itself and makes passages.

Who do the Chukchi think the mammoth is?

There is a known case. When the Chukchi noticed mammoth tusks peeking out from under the ground and, as required by the covenant of their ancestors, began to dig them up. It turned out that they had unearthed a living mammoth, after killing it the entire tribe ate fresh meat throughout the winter.

Who are the Holhuts?

Mammoths are also mentioned in the beliefs of the Yukaghir, who live beyond the Arctic Circle. They call it "holhut". Local shamans claim that the spirit of the mammoth, like other animals, is the guardian of souls. They also convince that the spirit of a mammoth that has taken possession of a person makes him stronger than other cult servants.

Legends among the Yakuts

Those living on the shore Sea of Okhotsk also has its own legends. The Yakuts and Koryaks talk about the “mammoth” - a giant rat living underground that does not like light. If she goes out into the daylight, thunder immediately begins to rumble and lightning flashes. They are also to blame for the earthquakes that shake the area.

An ambassador from Austria, who visited Siberia in the sixteenth century, later wrote “Notes on Muscovy,” telling about the Siberian inhabitants - a variety of birds and various animals, including a mysterious beast called Ves. Few people know about him, as well as the commentators of this work.

Message to the Chinese Emperor

Tulishen, the Chinese envoy who arrived in Russia through Siberia in 1714, also reported to his emperor about mammoths. He described an unknown beast that lives in a cold region of Russia and walks underground all the time, because it dies as soon as it sees the sun. He called the unprecedented animal “mammoth,” which in Chinese sounds like “hishu.” Of course, this again refers to the Siberian mammoth, which two videos offer to get acquainted with:

In fact, many believe the first video is of an ordinary bear hunting for fish. And the second one was completely borrowed from a computer game.

Echo of Siberian legends

If they touch him Sun rays, an animal weighing nearly ten thousand pounds, dies instantly. The ice rat feels comfortable only in permafrost.

Long hair is located on it in several steps. It is used for carpets that are not afraid of moisture. And the meat is edible.

The world's first expedition to Siberia

When Peter I learned that huge red-brown animals lived in the Siberian tundra, he ordered the collection of evidence of this and sent a scientific expedition to the mammoths under the leadership of the German naturalist Dr. Messerschmidt. He entrusted him with the exploration of the vast Siberian expanses, as well as the search for an amazing digging animal, the now well-known mammoth.

How do mammoths bury their relatives?

They throw soil on top of the grave, then compact the mound. Obda leaves no traces behind him thanks to the long hair that grows on his feet. Long hair also cover the poorly developed mammoth tail.

This was described back in 1908 in Gorodtsov’s publications in “The West Siberian Legend of Mammoths.” A local historian from Tobolsk writes, based on the stories of a hunter living in the village of Zabolotye, located near Tobolsk, about mammoths living underground today, but their number is limited compared to previous times.

Their appearance and body structure are very similar to appearance moose and bulls, but much larger than the latter in size. Even the largest elk is five, or maybe more times, smaller than a mammoth, whose head is crowned with two powerful horns.

Eyewitness accounts

Intrigued, they followed the tracks and noticed branches that someone had broken off at a height of three meters.

The chase, which lasted for several days, ended with a long-awaited meeting. The hunted animal turned out to be a mammoth. The hunters did not dare to come close, so they watched him from a distance of about 100 m.

The following were clearly visible:

tusks curved upward, the color of which was white;
long brown fur.

And in 1930 another one happened interesting meeting, we learned about which thanks to Nikolai Avdeev, a Chelyabinsk biologist. He talked with an Evenk who was hunting and who, as a teenager, heard the sounds that a mammoth made.

While spending the night in a house on the shore of Lake Syrkovoe, it was they who woke up the eyewitness. The sounds were reminiscent of either noise or snoring. The owner of the house, Nastya Lukina, calmed the teenager down, explaining that it was the mammoths making noise in the reservoir, which were not the first time they had come to him. They also appear in taiga swamps, but you should not be afraid of them.

A Mari researcher also asked many people who had seen mammoths covered with thick fur.

Albert Moskvin described the Mari mammoths from the words of eyewitnesses. Locals call them Obdas, who prefer snowstorms, in which they thrive. He said that mammoths protect their offspring by standing in a circle around them while they rest.

What don't mammoths like?

Compared to elephants, mammoths have much better vision. These animals do not like certain smells:

burning;
machine oil;
gunpowder

Military pilots also saw mammoths in 1944, when those American planes were flying through Siberia. From the air they could clearly see a herd of unusually humpbacked and large sizes mammoths They walked in a line along quite deep snow.

12 years later, while picking mushrooms in the forest, a teacher encountered a group of mammoths primary classes one taiga village. A group of mammoths passed just ten meters away from her.

In Siberia in the summer of 1978, a prospector named Belyaev observed mammoths. He and his artel panned for gold on a tributary of the Indigirka. The sun had not yet risen, and the season was in full swing. When suddenly he heard a strong stomp near the parking lot. Everyone woke up and saw something huge.

This something went to the river, breaking the silence with a loud splash of water. With guns in their hands, people carefully made their way to the place where the noise was heard, and froze when they saw the incredible - more than a dozen shaggy and huge mammoths, appearing from nowhere, quenching their thirst with icy water, standing in the shallow water. It was as if enchanted people watched the fabulous giants for more than thirty minutes.

Having drunk enough, they retired into the thicket, decorously following each other.

Where do the giants hide?

This is confirmed by an incident that occurred in the 30s of the twentieth century on Lake Leusha in western Siberia? It took place after the celebration of Trinity, when young people were returning home on boats. Suddenly, a huge carcass emerged from the water 200 meters from them, towering three meters above the water. Frightened, people stopped rowing and watched what was happening.

And the mammoths, having swayed on the waves for several minutes, dived into the abyss and disappeared. There is a lot of such evidence.

The mammoths plunging into the water were observed by pilots who told Russian cryptologist Maya Bykov about this.

Who are the giants related to?

Their closest relatives are considered to be elephants - excellent swimmers, as it recently became known. You can meet giants in shallow water, but it happens that they go tens of kilometers deep into the sea, where people meet them.

Huge swimmers

The crew from the trawler "Empula" while unloading fish in the port of Grimsby discovered in 1971 African elephant, weighing more than a ton.

Another 8 years later, an incident occurred that left no doubt that elephants are capable of swimming thousands of miles. The photo, taken in July, was published in the August issue of New Scientist. It depicted a local breed of elephant swimming twenty kilometers off the coast of Sri Lanka. The author of the photo was Admiral Kidirgam.

The legs of the huge animal moved steadily, and its head rose above the surface of the water. He showed by his appearance that he liked swimming and that it was not difficult.

Thirty-two miles offshore, the elephant was discovered in 1982 by the crew of a fishing boat from Aberdeen. This now did not surprise scientists, including the most inveterate skeptics.

Video: Mammoth Resurrection from the Dead

Looking back at the Soviet press, you can also find reports of them performing long swims. In 1953, geologist Tverdokhlebov worked in Yakutia.

Being on July 30 on a plateau towering above Lake Lybynkyr, he saw that something huge was rising above the water surface. The color of the mysterious animal's carcass was dark gray. He was a floating beast, with huge waves diverging into a triangle.

The cryptologist is convinced that he saw a type of waterfowl foot-and-mouth disease, which strangely survived to our time, which for some unknown reason has chosen icy lakes, where reptiles are not fit to live physiologically.

Much has been written about the monsters encountered in different places around the world. But they all have similarities:

small head;
long neck;
dark body color.

If these descriptions can be applied to an ancient plesiosaur Amazonian jungle or Africa, who have survived to the present day, it is not at all possible to explain the appearance of animals in the cold lakes of Siberia. These are mammoths, and it is not the neck that rises above the water, but the trunk raised up.

Mammoths are not extinct! They still live in Siberia today, hiding underground and water. Many eyewitnesses saw them, and there are often notes about them in the press.

Where do modern mammoths live?

According to existing legend, the famous conqueror of the Siberian land Ermak and his warriors met impressively sized elephants in dense forests back in 1581. They were covered with thick and very long hair. Local guides explained that the unusual “elephant”, i.e. The mammoth is inviolable because it is a meat reserve in the event that animals used for food disappear in the taiga.

Legends about mammoths

From the Barents Sea to Siberia, even today there are beliefs about shaggy colossi with the character of underground inhabitants.

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Eskimo beliefs

This is a mammoth, which the Eskimos living on the Asian shore of the strait call “Kilu Krukom,” which means “a whale whose name is Kilu.” There is a legend that says about a whale that had a quarrel with a sea monster named Aglu, which washed him ashore. Since the whale is extremely heavy, it sank deep into the ground, settling forever in the permafrost, where, thanks to its powerful tusks, it obtains food for itself and makes passages.

Who do the Chukchi think the mammoth is?

The Chukchi consider the mammoth to be the bearer of evil. According to them, he also moves through underground narrow corridors. They are sure that if they encounter mammoth tusks protruding from the ground, they must dig them up immediately in order to deprive the sorcerer of his power. So he can be forced to return underground again. There is a known case. When the Chukchi noticed mammoth tusks peeking out from under the ground and, as required by the covenant of their ancestors, began to dig them up. It turned out that they had unearthed a living mammoth, after killing it the entire tribe ate fresh meat throughout the winter.

Who are the Holhuts?

Legends among the Yakuts

Those living on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk also have their own legends. The Yakuts and Koryaks talk about the “mammoth” - a giant rat living underground that does not like light. If she goes out into the daylight, thunder immediately begins to rumble and lightning flashes. They are also to blame for the earthquakes that shake the area. An ambassador from Austria, who visited Siberia in the sixteenth century, later wrote “Notes on Muscovy,” telling about the Siberian inhabitants - a variety of birds and various animals, including a mysterious beast called Ves. Few people know about him, as well as the commentators of this work.

Message to the Chinese Emperor Tulishen, the Chinese envoy who came to Russia through Siberia in 1714, also reported mammoths to his emperor. He described an unknown beast that lives in a cold region of Russia and walks underground all the time, because it dies as soon as it sees the sun. He called the unprecedented animal “mammoth,” which in Chinese sounds like “hishu.” Of course, this again refers to the Siberian mammoth, which two videos offer to get acquainted with. In fact, many believe the first video is of an ordinary bear hunting for fish. And the second one was completely borrowed from a computer game.

Echo of Siberian legends

It appears in a work called “The Mirror of the Manchu Language,” written in the eighteenth century. It describes a rat that lives underground, called “fenshu,” which means “rat of the ice.” A large animal comparable to an elephant, only its habitat is underground. If the sun's rays touch it, the animal, weighing almost ten thousand pounds, dies instantly. The glacier rat feels comfortable only in permafrost. Long hair is located on it in several steps. It is used for carpets that are not afraid of moisture. And the meat is edible.

The world's first expedition to Siberia

How do mammoths bury their relatives?

The ritual is very similar to how it happens in humans. The Mari saw the process of burying mammoths: they tear off the hair from a dead relative, dig the ground with their tusks, trying to ensure that it ends up in the ground. They throw soil on top of the grave, then compact the mound. Obda leaves no traces behind him thanks to the long hair that grows on his feet. Long hair also covers the mammoth's poorly developed tail. This was described back in 1908 in Gorodtsov’s publications in “The West Siberian Legend of Mammoths.” A local historian from Tobolsk writes, based on the stories of a hunter living in the village of Zabolotye, located near Tobolsk, about mammoths living underground today, but their number is limited compared to previous times. Their appearance and body structure are very similar to the appearance of moose and bulls, but much larger in size than the latter. Even the largest elk is five, or maybe more times, smaller than a mammoth, whose head is crowned with two powerful horns.

Eyewitness accounts

This is far from the only evidence of the existence of mammoths. When in 1920, hunters who went hunting to the Tasa and Chistaya rivers, which flow between the Yenisei and the beautiful Ob, discovered animal tracks of unprecedented size on the forest edge. Their length was at least 70 centimeters, and their width was about 50. Their shape resembled an oval, and the distance between the front pair of legs and the back was 4 meters. Large dung heaps were discovered nearby, also indicating the size of the mysterious beast. Intrigued, they followed the tracks and noticed branches that someone had broken off at a height of three meters. The chase, which lasted for several days, ended with a long-awaited meeting. The hunted animal turned out to be a mammoth. The hunters did not dare to come close, so they watched him from a distance of about 100 m. The following were clearly visible: tusks, curved upward, the color of which was white; long brown fur. And in 1930, another interesting meeting took place, we learned about it thanks to Nikolai Avdeev, a Chelyabinsk biologist. He talked with an Evenk who was hunting and who, as a teenager, heard the sounds that a mammoth made. While spending the night in a house on the shore of Lake Syrkovoe, it was they who woke up the eyewitness. The sounds were reminiscent of either noise or snoring. The owner of the house, Nastya Lukina, calmed the teenager down, explaining that it was the mammoths making noise in the reservoir, which were not the first time they had come to him. They also appear in taiga swamps, but you should not be afraid of them. A Mari researcher also asked many people who had seen mammoths covered with thick fur. Albert Moskvin described the Mari mammoths from the words of eyewitnesses. Locals call them Obdas, who prefer snowstorms, in which they thrive. He said that mammoths protect their offspring by standing in a circle around them while they rest.

What don't mammoths like?

Compared to elephants, mammoths have much better vision. These animals do not like certain smells: burning; machine oil; gunpowder Military pilots also saw mammoths in 1944, when those American planes were flying through Siberia. From the air they could clearly see a herd of unusually humpbacked and large mammoths. They walked in a line through fairly deep snow. Twelve years later, while picking mushrooms in the forest, a primary school teacher in a taiga village encountered a group of mammoths. A group of mammoths passed just ten meters away from her. In Siberia in the summer of 1978, a prospector named Belyaev observed mammoths. He and his artel panned for gold on a tributary of the Indigirka. The sun had not yet risen, and the season was in full swing. When suddenly he heard a strong stomp near the parking lot. Everyone woke up and saw something huge. This something went to the river, breaking the silence with a loud splash of water. With guns in their hands, people carefully made their way to the place where the noise was heard, and froze when they saw the incredible - more than a dozen shaggy and huge mammoths, appearing from nowhere, quenching their thirst with icy water, standing in the shallow water. It was as if enchanted people watched the fabulous giants for more than thirty minutes. Having drunk enough, they retired into the thicket, decorously following each other.

Where do the giants hide?

In addition to the assumption that mammoths live underground, there is another thing - they live under water. After all, it is easier for them to find food in river valleys and near lakes than in the coniferous taiga. Maybe this is all fantasy? But what then to do with the numerous witnesses who describe in detail meetings with giants? Is this confirmed by an incident that occurred in the 30s of the twentieth century on Lake Leusha in western Siberia? It took place after the celebration of Trinity, when young people were returning home on boats. Suddenly, a huge carcass emerged from the water 200 meters from them, towering three meters above the water. Frightened, people stopped rowing and watched what was happening. And the mammoths, having swayed on the waves for several minutes, dived into the abyss and disappeared. There is a lot of such evidence. The mammoths plunging into the water were observed by pilots who told Russian cryptologist Maya Bykov about this.

Huge swimmers

Such a meeting was first reported in 1930, when the skeleton of a baby mammoth, whose tusks were well preserved, was nailed to an Alaskan glacier. They wrote about the corpse of an adult animal in 1944. It was discovered in Scotland, although it is not considered the homeland of African or Indian elephants. Therefore, the people who found the elephant were surprised and confused. A crew from the trawler Empula, while unloading fish in the port of Grimsby, discovered an African elephant weighing more than a ton in 1971. Another 8 years later, an incident occurred that left no doubt that elephants are capable of swimming thousands of miles. The photo, taken in July, was published in the August issue of New Scientist. It depicted a local breed of elephant swimming twenty kilometers off the coast of Sri Lanka. The author of the photo was Admiral Kidirgam. The legs of the huge animal moved steadily, and its head rose above the surface of the water. He showed by his appearance that he liked swimming and that it was not difficult. Thirty-two miles offshore, the elephant was discovered in 1982 by the crew of a fishing boat from Aberdeen. This now did not surprise scientists, including the most inveterate skeptics.

Looking back at the Soviet press, you can also find reports of them performing long swims. In 1953, geologist Tverdokhlebov worked in Yakutia. Being on July 30 on a plateau towering above Lake Lybynkyr, he saw that something huge was rising above the water surface. The color of the mysterious animal's carcass was dark gray. He was a floating beast, with huge waves diverging into a triangle. The cryptologist is convinced that he saw a type of waterfowl foot-and-mouth disease, which strangely survived to our time, which for some unknown reason has chosen icy lakes, where reptiles are not fit to live physiologically. Much has been written about the monsters encountered in different places around the world. But they all have similarities: a small head; long neck; dark body color. Even if these descriptions can be applied to an ancient plesiosaur from the Amazonian jungle or Africa that has survived to the present day, it is not at all possible to explain the appearance of animals in the cold lakes of Siberia. These are mammoths, and it is not the neck that rises above the water, but the trunk raised up.

Mammoths still exist today. They live in remote places, and people periodically meet them. The main mystery: why doesn’t “supreme” science want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us? Maybe mammoths died out incorrectly?...

Alexey Artemiev

On the issue of mammoths, I, like most of people, was in illusion for a long time. I took my word for it that they died out during the last ice age. I knew that their remains were found in permafrost, and I thought about the possibilities of cloning this amazing ancient animal. But recently I happened to re-read Turgenev’s story “Khor and Kalinich” from the series “Notes of a Hunter.” There is an interesting phrase there:

“...Yes, here I am a man, and you see...” At this word, Khor raised his foot and showed a boot, probably cut from mammoth skin...”

In order to write this phrase, Turgenev needed to know several things that were quite strange for the mid-19th century in our current understanding. He should have known that there was such a mammoth beast, and he should have known. what kind of skin he had. He must have known about the availability of this leather. After all, judging by the text, the fact that a simple man living in the middle of a swamp wears boots made of mammoth skin was not something out of the ordinary for Turgenev. However, this thing is still shown as somewhat unusual, unusual.

It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost as if they were documentary, without fiction. That's what they're notes for. He was simply conveying his impressions of meeting with interesting people. And this happened in the Oryol province, and not at all in Yakutia, where mammoth cemeteries are found. There is an opinion that Turgenev expressed himself allegorically, referring to the thickness and quality of the boot. But why then not from “elephant skin”? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths...

By official version, which we have to debunk, awareness about them then was negligible. One of the first “academic” mammoth skeletons with preserved remains of soft tissue was found by hunter O. Shumakov in the Lena River delta, on the Bykovsky Peninsula in 1799. And this was a great rarity for science. In 1806, botanist of the Academy M.N. Adams organized the excavation of the skeleton and brought it to the capital. The exhibit was collected and exhibited in the Kunstkamera, and later transferred to the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Only these bones could be seen by Turgenev. Another half century (1900) would pass before the discovery of the Berezovsky mammoth and the creation of the first stuffed animal. How did he find out what kind of skin a mammoth has, and even determine it offhand?

So, whatever one may say, the phrase dropped by Turgenev is puzzling. I'm not even talking about the fact that the skin of an “ever-frozen” mammoth is not at all suitable for furriery. She is losing her qualities.

Did you know that Turgenev was not the only writer of the 19th century who let slip about the “extinct beast”? None other than Jack London, in his story “A Splinter of the Tertiary Era,” conveyed the story of a hunter who encountered a living mammoth in the vastness of northern Canada. In gratitude for the treat, the narrator gave the author his mukluks (moccasins), sewn from the skin of an unprecedented trophy. At the end of the story, Jack London writes:

“...and I advise all those of little faith to visit the Smithsonian Institution. If they submit appropriate recommendations and arrive on time, Professor Dolvidson will undoubtedly receive them. The mukluks are now kept by him, and he will confirm, if not how they were obtained, then, in any case, what material was used for them. He authoritatively claims that they are made from mammoth skin, and the entire scientific world agrees with him. What else do you need?..”

However, in Tobolsk local history museum a 19th-century harness made specifically from mammoth skin was kept. Come on, why waste time when there is enough information about living mammoths. A lot of scattered evidence was collected by Candidate of Technical Sciences Anatoly Kartashov in his work “ Siberian mammoths- is there any hope of seeing them alive? He was waiting for a reaction to his texts, from the scientific world and in general, but he seemed to be ignored. Let's get acquainted with these facts. Let's start from the early times:

“Probably the first person to tell the world about Siberian mammoths was the Chinese historian and geographer Sima Qian (2nd century BC). In his “Historical Notes”, reporting on the north of Siberia, he writes about representatives of the distant ice age as... living animals! "Of the animals there are... huge boars, northern elephants in the bristles and northern rhinoceroses family." Here you have, in addition to mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - we're talking about about living creatures living in Siberia back in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.”

I myself have not read these “Historical Notes”; such a serious researcher as M.G. refers to them. Bykova, N. Nepomnyashchiy is copying it for her, and I am copying it for both of them.

As for the 2nd century BC, one can hardly trust this dating, since Chinese history artificially extended into the past to infinity. However, in our case this does not change the essence at all. “Historical notes” of Sima Qian are clearly not 13 thousand years old, that is, it was obviously after ice age. And here is evidence from the 16th century:

“...The Ambassador of the Austrian Emperor, the Croatian Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Muscovy in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his “Notes on Muscovy”: in Siberia “... there is a great variety of birds and various animals, such as, for example, sables, martens, beavers, stoats, squirrels and in the ocean the animal walrus... In addition, Ves, just like polar bears, wolves, hares...". Please note: on the same level as very real beavers, squirrels and walruses stands a certain, if not fabulous, then certainly mysterious and unknown, Ves.

However, this weight could be unknown only to Europeans, but for local residents this possibly rare and endangered species did not represent anything mysterious not only in the 16th century, but also more than three centuries later. In 1911, Tobolsk resident P. Gorodkov wrote the essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory.” It was published in the XXI issue of the “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum” for 1911, and among other interesting things that we will talk about below, there are the following lines: “...among the Salym Khanty, the “mammoth pike” is called “all.” “This monster was covered with thick long hair and had large horns, sometimes the “entire” would start such a fuss among themselves that the ice on the lakes would break with a terrible roar.”

It turns out that mammoths walked here in the 16th century. Almost everyone knew about them, since even the Austrian ambassador received information. And again the 16th century, this time the legend:

“Another legend is known that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still at a loss: who did the glorious warriors see? Ordinary elephants were already well known in those days: they were found in the courts of governors, in zoological gardens and in the royal menagerie.”

And immediately after this we smoothly move on to evidence from the 19th century:

“The New York Herald newspaper wrote that US President Jefferson (1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent an envoy to the Eskimos. President Jefferson's envoy, upon returning, claimed absolutely fantastic things: according to the Eskimos, mammoths can still be found in remote areas in the northeast of the peninsula. True, the envoy did not see live mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought them special weapon Eskimos to hunt them. And this is not the only one famous history, case. There are lines about Eskimo weapons for hunting mammoths in an article published by a certain traveler in Alaska in San Francisco in 1899. The question arises: why would the Eskimos make and store weapons for hunting animals that became extinct at least 10 thousand years ago? The material evidence, however... True, it is indirect.”

Of course, mammoths have not disappeared in 300 years. And now it’s the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

“In McClure's Magazine (October 1899), in a story by H. Tukeman entitled “The Killing of the Mammoth,” it is stated: “The last mammoth was killed in the Yukon in the summer of 1891.” Of course, now it is difficult to say what is truth in this story and what is literary fiction, but at that time the story was considered true...”

Already known to us, Gorodkov writes in his essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory” (1911):

“According to the Ostyaks, in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, mammoths live, they visit the river and in the river itself... Often in winter time you can see wide cracks on the ice of the river, and sometimes you can see that the ice is split and fragmented into many small ice floes - all these are visible signs and results of the activity of a mammoth: the wild and divergent animal breaks the ice with its horns and back. Recently, about 15-26 years ago, there was such a case on Lake Bachkul. The mammoth is a meek and peace-loving animal by nature, and affectionate towards people; When meeting a person, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, you often have to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across the opinion that mammoths still exist, but it’s just very difficult to see them..., there are now only a few mammoths left, they, like most large animals, are now becoming rare.”

"Albert Moskvin from Krasnodar, for a long time who lived in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, talked with people who themselves saw woolly elephants. Here is a quote from the letter: “Obda (the Mari name for mammoth), according to Mari eyewitnesses, used to be seen more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads (the Mari call this phenomenon obda-sauns - wedding of mammoths).” The Mari told him in detail about the way of life of mammoths, about their appearance, about relationships with cubs, people, and even about the funeral of a dead animal. According to them, kind and affectionate obda, offended by people, at night he turned out the corners of barns, bathhouses, broke fences, while emitting a dull trumpet sound. According to the stories of local residents, even before the revolution, mammoths forced the residents of the villages of Nizhnie Shapy and Azakovo, which were located in the area now called Medvedevsky, to move to a new place. The stories contain many interesting and surprising details, but there is a strong conviction that there is no fantasy or even just implausibility in them.”

It’s not for nothing that foreigners think that we have bears walking around Red Square. At least mammoths were seen here a hundred years ago and were well known. This is not Yakutia or the north at all. This is the Volga region, European part Russia, middle zone. And now Siberia:

“In 1920, two Russian hunters between the Ob and Yenisei rivers at the edge of the forest discovered traces of a giant beast. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. The oval-shaped tracks were about 70 cm long and about 40 cm wide. The distance between the tracks of the front and hind legs was about four meters. About huge sizes The beast could also be judged by the decent piles of dung that came across from time to time. Isn't it normal person will miss such a unique opportunity - to catch up with and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed the tracks and a few days later they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they watched the giants for some time. The animals were covered with long, dark brown hair and had steeply curved white tusks. They moved slowly and produced general impression elephants dressed in fur coats."

It's about here. But the 30s. Everyday everyday memory of a mammoth:

“In the thirties, the Khanty hunter Semyon Egorovich Kachalov, while still a child, heard loud snoring, noise and splashes of water at night near Lake Syrkovoe. Anastasia Petrovna Lukina, the mistress of the house, calmed the boy and said that it was a mammoth making noise. Mammoths live nearby in a swamp in the taiga, they often come to this lake, and she has seen them more than once. Kachalov told this story to Nikolai Pavlovich Avdeev, a biologist from Chelyabinsk, when he was in the village of Salym during his independent expedition to the Tobolsk region.”

It was here. Here is evidence from the 50s:

“The story of the senior ranger of the district, Valentin Mikhailovich D.: “... when I was in my first year at the institute, during the holidays the fish collector Ya. told me personally a fascinating story. By the way, you need to know that when two forests almost meet at capes, dispersing the fog ( shallow lake) into two parts, the narrowest place on the water is called a gate. So, according to Ya., he was driving through the gate through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. I thought I should see what kind of fish it was? And he stopped. Suddenly, as if a haystack was rising from the depths. I looked closely - the fur was dark brown, like a wet one. fur seal. He quietly moved about five meters into the reeds, and looked at it himself. Whether it was a muzzle or a face, I couldn’t tell for sure. It made a hissing sound: “Fo-o” - like hitting an empty bowl. And then it sank into the water..." This incident happened in 1954. This story made such an impression on Valentin Mikhailovich that he went all the way to the bottom in the shallow place to which the narrator referred. He found a deep hole where crucian carp usually spend the winter lies, measured it...

In the 50s, I once staged a network with my son. The weather was very calm. A persistent fog spread over the lake. Suddenly I hear a splash of water, as if someone is walking on it. Usually, in this place, moose crossed to Cape P. in shallow water. That’s what I decided - the elk, prepared to kill. I turned the boat towards the sound and took the gun. Just in front of the boat, a round and black shape appeared out of the water. big muzzle unknown beast. Round and meaningful eyes looked at me point-blank. Having made sure that it was not an elk, he did not shoot, but quickly turned the boat around and leaned on the oars. My son, who was sitting behind me, also saw “this” and began to cry. We were rocking on the emerging waves for a long time." Story by S., 70 years old, village T. Was it a mammoth? Seeing eyes looking straight ahead and not noticing the trunk? However, who knows what a person manages to notice in such a stressful situation.. .

“During the same years, my fellow villager and I were crossing the fog near the cape. Suddenly, near the shore, we saw a huge dark carcass swinging on the water. The waves from it reached the boat and lifted it. They got scared and turned back.” Story by P., 60 years old, village T.”

And here is evidence from the 60s:

“In September 1962, a Yakut hunter told geologist Vladimir Pushkarev that before the revolution, hunters had repeatedly seen huge hairy animals” with big nose and fangs,” and ten years ago he himself saw traces unknown to him “the size of a basin.”

More evidence from the late 70s:

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls prospector foreman S.I. Belyaev, “our team was panning for gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an accident occurred. interesting case. In the pre-dawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull stomp was suddenly heard near the parking lot. Miners sleep a little. Jumping to their feet, they stared at each other in surprise with a silent question: “What is this?” As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We grabbed our guns and began to stealthily make our way in that direction. When we rounded the rocky ledge, an incredible picture was presented to our eyes. In the shallow river water stood about a dozen God knows where... mammoths came from. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the cold water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants, spellbound. And they, having quenched their thirst, sedately one after another went deeper into the forest..."

Of course, even after all this evidence, there will certainly be doubting readers, from the category of those who say: “until I see it, I won’t believe it.” Especially for such people, although everything is already clear, we show a live mammoth filmed on a phone and a corresponding video.

Well, that's all - there are mammoths, and not even very far away. The fact is obvious. Everyone who has ever had the chance to meet a mammoth has seen it. These are geologists, hunters, residents of the northern regions. You can even provide a summary map of the discovered habitats of these animals. It's time to figure out how it happened that a living and thriving animal was buried deep in the Ice Age.

I am far from thinking that all of the above evidence remained unknown to the scientific world. Of course not. Paleontologists (those who study fossil animals) always begin their research with a review of existing information. But even with this information in hand, they will rely on the work of authoritative predecessors, among whom neither geologists nor hunters are included.

It is interesting that I was not able to find the specific scientist who “buried” the mammoths. As if this goes without saying. It is known that Tatishchev was also interested in them. He wrote an article in Latin, “The Tale of the Mammoth Beast.” However, the information he received was the most contradictory, often mythical. Most evidence described the mammoth as a living animal. Tatishchev could hardly conclude that this animal was extinct. Moreover, the currently dominant glacial theory of the death of northern elephants could have originated no earlier than the end of the 19th century. It was then that the scientific community accepted the dogma of the great glaciation. This dogma lies at the foundation of modern paleontology. In this vein, the artificial blindness of the scientific world is understandable.

But if you think about it, the matter is not limited to this. Everything is much more interesting.

The mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. Climate middle zone and the taiga zone suits him very well. The food supply is clearly redundant. There are a lot of open spaces undeveloped by humans. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? But he didn’t take it. Encounters between humans and this animal are too rare today.

There was clearly a catastrophe in which millions of mammoths died. They died almost simultaneously. This is evidenced by bone cemeteries covered with loess (reclaimed soil). Estimates of the number of tusks exported from Russia over the past 200 years show more than a million pairs. Millions of mammoth heads populated an ecological niche in Eurasia at a time. Why isn't it like this now?

If the disaster occurred 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they would have had plenty of time to restore the population. That did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that decimated the mammoth population was relatively recent. Since mammoths still exist, the latter is more likely. They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed firearms and greed, could really pose a threat to them, preventing population growth.

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There is a legend that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. The guides explained to Ermak that they were protecting these “elephants” because they were an emergency supply of meat in case other game animals disappeared from the taiga.

The Beast Called Wes

Throughout Siberia to the Bering Strait, to this day there are beliefs about shaggy colossi with the morals of underground inhabitants.

Among the Eskimos inhabiting the Asian shore of the strait, the mammoth is known as “kilu kruk”, that is, “a whale named Kilu”. According to legend, this whale quarreled with the sea monster Aglu and was thrown onto land, but turned out to be too heavy and sank into the ground. Since then, he has settled under the permafrost, where he digs passages for himself with powerful tusks.

Among the Chukchi, the mammoth personifies the bearer evil spirit and also lives underground, where it moves along narrow corridors. When a person encounters tusks protruding from the ground, he must immediately dig them out. Then the sorcerer will lose his power and will not hide underground again to spread evil. They say that one day several Chukchi noticed two fangs peeking out of the ground. They acted in accordance with the behests of their ancestors and dug up a living mammoth after them, which allowed their tribe to eat fresh meat all winter.

The Yukaghirs, living beyond the Arctic Circle, mention the mammoth in their legends under the name “Kholkhut”. Some local shamans believe that the spirit of a giant - along with existing animals - is the guardian of the soul. Thus, a shaman who has been possessed by the spirit of a mammoth is considered incomparably stronger than an ordinary cult minister.

Among the Yakuts and Koryaks, who inhabit the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, you can hear similar legends about a certain giant rat called “mamantu,” that is, “the one who lives underground.” They say that they can’t stand “mamanta” daylight. As soon as they emerge from the ground, thunder roars and lightning flashes. They also cause tremors and earthquakes.

The ambassador of the Austrian emperor Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Russia in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his “Notes on Muscovy”: “In Siberia there is a great variety of birds and various animals... In addition, Ves, likewise polar bears and wolves , hares...” Who this mysterious beast Wes was, for a long time the commentators of the Notes could not understand.

The Chinese envoy Tulishen, who traveled through Siberia to Russia, reported to the emperor in 1714: “And he is in this cold country a certain beast that, as they say, walks underground, and as soon as the sun or warm air touches it, it dies. The name of this beast is “mammoth”, and in Chinese “hishu” ... "

Two videos with supposedly Siberian mammoths. One, according to the majority, depicts a bear with a fish, the other is taken from a computer game

In the 18th century treatise “The Mirror of the Manchu Language” one can also find an echo of Siberian legends: “In the north lives the underground rat Fenshu, that is, the “rat of the ice.” This is a huge, elephant-like animal that lives only underground and dies as soon as it appears above and the sun's rays will touch it.

There are fenshus that weigh up to 10 thousand pounds. The rat of ice and glaciers lives deep in the north, under the eternal snow. Its meat can be eaten. Its fur is several feet long. It can be used to weave carpets that can withstand damp air.”

Peter I, having learned that shaggy red-brown elephants were roaming the Siberian tundra, ordered the collection of “material evidence” of their existence, sending the world’s first scientific expedition to the North for mammoths.

The leader of the expedition, German naturalist Dr. D. Messerschmidt, was entrusted with continuing the exploration of the vast expanses of Siberia and at the same time paying due attention to the search for the mysterious digging elephant.

They bury their relatives like people

In the “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum” for 1908 you can find the publication of local historian P. Gorodtsov “Mammoth. West Siberian legend." Here is what, in particular, he reports from the words of an old hunter from the village of Zabolotye, near Tobolsk: “The mammoth still exists on earth, only in small numbers: this animal is now very rare. In former times, there were much more mammoths on earth. A mammoth in appearance and body structure resembles a bull or an elk, but in size it significantly exceeds these animals: a mammoth is five to six times larger than itself big moose. This beast has two huge horns on its head.

And Siberian local historians have quite a lot of such evidence. In 1920, two hunters hunting game between the Chistoya and Tasa rivers (the area between the Ob and Yenisei) encountered footprints at the edge of the forest. huge beast. The oval-shaped tracks were from 60 to 70 centimeters in length and about 50 in width. The animal placed its front legs four meters from its hind legs. Heaps of dung that appeared from time to time testified to the powerful size of the animal.

"The excited hunters followed these tracks. In the forest they noticed branches broken off at a height of three meters. After several days of chasing, they finally met two monsters, which they observed from a distance of about a hundred meters (they did not dare to come closer). They distinguished white curved tusks. The animals were brown in color and had long hair."

Modern Chelyabinsk biologist Nikolai Avdeev says that he talked with an Evenk hunter who, as a child, heard the sounds made by a mammoth.

This story happened in the 1930s. At night, the boy was awakened by loud snoring, noise and splashes of water on the nearby Lake Syrkovo. The owner of the house, Anastasia Lukina, calmed the teenager down and said that there was no need to be afraid - it was the mammoths making noise. She had seen them come to this pond more than once. They live nearby, in a swamp in the taiga.

Mari researcher Albert Moskvin also communicated more than once with people who saw woolly elephants. Here is what he writes: “Obda (the Mari name for mammoth), according to eyewitnesses, used to be found more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads. Stormy weather suits them best. During the day, they settle down to rest in a circle, inside which the cubs stand. Mammoths see very well, much better than elephants, and cannot stand the smell of machine oil, burnt gunpowder, etc.

Mari eyewitnesses say that the herd tears off the hair of a dead mammoth and uses its tusks to undermine the ground underneath it until it sinks into the ground. Then they throw pieces of earth over it and compact the grave... The obda leaves no traces, because the traces are leveled by the hair on the sides of the foot. The mammoth’s tail, although not developed, has hair that goes down to the ground.”

The testimony of military pilots who ferried in 1944 also deserves attention. american planes from Alaska via Siberia. During the flight, they noticed from the air a herd of huge humpbacked animals with curved tusks. Due to icing on the vehicles, the flight altitude was low, and the pilots clearly saw dark, thick fur on the animals. They moved single file in the deep snow.

In 1956, a teacher primary school taiga village on the Tazovskaya Upland, while picking mushrooms, she literally encountered a live mammoth, which was passing at a distance of no more than ten meters from her.

One of latest messages in the press that Russian geologists in Siberia saw living mammoths appeared in 1978.

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls prospector foreman S. Belyaev, “our team was panning for gold on one of the tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the pre-dawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull stomp was suddenly heard near the parking lot. Jumping to our feet, we stared at each other in surprise with a silent question: “What is this?” As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We grabbed our guns and began to stealthily make our way in that direction.

When we rounded the rocky ledge, a truly incredible picture was presented to our eyes. In the shallow waters of the river stood about a dozen God knows where... mammoths came from. Huge shaggy animals slowly drank the cold water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants, spellbound. And they, having quenched their thirst, sedately one after another went deeper into the forest..."

Mammoths are hiding under water!

A reasonable question arises: if mammoths still exist, where are they hiding? You won't find food in the coniferous taiga. Another thing is along river valleys and near lakes. Or in the lakes themselves! Fantastic? It depends on how you look.

...30s of the twentieth century, shallow West Siberian lake Leusha. After celebrating Trinity Day, young people returned home in wooden boats from a neighboring village. And suddenly, 200 meters from them, a huge hairy carcass rose from the water! One of the guys shouted in fear: “Mammoth!” The boats huddled together, and people watched in fear as a three-meter carcass appeared above the water and swayed on the waves for several moments. Then the hairy body dived and disappeared into the abyss!

There is a lot of similar evidence. The famous Russian cryptozoologist Maya Bykova once spoke about a pilot who saw with his own eyes how a mammoth plunged into the water and swam away across the surface of the lake.

The closest relatives of the mammoth are elephants. It was recently discovered that these giants are excellent swimmers. They not only love to swim in shallow water, but also swim several tens of kilometers into the sea.

One of the first evidence of the existence of such elephants appeared in 1930, when the skeleton of a small elephant calf, with its trunk and small tusks still intact, washed up on a glacier in Alaska, and in 1944, on Machrihanish Bay, west of Kintyre, Scotland, it was washed ashore headless the corpse of an adult elephant. And since these places are not the natural homeland of Indian or African elephants, it is not difficult to imagine the confusion and surprise of the people who found them.

In 1971, the crew of the trawler Empula, unloading in the port of Grimsby after fishing in the North Sea, were surprised to find in their nets, along with the usual cod and herring, a young African elephant weighing a ton.

Eight years later, an event occurred that finally confirmed that elephants could indeed swim thousands of miles from the coast. The August issue of New Scientist published a photograph taken the previous month by Admiral R. Kadirgama of a native elephant swimming in the sea twenty miles off the coast of Sri Lanka. The animal raised its head above the water, its legs moved steadily. It was obvious that the journey was not difficult for the elephant at all.

And when, in 1982, a fishing boat from Aberdeen came across an elephant thirty-two miles from the North Port, not even one of the skeptical zoologists was surprised.

Now let’s remember what geologist Viktor Tverdokhlebov told the public from the pages of the Soviet press in the 50s of the last century. In 1953, he worked in the vicinity of the Yakut Lake Labynkyr. On the morning of July 30, being on a plateau overlooking the lake, Victor observed something that barely rose above the surface of the water. From the dark gray carcass of a mysterious animal, swimming with heavy throws towards the shore, large waves spread out in a triangle.

Who did the geologist see? Cryptozoologists said that this was one of the varieties of waterfowl lizards that in some incomprehensible way survived to our time and for some reason chose the icy waters of the lake, where reptiles, in principle, physiologically cannot live.

Numerous descriptions of encounters with lake monsters around the world are usually similar: a dark body above the water and a small head on long neck. However, if somewhere in Africa or in the swampy jungle of the Amazon this description can really be applied to an ancient plesiosaur that has survived to this day, then for the cold Siberian lakes the explanation may be different: and it is not the neck that rises above the water at all, but a highly raised trunk mammoth!

The Battle of Stalingrad, as we know, ended in complete defeat German army As a result, thousands of soldiers and officers were captured.

Among them was the war correspondent of the NSDLP, Holger Hildebrand. Like many of them, he was transported to Siberia. Along the way, Holger continued to film. Later, many decades later, the personal belongings of the former prisoner of the Siberian camps were transferred to his granddaughter. Among the photographs was undeveloped film, which contained unique footage.

Holger Hildebrand died in the camp at the end of 1945.
But nevertheless, the shooting dates back to 1943, the shooting location is Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Siberia.

"..Re-read Turgenev’s story “Khor and Kalinich” from the series “Notes of a Hunter”. There is an interesting phrase there:

“...Yes, here I am a man, and you see...” At this word, Khor raised his foot and showed a boot, probably cut from mammoth skin...”

It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost as if they were documentary, without fiction. That's what they're notes for. He simply conveyed his impressions of meeting interesting people. And this happened in the Oryol province, and not at all in Yakutia, where mammoth cemeteries are found. There is an opinion that Turgenev expressed himself allegorically, referring to the thickness and quality of the boot. But why then not from “elephant skin”? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths...

However, the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore also kept a 19th-century harness made specifically from mammoth skin. Come on, why waste time when there is enough information about living mammoths. A lot of scattered evidence was collected by Candidate of Technical Sciences Anatoly Kartashov in his work “Siberian mammoths - is there any hope of seeing them alive.” He was waiting for a reaction to his texts, from the scientific world and in general, but he seemed to be ignored. Let's get acquainted with these facts. Let's start from the early times:

“Probably the first person to tell the world about Siberian mammoths was the Chinese historian and geographer Sima Qian (2nd century BC). In his “Historical Notes”, reporting on the north of Siberia, he writes about representatives of the distant ice age as... living animals! "The animals include... huge boars, northern elephants with bristles and northern rhinoceroses." Here you have, in addition to mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - we are talking about living creatures living in Siberia back in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.”

And immediately after this we smoothly move on to evidence from the 19th century:

“The New York Herald newspaper wrote that US President Jefferson (1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent an envoy to the Eskimos. President Jefferson's envoy, upon returning, claimed absolutely fantastic things: according to the Eskimos, mammoths can still be found in remote areas in the northeast of the peninsula. The envoy, however, did not see live mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought special Eskimo weapons to hunt them. And this is not the only case known to history. There are lines about Eskimo weapons for hunting mammoths in an article published by a certain traveler in Alaska in San Francisco in 1899. The question arises: why would the Eskimos make and store weapons for hunting animals that became extinct at least 10 thousand years ago? The material evidence, however... True, it is indirect.”

Of course, mammoths have not disappeared in 300 years. And now it’s the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

Already known to us, Gorodkov writes in his essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory” (1911):

“According to the Ostyaks, in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, mammoths live, they visit the river and in the river itself... Often in winter you can see wide cracks on the ice of the river, and sometimes you can see that the ice is split and crushed into many small ice floes - all these are visible signs and results of the activity of a mammoth: the wild and diverging animal breaks the ice with its horns and back. Recently, about 15-26 years ago, there was such a case on Lake Bachkul. The mammoth is a meek and peace-loving animal by nature, and affectionate towards people; When meeting a person, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, you often have to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across the opinion that mammoths still exist, but it’s just very difficult to see them..., there are now only a few mammoths left, they, like most large animals, are now becoming rare.”

“Albert Moskvin from Krasnodar, who lived for a long time in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, talked with people who themselves saw woolly elephants. Here is a quote from the letter: “Obda (the Mari name for mammoth), according to Mari eyewitnesses, used to be seen more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads (the Mari call this phenomenon obda-sauns - wedding of mammoths).” The Mari told him in detail about the way of life of mammoths, about their appearance, about relationships with cubs, people, and even about the funeral of a dead animal. According to them, the kind and affectionate obda, offended by people, at night turned out the corners of barns, bathhouses, and broke fences, making a dull trumpet sound. According to the stories of local residents, even before the revolution, mammoths forced the residents of the villages of Nizhnie Shapy and Azakovo, which were located in the area now called Medvedevsky, to move to a new place. The stories contain many interesting and surprising details, but there is a strong conviction that there is no fantasy or even just implausibility in them.”

It’s not for nothing that foreigners think that we have bears walking around Red Square. At least mammoths were seen here a hundred years ago and were well known. This is not Yakutia or the north at all. This is the Volga region, the European part of Russia, the middle zone. And now Siberia:

“In 1920, two Russian hunters between the Ob and Yenisei rivers at the edge of the forest discovered traces of a giant beast. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. The oval-shaped tracks were about 70 cm long and about 40 cm wide. The distance between the tracks of the front and hind legs was about four meters. The enormous size of the beast could be judged by the large piles of dung that appeared from time to time. Would a normal person miss such a unique opportunity - to catch up with and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed the tracks and a few days later they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they watched the giants for some time. The animals were covered with long, dark brown hair and had steeply curved white tusks. They moved slowly and gave the general impression of elephants dressed in fur coats.”

It's about here. But the 30s. Everyday everyday memory of a mammoth:

It was here. Here is evidence from the 50s:

“The story of the senior ranger of the district, Valentin Mikhailovich D.: “... when I was in my first year at the institute, during the holidays the fish collector Ya. told me personally a fascinating story. By the way, you need to know that when two forests almost meet at capes, dispersing the fog ( shallow lake) into two parts, the narrowest place on the water is called a gate. So, according to Ya., he was driving through the gate through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. I thought I should see what kind of fish it was? And he stopped. Suddenly, as if a haystack was rising from the depths. He looked closely - the fur was dark brown, like a wet fur seal. He quietly moved about five meters into the reeds, and looked at it himself. Whether it was a muzzle or a face, I couldn’t tell. It made a hissing sound. : “Fo-o” - like in an empty bowl. And then it sank into the water..." This incident happened in 1954. This story made such an impression on Valentin Mikhailovich that he went all the way to the bottom in the shallow place to which the narrator referred. I found a deep hole where crucian carp usually lie down for the winter, measured it...

In the 50s, I once staged a network with my son. The weather was very calm. A persistent fog spread over the lake. Suddenly I hear a splash of water, as if someone is walking on it. Usually, in this place, moose crossed to Cape P. in shallow water. That’s what I decided - the elk, prepared to kill. I turned the boat towards the sound and took the gun. Right in front of the boat, a large round and black muzzle of an unknown beast appeared from the water. Round and meaningful eyes looked at me point-blank. Having made sure that it was not an elk, he did not shoot, but quickly turned the boat around and leaned on the oars. My son, who was sitting behind me, also saw “this” and began to cry. We were rocking on the emerging waves for a long time." Story by S., 70 years old, village T. Was it a mammoth? Seeing eyes looking straight ahead and not noticing the trunk? However, who knows what a person manages to notice in such a stressful situation.. .

And here is evidence from the 60s:

“In September 1962, a Yakut hunter told geologist Vladimir Pushkarev that before the revolution, hunters had repeatedly seen huge hairy animals “with a large nose and fangs,” and ten years ago he himself saw unknown traces “the size of a basin.”

More evidence from the late 70s:

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls prospector foreman S.I. Belyaev, “our team was panning for gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the predawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, near the parking lot suddenly there was a dull stomp. The miners were a little sleepy. Jumping to their feet, they stared at each other in surprise with a silent question: “What is this?” As if in response, the splash of water was heard from the river. We grabbed our guns and stealthily began to make our way in that direction. When we rounded the rocky ledge, our eyes were presented with an incredible picture. In the shallow river water stood about a dozen mammoths that had come from God knows where. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the icy water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants, spellbound. And those, Having quenched their thirst, they sedately went deeper into the forest, one after another...”

It's time to figure out how it happened that a living and thriving animal was buried deep in the Ice Age.

Everything is much more interesting.

The mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. The climate of the middle zone and taiga zone is very suitable for him. The food supply is clearly redundant. There are a lot of open spaces undeveloped by humans. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? But he didn’t take it. Encounters between humans and this animal are too rare today.

If the disaster occurred 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they would have had plenty of time to restore the population. That did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that decimated the mammoth population was relatively recent. Since mammoths still exist, the latter is more likely. They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed with firearms and greed could actually pose a threat to them, preventing population growth.

Challenging the timing of the catastrophe is the most painful and unacceptable moment for “supreme science”. They are ready to do anything - to suppress facts, hide evidence, mass zombies, etc., just to avoid even raising the question on this topic, since the accumulated avalanche of suppressed information does not leave them a chance in an open discussion. And this will be followed by many, many more questions that no one really wants to answer.

I'll add a couple of lines to this video.

Upload date: Feb 9 2012
Stunning footage captured by a Russian engineer allegedly shows the furry animal, roughly the size of an elephant, crossing a river in the Siberian wilderness. Like the animals of those ancient years, the beast in the video has red hair and easily distinguishable huge tusks. The animal walks waving its trunk, and its fur resembles extant samples of mammoth hair discovered in the permafrost of frosty Russia. Incredible video recording was made last summer in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Siberia as an engineer working at a state enterprise. Having first published the video anonymously, the Russian said that he thereby wanted to draw attention to the fact that woolly mammoths still exist in the vast unexplored expanses of Siberia.

The famous American ufologist, former NASA employee Michael Cohen, who became famous last year with a video from the jungle of Brazil, presented the world with a new sensation. Then he showed aliens hiding behind trees (see: In Brazil, an alien was caught on camera), and now - a living mammoth. A mammoth crosses a stormy river, waving its trunk as it does so.
Cohen specializes in showing videos sent to him by people who claim they captured something amazing, whether by accident or on purpose. The ufologist does not disclose the names of the authors.
And now Cohen only reported that the mammoth was filmed in Chukotka by a certain Russian engineer - an employee of the state road service. I took it last year, when I was supposedly scouting out the routes of future roads.
The creature crossing the river brown wool. Like a mammoth. The trunk is visible, which the “mammoth” waves from side to side and seems to be testing the water.

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