Bigfoot or Yeti. Yeti Bigfoot - interesting facts about Bigfoot What is Bigfoot called differently
Bigfoot is a creature that has become almost a legend. He has many names - yeti, sasquatch, bigfoot. Carl Linnaeus called it Homo troglodytes - "caveman". Who first told the world that Bigfoot really exists? Michel Nostradamus also said that there is a creature on earth whose appearance is something between a man of great stature and a monkey. The first to mention the Yeti in passing is the traveler Colonel Wendell, who made an excursion to the Himalayas in the 19th century.
Yeti Bigfoot Appearance
Photos of a Bigfoot do not give a clear idea of \u200b\u200bwhat a yeti looks like. Its appearance is based only on hypotheses and assumptions. They say that the Bigfoot Yeti has a very dense physique, has long arms, a pointed skull shape with a protruding frontal part and a very massive jaw. This is how Carl Linnaeus described it.
Bigfoot Yeti is much taller and more massive than the average man, his height reaches 2 m or more
The Yeti Bigfoot's body is covered in fur. In some areas, people came across a yeti whose hairline was black, according to other eyewitnesses - red, others say that snow people are covered with gray (white) hair.
Interesting fact. The opinions of all researchers and eyewitnesses agree that Bigfoot has a beard and mustache. Yetis, Sasquatches and Bigfoots have an unpleasant smell, they live in caves and climb trees perfectly. Although, there is an opinion that snow people build their nests among the crowns. Controversial portrait, agree.
However, there is some pattern. , argue that relict hominids, as scientists called the snow yeti, move on two limbs. Their growth varies depending on the area of residence. So, in Central Asia, where Homo troglodytes is called the Yeti, and in North America, where Bigfoot is called Sasquatch, their height does not exceed 1.5-2 m. Larger individuals live in the Himalayas and Tibet - up to 2.5 m. But African yeti - "kids" - up to 1.5 m.
Are there photos and videos about Yeti?
When approaching a snow yeti, people get dizzy and their blood pressure rises. Plus, creatures act on the subconscious of a person, forcing them to simply not notice their presence. Snow people inspire fear. When the yetis appear nearby, the birds stop and the dogs stop barking, and some simply run away in fear.
Bigfoot Yeti allegedly hypnotizes all those who meet him
Attempts to shoot a video about the Yeti or take a photo were very numerous, but the equipment stopped working as usual, and this is precisely what the researchers note the poor quality of pictures and videos about Bigfoot. Yeti move very quickly, and despite the rather large dimensions, some researchers tried to catch up with him, but to no avail.
Many eyewitnesses who tried to take a photo of the yeti claim that when he looks into a person’s eyes for a long time, he falls into a semi-conscious state, ceasing to be aware of his own actions. Maybe that's why many people simply forget to get and connect the equipment to take photos and videos about Bigfoot?
Interesting fact. All eyewitnesses claim to have seen a yeti man and a yeti woman. Moreover, in different parts of the world. So Bigfoot not only exists, but multiplies? Where do Yeti actually live?
So who is the snow yeti really? An alien or the progenitor of the human race, who somehow managed to survive, retaining primitive features? Perhaps the Yeti is the result of an unsuccessful experiment in crossing a primate and a human? It is known that such experiments were carried out by the Third Reich, but no documentary evidence has been preserved.
Yeti Bigfoot Habitat - Africa or Asia?
In the annals of the Buddhist temples of Tibet, ancient records of the meetings of monks with mysterious creatures of enormous growth, completely covered with hair, have been preserved. It was in this part of Asia that Bigfoot, the Yeti, was first discovered. By the way, the yeti is translated as "a creature that lives among the stones."
Interesting fact. The first reports of Bigfoot appeared in the world press in the mid-1950s. Their authors were climbers who were trying to climb the peak of Everest and were looking for suitable paths among the Himalayan rocks. The adventurers were replaced by groups of scientists, intrigued by the stories of the athletes. So, the hunt for the legendary yeti has begun.
Plaster cast of Bigfoot Yeti footprint found in Tibet
The premise for the first serious study of the Yeti Bigfoot was a series of fairly clear photographs taken by Eric Shipton during an expedition to the Himalayas (1951). The pictures were taken in the town of Menlung Glasir, which is located at an altitude of 6705 m. The photo shows footprints of a yeti, their size is 31.25 by 16.25 cm. serious attempts to understand the origin of Sasquatch and Bigfoot.
Bigfoot Yeti in Russia
The Yeti phenomenon was also studied in Russia, namely in the Caucasus region. This was done by the historian B. Porshnev, and later D. Kofman. Numerous stories of local residents about meetings with Bigfoot, covered with hair and having huge growth, confirmed the food stocks found by the researchers. Caucasian bigfoots are shy, when they see a person, they instantly disappear. According to eyewitnesses, a haze appears before the eyes, and when it disappears, the yetis seem to evaporate.
Interesting fact. Back in the 19th century, Przhevalsky, who was exploring the Gobi, also encountered Bigfoot. However, the Russian government was afraid to allocate money for an additional expedition. Fear was fueled by statements by clergy who spoke of the Yeti as beings from hell.
Meetings with the Bigfoot Yeti took place in Kazakhstan, where they even have a name kiik-adam - “wild man”, and in Azerbaijan, the locals called Bigfoot Biabanguli.
Presumably the parking lot of snowmen in the north of Russia
A hunter in the Chelyabinsk region almost ran into a bigfoot head-on. In 2012, in Chelyabinsk, a local ranger had to meet a humanoid creature, in which the hunter immediately recognized the legendary Bigfoot. According to the hunter, “goosebumps ran through his body,” but this did not stop him from making a video about the Yeti on his mobile phone.
Since that time, Yeti Bigfoot visits to the Chelyabinsk region have become more frequent. It is noteworthy that they are not afraid to leave, and come very close to places inhabited by people. Perhaps the Yeti has become so numerous that they are trying to expand the boundaries of their habitat?
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Bigfoot and his relatives
It looked like either a woman or a monkey. He had a broad, wrinkled, grimacing and laughing face. Something indescribable - two bags of some kind, obviously breasts, dangled in front; long matted hair, reddened by the sun, framed her face and flowed behind her back. Turgenev felt a wild fear, a chilling fear of the supernatural.
Guy de Maupassant, "Fear"
Fictional creatures inhabit the folklore of all world cultures- be it steppe nomads, reindeer herders or South American cannibals. People living on different continents independently invented dragons, werewolves, ghosts, water monsters, dwarfs and giants. But only a few fairy-tale creatures have managed to become part of modern folklore. If you say that you met a fire-breathing dragon in the forest, you will receive an exemption from physical education and free pills for schizophrenia. But if you claim you got into a fight with a giant hairy hominid in a garbage dump - get a real chance to get on the front pages of the morning papers.
In March 2006 (MF #26) we told you about "cryptids" - animals whose existence is denied by modern science (at least until one of them is caught - like, for example, the pygmy okapi giraffe or lobe-finned coelacanth fish). Today we will talk about the "kings" of cryptozoology - archaic giants, now known as "snow people".
wild and unsympathetic
The ancient peoples, without saying a word, believed that long before them, giants lived on Earth. The latter were unbridled and ferocious, which is why the gods either completely destroyed them (Judaism), or expelled them from the world (ancient Greek myths). The giants left behind only huge ruins, called "cyclopean" in honor of the cyclops who erected the walls of Mycenae.
Not surprisingly, human encounters with prehistoric giants were extremely rare. Most of the giants of late European folklore had purely human features and were not considered representatives of any ancient race. Medieval "snow people" in their current sense can be called goblin, but they were a kind of spirits. The Scandinavians had jotuns and trolls, the southern Slavs had drekavaks, but the images of these forest dwellers are too vague to talk about the systematic contacts of ordinary people with the "snow".
Bigfoot, like UFOs, is a phenomenon exclusively of the 20th century. You can talk as much as you like about the growth of anthropogenic zones and the absence of powerful media in the 18-19 centuries that could inflate any trifle to a sensation, but the fact remains: until recently there was no Bigfoot as a mass phenomenon, but now it is. Why, then, the creatures that evolved together with people over millions of years remained so little known that in the general cultural sense they can only claim the title of a race of giants, and an extinct one at that?
Judging by the oldest literary sources, contacts with Bigfoot were extremely rare. The first description of such a case can be considered the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, which tells about the events of 57 centuries ago. According to the first table of the epic, the goddess Aruru created Enkidu, a hairy hero living in complete savagery. King Gilgamesh came up with an original way to catch him: on the bank of the river, where Enkidu grazed, they brought the harlot Shamhat. The poor thing was undressed, and the giant "knew her for seven days." After such a marathon, the savage weakened, and his relatives - animals - began to avoid him. Thus, Enkidu was forced to become part of human society.
Scattered evidence of encounters with some "wild people" can be found in almost every major historian. For example, Plutarch talked about how Sulla's soldiers once caught a satyr (it should be noted that initially satyrs were not associated exclusively with horns and hooves - various animal features were attributed to them, symbolizing savagery). The Roman dictator gathered all the available translators and interrogated the captive, but he only emitted vile bleating and neighing, “which is why Sulla felt great disgust and ordered him to be immediately removed from sight as an ugly phenomenon” (Plutarch, Comparative Biography, Sulla, 27) .
Medieval researchers mentioned wild people a lot and often, but most often they described ordinary monkeys or uncivilized natives. There were no white spots left on the map of the Old World, so meetings with such creatures were only spoken of in the past tense. Once upon a time there were lions in Europe. Now even wild bulls and tarpans have not been preserved here, and snow people have become curiosities. For example, Heinrich von Gesler in the 14th century wrote of a wild Alpine woman "whose breasts are so long that she throws them over her shoulders."
Enthusiasts often recall that Carl Linnaeus included Bigfoot in his famous classification of living beings ("The System of Nature"). Indeed, the Swedish naturalist wrote about the “wild man” (about some hairy “sons of darkness” living in caves and stealing food from people at night), as well as about the “troglodyte man” (probably a Neanderthal). However, it should not be forgotten that in the first edition of the System of Nature, Linnaeus called whales fish ...
Lit so litThe architecture and heraldry of early feudal Europe often used the image of a “wild man” (voodoo vase), probably copied from Greek satyrs. The first masquerade in European history is associated with this creature. In 1393 Queen Isabella of Bavaria gave a ball. King Charles VI the Mad and six of his attendants appeared in costumes of "bigfoot" made of linen, resin and hemp. In the midst of the celebration, the Duke of Orleans accidentally brought a candle to the royal costume. It flared up immediately. The fire spread to other "forest people". Four of them died. The king received severe burns, but escaped thanks to the Duchess de Berry, who covered him with her clothes. |
Origin of Species
It makes no sense to retell modern stories about meeting with Bigfoot - most of them look like hunters' tales. They are either of the same type or improbable, and in any case unverifiable. Of particular interest are only general information about the known "varieties" of Bigfoot.
In the mountains of Altai, the Caucasus and the Pamirs lives almas("almast", from the Mongolian - "wild man"). He is described as a humanoid with red hair, human features, powerful superciliary ridges, a flat nose and chin (which completely coincides with the reconstructed appearance of a Neanderthal).
Legends about almas cannot boast of antiquity - they are only a few hundred years old. It may seem that there are almost more almas in the mountains than people. In 1871, Nikolai Przhevalsky saw them, and in 1941, Red Army soldiers allegedly caught some hairy citizen in the Caucasus, interrogated him (to no avail) and shot him as a German spy.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, these creatures are known as bartender, however, the most popular in the West is another, Tibetan name - yeti("man-bear" or "stone bear"). The number of meetings with him increased in proportion to the increase in the number of Europeans who explored the Himalayas. In 1832, the British noticed a certain red-haired creature in the mountains - probably an orangutan, in 1889 - something like a bear.
Yetis live here. Yeti, representing the highland subspecies of the troll family, have never heard of the fact that cannibalism is hopelessly out of fashion. Their opinion on this issue is: eat what moves. If it doesn't move, wait until it does. And then eat.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
The monasteries of Khumjung and Pangboche have long kept yeti scalps, which were credited with magical powers. In the middle of the last century, their study was carried out. The results are disappointing: they are just skins from the neck of a Himalayan mountain goat. The monks of Pangboche also owned another relic - a mummified yeti clawed paw, but in 1991 it was stolen (probably settling in someone's private collection).
In Scotland, on Mount Ben Macdui lives Am Fir Liat Mor("Big Gray Man"). No one really saw him, but many climbers heard strange footsteps on the slopes. Their stories are not much different from each other - they were walking along the mountain in the fog (usually in the evening), when suddenly measured steps began to be heard somewhere behind. The pursuer stepped rarely, but did not lag behind - that is, he was several times larger than a man. People began to panic, fled, and only caught a glimpse of some huge gray silhouette in the fog.
This phenomenon was so massive that it simply needed to find explanations. Theories have been put forward about energy breaks and "frightening" infrasound, but it is most likely that the specific conditions of Ben McDuy (frequent fogs) create a phantom effect well known to climbers. If a low-lying sun shines on a person's back, and fog floats in front of him, then an eerie reflection of a figure surrounded by a bright halo of light appears in it.
Filipino forest creature named Capri slightly reminiscent of a bigfoot with its habits (lives in trees, makes noise, shows interest in women), but at the same time has a purely human appearance, wears traditional Bahag clothes and smokes a pipe (they say that crickets in the forests are coals that have fallen out of it).
Even overpopulated Japan has its own Bigfoot. He's called Hibagon(or Hinagon) because he lives in the forested Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture. The meeting with him took place 35 years ago. According to eyewitnesses, Hibagon was short, hairy, with a flat nose and burning eyes. All signs point to the fact that this is not Bigfoot, but something like a gorilla.
Among all the varieties of this creature, the fate of the American "bigfoot" is most interesting. bigfoot or sasquatch(The term was coined in 1920 by school teacher Burns, who noticed that many Indian tribes use words with the same root "sas" to refer to wild people).
Until the middle of the 20th century, Bigfoot was not found in the United States, and stories about Sasquatch were popular only on Indian reservations. In August 1958, Ray Wallace's construction company was laying a road in a deserted area of California. Bulldozer Jerry Crew found traces of "big feet". The feet were 40 cm long, the stride length was over a meter. The local newspaper dubbed the find "bigfoot", and Wallace began to actively promote the "bigfoot" among lovers of the unknown.
But the real "birthday" of the American Bigfoot can be considered October 20, 1967, when rodeo participants Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin managed to capture him on film. They traveled to Six Rivers National Park with a rented 16mm camera, intending to make a Blair Witch-style documentary about Bigfoot. The men agreed that, if possible, they would try to shoot the “big-legged” - his body could be sold profitably, moreover, it would be irrefutable evidence.
However, when they saw him, they completely forgot about the weapon. Bigfoot began to quickly move away from the researchers. Patterson dismounted from his horse and followed him with a working camera, Gimlin with a gun covering him from behind. As a result, the first half of the film came out defective - the image shook and jumped in all directions, but when Patterson approached the bigfoot by several tens of meters and stood motionless, the quality of the shooting improved markedly. The creature looked back at the pursuers several times and disappeared into the forest.
The US finally has its own national monster. For several decades, the word "bigfoot" has become a popular brand. From all over the country there were reports of similar meetings. People found traces, wool, excrement of the "big-footed". Numerous clubs of "big footologists" appeared, and a new industry arose in tourism. Scientists who studied the Patterson-Gimlin film were divided into two approximately equal camps: some said that this was an obvious staging (an actor in a woolen suit was running in front of the lens), others noted the creature’s unusual gait and stated that it could not be human.
November 26, 2002 Ray Wallace, the discoverer and popularizer of bigfoot, died. His family soon admitted that Ray, along with his brother, faked tracks around the bulldozer by putting large wooden feet on their feet. Why they needed it is not exactly known. They probably wanted to have some fun, but the bigfoot they invented soon turned into a national American hero, began to bring in considerable income and gained worldwide fame. Such a trifle as a fake of the first discovered traces does not bother enthusiasts at all.
Missing link
There are many theories about the origin of the Bigfoot, but if we dismiss all unhealthy fantasies (an alien from outer space, from another dimension, the energy projection of ordinary people, the souls of our ancestors, secret government experiments, super-developed primates hiding from people with the help of telepathy), the remaining versions can be count on the fingers of one hand.
The first, the most famous, relies on the mythical roots of wild giants, who allegedly lived on the planet long before man. Given the specific geography of encounters with Bigfoot, most of which are in Asia, North America and Eastern Europe, we can assume that we are dealing with Gigantopithecus(Gigantopithecus blacki).
The remains of this extinct humanoid ape were found precisely in Asia (China). Unfortunately, there are too few of them to recreate the appearance of the animal. At the disposal of scientists there are only a few lower jaws and about 1000 teeth, the largest of which are 6 times larger than in humans. It is assumed that the growth of Gigantopithecus, standing on its hind legs, reached 3 meters. These giants most likely resembled gorillas or orangutans.
Against the "snow humanization" of the Gigantopithecus, the fact that they became extinct almost 100,000 years ago and could hardly have settled on several continents - especially with their supposed diet (most of the bones were found in the habitat of the ancestors of modern pandas that ate bamboo) speaks against the "snow humanization" of the Gigantopithecus.
Other Bigfoot Candidates - Neanderthals- also do not inspire optimism. Even if they survived into the 21st century, they would be too intelligent to lead a wild lifestyle (Neanderthals knew how to build shelters, used fire and used a variety of tools - from stone cutters to wooden spears). They were squat and stocky (height - up to 165 cm), which also does not correspond to the expected appearance of Bigfoot.
Finally, it is absolutely certain that Neanderthals died out about 24,000 years ago. Their last habitats are Croatia, Iberia (Spain) and Crimea. How could they survive as single individuals around the world - a question from the series "Who did the Loch Ness monster mate in a small lake to survive to this day?". Today, when the entire planet has already been photographed by satellites and put on public display in Google Earth, when the Amazonian Indians dress in Chinese Adidas, and the Tibetans ride tourists through the mountains in Japanese jeeps, there is simply nowhere for the relic hominid to hide.
There are opinions that Bigfoot appear "pointwise" in different places on the planet just because they are something like Mowgli or Tarzan. History knows about 100 cases of discovery feral children. They are found to this day, often in a tragicomic situation - for example, two years ago a young man Sunjit Kumar was discovered in Fiji, who grew up among chickens and imitated their behavior.
In ancient times, lost or abandoned children, as well as persons with some mental disabilities, could easily become wild, spend their entire (certainly short) life in nature, and only occasionally catch the eye of superstitious townsfolk. Thousands of years ago, they would have been called trolls and satyrs, and in the 20th century, Bigfoot. It was precisely such a case that Turgenev described when visiting Gustave Flaubert (the epigraph of the article) - and in the end it turned out that she was a madwoman, fed by shepherds and living in the forest for more than 30 years.
The most reasonable explanation for the Bigfoot phenomenon is the saying "Fear has big eyes." Many secrets of the universe are hidden in erroneous perception. Giant sea snakes turned out to be tangled algae, flying saucers were weather balloons, and Bigfoot were gorillas or bears.
The bear is such an original animal that anyone recognizes it at first sight. He does not eat his own kind, does not wander around the village at night in the hope of grabbing and dragging a child. From time to time, he climbs a tree to the very top, and from there he surveys the surroundings. He especially dislikes being teased or disturbed.
Alfred Bram, Animal Life
Bram was wrong, says Japanese climber Makoto Nebuga. Not everyone recognizes a bear, especially if the person is frightened, and the clubfoot stands on its hind legs. Nebuga spent 12 years looking for the legendary yeti in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan and came to the conclusion that he had long been kept in many zoos around the world. The legend about him arose due to the fact that the Himalayan bear - "meti" - was confused with the "yeti" (not surprising, because the locals consider the bear a supernatural being). Reality is rarely as mysterious as our perceptions of it.
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After weighing all the pros and cons, it can be argued with a 99% probability that Bigfoot is a fiction. However, as primatologist John Napier correctly pointed out, there is a certain limit to the number of evidence of a meeting with a bigfoot, after which they can no longer be explained by errors and hoaxes alone. One or two stories about the "hairy monkey with glowing eyes" can be ignored. One hundred thousand stories about this - a reason to think. We can only wait and analyze. Time will judge.
Of great interest is the Yeti or Bigfoot. Various rumors have been circulating about this creature for several decades. Who is Yeti? Scientists can only guess, since it is very difficult to prove its existence due to lack of facts.
Eyewitnesses who met a strange creature describe in detail its fearsome appearance:
In addition, scientists had a chance to study the size of the monster's legs from the prints left on the snow or the ground. Also, eyewitnesses provided shreds of wool found in the thickets through which the yeti made its way, drew it from memory, tried to photograph it.
Direct evidence
It is impossible to determine with accuracy who a Bigfoot is. When approaching it, people begin to feel dizzy, their consciousness changes and their blood pressure rises. Creatures act on the energy of a person in such a way that they are simply not noticed. In addition, yeti instill animal fear in all living beings. When he approaches, there is complete silence around: the birds fall silent, and the animals run away.
Numerous attempts to film the creature on a video camera turned out to be practically fruitless. Even if they succeeded, the pictures and videos were of very poor quality, despite the high-quality equipment. This is due not only to the fact that yetis move too fast, despite their huge growth and dense physique, but also to the fact that technology, as well as people, begins to fail. Attempts to catch up with the fleeing "man" did not bring success.
Those who wanted to photograph the yeti say that when you try to look into his eyes, a person ceases to control himself. Accordingly, pictures are simply not taken, or foreign objects are visible on them.
Fact. Eyewitnesses from different parts of the planet describe beings either female or male. This suggests that Bigfoot most likely reproduces in the usual way.
Who is Bigfoot really is not clear. Either this is an alien creature, or an individual from antiquity, who miraculously managed to live up to our time. Or maybe this is the result of experiments conducted between humans and primates.
Where does Bigfoot live?
Tibetan ancient chronicles have a story about the meetings of Buddhist monks and a huge hairy monster on two legs. From Asian languages, the word "yeti" is translated as "someone who lives among the stones."
Fact: the first information about Bigfoot appeared in print in the 50s of the last century. The authors of these texts were climbers who tried to conquer Everest. The meeting with the yeti took place in the Himalayan forests, in which there are paths leading to the top of the mountain.
The places where the mystical creature lives are forests and mountains. Bigfoot in Russia was first recorded in the Caucasus. Eyewitnesses claim that as soon as they saw a huge primate, he disappeared right before their eyes, leaving behind a small cloud of haze.
Przhevalsky, who was studying the Gobi Desert, encountered the Yeti back in the 19th century. But further research was stopped due to the refusal of the state to allocate money for the expedition. This was influenced by the clergy, who considered the yeti a creature from hell.
After that, Bigfoot was seen in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other places. In 2012, a hunter from the Chelyabinsk region encountered a humanoid creature. Despite the strong fear, he managed to film the monster on his mobile phone. Then the Yeti was seen many times near the settlements. But his approach to people has not yet found an explanation.
Despite the fact that no one can tell who the Yeti is, . This is supported not only by weak facts, but also by faith, which is sometimes stronger than all evidence.
Many secrets keep the expanses of our vast planet. Mysterious creatures hiding from the human world have always aroused genuine interest among scientists and enthusiastic researchers. One of these mysteries was Bigfoot.
Yeti, Bigfoot, Angry, Sasquatch - these are all his names. It is believed that he belongs to the class of mammals, the order of primates, the genus man.
Of course, its existence has not been proven by scientists, however, according to eyewitnesses and many researchers, today we have a complete description of this creature.
What does the legendary cryptid look like?
The most popular image of Bigfoot
His physique is thick and muscular, with thick hair covering the entire surface of the body, with the exception of the palms and feet, which, according to people who met the Yeti, remain completely naked.
The color of the coat can be different depending on the habitat - white, black, gray, red.
The faces are always dark, and the hair on the head is longer than on the rest of the body. According to some reports, the beard and mustache are completely absent, or they are very short and rare.
The skull has a pointed shape and a massive lower jaw.
The growth of these creatures varies from 1.5 to 3 meters. Other witnesses claimed to have met taller individuals.
Features of the Bigfoot body are also long arms and shortened hips.
The Yeti's habitat is a controversial issue, as people claim to have seen it in America, Asia, and even Russia. Presumably, they can be found in the Urals, the Caucasus and Chukotka.
These mysterious creatures live far from civilization, carefully hiding from human attention. Nests can be located in trees or in caves.
But no matter how carefully the snowmen tried to hide, there were local residents who claimed to have seen them.
First eyewitnesses
The first who happened to see the mysterious creature live were Chinese peasants. According to available information, the meeting was not a single one, but numbered about a hundred cases.
After such statements, several countries, including America and Great Britain, sent an expedition in search of traces.
Thanks to the collaboration of two eminent scientists, Richard Greenwell and Gene Poirier, evidence has been found for the existence of the Yeti.
The find was hair that was supposed to belong only to him. However, later, in 1960, Edmund Hillary had the opportunity to examine the scalp again.
His conclusion was unequivocal: the “find” was made of antelope wool.
As one would expect, many scientists did not agree with this version, finding more and more confirmation of the previously put forward theory.
Bigfoot scalp
In addition to the hairline found, the identity of which is still a controversial issue, there is no other documented evidence.
Except for countless photographs, footprints and eyewitness accounts.
Photos are often of very poor quality, so they do not allow you to reliably determine whether these frames are real or fake.
Footprints, which, of course, are similar to human ones, but wider and longer, scientists rank among the traces of famous animals living in the find area.
And even the stories of eyewitnesses who, according to them, met Bigfoot, do not allow us to establish for certain the fact of their existence.
Bigfoot on video
However, in 1967, two men were able to film Bigfoot.
They were R. Patterson and B. Gimlin from Northern California. Being shepherds, one autumn, on the banks of the river, they noticed a creature, which, realizing that it had been found, immediately set off on the run.
Grabbing a camera, Roger Patterson set off to catch up with an unusual creature that was mistaken for a yeti.
The film aroused genuine interest among scientists who for many years tried to prove or disprove the existence of a mythical creature.
Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson
A number of features proved that the film was not a fake.
The size of the body and the unusual gait indicated that it was not a person.
The video was noted for a clear image of the body and limbs of the creature, which ruled out the creation of a special suit for the filming of the film.
Some structural features of the body allowed scientists to draw conclusions about the similarity of the individual from the video frames with the prehistoric ancestor of man - the Neanderthal ( approx. the last Neanderthals lived about 40 thousand years ago), but very large in size: growth reached 2.5 meters, and weight - 200 kg.
After numerous examinations, the film was found to be authentic.
In 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, who had initiated this filming, his relatives and acquaintances reported that the film was completely staged: a man in a specially tailored suit portrayed an American Yeti, and unusual footprints were left by artificial forms.
But they did not provide evidence that the film was fake. Later, experts conducted an experiment in which a trained person tried to repeat the shots taken in a suit.
They came to the conclusion that at the time the film was made, it was not possible to produce such a quality production.
There were other encounters with the unusual being, most of them in America. For example, in North Carolina, Texas and near the state of Missouri, but unfortunately there is no evidence of these meetings, except for the oral stories of people.
A woman named Zana from Abkhazia
An interesting and unusual confirmation of the existence of these individuals was a woman named Zana, who lived in Abkhazia in the 19th century.
Raisa Khvitovna, Zana's granddaughter - the daughter of Khvit and a Russian woman named Maria
The description of her appearance is similar to the available descriptions of Bigfoot: red hair that covered her dark skin, and the hair on her head was longer than on her whole body.
She did not speak articulately, but uttered only cries and isolated sounds.
The face was large, the cheekbones protruded, and the jaw protruded strongly forward, which gave it a ferocious look.
Zana was able to integrate into human society and even gave birth to several children from local men.
Later, scientists conducted research on the genetic material of Zana's descendants.
According to some sources, their origin originates in West Africa.
The results of the examination indicate the possibility of the existence of a population in Abkhazia during the life of Zana, which means that it is not excluded in other regions.
Makoto Nebuka reveals the secret
One of the enthusiasts who wanted to prove the existence of the Yeti was the Japanese climber Makoto Nebuka.
He hunted Bigfoot for 12 years, exploring the Himalayas.
After so many years of persecution, he came to a disappointing conclusion: the legendary humanoid creature turned out to be just a Himalayan brown bear.
The book with his research describes some interesting facts. It turns out that the word "yeti" is nothing more than a distorted word "meti", which means "bear" in the local dialect.
The Tibetan clans considered the bear to be a supernatural creature that possessed power. Perhaps these concepts were combined, and the myth of Bigfoot spread everywhere.
Research from different countries
Numerous studies have been carried out by many scientists around the world. The USSR was no exception.
Geologists, anthropologists and botanists worked in the commission for the study of Bigfoot. As a result of their work, a theory was put forward that states that Bigfoot is a degraded branch of Neanderthals.
However, then the work of the commission was terminated, and only a few enthusiasts continued to work on research.
Genetic studies of available samples deny the existence of the Yeti. An Oxford University professor, after analyzing the hair, proved that they belonged to a polar bear that existed several thousand years ago.
Still from a film shot in Northern California 10/20/1967
At present, the discussions do not subside.
The question of the existence of another mystery of nature remains open, and the society of cryptozoologists is still trying to find evidence.
All the facts available today do not give one hundred percent certainty in the reality of this creature, although some people really want to believe in it.
Obviously, only a film shot in Northern California can be considered proof of the existence of the object under study.
Some people tend to believe that Bigfoot is of alien origin.
That is why it is so difficult to detect, and all genetic and anthropological analyzes lead scientists to wrong results.
Someone is sure that science is hushing up the fact of their existence and publishes false studies, because there are so many eyewitnesses.
But questions are only multiplying every day, and answers are extremely rare. And although many believe in the existence of Bigfoot, science still denies this fact.
For many centuries, the inexplicable has attracted inquisitive minds. And what a person encounters, learning new aspects of life, does not fit into the logic of consciousness. All this makes you look in a new way at what life is... and what are its possibilities in the past, present and future...
Bigfoot (yeti, sasquatch, bigfoot) is a humanoid creature allegedly found in various high-altitude or forest regions of the Earth. There is an opinion that this is a relic hominid, that is, a mammal belonging to the order of primates and the genus man, which has survived to this day from the time of human ancestors. Carl Linnaeus designated it as lat. Homo troglodytes (caveman). The Soviet scientist B. F. Porshnev paid much attention to the topic of Bigfoot (called a relic hominoid).
Description
Judging by hypotheses and unconfirmed evidence, Bigfoot differ from us in a denser physique, a pointed skull, longer arms, a short neck and a massive lower jaw, and relatively short hips. They have hair all over their body - black, red or gray. Dark faces. The hair on the head is longer than on the body. The mustache and beard are very sparse and short. They have a strong unpleasant odor. They are good at climbing trees. It is alleged that the mountain populations of Bigfoot live in caves, forest people build nests on tree branches.
Ideas about Bigfoot and its various local analogues of veethnography. The image of a huge scary man can reflect natural fears of the dark, very interesting from the point of view of the unknown, relationships with mystical forces among different peoples. It is possible that people with unnatural hair or feral people are mistaken for Bigfoot.
If relict hominids exist, then they live in small groups, probably married couples. They can move on their hind limbs. Growth should range from 1 to 2.5 m; in most cases 1.5-2 m; it was reported about the meeting with the largest individuals in the mountains of Central Asia (Yeti) and in North America (Sasquatch). In Sumatra, Kalimantan and Africa, in most cases, growth did not exceed 1.5 m. There are suggestions that the observed relict hominids belong to several different species, at least three.
Big Foot
Bigfoot is also known as the Bearman or the Tibetan Yeti. It is believed that Bigfoot lives in the mountains of the Himalayas above the snow line.
The local Sherpas have believed in this beast since their earliest known history. Various expeditions went in search of the Yeti, but no one returned with a living or dead creature, some piece of its skeleton or bone, hair or skin, traces of secretions or the remains of a dwelling. But faith in him is still strong.
Various tracks, apparently of hominid origin, found above the snow line are attributed to this animal. According to the analysis of scientists who believed in the existence of the Yeti, the footprints indicate a tall hominid, probably about 7 feet (2.13 m). Many scientists, including prominent zoologists, however, have suggested that the tracks attributed to the large hominid were most likely made by bears. It is well known that most bears are capable of walking on their two hind legs in an almost upright position. At great distances, these upright bears would have passed for a hominid in appearance and posture. With some gaits, some bears have been found to leave footprints that appear to be those of a large hominid: the rear foot, partially overlapping the front, appears to be the foot of a large humanoid creature.
Other dubious yeti footprints found above the snow line have also been attributed to other animals living in the Himalayas, such as goats, wolves and snow leopards. Other footprints believed to be from Bigfoot are attributed to footprints left by fallen rocks, cobblestones, and chunks of snow. However, many respected naturalists and explorers have documented startling footprints left by what appear to be real animals living in the Himalayas, which to this day skeptics have been unable to explain as being left by a known creature.
Yeti knowledge has been part of Sherpa religious beliefs and traditions since the early days of Buddhism in the region. They believe that spirits and demons live on the upper slopes of the Himalayas, and yetis live on the lower slopes. Perhaps it was meant that these mysterious people exist as spirits, always hiding from the gaze of mere mortals.
The first well-known and documented sighting of a phenomenon attributed to the yeti was the discovery of bare footprints in the snow of Mount Everest at 21,000 feet (6.4 km) in 1921. The sighting was made by Colonel C.K. Howard-Bury, a well known and respected climber. It happened when he led an expedition to Everest. When examining the footprints, the bearers reported that they belonged to mech-kangmi, which roughly translates to bigfoot ("kang" - snow and "mi" - man), smelling disgusting ("sword" is roughly translated as an expression of something disgusting - although the word itself can be translated with various other meanings deriving from the large differences in the Tibetan dialect). Thus the word Bigfoot was born.
The media immediately sensationalized the discovery of a hitherto unknown species of animal, perhaps even a hominid, which could be a close relative of modern humans. On the other hand, science approached the situation with skepticism and no serious scientific research was carried out within a few years after the discovery.
Since then, there have been thousands of sightings of the elusive creature and its famous footprints. Most famously, and perhaps what prompted serious scientific research into the possibility of this and other hominids, is a series of clear photographs taken by Eric Shipton in 1951 during an expedition to Mount Everest. The photographs were taken at a location called Menlung Glacier at approximately 22,000 feet (6,705 m). The most visible footprint was measured as 12.5 x 6.5 inches (31.25 x 16.25 cm) with an ice ax photographed nearby. This single observation became the legendary basis for the belief in the possibility of the existence of giant hominids and paved the way for serious scientific study of other giant hairy ape people such as Sasquatch and Bigfoot.
The most intriguing and most controversial sighting of the Yeti was made in 1970 by Don Whillans. Willans was the deputy leader of the expedition to the south side of Anapurna in Nepal. At the site of the camp set up by Willans and Dougal Haston at 14,000 feet (4,267 m), the group stumbled across a series of apparently human-like footprints in a place where no humans had ever spawned. After photographing the footprints, Willans saw through his binoculars a dark bipedal creature fleeing along the side of the mountain where their camp was. The observation lasted half an hour until the creature disappeared into a group of trees. Although the height of the site was lower than most footprint sightings, in which hallucinations were never recorded and no one in the group took whiskey, many skeptics still doubted the reality of the sighting. However, due to Willance's earlier lack of interest in Bigfoot, it can be assumed that he did see something disappear into the trees that day.
The Nepalese population has long known the yeti sighting area under the name "great ape area".
An earlier sighting of a possibly existing hominid creature was made by A.M. Tombazi in the Sikkim area in 1925. Although it is believed that this was a sighting of a yeti, it could be an sighting of another creature, possibly related and similar to Bigfoot.
Yetis are called by different names depending on the geographic location of the region of observation or legend. In Nepal, 3 types of Bigfoot are known: a very large yeti, which is said to be vegetarian, except when lack of food causes it to become omnivorous; smaller variety, aggressive and carnivorous; and a creature often called Rakshi-Bompo, often mischievous, attacking crops but quickly fleeing when people approach. The Rakshi Bompo may have taken its name from the beast mentioned in the Indian epic Ramayana. This 3rd-4th century poem contains passages that speak of the existence of demons called Raksha (plural Rakshasa) who are often described as having the same appearance as Bigfoot.
In various areas of the Himalayas, the Yeti is called Bang (Bang), Bangjakri (Bangjakri), Ban Vanas (Ban Vanas) and Van Manas (Van Manas) along with a number of other names.
The Russian Caucasus is replete with stories and accounts of yeti-like creatures. The leading researchers of the Yeti phenomenon in this region are Prof. Boris Porshnev, a Russian historian, and Prof. Rinchen from Mongolia. Both have been doing Bigfoot research for most of their lives. Professor Porshnev's follower, Professor Jeanne Kofman, continues his work in the Caucasus region to the present day. Numerous pieces of evidence collected over years of fieldwork include stockpiles of food found in tall grasses and records of sightings of the creature. Locals in the region, isolated from the rest of the world, who are mostly agricultural workers, often tell stories of encounters with such creatures. They consider the yeti to be a shy, polite creature that, at the sight of people, immediately disappears into a haze, hiding from view.
In another uninhabited region of Russia, there are stories of almas, primitive demi-human beings encountered by Russian colonel Nikolai Przhevalsky in the 19th century during his in-depth explorations of Mongolia and the Gobi Desert. Further research on these creatures was suspended by the Russian government and the imperial court for fear of embarrassment if they had to publicly accept the possibility of the existence of these creatures. Almas are also known as Almast and Bigfoot.
In other Soviet republics, yeti-like creatures (thought to exist) include Abanauyu (forest man), Bianbanguli in Azerbaijan, Dev in some areas in the Pamirs, and Kiik-adam (Kiik- Adam, Kazakh for "wild man".
Apart from the mention of the yeti-like creature in the Ramayana, another mention was made by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist and naturalist. In the manuscript "Animal Man" Linnaeus named Bigfoot Homo nocturnus (Homo nocturnus) ("man of the night"). This name is apparently given because of the elusiveness of the Yeti. Other than the alleged existence of some Yeti scalps, there is no further evidence that Bigfoot exists on Earth as such, as there are no skeletal remains.
So is the yeti a humanoid animal still waiting to be discovered? Is it a pre-hominid relic of the past from a time when man has not yet become fully human? An endless sea of evidence exists in various legends, containing recurring, often conflicting clues. But one thing is for sure. Whenever a dubious sighting occurs, as in the case of Willans, silence follows. Perhaps man, with his faith in the wonders of science and his knowledge of nature, still refuses to accept the possibility that there is a place where creatures thought to be extinct can still live.
Our comments:
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