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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 got the opportunity to examine the scalp again.

His conclusion was unequivocal: the “find” was made of antelope wool.

As expected, many scientists did not agree with this version, finding more and more confirmations 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 if 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, which 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 noted a clear image of the body and limbs of the creature, which ruled out the creation of a special costume for filming 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 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.

Description

In testimonies about meetings with "bigfoot" most often appear creatures that differ from modern humans in a denser physique, pointed skull, longer arms, short necks and massive lower jaws, relatively short hips, with thick hair all over body - black, red, white 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 are good at climbing trees. It has been suggested that mountain populations of snow people live in caves, forest people build nests on tree branches. Carl Linnaeus referred to it as Homo troglodytes(caveman). Very fast. He can overtake a horse, moreover, on two legs, and in the water - a motor boat. Omnivorous, but prefers plant foods, very fond of apples. Eyewitnesses described encounters with specimens of various heights, from the average human to 3 m or more.

Ideas about Bigfoot and its various local counterparts are very interesting from the point of view of ethnography. The image of a huge scary man can reflect the innate fears of darkness, the unknown, relationships with mystical forces among different peoples. It is possible that in some cases Bigfoot people with unnatural hairline or feral people were accepted.

origin of name

Bigfoot called him thanks to a group of climbers who conquered Everest. They discovered the loss of food supplies, then heard a heart-rending scream, and on one of the snow-covered slopes a chain of footprints similar to human ones appeared. The residents explained that it was a Yeti, a terrible bigfoot, and categorically refused to camp in this place. Since then, Europeans have called this creature Bigfoot.

Existence

Most modern scientists are skeptical about the possibility of the existence of Bigfoot.

... about Bigfoot, he said: "I really want to believe, but there is no reason." The words "no evidence" mean that the matter was studied, and as a result of the study it was found that there is no reason to trust the original statements. This: is the formula of the scientific approach: “I want to believe”, but since “there are no grounds”, then this belief must be abandoned.
Academician A. B. Migdal From conjecture to truth.

The attitude of a professional biologist to the question of the possibility of the existence of a "snowman" was illustrated by paleontologist Kirill Eskov in a popular article:

At least, I am not aware of the laws of nature that would impose a direct ban on the existence in the mountains of Central Asia of a relic hominoid - "ape-man", or simply a large anthropoid ape. It must be assumed that, contrary to its name, it is not connected with eternal snows in any way (except that it sometimes leaves traces there), but should live in the belt of mountain forests, where there is enough food and shelters. It is clear that any reports about North American "bigfoots" can be thrown away without reading with a clear conscience (because there are no and never have been any species of primates on that continent, and in order to get there from Asia through the polar Beringia, as people did, you must at least have fire), but in the Himalayas or the Pamirs - why not? There are even quite plausible candidates for this role, for example, megantrop - a very large (about two meters tall) fossil monkey from South Asia, who had a number of "human" features that bring it closer to African Australopithecus, the direct ancestors of hominins […]
So, do I admit (as a professional zoologist) the fundamental possibility of the existence of a relic hominoid? - answer: "Yes". Do I believe in its existence? - answer: "No". And since we are not talking about “I know / I don’t know”, but about “I believe / I don’t believe”, I will allow myself to express a completely subjective judgment on this subject, based on personal experience: [...] where a professional’s foot has once set foot, neither one animal larger than a rat has no chance of remaining "unknown to science." Well, since by the end of the twentieth century there were no more places where that professional foot would not have set foot at all (at least on land) - draw your own conclusions ...

- "Cryptus, sir!", article. Kirill Eskov, Computerra, 13.03.07, No. 10 (678): pp. 36-39.

Currently, there is not a single representative of the species living in captivity, not a single skeleton or skin. However, there are allegedly hair, footprints and dozens of photographs, videos (poor quality) and audio recordings. The reliability of this evidence is in doubt. For a long time, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence has been a short film directed by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Northern California. The film was said to be of a female Bigfoot. However, in 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, for whom this shooting was made, testimonies of his relatives and acquaintances appeared, who said (however, without presenting any material evidence) that the whole story with the "American Yeti" was from the beginning to the end is rigged; forty-centimeter "footprints of the yeti" were made by artificial forms, and the filming was a staged episode with a man in a specially tailored monkey suit.

However, it should be noted that Patterson's film aroused the genuine interest of National Geographic Channel researchers. In "Reality or Fiction" (aired in December 2010), an attempt was made to study and investigate Patterson's film in terms of the possibility of its falsification. Experienced make-up artists, a tall actor imitating a gait, special effects specialists and scientists were involved as experts. The appearance of the creature in the film, its hair adjacent to the muscles, the proportions of the limbs, the dynamics of movement, the shooting distance, etc. were evaluated. As a result, according to the unanimous opinion of the experts involved, even at the current level of development of the media industry and video effects, already at the level of 1967, it is almost impossible to achieve such a degree of realism in the Bigfoot story.

On the other hand, from enthusiasts of this topic one can hear accusations against "official science" that its representatives simply brush aside the available evidence. Here is a typical text of this kind:

In fact, those who say “no reason” simply do not even want to get acquainted with what “dug up” by enthusiastic researchers. “We hear a lot of examples of this in history.” I will give only two. When Canadian Rene Dahinden brought us a copy of the film shot by Patterson in 1967 at the end of 1971, I personally approached the then director of the Institute of Anthropology of Moscow State University V.P. would recoil from the proposal and say; "Not! No need!" But this did not prevent him from declaring that there were no grounds ...
And when at the international symposium, which he (Yakimov) chaired, Professor Astanin went to the podium to present to the audience the materials of the anatomical study of the yeti hand from the Pangboche monastery (Tibet), Yakimov did not let him speak and drove him from the podium in violation of the democratic traditions of such forums - to the protesting exclamations of the participants ... As a result, some of them left the symposium session.
And a recent example: when I arrived from the USA after a five-week “investigation” of events at the Carter farm in the fall of 2004, where, according to the owner, the Bigfoot clan lived, and offered to speak and talk about the results in the anthropology department of the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, its head. S. Vasiliev declined under the pretext of being busy with other issues.
At the same time, when there was a fuss in the press about the existence of a “snowman” in the mountains of Shoria (south of the Kemerovo region), the same Vasiliev stated without hesitation: “Alas, we do not have data on the existence of humanoids, anywhere in the world"…
Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. ist. Sciences, Director of the International Center for Hominology, Moscow.

The Soviet scientist B. F. Porshnev paid great attention to the topic of Bigfoot.

Commission of the Academy of Sciences for the Study of the Question of the Bigfoot

Commission members J.-M. I. Kofman and Professor BF Porshnev and other enthusiasts continued to actively search for Bigfoot or its traces.

Society of Cryptozoologists

References in history and literature

Abstract drawing of Bigfoot.

Numerous images of creatures similar to Bigfoot are known (on art objects of Ancient Greece, Rome, Ancient Armenia, Carthage and the Etruscans and medieval Europe) and references, including in the Bible (in Russian translation shaggy), Ramayana ( rakshasas), in Nizami Ganjavi's poem "Iskander-name", folklore of different peoples ( faun, satyr and strong in Ancient Greece, yeti in Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, ghoul baths in Azerbaijan, chuchunny, chuchunaa in Yakutia, almas in Mongolia, zhen (野人 ), maozhen(毛人) and renxiong(人熊) in China, kiik-adam and albasty In Kazakhstan , goblin, shish and shishiga the Russians, div in Persia (and Ancient Russia), chugaister in Ukraine , virgins and albasty in the Pamirs shurale and yarymtyk among Kazan Tatars and Bashkirs, arsuri among the Chuvash picene among the Siberian Tatars, abnahuayu in Abkhazia , sasquatch In Canada , terik, girkychavylyin, myrygdy, kiltan, arynk, arysa, rackem, julia in Chukotka, trampoline, sedapa and orangpendek in Sumatra and Kalimantan, agogwe, kakundakari and ki lomba in Africa, etc.). In folklore, they appear in the form of satyrs, demons, devils, goblin, water, mermaids, etc.

Opponents of the Bigfoot version of the existence, which include most professional biologists and anthropologists, point to the lack of unambiguous evidence (living individuals or their remains, high-quality photographs and videos) and the possibility of arbitrary interpretation of the available evidence. There are frequent references to a well-known biological fact: the long-term existence of a population requires a minimum number of about hundreds of individuals, whose vital activity, according to critics, simply cannot be imperceptible and leave numerous traces. The explanations put forward for the evidence generally boil down to the following set of versions:

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Notes

1. K. Eskov. "Crypto, sir!"
2. Patterson film
3. B. F. Porshnev The current state of the issue of relic hominoids Viniti, Moscow, 1963
4. Soviet "snowman". Magazine "Itogi"
5. Jeanne-Maria Kofman
6. see for example, "Popular Biological Dictionary", 1991, Ed. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, edited by Corresponding Member A. V. Yablokov
7. V. B. Sapunov, Doctor of Biol. Sciences Bigfoot in two dimensions, or an alternative to the noosphere
8. J. Kofman At the origins of a new science (On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the monograph by Professor B. F. Porshnev "The current state of the issue of relic hominoids" VINITI 412 since 1963) Mediana magazine No. 6 2004
9. KAZAKHSTAN CHRONICLE "P" Year 1988
10. Trakhtengerts M. S. Habitat of alamas primate species Journal of Natural and Technical Sciences ISSN 1684-2626, 2003, No. 2, pp. 71-76
11. Dmitri Bayanov, Igor Bourtsev In The Footsteps of the Russian Snowman 240 pages Pyramid Publications 1996 ISBN 5-900229-18-1 ISBN 978-5-900229-18-8
12. B. A. Shurinov Paradox of the 20th century"International Relations" 315p. 1990 ISBN 5-7133-0408-6
13. A Russian biologist considers the Sasquatch and other Yeti to be feral oligophrenics.
14. Beiko V. B., Berezina M. F., Bogatyreva E. L. et al. Great Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Nauch.-Pop. edition for children. - M.: CJSC "ROSMEN-PRESS", 2007. - 303 p. UDC 087.5, LBC 28.6, p. 285.

, "Ramayana" ("rakshas"), folklore of different peoples (faun, satyr and strong in ancient Greece, yeti in Tibet and Nepal, byabang-guli in Azerbaijan, chuchunny, chuchunaa in Yakutia, almas in Mongolia, ieren, maoren and en-khsung in China, kiikadam and albasty in Kazakhstan, goblin, shish and shishiga among Russians, divs in Persia (and Ancient Russia), maidens and albasts in the Pamirs, shural and yarymtyk among Kazan Tatars and Bashkirs, arsuri among the Chuvashs, pitsen among Siberian Tatars, sasquatch in Canada, teryk, girkychavylyin, myrygdy, kiltan, arynk, arysa, rakkem, julia in Chukotka, sweet potato, sedap and orangpendek in Sumatra and Kalimantan, agogwe, kakundakari and ki-lomba in Africa, etc.) .

Plutarch wrote that there was a case of the capture of a satyr by the soldiers of the Roman general Sulla. Diodorus Siculus claimed that several satyrs were sent to the tyrant Dionysius. These strange creatures were depicted on the vases of ancient Greece, Rome and Carthage.

An Etruscan silver jug ​​in the Roman Museum of Prehistory depicts a scene of armed hunters on horseback chasing a huge ape-man. And in the psalter of Queen Mary, dating back to the 14th century, an attack by a flock of dogs on a man covered with hair is depicted.

Bigfoot eyewitnesses

At the beginning of the 15th century, the Turks captured a European named Hans Schiltenberger and sent him to the court of Tamerlane, who handed over the captive to the retinue of the Mongol prince Edigey. Shiltenberger nevertheless managed to return to Europe in 1472 and published a book about his adventures, in which, among other things, he mentioned wild people:

High in the mountains lives a wild tribe that has nothing to do with all other people. The skin of these creatures is covered with wool, which is absent only on their palms and faces. They gallop over the mountains like wild beasts, feeding on leaves, grass, and whatever else they can find. The local ruler presented Edigei as a gift of two forest people - a man and a woman, captured in dense thickets.

The Indians of the northwestern United States and Western Canada believe in the existence of wild people. In 1792, the Spanish botanist and naturalist José Mariano Mosigno wrote:

I don’t know what to say about Matlox, a mountain dweller who brings everyone into indescribable horror. According to the descriptions, this is a real monster: his body is covered with hard black bristles, his head resembles a human, but much larger, his fangs are more powerful and sharper than those of a bear, his arms are incredibly long, and his fingers and toes have long curved claws.

Turgenev and the President of the United States personally encountered Bigfoot

Our compatriot, the great writer Ivan Turgenev, while hunting in Polissya, personally encountered Bigfoot. He told Flaubert and Maupassant about it, and the latter described it in his memoirs.

« While still young, he(Turgenev) somehow hunted in the Russian forest. He wandered all day and in the evening came to the bank of a quiet river. It flowed under the canopy of the trees, all overgrown with grass, deep, cold, pure. The hunter was seized by an irresistible desire to plunge into this clear water.

Undressing, he threw himself at her. He was tall, strong, strong and a good swimmer. He calmly surrendered to the will of the current, which quietly carried him away. Herbs and roots touched his body, and the light touch of the stems was pleasant.

Suddenly, a hand touched his shoulder. He quickly turned around and saw a strange creature, which was looking at him with a greedy curiosity. 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 from the front. Long matted hair, reddened by the sun, framed her face and flowed behind her back.

Turgenev felt a wild, chilling fear of the supernatural. Without thinking, without trying to understand, comprehend what it is, he swam with all his might to the shore. But the monster swam even faster and touched his neck, back and legs with a joyful squeal.

Finally, the young man, mad with fear, reached the shore and ran as fast as he could through the forest, leaving his clothes and gun behind. The strange creature followed him. It ran just as fast and still squealed.

The exhausted fugitive - his legs gave way from horror - was about to fall down when a boy armed with a whip came running, tending a herd of goats. He began to whip the hideous humanoid beast, which took off running, uttering cries of pain. Soon this creature, similar to a female gorilla, disappeared into the thickets.».

As it turned out, the shepherd had already met this creature before. He told the master that this was just a local holy fool, who had long gone to live in the forest and completely ran wild there. Turgenev, however, noticed that hair does not grow all over the body from running wild.

Met Bigfoot and US President Theodore Roosevelt. He included this story, artistically processed, in his book The Hunter of Wild Beasts. The story takes place in the Beet Mountains, between the states of Idaho and Montana. From there, by the way, evidence of meetings with bigfoots is still coming.

In the first half of the 19th century, a trapper (that is, a hunter setting traps) Bauman and his friend explored a wild gorge. Their camp was constantly ravaged by some huge creature, moving on two, not four legs. The attacks took place either at night or during the day in the absence of hunters, and therefore it was not possible to properly examine the creature. Once a comrade remained in the camp, and Bauman, returning, found him torn to pieces. The footprints surrounding the body were identical to those of a human, but looked much larger.

Bigfoot kids

A very curious meeting with bigfoot in 1924 awaited lumberjack Albert Ostman. He spent the night in a sleeping bag in the woods near Vancouver. Snowman grabbed it, put it on his shoulder right in the sack and carried it. He walked for about three hours and brought Ostman to the cave, where, in addition to the yeti who abducted him, his wife and two children also turned out to be.

They didn’t eat the lumberjack, but they received it quite hospitably: they offered to eat spruce shoots, which the Bigfoot ate. Ostman refused and survived for a week on canned food from his backpack, which snowman thoughtfully took it with him.

But soon Ostman understood the reason for such hospitality: he was being prepared as a husband for the already grown daughter of the head of the family. Imagining the wedding night, Ostman decided to take a chance and poured snuff into the food of the hospitable hosts.

While they were rinsing their mouths, he rushed out of the cave with all his might. For many years he did not tell anyone about his adventure and when asked where he disappeared for a whole week, he simply remained silent. But when there was talk about Bigfoot, the old man's tongue loosened.

Yeti woman

It is documented that in the 19th century in Abkhazia, in the village of Tkhina, a woman, Zana, lived with people, who looked like a Bigfoot and had several children from people, who later integrated normally into human society. Here is how eyewitnesses described it:

Reddish fur covered her greyish-black coat, and the hair on her head was longer than on her whole body. She let out inarticulate cries, but she could not learn to speak. Her large face with prominent cheekbones, a strongly protruding jaw, powerful brow ridges and large white teeth was distinguished by a ferocious expression.

In 1964, Boris Porshnev, author of a book about the relic hominid, met with some of Zana's granddaughters. According to his description, the skin of these granddaughters - they were called Chaliqua and Taya - was dark, of a Negroid type, the chewing muscles were highly developed, and the jaws were extremely powerful.

Porshnev even managed to question the villagers who, as children, attended the funeral of Zana in the 1880s.

The Russian zoologist K. A. Satunin, who in 1899 saw a female relic hominid in the Talysh Mountains in the south of the Caucasus, draws attention to the fact that “the movements of the creature were completely human.”

Bigfoot in captivity

In the 20s of the XX century, several yeti, imprisoned and, after unsuccessful interrogations, shot as basmachi.

The story of the warden of this prison is known. He watched two bigfoot located in the chamber. One was young, healthy, strong, he could not come to terms with lack of freedom and raged all the time. The other, the old one, sat quietly. They ate nothing but raw meat. When one of the commanders saw that the warder was feeding these prisoners only raw meat, he shamed him:

“You can’t do that, after all, people ...

According to the people who participated in the fight against the Basmachi, there were still about 50 such subjects, which, due to their “wildness”, did not pose a danger to the population of Central Asia and the revolution, and it was very difficult to catch them.

We know the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service of the Soviet Army V. S. Karapetyan, who in 1941 examined a living Bigfoot caught in Dagestan. He described his encounter with the yeti as follows:

« Together with two representatives of local authorities, I entered the barn ... Until now, I see, as if in reality, a male creature that has arisen in front of me, completely naked, barefoot.

Without a doubt, this was a man, with a completely human body, despite the fact that his chest, back and shoulders were covered with shaggy dark brown hair 2-3 centimeters long, very similar to a bear.

Below the chest, this hair was rarer and softer, and on the palms and soles it was not at all. Only sparse hair grew on the roughened wrists, but the luxuriant hair of the head, very rough to the touch, descended to the shoulders and partially covered the forehead.

Although the entire face was covered with sparse vegetation, the beard and mustache were absent. Sparse, short hair also grew around the mouth.

The man stood perfectly straight, his arms at his sides. His height was slightly above average - about 180 cm, however, he seemed to tower over me, standing with a protruding mighty chest. And in general, he was much larger than any local resident. His eyes expressed absolutely nothing: empty and indifferent, they were the eyes of an animal. Yes, in fact, he was an animal, nothing more.».

Unfortunately, during the retreat of our army, the hominid was shot.

Bigfoot in the Himalayas

But most of all, the Bigfoot from the Himalayas became famous, relic hominids are called the local “yeti” there.

For the first time, these unusual inhabitants of the mountains became known from the notes of English officers and officials who served in India. The author of the first mention is considered to be B. Hodgson, from 1820 to 1843 the plenipotentiary of Great Britain at the court of the King of Nepal. He described in some detail how, during his journey through northern Nepal, the porters were horrified to see a hairy, tailless creature that looked like a man.

Several Buddhist monasteries claim to have yeti remains, including scalps. Western researchers have long been interested in these relics, and in 1960 Edmund Hillary managed to obtain a scalp from the Khumjung monastery for scientific examination.

Around the same time, relics from several other Tibetan monasteries were also explored. In particular, the mummified hand of Bigfoot. The results of the examination were questioned by many, and there were supporters of versions of both a fake and an incomprehensible artifact.

Snow people hiding in the Pamir caves

Major General of the Soviet Army M. S. Topilsky recalled how in 1925 he pursued with his unit the Bigfoot hiding in the Pamir caves. One of the prisoners said that in one of the caves he and his comrades were attacked by several creatures similar to great apes. Topilsky explored the cave, where he discovered the corpse of a mysterious creature. In his report, he wrote:

« At first glance, it seemed to me that it was really a great ape: the hair covered the body from head to toe. However, I know very well that great apes are not found in the Pamirs.

Looking closely, I saw that the corpse resembled a human one. We tugged at the fur, suspecting that it was a disguise, but it turned out to be natural and belonged to the creature.

Then we measured the body, turning it over several times on its stomach and back again, and our doctor carefully examined it, after which it became obvious that the corpse was not a human either.

The body belonged to a male creature, about 165–170 cm tall, judging by the graying in several places, of middle or even advanced age ... His face was dark in color, without a mustache and beard. There were bald patches at the temples, and thick, matted hair covered the back of the head.

The dead man lay with his eyes open, his teeth bared. The eyes were dark in color, and the teeth were large and even, shaped like a human. The forehead is low, with powerful brow ridges. Strongly protruding cheekbones made the face of the creature Mongoloid. The nose is flat, with a deeply concave bridge of the nose. The ears are hairless, pointed, and the lobes are longer than those of a human. The lower jaw is extremely massive. The creature had a powerful chest and well-developed muscles».

Bigfoot in Russia

There were many meetings with Bigfoot in Russia as well. The most remarkable, perhaps, took place in 1989 in the Saratov region. The guards of the collective farm garden, having heard a suspicious noise in the branches, caught a certain humanoid creature eating apples, in all respects similar to the notorious yeti.

However, this became clear when the stranger was already tied up: before that, the watchmen thought that this was just a thief. When they were convinced that the stranger did not understand human language, and in general did not look too much like a person, they loaded him into the trunk of a Zhiguli and called the police, the press and the authorities. But the yeti managed to untie himself, opened the trunk and ran away. When, a few hours later, all those summoned arrived at the collective farm garden, the watchmen found themselves in a very awkward position.

Bigfoot caught on video

Actually, there are hundreds of evidence of meetings of different proximity with Bigfoot. The material evidence is much more interesting. Two researchers were able to film Bigfoot in 1967 with a movie camera. These 46 seconds have become a real sensation in the world of science. Professor D. D. Donskoy, head of the Department of Biomechanics of the Central Institute of Physical Education, comments on this short film as follows:

« After repeated examination of the gait of a bipedal creature and a detailed study of postures on photographic prints from film, the impression remains of a well-automated, highly advanced system of movements. All private movements are united into a single whole, into a well-established system. The movements are well-coordinated, repeating the same from step to step, which can only be explained by the steady interaction of all muscle groups.

Finally, one can note such a sign that cannot be accurately described as the expressiveness of movements ... This is typical for deeply automatic movements with their high perfection ...

All this taken together makes it possible to evaluate the creature's gait as natural, without noticeable signs of artificiality, characteristic of various kinds of deliberate imitations. The considered gait of a creature for a person is completely atypical».

The English biomechanic Dr. D. Grieve, who was very skeptical about relic hominids, wrote:

« The possibility of forgery is excluded».

After the death of one of the film's writers, Patterson, his film was declared a forgery, but no evidence was presented. It is worth recognizing that the notorious yellow press, in pursuit of sensations, often not only invents them, but also loves to expose the past, both imaginary and real. So far, there is no reason not to recognize this film as a documentary.

Despite a lot of evidence (sometimes from people who deserve absolute trust), the vast majority of the scientific world refuses to recognize the existence of Bigfoot. The reasons are that the bones of wild people, not to mention the living wild man, have not yet been allegedly found.

Meanwhile, a number of examinations (we talked about some of them above) made it possible to come to the conclusion that the remains presented cannot belong to anyone recognized by science. What's the matter? Or are we once again facing the Procrustean bed of modern science?

Bigfoot is a humanoid creature unknown to science. It has been given different names in different cultures. Among the most famous: Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch. Attitude towards Bigfoot is rather ambiguous. There is no officially confirmed data on the existence of bigfoot today. However, many claim that there is evidence of its existence, but official science does not want or cannot consider them as material evidence. In addition to numerous videos and photos, which, to be honest, are not 100% proof, as they can be ordinary fakes, the assortment of cryptozoologists, ufologists and researchers of the Bigfoot phenomenon includes casts of footprints, Sasquatch hair, and in one of the monasteries of Nepal supposedly a whole scalp of this creature is kept. However, such evidence is insufficient to confirm the existence of this hominid. The only evidence that official science will not be able to argue with will be Bigfoot, so to speak, in his own person, who will allow himself to be examined and experiments carried out on himself.

According to some scientists, yetis are miraculously preserved to this day, who were expelled by the Cro-Magnons (ancestors of people) into forests and mountains, and since then they live far from people and try not to show themselves to their eyes. Despite the rapid flourishing of mankind, there are a huge number of places in the world where Bigfoot can hide and exist undetected for the time being. According to other versions, bigfoot is a completely different species of great apes that do not belong to either the ancestors of humans or Neanderthals, but represent their own branch of evolution. These are upright primates that can have a fairly developed mind, since for a large amount of time they skillfully hide from people and do not allow themselves to be detected. In the recent past, yetis were often mistaken for feral people who went into the forest, overgrown with hair and lost their usual human appearance, however, numerous witnesses describe clearly not feral people, since people and unknown creatures, judging by the descriptions, are strikingly different.

In the bulk of the evidence, Sasquatch was seen either in the forested regions of the Earth, where there are large forests, or in high mountainous regions, where people rarely climb. In such regions, which are very little explored by people, different animals can live that have not yet been discovered by science, and bigfoot can be one of them.

Most of the descriptions of this creature, moreover, descriptions from different regions of the planet, coincide. Witnesses describe Bigfoot, as a large creature, reaching a height of 3 meters, with a strong, muscular physique. Bigfoot has a pointed skull and a dark face, long arms and short legs, a massive jaw and a short neck. Yeti is completely covered with hair - black, red, white or gray, and the hair on the head is longer than on the body. Sometimes witnesses emphasize that Bigfoot has a short mustache and beard.

Scientists suggest that the yeti is very difficult to find, as they hide their dwellings very carefully, and a person or people who approach their dwellings begin to scare away with crackling, howling, roaring or screaming. Such sounds, by the way, are also described in the mythology of the past, in particular, in the mythology of the ancient Slavs, where they were attributed to Leshem and his assistants, for example, the forest spirit Squealer, who depicts a knock to scare a person or vice versa - to lead him into a swamp or bog. Researchers argue that forest yeti can build nests in dense tree crowns, and so skillfully that a person, even passing by and looking at the crown of a tree, will not notice anything. There are also versions that yeti dig holes and live underground, which makes their detection even more difficult. Mountain yetis live in remote caves that are in hard-to-reach places.

It is believed that it was these wild creatures of great stature and covered with hair that became the prototypes of various characters in the mythology of the peoples of the world, for example, Russian Leshy or ancient Greek Satyrs, Roman Fauns, Scandinavian Trolls or Indian Rakshases. One has only to think about it, because the Yeti is believed almost everywhere: Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan (Yeti), Azerbaijan (gulei-banis), Yakutia (Chuchunna), Mongolia (Almas), China (Ezhen), Kazakhstan (Kiik-Adam and Albasty) , Russia (snowman, goblin, shishiga), Persia (div), Ukraine (chugaister), Pamir (dev), Tatarstan and Bashkiria (shurale, yarymtyk), Chuvashia (arsuri), Siberian Tatars (picen), Akhazia (abnauayu) , Canada (sasquatch), Chukotka (teryk, girkychavylyin, myrygdy, kiltan, arynk, arysa, rakkem, julia), Sumatra and Kalimantan (batatut), Africa (agogve, kakundakari and ki-lomba) and so on.

It is worth noting that today the issue of the existence of the Yeti is considered only by separate, private and independent organizations. However, in the USSR, the problem of finding the Yeti was considered at the state level. The amount of evidence for the appearance of this creature was so great that its existence simply ceased to be doubted. On January 31, 1957, a meeting of the Academy of Sciences was held in Moscow, on the agenda of which there was only one single item “About Bigfoot”. They searched for this creature for several years, sent expeditions to various regions of the country, where evidence of its appearance had previously been recorded, but after fruitless attempts to find a mysterious creature, the program was curtailed, and only enthusiasts began to deal with this issue. To this day, enthusiasts do not lose hope of meeting Bigfoot and proving to the whole world that these are not just myths and legends, but a real creature that, perhaps, needs human support and help.

A real reward has been announced for the capture of Bigfoot. 1,000,000 rubles are promised to the lucky one by the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev. However, it is worth saying that if you meet the owner of the forest on the forest path, then first of all you need to think about how to carry your legs, and not make a profit from it. Maybe it's for the best that people at one time did not put Bigfoot on a chain or in one of the zoo's cages. Over time, interest in these creatures disappeared, and now many simply refuse to believe in it, taking all the evidence for fiction. This, no doubt, plays into the hands of forest people, and if they really exist, then they should not meet with curious people, scientists, reporters, tourists and poachers who will definitely spoil their quiet existence.

Snowman. last eyewitnesses

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.