Is Bigfoot Real? Who is the yeti: is there a bigfoot? Bigfoot on video

, "Ramayana" ("rakshasas"), folklore of different peoples (faun, satyr and strong in Ancient Greece, yeti in Tibet and Nepal, byabangguli in Azerbaijan, chuchunny, chuchunaa in Yakutia, almas in Mongolia, ieren, maoren and en-hsung in China, kiikadam and albasty in Kazakhstan, goblin, shish and shishiga among Russians, divas in Persia (and Ancient Russia), virgins and albasts in the Pamirs, shural and yarymtyk among the Kazan Tatars and Bashkirs, arsuri among the Chuvash, Piceni among the 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 light touch stems was nice.

Suddenly, a hand touched his shoulder. He quickly turned around and saw strange creature, which looked at him with 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 at 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 of 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 camera. 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.

The certificate of the lieutenant colonel of the medical service is known Soviet army B. S. Karapetyan, who in 1941 examined a live 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 wrists with roughened skin, but the luxuriant head of hair, 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 about these unusual inhabitants mountains became known from the notes of British 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 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-functioning 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 again facing the Procrustean bed of modern science?

Description

The testimonies of encounters with Bigfoot most often feature creatures that are different from modern man a denser physique, a pointed skull, longer arms, a short neck and a massive lower jaw, relatively short hips, with thick hair all over the 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 person may reflect 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 basis for trusting 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:

I, at least, do not know the laws of nature that would impose a direct ban on the existence in the mountains Central Asia relic hominoid - "ape-man", or simply a large great 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, at 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 democratic traditions such forums - to the protesting exclamations of the participants ... As a result, some of them left the meeting of the symposium.
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 existence of a population requires minimum number about hundreds of individuals, whose vital activity, according to critics, simply cannot be invisible and leave no 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 area of ​​alamas primates journal "Natural and Technical science» 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 relationships» 315str. 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. and others. Big Encyclopedia animal world: Scientific-pop. edition for children. - M.: CJSC "ROSMEN-PRESS", 2007. - 303 p. UDC 087.5, LBC 28.6, p. 285.

Many people believe in the existence of the Yeti. The question has been raised more than once by scientists, but no direct evidence of the life of such creatures on the planet has been provided by witnesses. The most common opinion is that Bigfoot is a mythical humanoid creature that lives in snowy forests and mountains. But the Yeti myth or reality - no one knows for sure.

Description of Bigfoot

A prehistoric hominid moving on two limbs, Carl Linnaeus called Homo troglodytes, which means " Caveman". Creatures belong to the order of primates. Depending on the habitat, they received different names. So bigfoot or sasquatch is a bigfoot that lives in America, in Asia Homo troglodytes is called a yeti, in India - a barung.

Outwardly, they are something between a huge ape and a man. The creatures look intimidating. Their weight is about 200 kg. They have a large physique with a large muscle mass, long arms - to the knees, massive jaws and a small frontal part. The creature has stocky, muscular legs with short thighs.

The whole body of Bigfoot is covered with a long (palm-sized) and dense hairline, the color of which is white, red, black, brown. The face of the Bigfoot in the lower part protrudes forward and also has hair starting from the eyebrows. The head is conical. The feet are wide, with long movable toes. The growth of the giant is 2-3 m. Yeti footprints are similar to human ones. Usually, eyewitnesses talk about the unpleasant smell that accompanies the Sasquatch.

Norwegian traveler Thor Heyerdahl proposed a classification of bigfoot:

• dwarf yeti, which are found in India, Nepal, Tibet, up to 1 m tall;
• true bigfoot has a height of up to 2 m, thick hairline, long hair on the head;
• giant yeti - 2.5-3 m tall, the traces of a savage are very similar to human ones.

Yeti food

Cryptozoologists involved in the study of species not discovered by science suggest that Bigfoot belongs to primates, therefore, has a diet similar to large monkeys. Yeti eats:

• fresh fruits, vegetables, berries, honey;
• edible herbs, nuts, roots, mushrooms;
• insects, snakes;
• small animals, birds, fish;
• frogs, other amphibians.

It is safe to assume that this creature will not disappear in any habitat and will find something to eat.

Bigfoot Habitat

Everyone can try to catch Bigfoot. To do this, you just need to know what Bigfoot looks like and where it lives. Yeti reports come mainly from mountainous areas or forests. In grottoes and caves, among rocks or in impenetrable thickets, he feels most secure. Travelers claim to have seen Sasquatch or their footprints in certain places.

1. Himalayas. This is Bigfoot's home. Here, for the first time in 1951, a huge footprint, similar to a human, was recorded on camera.
2. The slopes of the Tien Shan mountains. Climbers and rangers of this area do not cease to assert the existence of bigfoot here.
3. Altai mountains. Witnesses recorded Bigfoot approaching human settlements in search of food.
4. Karelian isthmus. The military testified that they saw a yeti with white hair in the mountains. Their data was confirmed by local residents and an expedition organized by the authorities.
5. Northeastern Siberia. Bigfoot traces were found in the course of ongoing research.
6. Texas. According to eyewitnesses, the Yeti lives in the local Sam Houston nature reserve. Those wishing to catch it come here regularly, but so far not a single hunt has been successful.
7. California. Ray Wallace, a resident of San Diego, made a film in 1958 in which he showed a female Sasquatch that lives in the mountains in this area. Later, information surfaced about the falsification of filming, the role of the yeti was played by Wallace's wife, dressed in a fur suit.
8. Tajikistan. In the summer of 1979, a photo of a footprint 34 cm long, discovered in the Hissar mountains, appeared.
9. India. A three-meter tall monster covered with black hair is often encountered here. The locals call him barunga. They managed to get a sample of the animal's fur. It bears a resemblance to a yeti hair obtained by the British climber E. Hillary on the slope of Mount Everest.
10. Also evidence of the existence of Bigfoot in real life found in Abkhazia, Vancouver, Yamal and in the US state of Oregon.

It is quite difficult to understand whether the existence of Bigfoot is a myth or reality. The chronicles of Tibetan monks contain records of humanoid animals covered with wool seen by temple attendants. Footprints of Bigfoot were first discovered in this region. Sasquatch stories appeared in printed editions for the first time in the 50s of the last century. They were told by climbers who conquered Everest. Immediately there were new adventurers who wanted to see the giant wild people.

Bigfoot family and offspring

The existence of tribes of snow people and children found by hunters, completely covered with wool, is evidenced by the stories of the inhabitants of Tajikistan. A family of wild people - a man, a woman and a child - was seen near Lake Paryen. The locals called them "odes of the ob", i.e. water people. The yeti family approached the water and more than once scared the Tajiks away from their homes. Numerous traces of bigfoot presence were also present here. But due to the dusty sandy soil and the insufficient clarity of the contour, it turned out to be impossible to make a plaster cast. There is no real material evidence of these stories.

The analysis of the DNA of a real female Bigfoot was written by The Times in 2015. It was about the legendary wild woman Zana, who lived in the 19th century in Abkhazia. The story goes that Prince Achba caught and kept her in his cage. It was tall woman with dark gray skin. Hair covered her entire massive body and face. The cone-shaped head was distinguished by a protruding jaw, a flat nose with raised nostrils. The eyes had a reddish tint. The legs were strong with thin shins, wide feet ended in long flexible fingers.

The legend says that over time the woman's temper subsided and she lived freely in a hole dug with her own hands. Walked around the village, expressed emotions with cries and gestures, human language until the end of her life she did not learn, but she responded to her name. She did not use household items and clothes. She is credited with extraordinary strength, speed and agility. Her body retained young features until old age: her hair did not turn gray, her teeth did not fall out, her skin remained elastic and smooth.

Zana had five children from local men. She drowned her firstborn, so the rest of the descendants were taken from the woman immediately after birth. One of Zana's sons remained in the village of Tkhin. He had a daughter, who was interviewed by researchers in search of information. The descendants of Zana did not have signs of a hominid, they only had features of the Negroid race. DNA research has shown that the woman has West African roots. Her children did not have body hair, so there was speculation that the villagers may have embellished the story to attract attention.

Bigfoot by Frank Hansen

At the end of 1968 in Minnesota, in one of the wandering booths, the body of a Bigfoot frozen in ice block. Yeti was shown to the audience for the purpose of profit. The owner of an unusual creature resembling a monkey was the famous showman Frank Hansen. A strange exhibit attracted the attention of police and scientists. Zoologists Bernard Euvelmans and Ivan Sanders urgently flew to the city of Rollingstone.

The researchers took photos and sketches of the Yeti for several days. Bigfoot was huge, had large legs and arms, a flattened nose, and brown fur. The big toe was adjacent to the rest, like in humans. The head and arm were pierced by a bullet wound. The owner reacted calmly to the scientists' remarks and claimed that the body had been smuggled out of Kamchatka. The story began to gain more and more popularity among journalists and the public.

The researchers began to insist on defrosting and further study of the corpse. Hansen was offered a huge sum for the right to examine Bigfoot, and then he admitted that the body was an elaborate dummy made at the monster factory in Hollywood.

Later, when the hype subsided, in his memoirs, Hansen again stated the reality of Bigfoot and told how he personally shot him while hunting deer in Wisconsin. Zoologists Bernard Euvelmans and Ivan Sanders continued to insist on the plausibility of the yeti, stating that they smelled decomposition when they examined the creature, so there can be no doubt that it is real.

Photo and video evidence of the existence of Bigfoot

To this day, no material evidence of the existence of bigfoot has been found. Samples of wool, hair, bones, provided by eyewitnesses and owners of private collections, have long been studied.

Their DNA matched the DNA of animals known to science: brown, polar and Himalayan bears, raccoons, cows, horses, deer and other forest dwellers. One of the samples belonged to an ordinary dog.

Skeletons, skins, bones or other remains of Bigfoot have not been found. In one of the Nepalese monasteries, a skull is kept, allegedly belonging to Bigfoot. Laboratory analysis of hair on the skull indicated morphological features Himalayan ibex DNA.

Witnesses provided numerous videos and photos of evidence of the existence of the Sasquatch, but the quality of the images leaves much to be desired each time. Eyewitnesses attribute the lack of clarity in the images to an inexplicable phenomenon.

The equipment stops working when approaching the Bigfoot. The look of Bigfoot has a hypnotic effect, introducing those present into an unconscious state when it is impossible to control their actions. Yeti also cannot be fixed clearly due to its high speed of movement and overall dimensions. Often fear and poor health prevent people from making a normal video or photo.

Yeti tales debunked

Zoologists are inclined to believe that stories about the existence of Bigfoot are unrealistic. There are no unexplored places and territories left on Earth. The last time scientists discovered a new large animal was over a century ago.

Even the discovery of an unknown species of fungus is now considered a huge event, although there are about 100 thousand of them. Opponents of the version of the existence of the yeti point to a well-known biological fact: for a population to survive, more than a hundred individuals are needed, and such a number cannot be overlooked.

Numerous eyewitness accounts in the mountains and forests can be caused by the following facts:

• oxygen starvation of the brain in high altitude conditions;
• poor visibility in foggy areas, twilight, observer errors;
• intentionally lying to get attention;
• fear, which gives rise to a game of imagination;
• retellings of professional and folk legends and belief in them;
• yeti footprints found may be left by other animals, for example, Snow Leopard puts his paws in one line and his print looks like a trace of a huge bare foot.

Despite the fact that no material evidence of the reality of the Yeti, confirmed by genetic examinations, has been found, rumors about mythical creatures do not subside. There are all new evidence, photos, audio and video data that are of dubious quality and may be fake.

DNA testing is ongoing on the provided bone, saliva and hair samples, which always match DNA from other animals. Bigfoot, according to eyewitnesses, is approaching human settlements, expanding the boundaries of its range.

About hairy creatures - half-monkeys, half-humans - reports have long been coming from Siberia, then from the Himalayas, then from the west North America. What is behind the legends about the Bigfoot? The International Society of Cryptozoology in Tucson, Arizona, has only about three hundred members, but is the object of constant vitriolic ridicule from the press because of the strange activities of this organization. "Cryptozoology is the study of unusual living creatures," says anthropologist Richard Greenwell, secretary of the society. It also studies all sorts of information about unusual creatures unknown to science. In short, Greenwell and his fellow members of the community believe in monsters. And to allow the existence of the "Chinese savage", or, as he is also called, "Bigfoot", means to expose yourself to sharp ridicule of people who are completely devoid of a romantic streak.

Most ordinary people begin to believe in the incredible only after careful study and verification by scientists of factual materials. Cryptozoologists claim that a number of new animal species have been discovered recently. Among them is a pygmy elephant that lives in Central Africa, - in size it is a third of an ordinary elephant, and the onza is a very ferocious variety of mountain lion, which has long been legendary among Mexican peasants. Other examples before recently unknown representatives wildlife are the pygmy hippopotamus, the white rhino, the giant panda and the komodo dragon. "There is evidence that these animals do not exist in the imagination," says Richard Greenwell. "So why couldn't there be even more mysterious creatures?" Three kinds of wild creatures attract people's attention more than others. Probably due to the fact that eyewitnesses describe them as half-human, half-animal.

These creatures are known by various names: "Big Foot" (in English "bitfoot"), "Sasquatch", " Yeti", "snowman", "Chinese savage" ... Only a few scientists showed serious enough interest in eyewitness reports about these animals, until recently new information appeared from a completely unexpected source ... Chinese savage.

There is evidence that for many centuries a creature called by them "yeren" came across the eyes of Chinese peasants. The humanoid primate "yeren" (or "Chinese savage") reaches almost two meters in height, he is able to make tools and weave baskets. Hundreds of cases where peasants in central China have seen this creature have gone unnoticed. Until the end of the eighties, Western scientists did not have access to sparsely populated forest areas, where Chinese researchers accumulated a wealth of factual material about this creature. But then six countries, including Great Britain and the USA, organized a well-equipped expedition and sent it to this region to study the materials and, if they were lucky, take for analysis any material evidence of the existence of the "Chinese savage" - for example, a tuft of his hair.

Among those who were persuaded to travel to Central China for this purpose were Ohio State University anthropology professor Jean Poirier and Richard Greenwell. What they found there turned out to be the most exciting discovery of their lives. Poirier himself went on the expedition without much enthusiasm. Being a famous scientist, he was skeptical about all reports of such creatures. But his collaboration with the Englishman Greenwell during two years of research yielded remarkable results. The expedition was attended by an independent television crew from London, led by Geraldine Easter.

The actual proof of the existence of the forest fellow Himalayan " Bigfoot"Served as hair picked up by farmers who saw a strange creature on their land. First, scientists from Shanghai Fudan University came to the conclusion that this hair does not belong to either a person or a monkey. Then their hair was sent to Ohio State University and to the University of Birmingham. Results analysis conducted by members of the Department of Space Research and Physics under the direction of Dr. Ranjit Sohi was announced in November 1990. The conclusion of British and American scientists fully confirmed the conclusions of their Chinese colleagues.The hair belonged to a creature that was neither a man nor a monkey ... And this actually proved the existence of the "Chinese savage".

The scientists continued their analysis of the structure of the chromosomes of the hair, and Professor Poirier said: "We have established that this animal does not fall into any of the known categories. This is the first evidence of the existence of a new higher primate." The latest discovery in Central China suggests that a creature called Gigantopithecus, which scientists believe existed half a million years ago - long before man - could survive in areas extremely remote from civilization. In many places in China, Vietnam and India, the jaws and more than a thousand teeth of this ancient "monkey man" have been found. Geraldine Easter claims that the "Chinese savage" is either a creature of which we know nothing, or a Gigantopithecus that somehow managed alone to escape extinction in these areas. He was a contemporary of the panda bears, and the pandas survived."

Eyewitnesses confirm

In 1981, a scientific research society for the study of the "Chinese savage" was formed in Hubei Province. Here are some of the eyewitness accounts collected by the society. On the morning of June 19, 1976, Gong Yulan, a peasant woman from Kunli village, went to the mountains with her four-year-old child to cut grass for pigs. Climbing the path between two slopes, she suddenly saw a brown creature scratching its back against a tree, six or seven meters away from her. When this creature spotted Gong Youlan and her child, it rushed towards them. Frightened Gong ran downhill, and then described this creature research group. According to her, it was taller than an adult, about 180 centimeters tall. The hair on the head is relatively long, and the arms and legs are covered with hair. The creature moved vertically, like a man, with long strides. It was male, scary enough. When shown a photo of an orangutan in an upright position, Gong said, "That's what it looked like." Looking at the pictures of the bear, she shook her head.

Zhu Kwokyang, a pastoralist from Hilong, Fangxiang County, testified as follows: “On June 16, 1974, I was tending four bulls in the mountain pastures of Longdongtu when I suddenly came face to face with a creature that looked like a man, but covered with brown hair. I pointed at him gun, but it grabbed the barrel. I started to wrest the gun, but could not free it. Then I shot at random, but missed. The creature opened its mouth, making a menacing grimace and showing yellow teeth. Teeth were like a human, only a little wider. From my legs buckled in fear. My three bulls ran away, but the big black bull that used to attack people snorted and rushed at this creature. It let go of the barrel of my gun and ran away. " In the mountains of Kuen Lun in northwestern China, in the early 1950s, Fang Jintkwan worked as part of the Geological Party of the Ministry of Heavy Industry.

For two years of work under a contract, he met many local residents who not only saw, but even fed the savages. Fan persuaded an old man to take him to a chestnut grove where these creatures lived. Here is his story: “As expected, a creature appeared. It was a female at least 160 centimeters tall with a cub. Maybe because my clothes were different from the clothes of the old man, she treated me with some apprehension. And the cub fearlessly ran up to the old man, to take chestnuts from him. His mother called him. It was a sound that vaguely resembled the cry of either a horse or a donkey. "

Zhang Yujin from the Hongta village told how they once killed a savage: "When I was 18 years old, I served in the Kuomintang army. In the spring of 1943, I was sent hunting with a group of 50-60 soldiers. We came across a house in the mountains. told us that some animal was screaming in the mountains behind the house for half a day. The district commandant, who led our group, ordered me and thirty other soldiers to take three machine guns and surround this place. When we got there, we saw not one, but two creatures. One of them sat with his head bowed and wept. The other walked around the first and touched him from time to time. We watched them for half an hour, then opened fire. The savage that was walking immediately ran away, and the other fell dead. After examining him, we found that it was a male the size of a man and his whole body was covered with brown hair."

The tales of the weeping savages have much in common. Liu Jikwang told how a pair of captured savages was put on public display in 1942: “I was then 13 years old, and I went to the center of the city to look at the outlandish monsters caught by Mingdan soldiers and chained. They were a male and a female. the heads were redder than human heads, hair hung down from their shoulders, the females had large breasts, and the male had tears rolling down his cheeks. We gave them a corncob and they ate it."

It is easy to doubt the reliability of such testimony. Most of the eyewitnesses are peasants, and over the years, their story arouses suspicion of some distortion of the truth. But recent expeditions deep into China were purely scientific character. Recently, the Faculty of Biology of Huadong University organized several expeditions that discovered footprints of savages, caves, hair and "nests" - unusual structures woven from branches, sometimes dozens concentrated in one place. It is assumed that these are the dwellings of savages.

Snowman

"Chinese savage" attracted the attention of Western scholars only in last years. But in the Himalayas lives a creature that first became known in the West as early as 1832. Adventurer Englishman B.G. Hodtson settled high in the mountains with the Nepalese and wrote home about a tall humanoid creature covered with thick hair. It was believed in Britain that the imaginative traveler had mistaken the brown Himalayan bear or perhaps a large langur monkey. But Hodtson scientific journal described how the Nepalese porters fled in horror from an upright tailless creature with shaggy hair, which headed towards them. They called him "rakshas" which means "demon" in Sanskrit. The Nepalese told Hodtson that references to such savages date back to the fourth century BC.

Half a century later, another Englishman, Indian Army Medical Major Lawrence Waddell, reported seeing unusual footprints allegedly "left by one of the hairy people who live in the eternal snows." He discovered these footprints at an altitude of about six thousand meters in northeastern Sikkim. In his book "In the Himalayas" he wrote: "Tibetans all without exception believe in these creatures. However, none of those interviewed on this issue has ever given me a single reliable case." Waddell concluded that the hairy savages were simply predatory yellow snow bears that frequently attacked yaks.

The following written report about the discovery of unusual traces refers to 1914. Englishman J.R.P. Jent, a forester from Sikkim, wrote that he found footprints of a very strange large creature. Such reports aroused general curiosity, and in the 20-30s a whole stream of travelers rushed to the mountains. They got even more information about the amazing "Yeti". It was at this time that a newspaper reporter called this creature "a terrible bigfoot."

Nepalese peasants, Tibetan lamas, Sherpas said that " yeti"always lived on the snowy edge that separates forests from glaciers. These eyewitness accounts are very contradictory. Some say that animals reach four meters in height and are extremely mobile. Others claim that they are much lower, waddling, with their heads held high, waving their arms strongly Villagers say that Bigfoot behave cautiously and approach human habitation only when hunger forces them to. They eat mainly rodents and lichen, gutting their prey before eating, which is inherent only to humans. According to villagers, in case of danger, "yetis" make loud barking sounds. But these are all the stories of local residents about the "snowman". But where is the evidence of its existence?

Many myths and legends of the world are closely related to real events and meetings that defy explanation. Bigfoot is one of the most controversial figures in history. Although its existence has not been proven, there are eyewitnesses who claim to have met a real yeti.

The origin of the yeti image

The first mention of the existence of a huge, hairy humanoid creature living in the mountains is found in. There is a record that a humanoid creature of incredible size inhabits this territory, possessing the instinct of survival and self-preservation.

The term Bigfoot first appeared thanks to people who went on expeditions and conquered the snow-capped peaks of the Tibetan mountains. They claimed to have seen huge footprints in the snow belonging to. Now this term is considered obsolete, as it became known that Yeti prefer mountain forests, not snow.

While there is an active discussion among scientists around the world about who Bigfoot is - myth or reality, the inhabitants of the mountainous local Eastern countries, and especially Tibet, Nepal and some regions of China, are absolutely sure of its existence and even often make contact with the Yeti. In the middle of the XX century. The government of Nepal even recognized the existence of the Yeti at the official level.

By law, anyone who can discover the habitat of Bigfoot will receive a large monetary reward.

Based on this, it can be said that the yeti is a mythical or real humanoid animal that lives in the mountain forests of Tibet, Nepal and some other areas.

Description of the appearance of the yeti

From Tibetan legends and eyewitness observations, you can learn a lot about what Bigfoot looks like. Character traits his looks:

• Yeti belongs to the family of hominids, which includes the most developed individuals of primates, i.e. humans and great apes.
• A feature of such creatures is their extremely large growth. The average adult of this species can reach from 3 to 4.5 m.
• Yeti's arms are disproportionately long and almost reach the feet.
• The whole body of a snowman is covered with wool. It can be gray or black.
• It is believed that the females of this species of hominids differ so much big size breasts that during rapid movement they have to throw them over their shoulders.

The Yeti family is the American and South American Bigfoot. In some sources it is called Bolshenogiy.

The nature and lifestyle of the creature

Despite its outward appearance, the yeti is far from being aggressive, possessing a relatively balanced and peaceful disposition. They avoid contact with people and deftly climb trees, like monkeys.

Yetis are omnivores, but prefer fruits. They live in caves, but there are suggestions that some species that live deep in the forest are able to build their own houses in trees.

Hominids are capable of reaching unprecedented speeds of up to 80 km / h, which is why they are so difficult to catch. Not a single attempt to catch the Yeti was successful.

Yeti encounters in reality

History knows many cases of meeting a person with a yeti. Typically, the protagonists of such stories are hunters and people leading a hermitic lifestyle in a forest or mountainous area.

Yeti is one of the main subjects of study for people who are fond of cryptozoology. This is a pseudoscientific direction that searches for evidence of the existence of mythical and legendary creatures. Often cryptozoologists are simple enthusiasts without higher scientific education. To this day, they put a lot of effort into capturing the mythical creature.

For the first time, footprints of Bigfoot were discovered in the Himalayan mountains in 1899. The witness was an Englishman by the name of Weddel. According to an eyewitness, he did not find the animal itself.

One of the official mentions of a meeting with a yeti dates back to 2014 during a mountain expedition of professional climbers. Forwarders conquered the highest point of the Himalayan mountains - Chomolungma. There, at the very top, they first noticed giant footprints located at a fairly large distance between them. Later, they saw a broad, hairy figure of a humanoid creature, reaching a height of 4 m.

Scientific refutation of the existence of the yeti

In 2017, Doctor of Biological Sciences Pyotr Kamensky gave an interview for the scientific publication Arguments and Facts, in which he proved the impossibility of the Yeti's existence. He used several arguments.

On the this moment There are no places left unexplored by man on Earth. The last major primate species was discovered over 100 years ago. The discoveries of modern scientists are mostly rare small plants, etc. The Yeti is too big to be able to constantly hide from researchers, zoologists and ordinary inhabitants of highlands. Big role plays the size of the yeti population. It is clear that in order to maintain separate species at least several dozen individuals should live in one area. Hiding so many huge hominids is not an easy task.

The vast majority of evidence in favor of the existence of Bigfoot turned out to be falsification.

Yeti image in popular culture

Like many other folklore and mythical creatures, the image of Bigfoot is actively used in art and various manifestations. mass culture. Including literature, film industry and computer video games. The character is endowed with both positive and negative traits.

Bigfoot in literature

The Yeti character is actively used in their works by writers all over the world. The image of a huge hairy hominid is found both in science fiction, mystical novels, popular science works, and in children's books.

Yeti plays one of the main roles in the novel by the American science fiction writer Frederick Brown "The Horror of the Himalayas". The events of the book unfold in the Himalayan mountains during the filming of the movie. Unexpectedly, the actress who played in the film leading role, kidnaps yeti - a huge humanoid monster.

In the science fiction series "The Flat World" by the famous British prose writer Terry Pratchett, the yeti is one of the main ones. They are distant relatives giant trolls living in the permafrost area beyond the Ovtsepik Mountains. They have snow-white fur, can subdue the passage of time, and their giant feet are considered a powerful aphrodisiac.

In the nursery fantasy novel Alberto Melisa, titled "In Search of the Yeti", describes the adventure of a team of explorers who went to the Tibetan mountains in order to save Bigfoot from the ubiquitous hunters.

Character in computer games

Bigfoot can be called one of the most frequent characters computer games. Usually live in the tundra and other icy locations. For games, there is a standard image of Bigfoot - a creature resembling something in between a gorilla and a man, of gigantic growth with snow-white and thick hair. This coloration helps them effectively camouflage in environment. Lead predatory image life and pose a danger to travelers. Brute force is used in combat. The main fear is fire.

Bigfoot and its history

Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a relative of the Tibetan Bigfoot, inhabiting the forest and mountainous areas American continent. The term first appeared in the late sixties thanks to the American bulldozer Roy Wallace, who discovered footprints around his house that resembled human shapes, but reached enormous sizes. Roy's story quickly gained popularity in the press, and the animal was recognized as a relative of the Tibetan Bigfoot.

After almost 9 years, Roy presented a short video footage to the media. In the video, you can see how the female bigfoot moves through the forest. This Video for a long time was on examination and all kinds of scientists and not only. Many recognized him as real.

After Roy's death, his friends and relatives admitted that all Wallace's stories were just fiction, and the confirmations were falsifications.

• For footprints, he used ordinary boards carved in the shape of large feet.
• The video showed the bulldozer operator's wife dressed in a suit.
• Other materials that Roy regularly showed to the public turned out to be false.

Although Roy's story turned out to be false, this does not mean that there are no anthropoid hominids in America. There are many more stories in which the Sasquatch appears as the main actor. The Indians, the indigenous inhabitants of America, claim that huge hominids lived on the continent long before they themselves.

Outwardly, the bigfoot looks almost the same as its Tibetan cousin, Bigfoot. The main differences are that the maximum height of an adult reaches 3.5 m. The color of the American Bigfoot is red or brown.

Albert captured by Bigfoot

In the seventies, one Albert Ostman, who worked all his life as a lumberjack in Vancouver, Canada, told his story about how he lived in captivity with a Bigfoot family.

At that time, Albert was only 19 years old. After work, he stayed overnight on the outskirts of the forest in a sleeping bag. In the middle of the night, someone huge and strong grabbed the sack along with Albert. As it turned out later, Bigfoot stole him and took him to a cave where a female and two children also lived. The creatures did not behave aggressively towards the lumberjack, but rather treated him as humans treat pets. A week later, the guy still managed to escape.

Bigfoot History at Michelin Farm

At the beginning of the XX century. in Canada, unusual events took place on the farm of the Michelin family for some time. For 2 years they were faced with bigfoot, which simply disappeared over time. Over time, the Michelin family shared some stories from encounters with this creature.

They first encountered Bigfoot face to face when their youngest daughter was playing near the forest. There she noticed a large, hairy creature that reminded her of a man. When Bigfoot saw the girl, he headed towards her. Then she began to scream and men with guns came running, frightening off an unknown monster.

The next time the girl saw a hominid was when she was doing household chores. It was noon. She raised her eyes to the window, then faced the gaze of that same Bigfoot, who was now intently watching her through the glass. This time the girl screamed again. Parents with a gun ran to her aid and drove the creature away with shots.

The last time Bigfoot came to the farm was at night. There he ran into dogs that were barking loudly, causing him to disappear. After that, the hominid did not appear again at the Michelin farm.

History of the frozen bigfoot

One of the most sensational stories related to the meeting of a man and a yeti is the story of an American military pilot Frank Hansen. In 1968, Frank appeared at a well-known touring exhibition. He had an unusual exhibit - a huge refrigerator, inside of which there was a block of ice. Inside this block, one could see the body of a humanoid creature, covered with wool.

A year later, Frank allowed two scientists to study the frozen creature. Over time, the FBI began to show interest in Frank's exhibit. They wanted to get the frozen corpse of Bigfoot, but that one mysteriously disappeared for many years.

After Hansen's death in 2012, his family admitted that Frank kept a refrigerator with a frozen corpse in his basement for several decades. The pilot's relatives sold the exhibit to Steve Basti, the owner of the Museum of Oddities.

Professional examination of the exhibit

In 1969, Frank Hansen allowed zoologists Eivelmans and Sandersen to inspect the exhibit. They compiled a small scientific work, describing their observations in it.

Hansen declined to say where he got the Bigfoot corpse from, so zoologists initially assumed it was a Neanderthal that had been preserved in a block of ice since the Stone Age. Then it was found that the creature died from a bullet wound to the head and was in the ice for no more than 2-3 years.

1. The individual was male, and reached almost 2 m in height. The peculiarity was that the entire body of the hominid was covered with thick, long black hair, which is absolutely not typical for people, even in the presence of diseases of excessive hairline.
2. The proportions of the Bigfoot body are quite close to human, but more reminiscent of the physique of a Neanderthal. Broad shoulders, too short neck, convex chest. The limbs also differed in their prehistoric proportions: the legs are shorter than human, arched, and the arms are too long and almost reach the heels of the hominid.
3. Bigfoot's facial features are also more reminiscent of the appearance of Neanderthals.
4. A small forehead, a large mouth without lips, a large nose with swollen eyebrows that are very close to the eyes.
5. Feet and palms are much larger and wider than human, and fingers are shorter.

Confession of Frank Hansen

There he wrote that one day he went to the mountain forests to hunt. He set off on the trail of a deer, which he had been tracking for some time, and quite unexpectedly saw a picture that shocked him. Three huge hominids, covered with black hair from head to toe, stood around a dead deer with its stomach open and finished eating its insides. One of them noticed Frank and went to the hunter. Frightened, the man shot him directly in the head. Hearing the sound of a shot, the other two Bigfoots ran away.

At first, Frank wanted to leave the body of an incomprehensible creature in the forest, but he returned for him soon and placed him in an ice coffin.

Conclusion

Bigfoot is a mythical creature from Tibetan legends about huge, hairy humanoid creatures that live in the mountains. Some eyewitnesses tell stories of unusual encounters with Yetis. Attempts to catch a hominid among enthusiasts of cryptozoology still occur. A relative of the Tibetan Yeti is Bigfoot, which comes from America.