What to do with the Internet. What is known about Bigfoot

Many myths and legends of the world closely echo real events and encounters that defy explanation. Big Foot is one of the most controversial figures in history. Although its existence has not been proven, there are eyewitnesses who claim to have encountered a real Yeti.

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 this territory is inhabited by a humanoid creature of incredible size, 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, because it has become known that yetis prefer mountain forests rather than snow.

While scientists around the world are actively discussing who Bigfoot is - myth or reality, the inhabitants of the local mountains 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 20th century. The Nepalese government has even officially recognized the existence of the yeti.

According to the law, the one who can discover the habitat snow people, will receive a large monetary reward.

Based on this, we can say 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 yeti's appearance

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

• Yetis belong to the family of hominids, which includes the most developed individuals of primates, i.e., humans and apes.
• The peculiarity of such creatures is their extremely large growth. The average adult of this species can reach from 3 to 4.5 m.
• The yeti's arms are disproportionately long and almost reach the feet.
• The entire body of Bigfoot is covered with fur. It can be gray or black.
• It is believed that the females of this hominid species are distinguished by such large breast size 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 Big-footed.

Character and lifestyle of the creature

Despite his appearance, the yeti is far from aggressive and has a relatively balanced and peaceful character. They avoid contact with people and deftly climb trees, like monkeys.

Yeti 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 homes 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 a yeti has been successful.

Encounters with Yeti in reality

History knows many cases of human encounters with Yeti. Usually the main characters in such stories are hunters and people leading a hermit life in forest or mountainous areas.

The Yeti is one of the main subjects of study for people interested in cryptozoology. This is a pseudoscientific direction that searches for evidence of the existence of mythical and legendary creatures. Often cryptozoologists are simple enthusiasts without a higher scientific education. They still put a lot of effort into catching the mythical creature.

The first traces of Bigfoot were discovered in the Himalayan mountains in 1899. The witness was an Englishman named Weddell. According to the eyewitness, he did not find the animal itself.

One of the official mentions of a meeting with the Yeti dates back to 2014 during a mountain expedition of professional climbers. The expeditioners 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 from each other. Later they saw a wide, hairy figure of a humanoid creature, reaching a height of 4 m.

Scientific refutation of the existence of 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 existence of the Yeti. He used several arguments.

On this moment There are no places left on Earth that have not been explored by man. The last major primate species was discovered more than 100 years ago. The discoveries of modern scientists are mainly rare small plants, etc. The Yeti is too large to be able to constantly hide from researchers, zoologists and ordinary residents of mountainous areas. The size of the yeti population plays a big role. It is clear that to maintain existence a separate type at least several dozen individuals should live in one area. Hiding such a number of huge hominids is not an easy task.

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

The image of the Yeti in popular culture

Like many other folklore and mythical creatures, the image of Bigfoot is actively used in art and various manifestations popular 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 fantasy and mystical novels, popular science works, and in children's books.

The yeti plays one of the main roles in the novel by American science fiction writer Frederick Brown “The Terror of the Himalayas.” The events of the book take place in the Himalayan mountains during the filming of a movie. Unexpectedly, the actress who played in the film main role, is kidnapped by a yeti - a huge humanoid monster.

In the science fiction series “Disc World” by the famous British novelist Terry Pratchett, yetis are one of the main ones. They are distant relatives of the giant trolls, living in the permafrost region behind the Ovtsepik Mountains. They have snow-white fur, can bend the passage of time, and their giant feet are considered a powerful aphrodisiac.

Alberto Melis's children's science fiction novel, Finding the Yeti, describes the adventures of a team of explorers who travel to the Tibetan mountains to save Bigfoot from the ubiquitous hunters.

Character in computer games

Bigfoot can be called one of the most common characters computer games. They usually live in tundras and other icy areas. For games, there is a standard image of Bigfoot - a creature that resembles something between a gorilla and a human, of gigantic stature with snow-white and thick fur. This color helps them camouflage effectively environment. They lead a predatory lifestyle and pose a danger to travelers. In battle they use brute force. The main fear is fire.

Bigfoot and his history

Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a relative of the Tibetan Bigfoot that inhabits the forests and mountains of the American continent. The term first appeared in the late sixties thanks to the American bulldozer driver Roy Wallace, who discovered traces around his house that resembled human ones in shape, 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.

Almost 9 years later, Roy presented a short video to the media. In the video you can see a female Bigfoot moving through the forest. This video was examined for a long time by all kinds of scientists and others. Many recognized it as real.

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

• For the footprints, he used ordinary boards, cut in the shape of large feet.
• The video showed the bulldozer driver's wife dressed in a suit.
• The rest of the materials that Roy regularly demonstrated to the public also 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 character. The Indians, the indigenous inhabitants of America, claim that huge hominids lived on the continent long before themselves.

Externally, Bigfoot looks almost the same as its Tibetan relative - 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 is captured by Bigfoot

In the seventies, a certain Albert Ostman, who worked all his life as a lumberjack in Vancouver, Canada, told his story of how he lived as a captive of a family of Bigfoots.

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 bag 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 like people treat their pets. A week later, the guy managed to escape.

The Bigfoot Story at Michelin Farm

At the beginning of the 20th century. In Canada, unusual events took place on the Micheline family farm for some time. For 2 years they encountered Bigfoot, which eventually simply disappeared. Over time, Micheline's family shared some stories of encounters with this creature.

They came face to face with Bigfoot for the first time when they youngest daughter played 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 came running with guns, scaring away the unknown monster.

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

The last time Bigfoot came to the farm was at night. There he encountered dogs that barked loudly, causing him to disappear. After this, the hominid no longer appeared at Michelin's farm.

The History of Frozen Bigfoot

One of the most sensational stories related to the meeting of man and Yeti is the story of the American military pilot Frank Hansen. In 1968, Frank appeared in a famous 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 fur.

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 he mysteriously disappeared for many years.

After Hansen's death in 2012, his family admitted that Frank had kept a refrigerator containing a frozen corpse in the basement of his home for 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 Euvelmans and Sandersen to examine the exhibit. They made up a small scientific work, describing his observations in it.

Hansen refused to say where he got the Bigfoot corpse, so zoologists initially suggested that it was a Neanderthal preserved in a block of ice from the Stone Age. It was then discovered 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 hair.
2. Bigfoot's body proportions are quite close to those of humans, but are more reminiscent of the physique of a Neanderthal. Broad shoulders, neck too short, convex rib cage. The limbs were also distinguished by their prehistoric proportions: the legs were shorter than human ones, curved, and the arms were too long and almost reached the hominid’s heels.
3. Bigfoot's facial features are also more reminiscent of Neanderthals.
4. Small forehead big mouth no lips, a large nose with swollen eyebrows that are very prominent in the eyes.
5. The feet and palms are much larger and wider than human ones, and the fingers are shorter.

Confession of Frank Hansen

There he wrote that he once went hunting in the mountain forests. He followed the trail of a deer, which he had been tracking for some time, and completely 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 belly ripped open and ate its entrails. One of them noticed Frank and headed towards the hunter. Frightened, the man shot him straight in the head. Hearing the sound of the shot, the other two Bigfoots ran away.

I thought that the story was unfinished until the details of choosing the next car were described.

And, almost a year later, I consider this process finally completed. In the review itself, I touched on this briefly, now the details, thoughts and reasoning.

So here is my “notch” for memory, what to do and what to avoid.

So, after the decision to sell the Yeti, there was no clear understanding of what I would like in return.

Since the Skoda suited me quite well, except that it had become painfully familiar, naturally my first thoughts were about the new Yeti in a richer configuration. Everything seemed great: proven, familiar, with the addition of all sorts of convenient options, but the same 152-horsepower engine, the lack of a manual option with all-wheel drive. And in the end, this familiarity pushed me away. You sit down in the salon, and everything is the same..., familiar and customary..., but your soul asks ehhh.! And therefore so on, so on.

The second natural consequence was the Tiguan.

Here, of course, is my respect! After the Yeti, the older brother, recently updated, is much more solid. The interior is just as comfortable, you can feel the kinship of the VAG - the same design details found here and there do not bore you with familiarity, but sweetly remind you of the past. At the same time, you have everything you need: you have a manual all-wheel drive package and a 150 hp engine. with the same torque characteristics as the 1.8 that was on the Yeti, in addition, it has already been modified with a timing belt instead of a chain, in general, what the doctor prescribed for my ailing organ of greed, which had been paying unreasonable prices for several years transport tax for the extra 2 horses.

Everything is great, but... the price, the price... I didn’t have enough money. And then my organ of greed began to make niggles: The rear lights are too small and unfavorably (because they are not original) reminiscent of the BMW community, the central locking button is only on the driver’s door (in the center in Skoda), the 4WD option on the manual is only possible in the “collective farm edition” configuration with the mocking name Trendline, some kind of appearance in the background modern trends very without any frills, reminiscent of all the Passat Golfs taken together since the 90s, etc., etc.

Although an inner voice whispered: fool, this is what’s cool, grace in simplicity, classical severity and harmony of lines, look at this posture, at this glazing line. But, alas, the last “nail” was the contemptuous, half-hearted (or so it seemed to me), unfavorable assessment by the VW manager of my Yeti for a trade-in. In short, by again.

This is where the natural options ended and the unnatural ones began.

And since the desired cars did not suit me, I gave up on everything, inscribed on my banner “Practicality and saving the family budget,” I took Renault Duster out of the many crossovers. But then my beautiful wife, exhausted by me, cried out, demanding some kind of beauty, at least on the outside or inside (may the Duster owners forgive her). As a result, the selection criteria shook, shifted and pointed me to the Hyundai Creta.

After the Duster toy showroom (may Duster owners forgive me), it was both convenient and almost pleasant to be in Crete. I especially liked the “supervision” instrument panel, I think it’s called something like that.

We drove around, tried them on, ordered top-end equipment, made an advance payment and the painful wait began. And it was painful, because there was no satisfaction from the choice, I didn’t want to savor the future acquisition, enjoy the selection of winter tires and other actions usual in such cases.

But I wanted...to continue monitoring automobile sites, reviews, forums, dealerships, as well as advertisements for sales on the secondary market.

And I monitored Her for myself! White, large, all-wheel drive, manual. Comfort equipment with parking sensors, rear view camera, already with Webasto, two years old, almost in perfect condition - still under warranty - Toyota Rav4. All this, as well as the opportunity to save some money, decided the matter.

But.., without driving it for even a year, I sold it. Did not get along. There was no happiness in our union. It's good, roomy, probably reliable - without any turbines/compressors - Toyota! But... it’s not as comfortable as it is in the gym.

As I now understand, I was led precisely by the contrast. In contrast to the square verticality of the Skoda, the rapid profile of the Toyota with side ribs that effectively transform into the rear tail of the spoiler and taillights, as well as the samurai squint of the line of the front optics with the radiator grille, captivated with its irresistibility.

This happens in life - a sparkling first impression hides a not always rich essence:

The first noticeable disadvantageous differences from Skoda were hidden in the pedal assembly. When releasing the clutch pedal, the end of the sole of the shoe clung to something on top. What the..!? Over time, of course, I got used to squeezing with the very sock, but no, no, you’ll catch it.

The thrust of the 2-liter engine for this car is clearly not enough at low speeds. Unlike the Skoda, when maneuvering in a parking lot or in a traffic jam with one clutch, you need to be very careful, so as not to drown out the engine, you have to rev it up like a Zhiguli. At the same time, the engine signaled its readiness to turn sour with an unpleasant vibration resonating through the body, which at such moments resembled a barn. But the most decisive disappointment was the behavior of the Rav4 on the track. In Skoda, gears other than sixth were used extremely rarely outside the city or only during acceleration. Toyota often asked for fifth or even fourth speed on hills or when overtaking, but without much effect other than the roar of the engine. As a result, there was an understanding that it was not very possible to compensate for the lack of engine power for this car with mechanics. And it feels like the option of making this model with a manual transmission was clearly not a priority for Toyota engineers. For example, the assistant indicator on the instrument panel does not reflect the current gearbox stage, but only gives recommendations for switching with arrows, and is often completely inappropriate.

Further, as usually happens, the main negative began to be overgrown with smaller ones, such as the inconvenience and oakiness (compared to the Skoda) of some buttons in the cabin, the ringing body in which even closing the locks was reflected as something falling on the roof, albeit spacious, but some kind of bald trunk in which there is no way to secure bags, with a stupid mesh stretcher and a roll-up soft shelf, the transverse rods of which, when installed, only concealed the space on top, and other “roughnesses” that at first impression do not catch the eye or seem to be the case habits, but which begin to annoy during daily use.

All these are, of course, trifles, and I fully admit that the owners of Rav4 with automatic transmission are happy with everything. The car as a whole is not bad, it survived the harsh Siberian winter with dignity, but I still had to part with it. Its main advantage for me was that Toyota, firstly, took all sorts of Cretas away from me, and secondly, gave me time to think and accumulate funds to buy the car I really wanted.

As a result, my heart was calmed by the purchase... Volkswagen Tiguan!

I ordered it from the factory, the required configuration with the necessary additional packages.

Here I will only say that the Tiguan for me turned out to be the only worthy replacement for the Yeti in terms of comfort, feel and equipment of the interior, driving performance, and the overall impression of the car. There are, of course, nuances, but more about this in a separate review.

Thanks for reading!

Exactly fifty years ago, two Americans - Roger Patterson And Bob Gimlin- they made a film that made all supporters of paranormal phenomena tremble with delight. The men captured a Bigfoot on videotape in the Blyff Creek gorge in northern California. It was this recording that became the first and only “non-blurred” video evidence of its existence. On it, the creature is represented not just by a spot, but by a living organism about six feet tall and with short, thick hair all over its body. The controversy surrounding this tape has not subsided to this day. Some prove that Bigfoot is real, while others claim that resourceful cameramen also turned out to be excellent directors who filmed an ordinary person in a gorilla suit.

AiF.ru spoke with leading researcher at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, Doctor of Biological Sciences Petr Kamensky and found out why the yeti is a fiction.

Population and size

From a scientific point of view, it is very difficult to prove that something does not exist; it is much easier to do the opposite. Therefore, I will not swear on blood that Bigfoot does not exist. However, I will give facts that will explain why Bigfoot living in California, Tibet, Kuzbass or anywhere else is absurd and unlikely.

Firstly, almost all corners of our planet have already been explored, and there are no places left on Earth where people have not climbed in search of large forms of life. The last time scientists found and described a large animal occurred over 100 years ago. Since then, no new species have been discovered. And this suggests that, apparently, this is the end of all large individuals unknown to science.

For understanding, I’ll give you the following example: this year we had a grandiose and very important event at Moscow State University - people who deal with mushrooms described the new kind in the Tver region. This was a real revolution in science, because this territory was well studied, and discovering it there was something extraordinary. And, for a moment, these are mushrooms. They are small. Finding them is much more difficult than finding a huge beast. And these are precisely the dimensions that “eyewitnesses” attribute to the Yeti: it is taller (approximately 220 cm) and much larger than an ordinary person, and is also covered with thick hair. If such a “colossus” existed, it would definitely be noticed! But since there is still no documented evidence of something like this, this only says one thing: Bigfoot does not exist.

In addition, for Bigfoot to continue his race, he must not be alone. A whole population is needed, and quite a large one, at least several dozen individuals, so that the so-called yetis do not degenerate. And if there had been such a collection of individuals, they certainly would not have missed it.

False evidence

Bigfoot is big and cannot hide without being discovered by people for 200 years. For example, few people have seen meerkats either, but no one doubts that they exist. And all because they were found, described, and made a lot of videos and photographs.

Sometimes some “sacred” objects appear that supposedly belong to Bigfoot: bones, pieces of wool, footprints, etc. All these things, of course, are studied by scientists. But after genetic tests, they turn out to be “dummy” animals that belong to already known animals. Often human DNA is also found in the material, but this only means that the samples are contaminated: people held them in their hands and left their “information.”

In general, funny stories constantly unfold around the evidence obtained. For example, if my memory serves me right, one day some enthusiast, literally risking his life, stole a “Bigfoot bone” from a Tibetan monastery. He took it for examination, which showed that it did not belong to Bigfoot at all, but to a real bear, only a large one.

So, if someone ever saw something, then most likely it was the same brown predator that stood on hind legs. Someone just imagined it one day, and others picked up this fantasy and began to believe in it.

The vastness of our vast planet holds many secrets. Mysterious creatures hiding from the human world have always aroused genuine interest among scientists and enthusiastic researchers. One of these secrets was Bigfoot.

Yeti, Bigfoot, Angey, Sasquatch - these are all his names. It is believed that it belongs to the class of mammals, the order of primates, and the genus humans.

Of course, its existence has not been proven by scientists, however, according to eyewitnesses and many researchers today we have Full description this creature.

What does the legendary cryptid look like?

The most popular image of Bigfoot

Its physique is dense and muscular with a thick coat of hair over the entire surface of the body, with the exception of the palms and feet, which, according to people who have 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 sparse.

The skull has a pointed shape and massive lower jaw.

The height of these creatures varies from 1.5 to 3 meters. Other witnesses claimed to have met taller individuals.

Bigfoot's body features also include long arms and short hips.

The habitat of the yeti is a controversial issue, since 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 Bigfoot people tried to hide, there were local residents who claimed to have seen them.

First eyewitnesses

The first people to see the mysterious creature in person were Chinese peasants. According to available information, the meeting was not isolated, but numbered about a hundred cases.

After such statements, several countries, including America and Great Britain, sent an expedition to search for traces.

Thanks to the collaboration of two prominent scientists, Richard Greenwell and Gene Poirier, confirmation of the existence of the Yeti was found.

The find was hair that was believed to belong only to him. However, later, in 1960, Edmund Hillary had the opportunity to examine the scalp again.

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

As one would expect, many scientists did not agree with this version, finding more and more confirmation of the previously put forward theory.

Bigfoot scalp

Apart from the found hair, the identity of which is still a controversial issue, there is no other documented evidence.

Except for countless photographs, footprints and eyewitness accounts.

Photographs are often of very poor quality, so they do not allow one to reliably determine whether they are real or fake.

The footprints, which, of course, are similar to human ones, but wider and longer, are considered by scientists to be the traces of known animals living in the area where they were found.

And even the stories of eyewitnesses who, according to them, met Bigfoot, do not allow one 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 river bank they noticed a creature, which, realizing that it had been discovered, immediately went on the run.

Grabbing the camera, Roger Patterson set off to catch up with the 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 the 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 showed a clear image of the creature's body and limbs, which ruled out the creation of a special costume for filming.

Some features of the body structure allowed scientists to draw conclusions about the similarity of the individual from the video footage with the prehistoric ancestor of man - the Neanderthal ( approx. the last Neanderthals lived about 40 thousand years ago), but very large in size: height reached 2.5 meters, and weight - 200 kg.

After much research, the film was found to be authentic.

In 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, who initiated this filming, his relatives and friends reported that the film was completely staged: a man in a specially tailored suit portrayed an American Yeti, and unusual marks 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 filmed footage in a suit.

They concluded that at the time the film was made, it was impossible to carry out such a high-quality production.

There were other encounters with an unusual creature, most of them in America. For example, in North Carolina, Texas and near Missouri, but unfortunately there is no evidence of these meetings, other than 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, granddaughter of Zana - daughter of Khvit and a Russian woman named Maria

The description of her appearance is similar to existing descriptions of Bigfoot: red fur that covered her dark skin, and the hair on her head was longer than on the rest of her body.

She did not have articulate speech, but only uttered cries and individual sounds.

The face was large, the cheekbones protruded, and the jaw protruded strongly forward, which gave her a fierce appearance.

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 origins begin in West Africa.

The results of the examination indicate the possibility of the existence of a population in Abkhazia during Zana’s life, and therefore cannot be ruled out in other regions.

Makoto Nebuka reveals the secret

One of the enthusiasts who wanted to prove the existence of the yeti was the Japanese mountaineer Makoto Nebuka.

He hunted Bigfoot for 12 years while 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 brown Himalayan bear.

The book containing his research describes some Interesting Facts. It turns out that the word "Yeti" is nothing more than a corruption of the word "Meti", which means "bear" in the local dialect.

Tibetan clans considered the bear to be a supernatural creature that possessed power. Perhaps these concepts came together, and the myth of Bigfoot spread everywhere.

Research of different countries

Numerous studies have been carried out by many scientists around the world. The USSR was no exception.

The commission for the study of Bigfoot included geologists, anthropologists and botanists. 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 stopped, and only a few enthusiasts continued to work on the research.

Genetic studies of available samples deny the existence of the Yeti. A professor at Oxford University, after analyzing the hair, proved that it belonged to a polar bear that existed several thousand years ago.

Still from a film filmed in Northern California on 10/20/1967

Currently, discussions are ongoing.

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 available facts today do not give one hundred percent confidence 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 evidence of the existence of the object being studied.

Some people tend to believe that Bigfoot is of alien origin.

This is why it is so difficult to detect, and all genetic and anthropological analyzes lead scientists to incorrect results.

Someone is sure that science is silent about the fact of their existence and will publish false research, 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.

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

Description of Bigfoot

The prehistoric bipedal hominid was named Homo troglodytes by Carl Linnaeus, which means “caveman.” The creatures belong to the order of primates. Depending on their habitat, they received different names. So Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a snowman living in America, in Asia Homo troglodytes is called yeti, in India - barunga.

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

The entire body of bigfoots is covered with long (the size of a palm) and dense hair, the color of which can be white, red, black, and brown. The Bigfoot's face protrudes forward at the bottom and also has fur starting from the eyebrows. The head is conical. The feet are wide, with long, flexible toes. The giant's height is 2-3 m. Yeti's footprints are similar to human ones. Usually, eyewitnesses talk about the unpleasant odor that accompanies sasquatch.

Norwegian traveler Thor Heyerdahl proposed a classification of bigfoots:

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

Yeti food

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

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

It is safe to assume that this creature will not disappear in any habitat and will find something it can feast on.

Bigfoot habitats

Anyone can try to catch a bigfoot. To do this, you just need to know what Bigfoot looks like and where he lives. Reports of Yeti come mainly from mountainous areas or forests. In grottoes and caves, among rocks or in impenetrable thickets, he feels most safe. Travelers claim to have seen Sasquatch or their tracks in certain places.

1. Himalayas. This is Bigfoot's home. Here, for the first time in 1951, a huge footprint similar to a human one was recorded on camera.
2. Slopes of the Tien Shan mountains. Climbers and rangers in this area never cease to claim the existence of bigfoots here.
3. Altai mountains. Witnesses have 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. North-Eastern Siberia. Bigfoot traces were discovered during ongoing research.
6. Texas. According to eyewitnesses, the yeti lives in the local Sam Houston Nature Reserve. Those who want to catch him come here regularly, but so far not a single hunt has been successful.
7. California. San Diego resident Ray Wallace made a film in 1958 in which he showed a female Sasquatch that lives in the mountains in this area. Later, information surfaced that the filming was falsified; 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 34 cm long footprint discovered in the Gissar 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 obtain a sample of the animal's fur. It is similar to the hair of a yeti obtained by British climber E. Hillary on the slope of Mount Everest.
10. Also, evidence of the existence of Bigfoot in real life was found in Abkhazia, Vancouver, Yamal and Oregon, USA.

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 fur noticed by temple servants. In this region, traces of Bigfoot were discovered for the first time. Stories about Sasquatch first appeared in printed publications in the 50s of the last century. They were told by climbers who conquered Everest. New adventurers immediately found themselves wanting to see the giant wild people.

Bigfoot family and offspring

The existence of tribes of Bigfoot people and children found by hunters, completely covered with hair, is evidenced by the stories of residents of Tajikistan. A family of wild people - a man, a woman and a child - was spotted near Lake Parien. The locals called them “Oda Obi,” that is, water people. The Yeti family approached the water and more than once scared the Tajiks away from their home. There were also numerous traces of Bigfoot presence here. But due to the dusty sandy soil and insufficient clarity of the contour, it turned out to be impossible to make a plaster casting. There is no real material evidence of these stories.

The Times newspaper wrote about the DNA analysis of a real female Bigfoot in 2015. It was about the legendary wild woman Zana, who lived in Abkhazia in the 19th century. The story goes that Prince Achba caught her and kept her in his cage. She was a 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 ending in long flexible toes.

Legend has it that over time the woman's temper pacified and she lived freely in a hole dug with her own hands. She walked around the village, expressed her emotions with cries and gestures, did not learn human language until the end of her life, but responded to her name. She did not use household items and clothing. She is credited with extraordinary strength, speed and agility. Her body retained its youthful 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 Thin. He had a daughter, who was interviewed by researchers in search of information. Zana's descendants did not have hominid characteristics, they only had features of the Negroid race. DNA studies showed that the woman has West African roots. Her children had no hair on their bodies, so there were speculations that the villagers might have embellished the story to attract attention.

Frank Hansen's Bigfoot

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

Researchers spent several days taking photographs and sketches of the yeti. 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’ comments and claimed that the body was smuggled out of Kamchatka. The story began to gain increasing popularity among journalists and the public.

Researchers began to insist on defrosting and further studying the corpse. Hansen was offered a huge sum for the right to examine Bigfoot, and then he admitted that the body was a skillful dummy made at a monster factory in Hollywood.

Later, after the fuss had died down, Hansen again asserted the reality of Bigfoot in his memoirs and recounted how he personally shot him while deer hunting in Wisconsin. Zoologists Bernard Euvelmans and Ivan Sanders continued to insist on the plausibility of the Yeti, stating: they heard the smell of 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 physical evidence of the existence of Bigfoot has been found. Samples of wool, hair, and bones provided by eyewitnesses and owners of private collections have long been studied.

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

No skeletons, skins, bones or other remains of Bigfoot people have been found. One of the Nepalese monasteries houses a skull allegedly belonging to Bigfoot. Laboratory analysis of a hair on the skull indicated morphological features of Himalayan ibex DNA.

Witnesses have provided numerous videos and photographs of evidence of the existence of the Sasquatch, but the quality of the images leaves much to be desired each time. Eyewitnesses explain the lack of clarity in the images as an unexplained phenomenon.

The equipment stops working when approaching bigfoot. The gaze of Bigfoot has a hypnotic effect, introducing those present into an unconscious state when it is impossible to control their actions. The Yeti also cannot be clearly captured due to its high speed of movement and overall dimensions. People are often prevented from making a normal video or photo by fear and poor health.

Refutations of Yeti Stories

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

Even the discovery of an unknown species of mushroom 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 is impossible not to notice.

Numerous eyewitness accounts in mountain and forest areas can be caused by the following facts:

• oxygen starvation of the brain at high altitudes;
• poor visibility in foggy areas, twilight, observer errors;
• deliberate lies to attract attention;
• fear that gives rise to imagination;
• retellings of professional and folk legends and belief in them;
• Found footprints of yeti may be left by other animals, for example, Snow Leopard puts his paws in one line and his print looks like the footprint of a huge bare foot.

Despite the fact that no physical evidence of the reality of the Yeti, confirmed by genetic examinations, was found, rumors about mythical creatures do not subside. All new evidence, photos, audio and video data that have questionable quality and may be fake.

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