What is another name for Bigfoot. Does Bigfoot exist?

Bigfoot is a humanoid creature unknown to science. IN different cultures they gave him different names. Among the most famous: Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch. The attitude towards Bigfoot is quite ambiguous. There is no officially confirmed data on the existence of Bigfoot today. However, many claim that there is evidence of its existence, but official science does not want or cannot consider it as physical evidence. In addition to numerous videos and photos, which, frankly, are not 100% proof, since they can be ordinary fakes, cryptozoologists, ufologists and researchers of the Bigfoot phenomenon have casts of footprints, Sasquatch hair, and in one of the monasteries of Nepal The entire scalp of this creature is supposedly kept. However, such evidence is insufficient to confirm the existence of this hominid. The only evidence that official science cannot argue with will be Bigfoot, so to speak, in person, who will allow himself to be examined and experiments carried out on himself.

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

In the bulk of evidence, the Sasquatch was seen either in forested areas of the Earth, where large forested areas exist, or in high mountain areas, where people rarely climb. In such regions, which have been explored very little by people, various animals may live that have not yet been discovered by science, and Bigfoot may be one of them.

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

Scientists have suggested that yetis are very difficult to find because they hide their homes very carefully, and people or people who approach their homes begin to scare away with crackling noises, howls, roars or screams. Such sounds, by the way, are also described in the mythology of the past, in particular, in the mythology of the ancient Slavs, where they were attributed to Leshem and his assistants, for example, the forest spirit Squealer, who pretends to knock to scare away a person or, on the contrary, to lead him into a swamp or quagmire. Researchers claim that forest yetis can build nests in the dense crowns of trees, and so skillfully that a person, even passing by and looking at the crown of a tree, will not notice anything. There are also theories that yetis dig holes and live underground, which makes them even more difficult to spot. Mountain yetis live in remote caves that are located in hard-to-reach places.

It is believed that it was these wild creatures of great stature and covered with hair that became the prototypes of various characters in the mythology of the peoples of the world, for example, Russian Goblin or ancient Greek Satyrs, Roman Fauns, Scandinavian Trolls or Indian Rakshasas. Just think about it, because they believe in the Yeti almost everywhere: Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan (Yeti), Azerbaijan (Guley-Bani), Yakutia (Chuchunna), Mongolia (Almas), China (Ezhen), Kazakhstan (Kiik-Adam and Albasty) , Russia (bigfoot, goblin, shishiga), Persia (div), Ukraine (chugaister), Pamir (dev), Tatarstan and Bashkiria (shurale, yarymtyk), Chuvashia (arsuri), Siberian Tatars (pitsen), Akhazia (abnauayu) , Canada (Sasquatch), Chukotka (Teryk, Girkychavylin, Myrygdy, Kiltanya, Arynk, Arysa, Rackem, Julia), Sumatra and Kalimantan (Batatut), Africa (Agogwe, Kakundakari and Ki-lomba) and so on.

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

A real reward has been announced for the capture of Bigfoot. The governor promises 1,000,000 rubles to the lucky winner Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev. However, it is worth saying that if you meet the owner of the forest on a forest path, then first of all you need to think about how to get away, and not make a profit from it. Maybe it’s for the better that people didn’t put Bigfoot on a chain or in one of the cages at the zoo. Over time, interest in these creatures has disappeared, and now many simply refuse to believe in it, mistaking all evidence for fiction. This is undoubtedly beneficial forest people, and if they really exist, then they should not yet meet curious people, scientists, reporters, tourists and poachers who will definitely ruin their quiet existence.

Bigfoot. Latest eyewitnesses

Publications about Bigfoot have long moved from the category of world sensations to the category of entertaining reading. Back in the 1970s famous journalist Yaroslav Golovanov noted that on yeti is worth the “stamp of a smile.” And in recent years Almost no journalistic investigation on this topic is complete without a certain amount of ridicule.

Representatives of “big” science call the researchers of the problem amateurs, arrogantly rejecting the discoveries they have made. Nevertheless, research in this area continues and is replenished with more and more new evidence. DISCOVERY magazine begins a series of publications about Bigfoot and other unknown, controversial and extinct creatures.

It is generally accepted that in Russia the study of Bigfoot began a century ago. Back in 1914, zoologist Vitaly Khakhlov, who had been searching for “ wild man"and surveys of the local population on the territory of Kazakhstan, sent a letter to the leadership of the Academy of Sciences in which he substantiated the existence of humanoid creatures.

Khakhlov gave them the specific name Primihomo asiaticus (Asian first man) and insisted on organizing an expedition to discover viable individuals. But the letter fell into the category of “no scientific significance,” and the events that followed, including the first world war, and completely postponed the solution to this problem for many decades.

Bigfoot (aka Bigfoot, Yeti and Sasquatch) first attracted the attention of the general public in the 1950s, when climbers from many countries began to “master” the highest peaks of the planet. A little more than half a century ago, in 1954, the first special expedition to search for the Yeti in the Himalayas took place.

It was organized by the British tabloid Daily Mail on the initiative and under the leadership of the newspaper's employee, journalist Ralph Izzard. The impetus for preparing the expedition was photographs of the footprints of a mysterious two-legged creature in the snow, taken by the Englishman Eric Shipton during his climb to Everest in 1951.

Evidence has been discovered in high mountain monasteries that proves that the Himalayas are (or at least were) inhabited by huge humanoid creatures covered with fur.

Izzard took a very thoughtful approach to preparing the expedition, which took almost three years. During this time, he familiarized himself with all publications on the topic in libraries different countries, carefully selected specialists for the main team of the expedition, and agreed on the assistance of the Sherpas - the indigenous inhabitants of the highlands of the Himalayas.

And although Izzard did not catch Bigfoot (and such a task was also set), many reports of encounters with him were recorded, and evidence was discovered in high mountain monasteries proving that huge humanoid creatures live (or at least lived) in the Himalayas , covered with wool. Based on descriptions from local residents, the English anthropologist, son of the first wave of emigrants, Vladimir Chernetsky, recreated the appearance of the Yeti.

A unique photograph taken during an expedition in the forest near Vyatka (Orichevsky district) in 200: a shaggy creature moving on two legs was photographed from a distance of about 200 meters, after which it ran away, leaving giant footprints.

In 1958, the USSR Academy of Sciences created the “Commission to Study the Question of Bigfoot” and sent an expensive expedition to search for the yeti in the highlands of the Pamirs, but, unlike Izzard, did not bother with any serious preparation. The mission was led by botanist Kirill Stanyukovich, and among his colleagues there was not a single specialist in large mammals.

Needless to say, the result was depressing: considerable funds were spent, as they would say today, on “unnecessary expenses.” It cannot be said that Stanyukovich did not live up to expectations at all. high ranks. Based on the data obtained, he created a geobotanical atlas of the Pamir highlands, but after his expedition, the Academy of Sciences officially closed the topic of studying Bigfoot. Since then, all searches for Yeti in our country have been carried out exclusively by enthusiasts.

YETI ON FILM

However, for short term since its existence, the commission has managed to collect large number eyewitness reports of meetings with “mountain residents.” Several issues were published information materials. All work was carried out under the guidance of Professor Boris Porshnev, who founded a new direction in the science of man and his origin - hominology.

In 1963, marked “For official use,” his voluminous monograph “ Current state the question of relict hominids,” in which Porshnev outlined the available data and the theory based on them.

These ideas were developed in subsequent years by the professor in articles in popular science publications and summarized by him in the book “On the Beginning human history"(1974), which was published after the death of the author. Boris Porshnev died of a heart attack when, at the last moment, the publication of this work was canceled and the typesetting of the book was scattered.

In his writings, Porshnev expressed the idea that “ snow people" - Neanderthals who have survived to this day, adapted to natural conditions without tools, clothing, fire and, most importantly, speech as a means of communication. Speech, according to the scientist, is the most important distinctive quality of a person, distinguishing him from the rest of the animal world.

In the 1960s, expeditionary work moved mainly to the Caucasus. The main credit for this goes to Dr. biological sciences Alexander Mashkovtsev, who traveled the length and breadth of several regions of the Caucasus and collected rich material.

The expedition work was led by for many years hosted by Maria-Zhanna Kofman. Participants in the search exchanged information about the results obtained at meetings of a seminar on the problem of relict hominids, founded in 1960 at the State Darwin Museum in Moscow by the famous naturalist Pyotr Smolin. After Smolin’s death, the seminar is still headed by Dmitry Bayanov.

While in the USSR the problem of Bigfoot was discussed from a theoretical position, in America and Canada there was a serious breakthrough in the field of field searches.

On October 20, 1967, American Roger Patterson managed to film a female hominid in a forest in Northern California and make several plaster casts of her footprints. The film was coldly received by the scientific community, and without any study was rejected by the Smithsonian Center and declared a fake. Patterson died five years later from brain cancer, but materials still appear in the press trying to accuse him of falsification.

But back in 1971, Russian hominologists, among whom was your humble servant, as a result of painstaking research, recognized the film as authentic. Our study of the film remains the most important evidence of its truth. American experts have only recently begun to seriously study it and are already confirming the conclusions made in the USSR almost 40 years ago.

EXAMINATION STUDYING THE PATTERSON FILM, RUSSIAN (THEN SOVIET) SCIENTISTS CONCLUDED THAT IT IS GENUINE. THEY BASED THEIR CONCLUSIONS WITH THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS:

The exceptional flexibility of the ankle joint of the creature depicted on the film is unattainable for humans.
Compared to a human, the foot itself is more flexible in the dorsal direction. Dmitry Bayanov was the first to draw attention to this. This was later confirmed by the American anthropologist Jeff Meldrum, which he described in his publications.

The bigfoot's heel protrudes further back than that of a human. This corresponds to the typical Neanderthal foot structure. For a creature of large weight, this is justified from the point of view of rational application of muscle strength.

In researching the film, Doctor of Sciences Dmitry Donskoy, who was then the head of the department of biomechanics at the Institute of Physical Education, came to the conclusion that the creature’s gait is completely atypical for Homo sapiens and practically cannot be reproduced.

The film clearly shows the play of muscles on the body and limbs, which rejects assumptions about the suit. The entire anatomy of the body and especially the low position of the head distinguishes this creature from modern man.

Measurements of hand vibration frequency and comparison with the speed at which the film was shot indicate tall creatures (about 220 cm) and, given their build, heavy weight(exceeding 200 kg).

BIGFOOT CLAN IN TENNESSEE

In December 1968, two world-famous cryptozoologists, Ivan Sanderson (USA) and Bernard Euvelmans (France), examine the frozen corpse of a hairy humanoid creature. They later publish the report in the scientific press. Euvelmans identified the deceased as a “modern Neanderthal,” thereby declaring that Porshnev was right.

Meanwhile, the search for Bigfoot continued in the USSR. The most significant results were obtained by the work of Maria-Jeanne Kofman in the North Caucasus, the searches of Alexandra Burtseva in Kamchatka and Chukotka; Expeditions in Tajikistan and the Pamir-Alai under the leadership of Kiev resident Igor Tatsl and Igor Burtsev were very large-scale and fruitful, and in Western Siberia and on Lovozero ( Murmansk region) Maya Bykova searched with some results, Vladimir Pushkarev collected a lot of information in Komi and Yakutia.

Pushkarev's expedition ended tragically: in September 1978, he went alone on an expedition to the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug and went missing.

In 1990, search expeditions practically ceased due to a sharp change in the socio-political situation in the territory former USSR. After some time, thanks to the development of the Internet, Russian researchers were able to establish strong contacts with European and overseas colleagues.

In recent years, interest in the Yeti has increased, and new regions where hominids have been discovered have emerged. In 2002, Janice Carter, the owner of a farm in Tennessee, said in an interview that a whole clan of bigfoots had been living near her property for more than half a century. According to the woman, the elder of the “snowy” family was about 60 years old, and the “acquaintance” with him took place when Janice was only seven years old.

In the next issue we will dwell in more detail on this amazing incident and the main characters of the story. A story about unique finds and incredible discoveries awaits you.

The mysterious creature from Bourganeff really looks like a Neanderthal

Janice Carter meets Bigfoot. The drawing was made from the woman’s words and accurately shows the proportions of the creature and demonstrates how their communication took place.

Some time ago, Russian hominologists accidentally came across information that in 1997 in France, at a provincial fair in the town of Bourganeff, the frozen body of a “Neanderthal” was shown, allegedly found in the mountains of Tibet and smuggled from China.

There is a lot that is unclear in this story. The owner of the trailer in which the refrigerated compartment with the “Neanderthal” was transported disappeared without a trace shortly after photographs of the body of the deceased Bigfoot were leaked to the French press.

The trailer itself with its priceless contents has also disappeared; all attempts to find it for 11 years have been in vain. Photos of the frozen body were shown to Janice Carter, who confirmed with a high degree of probability that this was not a falsification, but indeed the corpse of a Bigfoot.

Despite serious difficulties, mainly of a financial nature, research into the Bigfoot problem continues. Recognition by official science of such humanoid creatures will lead to serious changes in many branches of knowledge related to the study of man, will allow one to penetrate the mystery of his origin, and will have a serious impact on the development of culture, religion, and medicine. Using Porshnev's terminology, this will lead to scientific revolution and to a radical revolution in the issue of defining man as such and separating him from the animal world.

An unusual structure made from tree trunks and branches, discovered in Tennessee. Such structures are often found in difficult forests. Their purpose is still unknown, but apparently this is how yetis somehow mark their territory. Igor Burtsev (pictured) is convinced that he lives in Tennessee huge family bigfoot.

HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRID

Michel Nostradamus also warned about the emergence of a human-animal hybrid. Vivisection experiments, that is surgical intervention into a living organism in order to create another creature, in particular a person (or something similar to him), were carried out back in the 19th century, but they did not lead to anything.

There is no data on earlier “studies” of this kind. At least, doctors and alchemists of the Middle Ages did not resort to such experiments (this was the path to the fire of the Inquisition), content with attempts to grow homunculi in test tubes.

Experiments on breeding humanoid creatures became widespread (in certain circles) in the early 1920s. A student of academician Ivan Pavlov, biologist Ilya Ivanov, began conducting experiments on crossing humans and chimpanzees using artificial insemination. The experiments were carried out on volunteers and continued for more than 10 years, until Ivanov’s death in 1932, which followed under very mysterious circumstances.

Why were these experiments carried out? The reason at first glance is simple - the possibility of creating some hybrids for working in difficult and harmful conditions and, possibly, for organ donation. However, the results of the experiments are unknown. True, there is unverified evidence that somewhere in the mines, Gulag prisoners met hairy ape-like people.

But is it possible to create such creatures and other humanoid monsters? Geneticists answer this question in the negative, since humans have 46 chromosomes, and chimpanzees have 48, which means that artificial (as well as natural) fertilization is simply impossible. But Ivanov, when influencing the egg, could well have used chemicals, medicines, irradiation and any other potent methods. After all, what is sometimes impossible in nature is quite possible in the laboratory.

JAPANESE VERSION

A Japanese climber claims to have solved the mystery of Bigfoot, and now with this problem that has haunted the minds of seekers for decades mysterious phenomena, it's over. After 12 years of research, Ma-koto Nebuka concluded that the legendary yeti from the Himalayas is nothing more than himalayan bear(Ursus thibetanus).

“Reality is rarely as frightening as the imagination,” says a smiling Nebuka, a leading member of the Alpine Club of Japan, at a press conference in Tokyo to announce the release of his book, which summarizes years of research into the Bigfoot problem.

Besides unique photos. Nebuka was also involved in linguistic research. In particular, an analysis of interviews with residents of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan showed that the notorious “Yeti” is a distorted “meti”, that is, “bear” in the local dialect. And the myth almost became a reality due to the fact that Tibetans consider the yeti honey to be an omnipotent and terrible creature with supernatural power.

These concepts combined and became “Bigfoot,” explains Nebuka. To prove his point, he shows a photograph of a “Yeti” bear, whose head and paws are kept by one of the Sherpas as a talisman.

DID YOU KNOW THAT...

The name “Bigfoot” is a translation from the Tibetan “metoh kangmi”, as this creature is called there.
. Scientists studying Bigfoot agree that the lifespan of this creature is 250-300 years.
. Cryptozoologists have not only casts of footprints, hair and excrement of the Yeti, but also fragments of its dwelling, built on the ground and in trees. Scientists are convinced that it takes considerable strength and intelligence to build a structure from branches and cover the walls with grass, leaves, soil and excrement.
. Finnish scientists tried to offer the most incredible version of the appearance of Bigfoot. They claimed that the Yetis were aliens, and by disappearing they were being transported to their planet.
. In Malaysia, the yeti is considered a deity, they call him “Hantu Yarang Jiji” (literally translated - “spirit with widely spaced teeth”), and in national park In Endau Rompin there is even a small chapel with a sculpture of Bigfoot, to which believers come to pray.
. The American Society of Cryptozoologists in Tucson (Arizona) announced a reward of 100 thousand US dollars to the one who finds and delivers to scientists the corpse of Bigfoot, and 1 million dollars to the one who manages to catch him alive.

Igor Burtsev
Discovery magazine No. 5 2009.

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The science of cryptozoology is full of various secrets and riddles regarding the existence of certain animals. Among them is Bigfoot, or Yeti. This creation is perhaps one of the most amazing riddles modern humanity. As soon as they don't call Bigfoot in modern world: in Canada he is a Sasquatch, in North America- bigfoot, and in Australia - yawi.

Currently, enthusiasts have collected a great variety of all kinds of information testifying to people’s encounters with this huge and shaggy creature that resembles a person. Moreover, most of these meetings allegedly took place in remote areas of the planet, where almost no human has set foot.

One of the most common indirect evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is considered to be his footprints left in the snow or soft ground, as well as scraps of his fur. Researchers have studied and classified hundreds of similar observations, but so far no evidence of its existence has been provided. In the process of studying the Yeti, many caves were explored in various parts of the world.

It is curious that in the Russian Aigul cave, located in Altai, speleologists discovered strange rock paintings that depicted the same Bigfoot. Moreover, scientists who have studied ancient handwritten books from some Altai monasteries claim that they also contain images of these mysterious hairy humanoid creatures. But the main information about the existence of Bigfoot is not cave paintings and books, but photographs, amateur videos, casts from huge prints of unknown feet and, of course, numerous eyewitness accounts.

Unfortunately, the lion's share of such “evidence” is scientific inaccuracies, confusing information or deliberate forgeries. Even the fur, which many hunters passed off as Yeti hair, after careful examination turned out to be deer or bear. That is why there is still no official confirmation of the existence of Bigfoot! It is worth noting that numerous testimonies encounters with Yeti are so picturesque and vivid that many people have little doubt about their true authenticity, despite the lack of substantial evidence.

There is an interesting opinion regarding the existence of Bigfoot. Some zoologists and anthropologists believe that the Yeti is a relict hominid. In their opinion, Bigfoot is a mammal belonging to the order of primates, but to the genus of humans. They do not exclude the possibility that the Yeti miraculously survived from prehistoric times to the present day. It is curious that the current governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, promises to pay a reward of 1 million rubles for the capture of Bigfoot.

The Yeti or Bigfoot is of great interest. There have been various rumors about this creature for several decades. Who is Yeti? Scientists can only guess, since it is very difficult to prove its existence due to a lack of facts.

Eyewitnesses who met strange creature, describe in detail his fearsome appearance:

a human-like monster moves on two legs;

limbs are long;

height 2 - 4 meters;

strong and agile;

can climb trees;

has a foul odor;

the body is completely covered with vegetation;

the skull is elongated, the jaw is massive;

white or brown wool;

dark face.

In addition, scientists were able to study the size of the monster’s feet from prints left on the snow or ground. Eyewitnesses also provided scraps of fur found in the thickets through which the Yeti made its way, drew it from memory, and tried to photograph it.

Direct evidence

It is impossible to determine with certainty who Bigfoot is. When approaching him, people begin to feel dizzy, their consciousness changes, and their blood pressure rises. Creatures act on human energy in such a way that they are simply not noticed. In addition, yeti inspire animal fear in all living beings. As he approaches, there is complete silence around: the birds fall silent and the animals run away.

Numerous attempts to film the creature with a video camera proved virtually fruitless. Even if this was possible, the pictures and videos were of very poor quality, despite the high-quality equipment. This is explained not only by the fact that yetis move too quickly, despite their enormous height and dense physique, but also by the fact that technology, just like people, begins to fail. Attempts to catch up with the fleeing “man” were unsuccessful.

Those who wanted to photograph the yeti say that when trying to look into his eyes, a person loses control of himself. Accordingly, pictures are simply not taken, or foreign objects are visible on them.

Fact. Eyewitnesses from different corners planets depict beings of either female or male gender. This suggests that Sasquatch most likely reproduce in the usual way.

It is not clear who Bigfoot really is. Either this is an alien creature, or an individual from ancient times who managed to miraculously survive to our time. Or maybe this is the result of experiments conducted between humans and primates.

Where does Bigfoot live?

Tibetan ancient chronicles tell of encounters between Buddhist monks and a huge hairy monster on two legs. From Asian languages, the word “Yeti” is translated as “someone who lives among the stones.”

Fact: the first information about Bigfoot appeared in print in the 50s of the last century. The authors of these texts were climbers who tried to conquer Everest. The meeting with the yeti took place in the Himalayan forests, in which there are paths leading to the top of the mountain.

Places where he lives mystical creature, represent forests and mountains. Bigfoot in Russia was first recorded in the Caucasus. Eyewitnesses claim that as soon as they saw the huge primate, it disappeared right before their eyes, leaving behind a small cloud of haze.

Przhevalsky, who was studying the Gobi Desert, encountered the Yeti back in the 19th century. But further research was stopped due to the government’s refusal to allocate money for the expedition. This was influenced by clergy who considered the yeti to be a creature from hell.

After this, Bigfoot was seen in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other places. In 2012, a hunter from Chelyabinsk region encountered a humanoid creature. Despite his great fear, he managed to photograph the monster on mobile phone. Then the yeti was seen many times near settlements. But his approach to people has not yet found an explanation.

Even though no one can say who the Yeti is, . This is supported not only by weak facts, but also by faith, which is sometimes stronger than all evidence.