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Bigfoot and his relatives
It looked either like a woman or like a monkey. He had a wide, wrinkled face that grimaced and laughed. Something indescribable - two bags of some kind, obviously breasts, dangling in front; long, tangled hair, reddened by the sun, framed her face and fluttered behind her back. Turgenev felt wild fear, a chilling fear of the supernatural.
Guy de Maupassant, "Fear"
Fictional creatures inhabit the folklore of all world cultures- be it steppe nomads, reindeer herders or South American cannibals. People living on different continents independently came up with dragons, werewolves, ghosts, water monsters, dwarfs and giants. But only a few fairy-tale creatures were able to become part of modern folklore. If you say that you met a fire-breathing dragon in the forest, you will receive an exemption from physical education and free pills for schizophrenia. But if you claim that you got into a fight in a garbage dump with a giant hairy hominid - get a real chance to be on the front pages of the morning newspapers.
In March 2006 (“MF” No. 26) we told you about “cryptids” - animals whose existence is rejected by modern science (at least until one of them is caught - such as the dwarf giraffe okapi or lobe-finned fish coelacanth). Today we will talk about the “kings” of cryptozoology - archaic giants, now known as “snow people”.
Wild and unsympathetic
The ancient peoples, without saying a word, believed that giants lived on Earth long before them. The latter were unbridled and ferocious, which is why the gods either completely destroyed them (Judaism) or drove them out of the world (ancient Greek myths). The giants left behind only huge ruins, called “cyclopean” in honor of the Cyclopes who built the walls of Mycenae.
It is not surprising that meetings between people and prehistoric giants were extremely rare. Most of the giants of late European folklore had purely human features and were not considered representatives of any ancient race. Medieval "snow people" in their current understanding can be called goblin, but they were a type of spirit. The Scandinavians had jotuns and trolls, the southern Slavs had drekavaks, but the images of these forest inhabitants are too blurry to talk about systematic contacts between ordinary people and the “snowies”.
Bigfoot, like UFOs, is a phenomenon exclusively of the 20th century. You can talk as much as you like about the growth of anthropogenic zones and the absence in the 18-19 centuries of powerful media capable of inflating any trifle into a sensation, but the fact remains: just recently there was no Bigfoot as a mass phenomenon, but now there is. Why did creatures that evolved together with people over millions of years remain so little known that in a general cultural sense they can only claim to be a race of giants, and an extinct one at that?
Judging by the most ancient literary sources, contacts with Bigfoot people were extremely rare. The first description of such a case can be considered the Sumerian “Epic of Gilgamesh,” which tells about events 57 centuries ago. According to the first table of the epic, the goddess Aruru created Enkidu, a hairy hero living in complete savagery. King Gilgamesh came up with an original way to catch him: they brought the harlot Shamhat to the river bank where Enkidu was grazing. The poor woman was undressed, and the giant “knew her for seven days.” After such a marathon, the savage became weak, and his relatives - animals - began to avoid him. Thus, Enkidu was forced to become part of human society.
Scattered evidence of meetings with certain “wild people” can be found in almost every major historian. For example, Plutarch talked about how Sulla’s soldiers once caught a satyr (it should be noted that initially satyrs were not associated exclusively with horns and hooves - they were attributed with various animal traits that symbolized savagery). The Roman dictator gathered all the available translators and interrogated the prisoner, but he emitted only vile bleating and neighing, “which is why Sulla experienced great disgust and ordered him to be immediately removed from sight as an ugly phenomenon” (Plutarch, “Comparative Biography”, Sulla, 27) .
Medieval researchers mentioned wild people a lot and often, but most often they described ordinary monkeys or uncivilized natives. There were no longer blank spots left on the map of the Old World, so encounters with such creatures were spoken of only in the past tense. Once upon a time there were lions in Europe. Now even wild bulls and tarpans are no longer preserved here, and Bigfoot people have become a curiosity. For example, Heinrich von Gesler in the 14th century wrote about a wild Alpine woman whose “breasts are so long that she throws them over her shoulders.”
Enthusiasts often recall that Carl Linnaeus included Bigfoot in his famous classification of living things (System of Nature). Indeed, the Swedish naturalist wrote about “wild man” (about certain hairy “sons of darkness” living in caves and stealing food from people at night), as well as about “troglodytic man” (probably a Neanderthal). However, we should not forget that in the first edition of the System of Nature, Linnaeus called whales fish...
They lit it so they lit itThe architecture and heraldry of early feudal Europe often used the image of a “wild man” (voodoo vase), probably copied from Greek satyrs. The first masquerade in European history is associated with this creature. In 1393, Queen Isabella of Bavaria held a ball. King Charles VI the Mad and six of his entourage appeared in "Bigfoot" costumes made of linen, resin and hemp. At the height of the celebration, the Duke of Orleans accidentally brought a candle to the royal suit. He immediately flared up. The fire spread to other “forest people”. Four of them died. The king received severe burns, but was saved thanks to the Duchess de Berry, who covered him with her clothes. |
Origin of species
It makes no sense to retell modern stories about meeting Bigfoot - most of them look like hunters' tales. They are either the same type or incredible, and in any case cannot be verified. Only general information about the known “varieties” of Bigfoot is of some interest.
Lives in the mountains of Altai, Caucasus and Pamir Almas(“almast”, from Mongolian - “wild man”). He is described as a humanoid with red fur, human-like facial features, powerful brow ridges, a flat nose and chin (which completely matches the reconstructed appearance of the Neanderthal).
Legends about Almas cannot boast of antiquity - they are only a few hundred years old. One might get the impression that there are almost more Almas in the mountains than there are people. In 1871, Nikolai Przhevalsky saw them, and in 1941, Red Army soldiers allegedly caught some hairy citizen in the Caucasus, interrogated him (to no avail) and shot him as a German spy.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan these creatures are known as to the bartender, however, the most popular in the West is another, Tibetan name - yeti(“man-bear” or “stone bear”). The number of encounters with him increased in proportion to the increase in the number of Europeans exploring the Himalayas. In 1832, the British noticed a certain red creature in the mountains - probably an orangutan, in 1889 - something like a bear.
Yeti also live here. Yeti, representing the highland subspecies of the troll family, have not heard that cannibalism is hopelessly out of fashion. Their opinion on this issue is: eat what moves. If it doesn't move, wait until it does. And then eat.
Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
The monasteries of Khumjung and Pangboche for a long time kept the scalps of yetis, which were attributed with magical powers. Their research was carried out in the middle of the last century. The results are disappointing: these are just skins from the neck of a Himalayan mountain goat. The Pangboche monks also owned another relic - a mummified clawed paw of a yeti, but in 1991 it was stolen (probably ending up in someone's private collection).
In Scotland, on Mount Ben Macdui lives Am Fir Liat Mor("Big Gray Man") No one really saw him, but many climbers heard strange footsteps on the slopes. Their stories are not much different from each other - they were walking along the mountain in the fog (usually in the evening), when suddenly measured steps began to be heard somewhere behind them. The pursuer rarely stepped, but did not lag behind - that is, he was several times larger than a man. People began to panic, took to flight and only glimpsed some huge gray silhouette in the fog.
This phenomenon was so widespread that it was simply necessary to find an explanation. Theories have been put forward about energy fractures and “frightening” infrasound, but it is most likely that Ben McDuy’s specific conditions (frequent fogs) create the phantom effect, well known to climbers. If a low-standing sun shines on a person’s back, and fog floats in front of him, then an eerie reflection of a figure appears in it, surrounded by a bright halo of light.
Philippine forest creature named Capri slightly reminiscent of Bigfoot in its habits (lives in trees, makes noise, shows interest in women), but at the same time has a purely human appearance, wears traditional Bahag clothes and smokes a pipe (they say that crickets in the forests are coals that have fallen from it).
Even overpopulated Japan has its own Bigfoot. He is called Hibagon(or Hinagon) as he lives on the forested Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture. The meeting with him took place 35 years ago. According to eyewitnesses, Hibagon was short, hairy, with a flat nose and sparkling eyes. All signs point to it not being Bigfoot, but rather something like a gorilla.
Among all the varieties of this creature, the fate of the American “bigfoot” is the most interesting. bigfoot or Sasquatch(the term was coined in 1920 by schoolteacher Burns, who noticed that many Indian tribes used words with the same root "sas" to refer to wild people).
Until the mid-20th century, Bigfoots were not found in the United States, and stories about Sasquatch were only popular on Indian reservations. In August 1958, Ray Wallace's construction company was laying a road in a deserted area of California. Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew discovered footprints of "big feet." The feet were 40 centimeters long, the step length was over a meter. The local newspaper dubbed the find “Bigfoot,” and Wallace began to actively promote “Bigfoot” among lovers of the unknown.
But the real “birthday” of the American Bigfoot can be considered October 20, 1967, when horse rodeo participants Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin managed to capture him on film. They went to Six Rivers National Park with a borrowed 16mm camera, intending to make a Blair Witch-style documentary about Bigfoot. The men agreed that, if possible, they would try to shoot the “bigfoot” - his body could be sold profitably, and besides, it would be irrefutable evidence.
However, when they saw him, they completely forgot about the weapon. Bigfoot began to quickly move away from the researchers. Patterson dismounted from his horse and set off after him with a working camera, Gimlin with a gun covered him from behind. As a result, the first half of the film was defective - the image shook and jumped in all directions, but when Patterson approached the bigfoot several tens of meters and stood still, the quality of the shooting improved noticeably. The creature looked back at its pursuers several times and disappeared into the forest.
The USA finally has its own national monster. Over the decades, the word “Bigfoot” has become a popular brand. Similar encounters were reported from all over the country. People have found traces, fur, and excrement of the “big leg.” Numerous “bigfoot” clubs have emerged, and a new industry has emerged in tourism. Scientists who examined the Patterson-Gimlin film were divided into two roughly equal camps: some said that it was clearly staged (an actor in a wool suit was running in front of the lens), others noted the creature’s unusual gait and stated that it could not be human.
On November 26, 2002, Ray Wallace, the discoverer and popularizer of Bigfoot, died. His family soon admitted that Ray and his brother had faked footprints around the bulldozer by wearing large wooden feet on their feet. Why they needed this is not known exactly. They probably wanted to have a little fun, but the Bigfoot they invented soon turned into a national American hero, began to generate considerable income and gained worldwide fame. Such a trifle as the falsification of the first discovered traces does not bother enthusiasts at all.
Missing link
There are many theories about the origin of Bigfoot, but if you put aside all the unhealthy fantasies (an alien from outer space, from another dimension, the energy projection of ordinary people, the souls of our ancestors, secret government experiments, super-developed primates hiding from people using telepathy), the remaining versions can be can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
The first, the most famous, is based on the mythical roots of wild giants who supposedly lived on the planet long before man. Considering the specific geography of encounters with Bigfoot, most of which occur in Asia, North America and Eastern Europe, we can assume that we are dealing with Gigantopithecus(Gigantopithecus blacki).
The remains of this extinct ape were found in Asia (China). Unfortunately, there are too few of them to recreate the appearance of the animal. Scientists have at their disposal only a few lower jaws and about 1000 teeth, the largest of which are 6 times larger than those of humans. It is assumed that the growth of Gigantopithecus, standing on its hind legs, reached 3 meters. These giants most likely resembled gorillas or orangutans.
Against the “snow humanization” of Gigantopithecus is the fact that they became extinct almost 100,000 years ago and could hardly have spread across several continents - especially given their supposed diet (most of the bones were found in the habitat of the ancestors of modern pandas, who ate bamboo).
Other candidates for Bigfoot - Neanderthals- also do not inspire optimism. Even if they lived to see the 21st century, they would be too intelligent to lead a wild lifestyle (Neanderthals knew how to build shelters, used fire and used a variety of tools - from stone cutters to wooden spears). They were squat and stocky (height - up to 165 cm), which also does not correspond to the expected appearance of Bigfoot people.
Finally, it is absolutely certain that Neanderthals went extinct about 24,000 years ago. Their last habitats are Croatia, Iberia (Spain) and Crimea. How could they survive as single individuals all over the world - a question from the series “Who did the Loch Ness monster mate with in a small lake in order to survive to this day?” Today, when the entire planet has already been photographed by satellites and put on public display on Google Earth, when Amazonian Indians dress in Chinese Adidas, and Tibetans take tourists around the mountains in Japanese jeeps, there is simply nowhere for the relict hominid to hide.
There are opinions that Bigfoot people appear “pointwise” in different places on the planet only because they are something like Mowgli or Tarzan. History knows about 100 cases of detection feral children. They are found to this day, often in tragicomic situations - for example, two years ago in Fiji a young man, Sunjit Kumar, was discovered who grew up among chickens and imitated their behavior.
In ancient times, lost or abandoned children, as well as persons with certain mental disabilities, could easily go wild, spend their entire (certainly short) lives in nature and only occasionally come across the eyes of superstitious ordinary people. Thousands of years ago they would have been called trolls and satyrs, and in the 20th century they would have been called Bigfoot. This is exactly the case that Turgenev described while visiting Gustave Flaubert (epigraph of the article) - and in the end it turned out that she was a madwoman, fed by shepherds and living in the forest for more than 30 years.
The most reasonable explanation for the Bigfoot phenomenon is the saying “Fear has big eyes.” Many secrets of the universe are hidden in erroneous perception. When tested, giant sea snakes turned out to be tangled seaweed, flying saucers turned out to be weather balloons, and Bigfoot turned out to be gorillas or bears.
The bear is such an original animal that everyone recognizes it at first sight. He does not eat his own kind, does not wander around the village at night in the hope of grabbing and dragging away a child. From time to time he climbs the tree to the very top, and from there inspects the surroundings. He especially doesn't like to be teased or disturbed.
Alfred Bram, "Animal Life"
Bram was wrong, says Japanese climber Makoto Nebuga. Not everyone recognizes a bear, especially if the person is scared and the clubfoot stands on its hind legs. Nebuga spent 12 years searching for the legendary yeti in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan and came to the conclusion that he had long been kept in many zoos around the world. The legend about him arose due to the fact that the Himalayan bear - "methi" - was confused with the "yeti" (not surprising, because the locals consider the bear to be a supernatural creature). Reality is rarely as mysterious as our ideas about it.
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After weighing all the pros and cons, we can say with 99% probability that Bigfoot people are fiction. However, as primatologist John Napier correctly noted, there is a certain limit to the number of evidence of an encounter with Bigfoot, after which they can no longer be explained by errors and hoaxes alone. One or two stories about the “hairy monkey with glowing eyes” can be ignored. One hundred thousand stories about this are a reason to think. We can only wait and analyze. Time will judge.
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 the strange creature describe in detail its fearsome appearance:
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. The 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 on 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 parts of the planet describe creatures of either female or male gender. This suggests that Bigfoots 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.
The places where the mystical creature lives are forests and mountains. Bigfoot in Russia was first recorded in the Caucasus. Eyewitnesses claim that as soon as they saw 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 the Chelyabinsk region encountered a humanoid creature. Despite his great fear, he managed to photograph the monster on his 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.
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 a complete description of 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 a 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 speak articulately, but made only shouts and isolated 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.
Man has always been interested in various inexplicable events, mysteries of nature, and strange cases. Almasts, Bigfoots, Yeti - most known as Bigfoot - are no exception - mysterious, mystical creatures. There have long been many legends and myths associated with them. Does Bigfoot really exist or is it all fiction and fairy tales? It is not possible to give a definite answer to this question. Many scientists believe that Bigfoot does not exist and are trying to find a scientific explanation for this. Meetings with them take place all over the world, but end very quickly. According to eyewitnesses, tall hairy creatures literally disappear before our eyes. They also find unusual traces that they leave. In the depths of forests, strange structures are often discovered from uprooted trees, something that a simple person cannot do.
Most often, these creatures live in places that are difficult for people to reach: high in the mountains or in the wilderness. Huge footprints were discovered in the Himalayas in 1936. In this region, the existence of the Yeti is taken very seriously. Thus, in Tibet they believe that snow people guard the entrance to the mystical city of Shambhala. Some Tibetan temples contain fragments of the remains of humanoid creatures. At the beginning of the 20th century in Mongolia there was a case of meeting with a baby almasty. Unfortunately, he died, but eyewitnesses say they saw a small body covered with fur. In 1967, the Americans managed to capture unique footage on video: a tall, hairy figure was running along the bank of a stream. It is believed that this was a female yeti. At the beginning of the 19th century in Abkhazia, Prince Achba caught an extraordinary creature, which turned out to be a wild woman. The savage's appearance was quite specific. She was about two meters tall, her muscular body was covered with thick dark brown fur, and her eyes were red. The woman’s wide face with rough and large features had a flat nose, and the lower jaw with powerful teeth protruded forward. She had rather thick and long fingers. Thanks to her appearance, the captive received the name Zana.
Bigfoot Zana, yeti
Later it was presented to Prince Ece Genaba. He kept the snow woman in a pit surrounded by a palisade because of her extraordinary strength. The wild woman frightened those around her with her abilities; she was incredibly resilient. She also behaved quite aggressively, throwing herself at people. However, over time, she was gradually calmed and tamed. A hut was built for her, into which she was later moved. The female almasty learned to enter a room only with the owner’s permission and was able to carry out simple tasks. Thanks to her strength and power, she easily coped with hard work. Zana couldn’t talk, but she understood human speech, she wasn’t picky about food, and she refused to wear clothes. Only towards the end of her life did she begin to wear a loincloth. But she constantly took part in the prince’s festivities, during which she often drank alcohol and had relationships with men. The most interesting thing is that she had no external signs of aging. Presumably, the female Bigfoot died at the end of the 19th century during childbirth.
Having given birth to her first child without outside help, the woman wanted to bathe him in the river, but the water in it was too cold, the baby caught a cold and died. The same thing happened with the second child. After these incidents, people began to take away Zana’s newborns and raise them. She had four children: two girls and two boys. All the woman’s children grew up as absolutely normal people, albeit with their own characteristics. Almost nothing is known about the fates of two of them, but the boy Khvit and the girl Gamasa grew up in the same family. There was a rumor that their father was Ece Genaba himself. Zana's daughter died in the 1920s, Khvit lived to almost 70 years old and died in 1954.
Direct descendants of Zana
Zana's children grew up with ordinary children and were not particularly different from them. They all had their own families, children, and occupied a certain place in the community. Zana's son had dark skin, large lips, like representatives of the Negroid race, and straight, coarse hair. Khvit was tall, like his mother, and had superhuman strength. Local old-timers said that he could lift a chair with a person sitting on it with his teeth and dance at the same time. He also had an explosive character and often got into fights, as a result of one of which he lost his arm. Even with one hand, the descendant of the snow woman was excellent at gardening and field work.
Khvit - son of Zana
Khvit was married twice and had three children. His son Shaliko was given incredible strength; the man lifted the set table with his teeth. Khvit's son died as a result of an accident in the mountains.
Son of Khvit
A tragedy also happened to his daughter; she died from an electric shock. They say that during her life, Raisa had a unique gift - a woman could see with her skin: she stood with her bare feet on a newspaper and read what was written word for word.
Khvit's daughter in her youth
Daughter of Khvit
Gamasa also had a strong build, like her brother, her skin was dark in color and her body was covered with hair. A woman aged 60 died. Details about her life are unknown.
On the left is the skull of Khvit, on the right is presumably that of Zana
Igor Burtsev with the skull of Khvit, son of Zana
Scientists have been searching for the answer to this question for years. Carrying out various studies, it was found that the structure of the yeti’s son’s skull is significantly different from that of an ordinary human. It combines the structural features of Neanderthals and modern humans. The skull is unique and has no analogues in nature. Also erroneous were the assumptions that Zana was an African slave; her DNA did not coincide with the genes of Africans, because the hair of the Yeti and her descendants was straight, which is a significant distinguishing feature from representatives of the Negroid race. Igor Burtsev himself is absolutely sure that the wild woman is a Neanderthal, and her son is a hybrid with a modern man.
Historian Porshnev also believes that Yetis are Neanderthals. Presumably, these predecessors of modern man did not disappear, but continue to coexist with people. This fact is confirmed by the structure of the Bigfoot skeleton.
Some scientists have suggested that Bigfoot does not actually exist. These are ordinary people with mental disabilities who have left their place of residence and are hiding in the forests away from society.
Although from a scientific point of view there is no evidence of the existence of almasts, someone leaves traces of huge feet, scraps of dark long fur in different parts of the globe. There is an assumption that yetis come to us from a parallel world, perhaps that is why they appear out of nowhere and go into nowhere. Also, tree structures found in forests can serve as a portal for mysterious creatures. One thing is certain: the controversy surrounding Bigfoot will continue for many years to come. However, some mysteries must remain unsolved.
Fur samples collected around the world that were thought to be from Bigfoot are actually collected from common animals.
Yeti, Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Sasquatch - this is the name of a mysterious humanoid creature of enormous height, walking on two legs and covered with thick fur. According to the stories of some eyewitnesses who allegedly observed Bigfoot in the forests and mountains, in Altai, the Himalayas and North America, the mysterious creature looks like a giant monkey from Gigantopithecus (which became extinct a million years ago). Others argue that the yeti resembles a hybrid of a Neanderthal and Denisovan man, two extinct species of ancient humans.
It is noteworthy that science almost does not study Bigfoot, not counting cryptozoology, the scientific nature of which is highly questionable. Most scientists dismiss stories about Bigfoot as mostly fiction. As it recently turned out, it is quite possible that this is in fact the case. In particular, back in 2008, it was established that wool allegedly belonging to Bigfoot and discovered in the state of Georgia is actually a mixture of possum and gorilla hair. But, despite this, Yeti fans claim that in addition to fakes, there are still real specimens, it’s just that science leaves the question of Bigfoot without due attention.
Then scientists from Switzerland, Germany, France and the USA decided to finally resolve the question of whether Bigfoot really exists. Previously, the researchers collected samples of fur that were believed to belong to the Yeti. As a result, they ended up with 57 samples, which were kindly provided both by museums from around the world and by individual enthusiasts, including from Russia and India. Moreover, the age of the samples turned out to be very different, some were even stored for half a century.
At the first stage of the study, scientists immediately excluded what was not even wool, but various plant and artificial fibers. As a result, they were left with 37 samples, which were further subjected to genetic analysis. The main difficulty in carrying out the analysis was that Bigfoot's fur was contaminated with human DNA. Simply put, samples were grabbed by hand. Then the experts decided to send not all DNA for analysis, but only that which encodes the ribosomal RNA of mitochondria. It is mainly used to identify biological species.
During the analysis, seven more samples had to be discarded, since it was impossible to take enough material from them for laboratory determination of the species. The remaining thirty, as the study authors later reported, belonged to various animals. According to scientists, they could not possibly be the fur of an “unknown ape.” Thus, of the available samples, some of the hair belonged to raccoons, cows, deer, humans, porcupines and coyotes. There was even hair from a black-backed tapir, the only tapir found in Asia.
Although two samples still attracted the attention of scientists. The DNA of polar bears was isolated from them, although the wool was brought from Bhutan. According to experts, it is possible that modern Himalayan bears had among their ancestors ancient polar bears, which then completely disappeared from these lands. It is noteworthy that people living in the Himalayas use three words to refer to different types of Bigfoot. One of them also means a bear.
Meanwhile, scientists assure that there is no reason to claim that the submitted wool samples are the results of fraud. The fact is that human psychology is a complex thing, so belief in the existence of a mysterious creature can greatly influence perception. Therefore, it might indeed have seemed to many that they had met a yeti, so the fur found at the scene was taken as evidence of the existence of a mysterious creature. It’s good that the latest genetic analysis methods have helped to find out who the discovered hair actually belongs to.
However, true Yeti fans can hardly be convinced that Bigfoot is just a myth. In addition, some samples were indeed not analyzed due to their poor condition. But most importantly, for a true parascience fan, scientific methods and scientists' research do not matter. So Bigfoot fans will still continue to go out in search of this creature.