Today we will talk about Bigfoot. What Bigfoot looks like - photographs of eyewitnesses will help you understand this issue. In general, Bigfoot is such a humanoid creature, which looks very much like a primate. This is a mammalian creature.

What Bigfoot looks like - photos of eyewitnesses will help us clarify some details. According to many descriptions (and as can be seen from the photographs presented), Bigfoot is a creature between 2 and 3 meters tall. He has a rather dense, massive build. Bigfoot also has a pointed skull and long arms. They even reach below knee level. Bigfoot also has a short, massive neck and a protruding lower jaw.

Running Bigfoot.

Big Foot posing.

Bigfoot is approaching.

Bigfoot body.

A clear photograph of Bigfoot.

Zoom shot.

Bigfoot on a walk.

Bigfoot's foot resembles a human's.

The silhouette of Bigfoot is visible in the distance.

Bigfoot is captured from different angles.

Bigfoot on a walk.

Running away from someone.

Yeti.

We managed to photograph Bigfoot near the river.

Bigfoot is a creature that has become almost a legend. He has many names - Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot. Carl Linnaeus called it Homo troglodytes - “cave man”. Who was the first to tell the world that Bigfoot really exists? Michel Nostradamus also said that there is a creature on earth whose appearance is something between a huge man and a monkey. The first to mention the Yeti in passing was the traveler Colonel Wendell, who made an excursion to the Himalayas in the 19th century.

Appearance of Bigfoot Yeti

Photos of Bigfoot do not give a clear idea of ​​what Yeti looks like. Its appearance is based only on hypotheses and assumptions. They say that the yeti has a very dense physique, long arms, a pointed skull with a protruding frontal part and a very massive jaw. This is roughly how Carl Linnaeus described it.

Bigfoot Yeti is much taller and more massive than the average man, his height reaches 2 m or more

The body of the yeti is covered with fur. In some areas, people encountered a yeti whose hair was black, according to other eyewitnesses - red, while others claim that Bigfoot people are covered with gray (white) hair.

Interesting fact. All researchers and eyewitnesses agree that Bigfoot has a beard and mustache. Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot have an unpleasant odor, they live in caves and are great climbers. Although, there is an opinion that snow people build their nests among the crowns. A contradictory portrait, you will agree.

However, there is some pattern. , claim that relict hominids, as scientists call the snowy yeti, move on two limbs. Their growth varies depending on the area of ​​residence. So, in Central Asia, where Homo troglodytes is called Yeti, and in North America, where Bigfoot is called Sasquatch, their height does not exceed 1.5-2 m. Larger individuals live in the Himalayas and Tibet - up to 2.5 m. But African yetis are “babies” - up to 1.5 m.

Are there photos and videos about Yeti?

When approaching snowy yetis, people become dizzy and their blood pressure rises. Plus, the creatures act on a person’s subconscious, forcing them to simply not notice their presence. Bigfoot people inspire fear. When yetis appear nearby, the birds become silent and the dogs stop barking, and some simply run away in fear.

The Yeti Bigfoot allegedly hypnotizes all those who meet him

Attempts to shoot a video about the Yeti or take photos were very numerous, but the equipment stopped working as usual, and this is why researchers note the poor quality of pictures and videos about Bigfoot. The Yeti moves very quickly, and despite its rather large dimensions, some researchers tried to catch up with it, but to no avail.

Many eyewitnesses who tried to take a photo of the yeti claim that when he looks into a person’s eyes for a long time, he falls into a semi-conscious state, ceasing to be aware of his own actions. Maybe this is why many people simply forget to take out and connect the equipment to take photos and videos about Bigfoot people?

Interesting fact. All eyewitnesses claim to have seen a male yeti and a female yeti. Moreover, in different parts of the world. So, Bigfoot not only exists, but reproduces? Where do yetis actually live?

So who is the snowy yeti really? An alien or the progenitor of the human race, who somehow managed to survive while retaining primitive features? Perhaps the Yeti is the result of a failed experiment in crossing a primate and a human? It is known that similar experiences carried out by the Third Reich, but no documentary evidence has survived.

The habitat of the yeti is Africa or Asia?

In the annals of Buddhist temples in Tibet, ancient records of meetings of monks with mysterious creatures of enormous stature, completely covered with hair, have been preserved. It was in this part of Asia that Bigfoot, the Yeti, was first discovered. By the way, yeti is translated as “a creature that lives among the stones.”

Interesting fact. The first reports of snowmen appeared in the world press in the mid-50s of the last century. Their authors were climbers who were trying to climb the peak of Everest and were looking for suitable paths among the Himalayan rocks. The adventurers were replaced by groups of scientists, intrigued by the stories of the athletes. So, the hunt for the legendary Yeti has begun.

Plaster cast of the Yeti footprint found in Tibet

The prerequisite for the first serious study of the yeti was a series of fairly clear photographs taken by Eric Shipton during an expedition to the Himalayas (1951). The photographs were taken in the town of Menlung Glasir, which is located at an altitude of 6705 m. The photo shows the footprints of the Yeti, their size is 31.25 by 16.25 cm. From that moment on, scientists from all countries where the presence of huge monkey people had previously been recorded began to undertake very serious attempts to understand the origins of Sasquatch and Bigfoot.

Bigfoot Yeti in Russia

The Yeti phenomenon was also studied in Russia, namely in the Caucasus region. This was done by the historian B. Porshnev, and later by D. Kofman. Numerous stories local residents Meetings with snowmen, covered with hair and having enormous growth, were confirmed by the food supplies found by the researchers. Caucasian bigfoots are shy; when they see a person, they instantly disappear. According to eyewitnesses, a haze appears before the eyes, and when it disappears, the yetis seem to evaporate.

Interesting fact. Back in the 19th century, Przhevalsky, who was researching the Gobi, also encountered Bigfoot. However, the Russian government was afraid to allocate money for an additional expedition. Fear was fueled by statements from clergy who spoke of yetis as creatures from hell.

Meetings with the Bigfoot Yeti took place both in Kazakhstan, where they even had the name Kiik-Adam - “wild man”, and in Azerbaijan, where local residents called the Bigfoot Biabanguli.

Presumably a site of Bigfoot people in northern Russia

A hunter in the Chelyabinsk region almost collided head-on with a snowman. In 2012, in Chelyabinsk, a local huntsman had to meet a humanoid creature, in which the hunter immediately recognized the legendary Bigfoot. According to the hunter, he “got goosebumps,” but that didn’t stop him from filming a video of the Yeti on his mobile phone.

Since that time, the yeti's visits to the Chelyabinsk region have become more frequent. It is noteworthy that they are not afraid to go out, and come very close to places inhabited by people. Perhaps there are so many yetis that they are trying to expand the boundaries of their habitat?

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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 invented 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 with a giant hairy hominid in a garbage dump - 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 lack of powerful means in the 18th and 19th centuries mass media, capable of inflating any trifle into a sensation, but the fact remains: quite 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 they haven’t even survived here wild bulls and tarpans, and snow people became 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 “troglodyte 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 it The 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 others " 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

Retell modern stories about meeting Bigfoot does not make sense - most of them look like hunters' tales. They are either the same type or incredible, and in any case cannot be verified. Of particular interest are only general information about the known “species” of Bigfoot.

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. It may seem 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 stepped rarely, but did not lag behind - that is, he was several times larger than a person. 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 Native American tribes used words with the same root "sas" to mean 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 national park"Six Rivers" with a borrowed 16mm camera, intending to make documentary about Bigfoot in the style of "The Blair Witch Project". 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, it can be assumed 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 wild image life (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 they mate with?” Loch Ness monster in a small lake to survive to this day? Today, when the entire planet has already been photographed by satellites and put on public display in Google Earth, when Amazonian Indians dress in Chinese Adidas, and Tibetans take tourists around the mountains in Japanese jeeps, the relict hominid simply has nowhere 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 himalayan bear- “meti” - was confused with “yeti” (not surprising, because local residents consider the bear to be a supernatural creature). Reality is rarely as mysterious as our ideas about it.

In 2001, experts from Oxford University published research on the red hair gene. Based on the assumption that Neanderthals were red-haired, conclusions began to be drawn that red-haired people were their distant descendants (however, Oxford authors consider this version to be too bold).

Since 1969, Skamania County (Washington) has had a law making it a criminal offense to kill any humanoid creature.

Most Bigfoot people are "discovered" in cold climates ( northern latitudes, highlands). Habitat Primate habitats are much warmer. In addition, on the territory North America large apes (hominids) never lived. At least their remains have not been discovered so far, which casts doubt on the reality of Bigfoot.

The term “Bigfoot” appeared in 1921 after the Tibetan expedition of the Royal Geographical Society, when one of the Sherpas explained to the British that strange footprints in the snow (apparently wolf tracks) belonged to “kang-mi”, that is, “Bigfoot”.

European voodoo vases are mentioned by Tolkien. In "The Lord of the Rings" it is mentioned in passing about certain "woses": the Elf Saros called Turin a "wood-wose" (wood-wose). Today this word has been modernized to wood-house (forest house).

In 1978, in the Siskiyou National Forest (Oregon), the world's only Bigfoot trap was built - a small shed with a slamming door. It functioned for six years, but during all this time only bears were caught in it. It is now a tourist attraction.

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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.

Yeti is the well-known Bigfoot, living in the mountains and forest areas. On the one hand, this is a mythological creature whose secret thousands of scientists around the world are trying to unravel. On the other hand, this a real man, which because of its disgusting appearance hiding away from human eyes.

Today, a new theory has emerged that may prove that Sasquatch lives in the Himalayas (the mountains of Asia). This is evidenced by strange marks on the snow cover. Scientists suggest that the Yeti lives below the Himalayan snow line. To find irrefutable evidence, dozens of expeditions were assembled to the mountains of China, Nepal and Russia, but no one was able to prove the existence of the famous “monster”.

Features

Yeti are easy to spot and recognize. If you suddenly travel around the East, keep this reminder for yourself.

"Bigfoot reaches almost 2 meters in height, and his weight varies from 90 to 200 kilograms. Presumably, everything depends on the habitat (and, accordingly, on nutrition). He is a muscular, big guy who has thick hair all over his body. Coat color can be either dark gray or brown. In fact, this is only a general portrait of the famous Yeti, because in different countries it is presented in different ways."

History of the Bigfoot

Yeti is a character in ancient legends and folklore. The Himalayas welcome its guests with old stories, where the key figure is the formidable and dangerous Snowman. As a rule, such legends are needed not to scare travelers, but to warn against wild animals that can easily harm and even kill. The legends about the famous creature are so old that even Alexander the Great, after conquering the Indus Valley, demanded from local residents proof of the existence of the Yeti, but they only said that Bigfoot lives at high altitudes.

What evidence is there

Since the end of the 19th century, scientists have assembled expeditions to find evidence of the existence of the Yeti. For example, in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary visited Everest and discovered the scalp of an unknown beast. Several years later, research confirmed that it was not a scalp, but a warm helmet made from a Himalayan goat, which, after a long stay in the cold, could appear to be part of the head of Bigfoot.

Other evidence:

Russian expedition

In 2011, a conference was held, attended by biologists and researchers from all over Russia. This event was organized with the support of the government Russian Federation. During the conference, an expedition was assembled that was supposed to study all the data about Bigfoot and collect irrefutable evidence of his existence.

A few months later, a group of scientists announced that they had found gray hairs in the cave that belonged to the Yeti. However, the scientist Bindernagel proved that all the facts were compromised. This is evidenced by the work of Jeff Meldrum, an Idaho professor of anatomy and anthropology. The scientist said that the twisted tree branches, photographs and collected materials were crafts, and the Russian expedition was needed only to attract the attention of tourists from all over the world.

DNA samples

In 2013, geneticist Brian Sykes, who teaches at Oxford, announced to the whole world that he had research materials that included teeth, hair and skin. The study examined more than 57 samples and carefully compared them to the genomes of every animal in the world. The results were not long in coming: most of the material belonged to already known living creatures, such as a horse, a cow, a bear. Even the teeth of a hybrid of white and brown bear, who lived more than 100,000 years ago.

In 2017, another series of studies was carried out, which proved that all the materials belonged to Himalayan and Tibetan bears, as well as a dog.

Proponents of the theory

Despite the fact that there is still no evidence of the existence of the Yeti, entire communities dedicated to Bigfoot have been organized around the world. Their representatives believe that mysterious creature It's simply impossible to catch. This proves that the Yeti is an intelligent, cunning and educated creature that is carefully hidden from human eyes. The absence of irrefutable facts does not mean that such creatures do not exist. According to the theory of adherents, Bigfoot prefers a reclusive lifestyle.

Neanderthal mystery

Researcher Myra Shackley, in her book about Sasquatch, described the experiences of two tourists. In 1942, two travelers were in the Himalayas, where they saw black spots moving hundreds of meters from their camp. Thanks to the fact that tourists were located on the ridge, they could clearly distinguish the height, color and habits of unknown creatures.

“The height of the “black spots” reached almost two meters. Their heads were not oval, but square. It was difficult to determine the presence of ears from the silhouette, so perhaps they were not there, or they were too close to the skull. The broad shoulders were covered with a reddish color -brown hair that hung down. Despite the fact that the head was covered with hair, the face and chest were completely naked, which is why flesh-colored skin was visible. The two creatures emitted a loud cry that scattered throughout the mountain range."

Scientists are still debating whether these sightings were real or just the imagination of inexperienced tourists. Mountaineer Reinhold Messner concluded that big bears and their tracks were often mistaken for Yetis. He wrote about this in his book "My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Deepest Secret of the Himalayas."

Does Bigfoot really exist?

In 1986, tourist Anthony Woodridge visited the Himalayas, where he also discovered the Yeti. According to him, the creature stood only 150 meters from the traveler, while Bigfoot did not make any sounds or move. Anthony Woodridge spent a long time tracking the unnaturally huge footprints, which later led him to the creature. Finally, the tourist took two photographs, which he presented to the researchers upon his return. Scientists studied the pictures for a long time and carefully, and then came to the conclusion that they are genuine and not a fake.

John Napira - anatomist, anthropologist, director of the Smithsonian Institution, biologist who studies primates. He also studied Woodridge's photographs and said that the tourist was too experienced to confuse the image of the Yeti with a large Tibetan bear. However, more recently, the images were re-examined, and then a team of researchers came to the conclusion that Anthony Woodridge took a photograph of the darkened side of the rock, which stood upright. Despite the indignation of true believers, the photographs were recognized, although real, but not proving the existence of Bigfoot.

History knows of cases when scientists rejected existing facts if they went against their understanding of the world around them, they believed that these were just funny moments from people’s lives. So, in the middle of the 19th century. luminaries of zoology have declared a fake report that the mountain forests of the Congo River are inhabited by etti the bigfoot(although it would be more correct to write “Yeti”) is a humanoid creature that has a height of up to two meters and a mass of up to 200 kilograms. However, soon the whole world recognized the existence of amazing animals, which turned out to be gorillas. They are known for their massive build, well-developed muscles, powerful strength and ability to walk on their hind legs. Scientists classify them as members of the hominid family, which includes humans.

For decades, controversy has not subsided about the existence of the “Bigfoot” (etti, yeti, bigfoot, sasquatch), which is allegedly found in a number of high mountain and forest areas of the Earth. Many famous researchers have addressed this topic. However, they operate only with eyewitness accounts (photo and film materials are practically absent). Judging by them, etti “Bigfoot” is different from modern man stronger in build, long arms, pointed or square head and short neck.

It is alleged that mountain snowmen live in caves, and forest ones build nests on tree branches.

Scientists paid special attention to the Himalayan branch of Bigfoot. This creature has left the realm of fantasy and acquired features of exciting authenticity. The legend about him was confirmed not only by the inhabitants of the Himalayas, but also by travelers from the West. What was especially striking were the huge footprints in the snow and the strange scream-whistle.

Thus, the author of the book “ In the footsteps of Bigfoot » R. Izzard describes numerous footprints of the bigfoot, Atty, found by his expedition. However, most scientists express doubts about the possibility of the existence of Bigfoot.

A journalist was involved in the search for Bigfoot D. Dong and the first conqueror of Chomolungma, a New Zealander E. Hillary. Their research and surveys were conducted almost exclusively among Sherpas living within fifty kilometers of Qomolungma.

Evidence of the existence of the Etti is usually given by a photograph of a footprint found on the Menlung Glacier in 1951. E. Shipton And Dr. M. Ward. A participant in this expedition was E. Hillary, but at that time he was working in another valley. The reflection, surprisingly clear among a long chain of less distinct traces, has become the source of much speculation. Based on its shape and size, some anthropologists have reconstructed the bigfoot, Etti, in quite some detail.