Among the many questions people have related to the world of the supernatural and unusual, one of the most popular is: “Where does Bigfoot live?” Each of us has heard about him, many people imagine what he looks like and... however, that’s where the knowledge ends. Therefore, some are very skeptical about the fact of its existence.

Yes, indeed, photos of Bigfoot on the Internet will make anyone believe that he really exists. However, for some reason all the images and videos are very blurry, and it is very difficult to clearly see what kind of miracle of nature is posing for the camera. But, despite this, mystery lovers not only confidently describe the creature’s appearance, but also tell where Bigfoot lives! But first things first.

In different cultures

Big Foot different peoples called differently. Yeti is its second most popular name in our country. In addition, it is called Advoksha, Almast, Yeren, Bigfoot... As they say, the names are different, but the essence is the same. Information about where Bigfoot lives and what he looks like is very similar across cultures. This fact can make one believe in its existence, because there can’t be so many coincidences in different cultures?

What does Bigfoot look like?

People interested in this issue claim that the Yeti is about two meters tall. A massive physique (broad shoulders, muscular limbs) is terrifying. Its body is covered with fur. Various eyewitnesses claim the opposite: some say that Bigfoot's hair is black, others say it is white. And some are sure that Bigfoot can only have brown or brown fur. A certain group of people tend to believe that hair color changes depending on the time of year and location.

It is generally accepted that yetis inhabit wooded areas and mountain areas. In general, those places where the likelihood of occurrence is minimal. There they hunt animals and eat plant foods - they live, perhaps raise their young.

One day, in 1921, a group of English climbers who had conquered Everest settled down for the night. Suddenly everyone heard a prolonged howl, and then saw a chain of footprints cutting through the slope. They were strikingly similar to human ones, except perhaps somewhat larger in size... It was after this mysterious creature nicknamed Bigfoot.

Some of our fellow citizens claim that Bigfoot also exists in Russia. It is assumed that he lives in the Urals.

Where did he come from?

Considering the fact that it is not even known whether Bigfoot actually exists, it is impossible to answer questions about who he is, where he came from and how long he has been living on the planet. Some say that these are wild people. And someone argues that the Yeti cannot be classified as Homo Sapiens, because it is quite possible that he is a hominid, that is

So, as you can see, there are approximately the same number of arguments for and against. Whether or not to believe in the existence of Bigfoot is up to you to decide.

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. 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 snow people, 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 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.

Yeti mysterious creatures

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 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 Cyclops 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 “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 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. 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

What does the legendary cryptid look like?

The most popular image of Bigfoot

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

The color of the coat can be different depending on the habitat - white, black, gray, red.

The faces are always dark, and the hair on the head is longer than on the rest of the body. According to some reports, the beard and mustache are completely absent, or they are very short and sparse.

The skull has a pointed shape and 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

In addition to the found hairline, the affiliation of which still remains 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. 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 meetings with unusual creature, in most cases 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 polar bear, which 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.

Since prehistoric times, human fear of the unknown has given rise to legends about bloodthirsty monsters living in places untouched by civilization. It is still unknown, for example, whether it exists only in fairy tales or whether there is real scientific evidence.

Myths and testimonies of ancient peoples

The legendary animal has many names, depending on the region where it was seen:

• Nepalese Yeti;
• American Sasquatch or Bigfoot;
• Australian Yowie;
• Chinese Yeren.

Titles minche And tzu-tech in the Tibetan language, the unknown beast is classified as a bear.

The Lepcha people of India, who live in the Sikkim Himalaya region, revere a "creature from the glacier" described as resembling a prehistoric one. hominid, considered the deity of hunting and appearance compares him to a bear.

In the Bon religion, the blood of the mi-rgod or “wild man” was used for special ceremonies.

Scientists study the yeti phenomenon

When eyewitness accounts were fragmentary and no records, bones or other physical evidence were found, anthropologists hypothesized that Bigfoot was a hominid, a descendant of Neanderthals who survived to this day. Carl Linnaeus came up with the name Homo troglodytes(cave man).

• The first documented tracks were described by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in the book “Mount Everest. Intelligence" in 1921. A guide from the local Sherpa people told the climber that he had seen what the Tibetans call metoh-kangmi or “wild man of the snows.”
• In 1925 photographer Tombazi on the slope of Zemu noticed a tall creature with red fur at an altitude of 4600m. above sea level, and also discovered footprints belonging to a bipedal, five-toed hominid with a foot length of 33 cm.
• In the territory former USSR in Abkhazia lives a family whose ancestor, according to stories local residents is the wild ape-like Zana. At the end of the 19th century, Prince Achba caught her and gave her to his vassal, who brought the savage to Tkhina. Rural centenarians say that Zana's body was covered with gray long hair, her height reached two meters, she ran faster than horses and carried weights without much effort.
• Since 1975 Candidate of Historical Sciences Igor Burtsev began studying the descendants of Zana. He managed to get permission to dig up and send for examination the skull of the son of an unusual woman, Tkhin. The results showed that these people came from West Africa. It is also believed that Zana was simply a mentally retarded runaway.

What does Bigfoot look like?

In popular culture, the image of Bigfoot as an ape-like creature has formed gigantic size with white skin and elongated forelimbs. People fear him as a monster that can drag away and eat people. This idea differs from the one that cryptozoologists form based on eyewitness accounts.

If we summarize the impressions of the lucky ones who saw the tracks of the animal and himself, the yeti really looks like a huge upright orangutan, whose height reaches 3 m. The body of the animal is covered with brown, gray or red hair, the head is approximately twice the size of a human and has a pointed shape.

He deftly moves through mountains and climbs trees, surpassing people in strength and speed. Scientists suggest that Bigfoot is an omnivore, feeding on small animals, insects and berries.

Where does the legendary Bigfoot live?

Judging by the legends, the descendant of ancient primates likes to hide in the mountains. Yeti is known in more than dozens of regions on three continents:

1. About meetings with the unknown " wild man“told in the Himalayas, Dagestan, Abkhazia, Bhutan, Pamir, the Caucasus, the Urals, Chukotka;
2. More than 300 evidence was recorded in China;
3. Arriving on the Australian continent, the Europeans encountered wild ape-like aborigines and even fought with them;
4. North America and Canada also have their own legend about the Sasquatch.

Since Bigfoot was encountered most often in the territory of the former USSR, in 1957. A Commission was created at the Academy of Sciences, which brought together scientists from related specialties (geologist, mountaineer, doctor, anthropologist) to study the phenomenon. However, this work did not produce serious results.

Does Bigfoot really exist?

At the end of the 20th century, only cryptozoologists and fanatics believed in the reality of the Yeti. The scientific community considered all information concerning the hominid to be erroneous or fabricated. However, in 2013 Oxford University professor Brian Sykes and his team carried out a genetic analysis of the hair of a mummified Bigfoot from Ladakh, northern India, and wool found by one of the inhabitants of Bhutan. These samples were between 20 and 40 years old. The result showed that the DNA of the samples matched 100% with the genetic material of the ancestor of polar bears, who lived during the Pleistocene era, that is, from 40,000 to 120,000 years ago.

After publishing this news, Brian Sykes continued to collect genetic material from everyone who claimed to have encountered the monster. The remaining samples obtained belonged to different types predators, domestic dogs, some turned out to be plant and even synthetic fibers.

In 2016, a paper was presented at the 69th Annual Anthropological Research Conference in the USA. It dealt with the study of teeth marks discovered in 2013-2014. in the Mount St. Helens area of ​​Washington State. Mitchell Townsend argued that the impressions on the rib bones of deer indicate a hominid with a jaw twice the size of a human. The scientist concluded that the animal that gnawed the ribs held them with one hand, as primates do.

IN beginning of XXI century, the approach to the issue of searching for information about ancient monsters has changed. If previously a big role was played by the subjective ideas of scientists about the findings and stories of witnesses, now there are tools that give accurate answers. Based on new data, debates continue in the pseudo-scientific community about whether Bigfoot exists or not. We can only wait for the next discoveries to put an end to this issue.

5 most reliable video facts of the existence of the Yeti

In this video, anthropologist Vladimir Perevalov will show real-life footage in which he managed to capture Bigfoot: