In The Footsteps Of Bigfoot. As A Ukrainian Cryptozoologist Anatoly Sidorenko Yeti Was Looking For - Alternative View

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In The Footsteps Of Bigfoot. As A Ukrainian Cryptozoologist Anatoly Sidorenko Yeti Was Looking For - Alternative View
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The story of a man who follows his idea all his life, regardless of how others perceive it

In 1954, the British newspaper Daily Mail organized the first expedition to find Bigfoot in the Himalayas. The participants did not find the object of their research, but in the Pangboche and Khimjung monasteries they found scalps and mummified hands of a creature resembling a person. Major anatomical scientists - Teizo Ogawa from Japan, George Agogino from the USA, having studied their photographs, came to the conclusion: the remains belong to a creature that most resembles a Neanderthal man.

Modern scientists are skeptical about the possibility of Bigfoot existence. Academician Arkady Migdal cites the opinion of a famous oceanologist (without naming his name): "I really want to believe, but there is no reason." The words "no basis" means that the issue has been studied, but there is no evidence yet. This is the formula of the scientific approach: "I want to believe", but since "there are no grounds", then this belief must be abandoned."

Currently, there is not a single representative of the species living in captivity, no skeleton or skin has been found. Nevertheless, there are allegedly hair, prints of footprints, and several dozen photographs, videos (of poor quality) and audio recordings. The veracity of this evidence is in doubt. For a long time, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence was a short film directed by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Northern California. The film allegedly captured a female Bigfoot. However, in 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, for whom this shooting was made, there was evidence of his relatives and fully falsified;the forty-centimeter “footprints of the yeti” were made by artificial forms, and the filming was a staged episode with a man in a specially tailored monkey costume.

John Bindernagel, a Canadian wildlife specialist, wrote on his website: “Wildlife biologists like me view footprints as evidence of the presence of bears, deer, wolves and other animals in the area. Footprints are more important evidence of the presence of a species in the region than episodic appearances of the animal itself. I am convinced that the Yeti is an existing animal that deserves study, like any large mammal. Personally, I am more interested in the question of how it hibernates in the cold regions of North America than in discussions about whether it really exists."

The snow man (yeti, sasquatch, enzhey, avdoshka, almasty) is a legendary humanoid creature supposedly found in various highland or forest regions of the Earth. Its existence has not been confirmed at the moment. According to Wikipedia, it is a relict hominid, that is, a mammal belonging to the order of primates and the genus of humans, which has survived to this day from prehistoric times

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This is the story of a man who has been following his idea all his life, regardless of how others perceive it. About how you can enjoy an activity that seems insane at first glance.

Resident of Kramatorsk Anatoly Sidorenko graduated from the history faculty of the Kharkiv National University. Karazin. By education - an archaeologist, the main activity is small business. However, perhaps the main occupation of his life is the study of the nature of Bigfoot. This hobby has been going on for almost 40 years. Anatoly has collaborated with the University of Southern California and Discovery. Upon returning from his last expedition, the cryptozoologist shared with Focus its results and his observations over the years of study in general.

Shaitan's braids

On August 2, the next International Ukrainian-British Research Expedition completed its work. She is already the 31st in my track record. The team is Grigory Panchenko, PhD in Biology (Hannover - Kharkiv), Christopher Clark, Doctor of Astronomy (Edinburgh), biologist, head of the Zoological Center Richard Freeman (Exete), professional hunter David Archer (London), psychologist Jacqueline Tonks (Devon) and yours truly, archaeologist, cryptozoologist. We worked for two weeks in the North Caucasus, the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Russian Federation.

Our goals and methods are traditional. We collect absolutely all data (from interviews of eyewitnesses and folklore data to footprints, fingerprints, food debris in caves) about the existence of relict hominoids in the North Caucasus, or what is called "Bigfoot" in popular terminology. "Almasty", as the locals also say. Up-to-date information about behavior, habitat, dispersal, seasonal and physiological characteristics, and the sex composition of the population is very valuable. The ideal result, of course, is to find a corpse or a tamed individual, but we were a little late with the latter - judging by the accounts of eyewitnesses, the creature was fed or lived with someone 30-50 years ago.

Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous
Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous

Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous

Since chasing someone unknown through the mountains is not very promising, we use a long-chosen tactic - the search for bone remains, which are in no hurry to escape from the researcher. To do this, we focus on the places of avalanches and mountain stream beds, where water and snow carry the bodies and bones of their victims. In addition, we must look through and clear mountain caves, grottoes, where bones can lie for centuries. In other conditions, in the wild nature of the mountains, the remains are not preserved: they are either promptly eaten by scavengers - jackals, bears, vultures, vultures, or the movement of stones and mudflows grinds into dust.

Night observations are very effective. Unpleasant, hard, boring, scary, cold or wet. We put cameras for night photography. True, if in a foreign research theater they allow you to capture, for example, a Tasmanian marsupial tiger or rare tropical cats, then our results are somewhat more modest. I can’t call it a success the fact that during the last expedition in 2013, Almasty filmed and took away one of the cameras, caring little that it costs decent money.

In general, our results are as follows: one and a half dozen valuable eyewitnesses who have completed the picture of the geography and behavior of the creature under study. They gave new dates, observation points, features of behavioral reactions.

I was lucky to capture the braids, braided almasts in the manes of four horses. Moreover, two of them, apparently, met with the same "hairdresser". The animals belong to different owners, but they grazed on the same highlands. According to the owners, the pigtails appeared at night, 2-4 days before our arrival. “Shaitan weaves,” they say.

These are loops of hair, twisted strands, braids with a braided strand speak, firstly, about the high kinematic abilities of the hominoid hand, and secondly, about its certain mental development. After all, a person with mental retardation and a child cannot tie the knots. In a mentally ill person, the nodes are unsystematic, florid. Almasty can both tie and untie knots, but somehow not humanly. On the last expedition, we found a small arch made of woven grass, and even earlier - beds made of woven reeds in several caves. This year we received information about a creature that connected the tops of young pines into a kind of hut. We also saw knots on growing young corn - we have not seen this before either.

There were no tracks. Now it is dry in the mountains, there is no dirt, and no traces remain on the grass.

Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous
Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous

Inhabitants of the mountains. In the Caucasus, people are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous

I had to search earlier

The inhabitants of the Caucasus have different attitudes towards the existence of Almasta, just like ours. Someone does not believe. Whoever saw it knows. Not everyone tells, of course. This is considered a bad omen among the Muslims there. Like the Tibetans, Mongols, Udege …

This year we interviewed 15 people in 15 days. They described different cases.

- My cousin, an athlete, 35-year-old Timur Khamizov, saw Almasty in July 2001 or 2002. He lives in the village of Malka, and worked on a farm across the river. One evening, already in the dark, I was walking home. In order not to go far around the bridge, I decided to wade across the river. Timur undressed, crossed over to Malka with things in his hands and was about to get dressed when he saw that someone was also crossing the river. And it goes where it is deep. The brother shouted: "It's deep!" Then I saw that it was not a man. Looks - and that one, like a wardrobe, wide shoulders - from our two, this was especially striking. Very tall - where Timur was waist-deep, that one knee-deep. The head is sharp, sits on the shoulders without a neck. Black color.

After Timur shouted, he turned around and ran. But not across the river, but along it, and ran against the current. The brother was very frightened, grabbed his clothes and rushed to the village. He rushed until on the street the familiar guys called out: "Why are you running naked?" He only then came to his senses and dressed. For the first time I saw Almasty and was very scared, moreover, that the guy is strong. Since then, at night one tries not to go there, ” Salim Khamizov, a 30-year-old agricultural worker, told me.

Kyazim Kurdanov, a 59-year-old pensioner, says that in the past, Almasts often came directly to villages. 30 years ago, he saw a creature in his own garden.

- The men and I are going to celebrate the New Year. They killed a bull, took vodka, but I draw your attention - they haven't drunk a drop yet! We had a friend nicknamed Belenky. He is older than me and therefore had to be a toastmaster. Time passes, and I look - Belenky is gone. I went to look for him. I see - standing in the garden near a fence made of a chain-link netting, and on the other side - Almasty, and Belenky is talking to her about something. The creature looked like an ordinary Balkar woman, even dressed in women's clothing. The face is roundish. The hair on the head is voluminous, like Angela Davis.

I went up to Belenky and asked: "What are you talking to her about?" She immediately disappeared, I didn’t even understand where, but my friend didn’t answer, he went to the house,”recalls Kyazim.

Basically, people in the Caucasus are unanimous: it was necessary to search earlier, 40-50 years ago, when this population was still numerous.

- Now it is not left at all, - say the locals.

2-3 meetings per village per year is not enough. 20 years ago, more group observations were noted - families, a woman with a baby, and even a group of 5–8 individuals were seen. In recent years, there have been reports of only single hominoids (including children), mainly males. They rarely come to villages, where it is now too noisy.

Many factors have contributed to the decline in the Bigfoot population. First, due to the active movement of peoples in the XX century (war, migration), the viral background is changing. Each new "alien" brings new diseases against which the yeti has no immunity. Secondly, the population used to feed them. Not anymore. Plus, with the advent of firearms, many were killed. Noisy and aggressive people drove the Almasts into the most remote gorges, where there is little food - they killed the hoofed animals, and the gophers were exterminated. Due to this, there are fewer wild birds, and the plants on the plains are more likely food for huge herds of livestock.

Finally, the water in the rivers is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. The same applies to the river fish that the yeti eats. That is, the cause of extinction is the destructive influence of man on the surrounding nature. Almasty stayed where there were few people.

Large populations of relict hominoids still exist in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, Northern India), a kind of ape-like orangpendek still lives in Indonesia, and Bigfoot in the USA. Siberia is big. There is enough space to search. But in the Carpathians there are only one or two families left, no more. This local population is doomed.

In the Caucasus, they believe that one should stay away from Almasta. So many accidents are associated with them that you have to agree with this.

Who's that in your trunk?

It all started a long time ago - in my student years, almost 40 years ago. I wanted to discover one of the secrets of the Earth, to learn something new and unknown, to do good to mankind, which did not really need it. Ordinary youthful feelings, as it should be at 19 years old.

Then he saw something, was impressed. Then I became angry that we could not find a skeleton or at least a skull and there was no normal photographic equipment to capture it. We found traces, beds, caves, fingerprints, hair, but I want new results. It's like Don Juan: "The best woman is new."

For the first time on film. The most famous still from the 1967 Gimlin-Patterson film, in which the female Bigfoot was captured
For the first time on film. The most famous still from the 1967 Gimlin-Patterson film, in which the female Bigfoot was captured

For the first time on film. The most famous still from the 1967 Gimlin-Patterson film, in which the female Bigfoot was captured

Was there skepticism about existence? Sure. And not only me. When you chase someone elusive for many years to no avail, frustration and fatigue come. Thank God, he appeared on time, like the devil out of the box. Either he threw stones at my friend Grigory Panchenko, now he ran past me like a turpentine man. The skepticism quickly vanished. This year there was one personal observation, but it was more upsetting than happy. Well, I ran to myself in the dark along the sea-buckthorn thickets, did not touch anyone. First one way, then the other. They did not have time to photograph, no traces remained. Zero sense. When he took the bait and left fingerprints or took out the gophers from the traps - it was much more informative.

It is often asked why the main goal of every expedition is not to find. Let's catch it, and then what to do? Carry to Ukraine through the Goptovka checkpoint?

- And who is that in your trunk? Do you have documents for it? What about smuggling? - the border guard will look into the car.

It is advisable to study the creature in nature, and not shoot or catch it.

So far, we have enough footprints and trails, food debris and excrement, interviews with local residents. Normal relations with them, full-fledged testimony are half the success of any expedition.

Why learning is important and not profitable

Internationally, cryptozoology (the science of secret animals. - Focus) is poorly developed. There are countries where this science was born, but for a number of reasons did not develop, for example France. There are countries where there is someone to run and there is someone to study, like the United States. There are countries where there is someone to run, but you can only study with special permission - this is China. There are countries where he runs, but you cannot study, and even the photo you took belongs to the state - this is Nepal. In the former USSR, despite the opposition of the KGB and the party leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, cryptozoology got an excellent start and made good groundwork. There are a couple of good specialists in Ukraine, but no money. In the Russian Federation, about the same. We have everything on sheer enthusiasm, at our own or partner expense. A good group works in Great Britain, we became friends with it, we travel together. In some ways they are stronger, in some we are.

Why is studying Bigfoot nature important and why should you take it seriously? Firstly, in my opinion, without this it is impossible to fully understand correctly the evolution of Homo sapiens himself. Second, you can get practical material on how modern people can improve. Almasty perfectly tolerates cold, oxygen starvation, it has an amazing efficiency in relation to the food consumed.

However, I believe that such studies are not beneficial to everyone. We will have to rewrite thousands, if not more, dissertations, revise the cardinal issues of anthropogenesis. For many scientists, this is the collapse of their scientific careers. Just like in the 1990s, when dozens of institutes and hundreds of departments of the history of the CPSU were closed, tons of expensive waste paper went to the landfill, and the masters of ideology went to shuttle traders. This is extremely unpleasant for the church. Although Islam and Buddhism fully find explanations for this creature and their doctrines, this does not contradict.

Today we are conventionally talking about relict hominoids - legendary humanoid creatures. Presumably - these are large australopithecines, like Australopithecus Boyes or Australopithecus robustus. These are not people! I emphasize that these creatures are evolutionarily more primitive.

Instead of an afterword

What is the dream of a person who has spent so much time and energy on following in the footsteps of the legendary creature? About a certain recognition, about the fact that those around him also believe in his reality and treat him as seriously as the existence of a rare species of monkeys or tigers. In turn, society will only develop confidence after it sees concrete evidence.

You need to understand that cryptozoology will not be on the rails of classical science in the near future. Consequently, Anatoly Sidorenko, his colleagues on the expedition and the rest of the lovers of the incredible, with their searches, will answer the questions that are of concern to them only. And there, who knows - perhaps one day they will find something that will turn the world perception of a wild man.

Lyubov Sidorenko