The All-Russian Conference of Researchers of the Unknown has ended in the Perm Territory. Its participants found footprints of Bigfoot in the local anomalous zone
“Yeti breaks branches or tops - marks the territory,” explained Igor Burtsev, director of the International Center for Hominology, and a leading cryptozoologist in Russia. "Now we no longer need to collect evidence of Bigfoot's existence - there are more than enough of them!"
But the head of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, needs proof. Two years ago, he ordered the opening of an exhibition dedicated to Bigfoot, and later announced a prize of 1 million rubles to anyone who finds a mysterious creature.
As soon as the first mosquitoes appear in May, cryptozoologist Anatoly Fokin comes into the forest, strips naked and stands until the bloodsuckers bite him from head to toe. Then the swollen body buzzes for three days, but Anatoly is only glad: the body produces an enzyme that will no longer feel the pain from the bites. And this is how he needs it: every year, while it's warm, Fokin spends in the forest. He has one goal: “I grew up in these places and from childhood I remember my grandmother's stories about the devil and other evil spirits that live in the area. Have you heard the version that the goblin is the Bigfoot?"
He wants to find him by all means. Not to catch, not to put in a cage, but at least to photograph. “I put feeders for him, and next to him I fix cameras in the trees. True, they are triggered with a delay, so so far we have not been able to photograph it. In addition, this creature has supernatural powers, so he manages to avoid meeting people."
Anatoly chose a forest area of 90 by 50 km for his fishing. I bought a hut in the abandoned village of Razboyny Bor, which can only be reached by car. On the other side of the array I bought another one. He lived in them in turn and, while the equipment was guarding the hominoid forest, he drove around the neighborhood, talked with the population. “I wrote down about 30 testimonies from people from different villages, strangers to each other,” he says.
The oldest story he heard happened in October 2001. Huntsman Boris Liberov from the village of Suvodi went to the hazel grouse forest to shoot. At some point, I heard branches crackling nearby. I thought moose. He turned his head and saw two creatures covered with gray-gray fur - something between a monkey and a bear. One meter three in height, the other - from a person. The smaller one was jumping up and down, and the parent (who else would it be?) Tapped him on the head with his paw. The huntsman blew out of fright on the whistle that he had with him, and took off. Then the Kozlovs stumbled upon the yeti - they were driving a tractor past the forest. Even later, the local hunter Andrey Skriabin. Sitting by the fire, he felt with his back that someone was behind him. He turned around - a huge gray-haired figure loomed about a hundred meters. I had to leave the dinner for the stranger, just to carry his own legs.
Recently, Anatoly Fokin changed his place of deployment and set up a "base" for himself in a more dense area of Vyatka, 350 km from Kirov. But they continue to call him from Razboiny Bor. There, last fall, father and son went into the forest to pick mushrooms and saw a tall creature covered with ash-gray fur moving rapidly behind the bushes. It disappeared and appeared, and its body was absolutely straight. The oldest of these two witnesses was a hunter with 50 years of experience, so he could not confuse the Yeti with any animal.
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“Do you see the broken crown of your head? This is Bigfoot, his handiwork”, - Anatoly and I are walking through the forest, and I anxiously begin to look around. “Tell me, - I pull myself together, - it turns out that you have no proof?
The stories of the local population are a kind of folklore, you can't sew it to work”. “How is it not? - the interlocutor is clearly offended. - Yes, photos and videos have not yet been taken, but there are plenty of other facts! I managed to lure the hominoid to one of the feeders, and then found a bed from which he watched me bring the food. There are broken tops of spruce and pine trees, and finally there are moose carcasses, from which the skin has been torn off in a strange way!"
And Anatoly shows where the oddities are. The bear, stripping off the skin, steps on the carcass with its hind paw, and tears it with its front paw. Or rolls the hide with a roller. But at the same time, there are always claw marks. And here it happened that they found a skin wrapped around a tree and without torn marks - this means that the carcass was fixed on the tree and refreshed. "No animal does that!" - Fokin asserts.
Ten years ago, another sensation was discussed on Vyatka: pensioner Valery Sergeev discovered a chain of barefoot footprints imprinted on a forest road. The foot length reached 35 cm! Sergeev himself assured that since 1969 he had met with the Yeti four times. “We then went to the site,” recalls Andrei Polozov, a journalist. - The tracks were real, not a fake, and I still have no explanation for them. We made casts and calculated from the step width that the creature was 2 m 30 cm tall."
Over the years of searching, Anatoly Fokin came to the conclusion: a whole family of humanoid creatures lives on Vyatka. "I will definitely find at least one, do not hesitate!" - he says goodbye. And the point here, it seems, is not at all in a million rubles …