In the 1990s, I worked as a paramedic on air ambulance helicopters. Our office was located in Nyurba, and we were often called by reindeer herders, hunters, geophysicists, and many others who needed medical assistance. Distances there are long, it happened that you would fly for hours to a sick or injured person.
One winter, an urgent call came from the Amakinskaya expedition, which was looking for diamonds. There the man was crushed by a bear. Even on takeoff, our doctor Tikhonov said:
- Winter, the bears are sleeping, probably a connecting rod.
And so we fly to Old Kutugun, overboard minus 40 degrees. Below us, behind the windows, the taiga floats with its frozen rivers and hills. Two hours later, we landed at the equipped site of the base camp of geophysicists. After waiting for the blades to rise, we climbed out of the helicopter. We were met and escorted to one of the tents.
A man of about forty was lying on the bunk and breathing heavily - pale, eyes closed. We were told that he went to check the traps and, apparently, came across a bear that did not go into hibernation.
It's good that there was one more person following. He heard two shots, came running and saw a battered, unconscious geologist. There he would have frozen, but a friend dragged him to the camp.
After examining the wounded, we came to the conclusion that he should be hospitalized in Irkutsk, as his ribs, arm and a serious concussion are broken. Abrasions, however, were few, which is atypical for a bear victim.
And then the geophysicist who took the comrade to the camp said:
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- It wasn't the bear that patted him. I saw the tracks, the bear is not like that. This is definitely a Bigfoot. Footprints of this size (he spread his palms about fifty centimeters). There was a lot of blood in the snow. Apparently, Seryoga hit him. He left in the direction of the hill. A Yakut reindeer breeder said that he once saw him near a herd - so big, hairy, like an orangutan, but twice as large.
We looked at each other. Then they gave the wounded man injections, put a splint on his arm, and the guys on stretchers carried him into the turntable. He did not regain consciousness.
Chuchuna in the myths of the Evens and Yakuts is called the local analogue of the Bigfoot. According to the stories of the residents, this is a wild man living in mountainous impassable places. Differs in high growth, strong constitution, physical strength, abundant hair. Dressed in animal skins, has a weapon - a knife, a bow with arrows. He avoids the society of people, when he sees a person, he hides. According to legend, he stole deer, food and women from people.
The helicopter took off to a height of thirty meters and took the direction to the hill, towering not far from the camp. And then we all saw through the window a hairy humanoid creature of very tall growth, about three meters, standing among the trees. It stood with its bloody hands raised as if calling us.
My colleague rushed to the pilot, but he flatly refused to sit down, saying that there was no place for landing: “And why do you need this monster? It will tear you all up here! So we left Bigfoot, apparently dying of gunshot wounds, on this hill.
Many years have passed, and I still reproach myself, and everyone else, for not helping this creature. After all, apparently, he asked us about it.
Galina Vladimirovna KUZMINA, Simferopol