Stories about Bigfoot appear in the press with enviable regularity. The indisputable facts about the existence of strange, terrible hominids are overgrown with a snowball of rumors and, in the end, are announced by representatives of the scientific community as pseudo-studies. But how, then, can one explain the repeated encounters between man and yeti, many of which have remained documented on film? Let's try to figure it out in more detail.
Russian searches
It is well known that the search for Bigfoot was carried out in Russia a hundred years ago. At the beginning of 1914, a certified zoologist Vitaly Khakhlov wrote to the Academy of Sciences information that he was able to detect undoubted signs of the existence of a new species of animals on the territory of Kazakhstan. The zoologist even managed to give the species a name, Primihomo asiaticus, and demanded a whole expedition from the Academy. Unfortunately, the First World War soon began and Soviet scientists simply did not have the resources to search for some semi-mythical animal.
Meeting on Everest
By the middle of the last century, climbers from all over the world began to explore the highest peaks of the planet. Modern equipment allowed daredevils to climb to such heights that it was literally breathtaking. Around the beginning of the 1950s, a wave of information about the encounters of strange creatures allegedly living high in the mountains swept the world. The case of the British climber Eric Shipton, who managed to capture the footprints of the Yeti during the conquest of Everest, can be considered a landmark.
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Izzard's expedition
The British press was so excited by such a loud sensation that they even sent a special expedition to the mountains. It was headed by the Daily Mail journalist Ralph Izzard, who had previously received his doctorate in zoology. Izzard did not manage to catch the Bigfoot, but the nosy hack managed to get into the holy of holies of mountain Sherpa inhabitants - high-mountain monasteries. And here he found evidence that huge, fur-covered half-people, half-beasts existed right at the monasteries. Frightened to trembling knees, the journalist hurried to get away from the mountains and never again agreed to even an interview about his expedition.
For administrative use
Another expedition of Soviet scientists to the Himalayas took place in 1959. It was headed by Professor Boris Porshnev, who later became the founder of a whole new science, hominology. All data from the expedition was encrypted. It is only known that in 1963 Porshnev presented to the Academy of Sciences his monograph "The Current State of the Issue of Relict Hominids", also published with the mark "strictly for official use."
Deadly knowledge
Boris Porshnev has repeatedly tried to publish his monograph. He even collected an entire book "On the Beginning of Human History", contrary to the intrusive recommendations of the authorities to keep the history secret. The prominent scientist has always led an active life and was an athletic person. Nevertheless, shortly before publication, Porshnev suffered a sudden heart attack, which the zoologist did not survive.
Who are these animals
But scraps of the monograph still leaked to the press. The year 1974 was already relatively free. The published excerpts from Porshnev's book showed that the scientist considered the "snowmen" to be Neanderthals, who managed to survive to this day. Porshnev argued that this side branch of human evolution was able to adapt to life without the use of fire, tools, and even without speech.
American footprint
Interest in semi-mythical hominids reignited in 1967. American traveler Robert Patterson filmed a female hominid in Northern California. However, the Smithsonian Center hastened to declare the recording a fake and put it on the far shelf. It is worth mentioning that Patterson - a healthy, robust traveler in his prime - died suddenly of brain cancer shortly after starting his cinematic career.
Human-animal hybrid
The most frightening version of the origin of the yeti is vivisection. Even in the Middle Ages, alchemists made considerable progress in their attempts to create an artificial creature, so what prevents modern, much more prepared scientists from going the same way? More recently, the biography of Academician Pavlov's student Ilya Ivanov was declassified. Since the early 1920s, it turns out, Ivanov has been conducting government-sponsored human-chimpanzee crossbreeding experiments. Has he succeeded? Considering that the experiments lasted more than 10 years, it is quite likely. Moreover, like other researchers of Bigfoot, Ivanov died under very mysterious circumstances.