Yekaterinburg travelers from the Wild North club study the photographs received from the Mansi hunters of Yamal. Traces of a huge creature are captured on them.
The Mansi sent photographs of their find to the Yekaterinburg traveler, a member of the Russian Geographical Society, Vladimir Anishchenko. The photographs taken in the taiga last fall on the Khulga River, a tributary of the Tekatlova, show traces of unusually large bare feet in the clay.
For comparison: on the left in the photo is the imprint of the boot of an adult man, on the right are traces of an unknown creature.
According to Mansi hunters, these are the footprints of the menkva, better known as the Yeti or Bigfoot.
Vladimir Anischenko, traveler:
- Judging by how deeply the footprint is pressed, it can be assumed that the owner of this foot weighed 250 kilograms. It is unrealistic to verify the authenticity of this photo at the moment. But I trust the hunter who gave me these photos. And I know how seriously the Khanty and Mansi take the Menkws. This may seem like a fairy tale to us. And for them - a part of nature, real forest giants.
Vladimir Anischenko is a member of the Ekaterinburg Wild North Travel Club, which is preparing an expedition to the Tekatlova River next June to try to find new evidence of Bigfoot's existence. According to Anishchenko, he is even preparing to take a plaster cast with him in order to take an impression of a footprint if found.
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Evgeny Svitov, head of the Wild North club:
- I've been to this river. We rarely fly there, because it is fishless, there are a lot of bears on the shores and it looks like there is a lost energy. Unreasonably, you want to get away from this place. This summer we will conduct surveys during the route. If successful, we will pass on our findings to scientists.
Beliefs about Bigfoot are widespread among the indigenous peoples of the North. So, in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, under mysterious circumstances, associated, according to local Mansi, with the appearance of the menkva, all residents left the village of Suevat-Paul. According to the stories of the former inhabitants of the village, the Mansi shaman cursed the village, after which a menkv settled in its vicinity, who entered the village at night, frightening the inhabitants.
All that remains of the once rich Sverdlovsk village of Suevat Paul
No one lives in Suevat Paula today. And 60 years ago it was a large village, whose inhabitants kept large herds of deer. The Sverdlovsk Film Studio even shot a film there about the happy life in the USSR of the indigenous peoples of the North.
