The US National Park Service will spend nearly $ 150,000 researching unexplained glows, werewolf animals and powerful landscape features, according to the Washington Free Beacon
This research program aims to systematize "the knowledge, experience and beliefs of the population in the Bering Strait region regarding supernatural phenomena."
These include, in particular, "sea monsters, unexplained glow, werewolf animals, as well as landscape elements with special power, and other similar phenomena."
The corresponding three-year project, as the newspaper notes, was approved last year, and the first $ 50,000 for it have already been allocated to "the non-profit organization Kaverak, serving citizens of Eskimo, Aleutian or American Indian descent in the Bering Strait region between Alaska and Russia."
According to the publication, we are talking about one of the projects within the framework of the program "Common heritage of Beringia", created at one time on the initiative of the American and Soviet presidents - George W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Speaking about it, the representative of the National Park Service John Quinley explained that the program "promotes the formation of a climate of mutual understanding, as well as the development of natural resources and the development of cultural ties between the indigenous peoples of northwest Alaska and northeast Russia."
“The US Congress annually allocates about $ 650,000 for this program,” added Quinley. "This budget pays for research on natural and cultural resources carried out by a wide range of partners, including non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, tribal governments and indigenous groups in the region."
Andrey Shitov
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