In the early 1980s, I went on a hiking trip to the Caucasus. Not long before that, students of the Zaporozhye Machine-Building Institute had visited it. It turns out that they accidentally drove Bigfoot out of the bear cave, who is sometimes called Almasty in the Caucasus.
They did not have time to photograph it, only the cave itself and the huge footprints left by the hominid in the snow were filmed. It was with these students that I went to the place where they saw the Almas.
I didn’t expect that we would be lucky to see Almasty. But soon after we came to the cave, he ran right in front of us, crossing the path. And again we did not have time to photograph it, only footprints in the mud (it was raining a little, and the path turned into mush). So I was convinced that the hominid exists!
After this incident, I turned for advice to the Kievite Igor Tatzla, who was seriously looking for Bigfoot. I took part in nine expeditions that he organized. It turned out that the fact that Almasty caught our eye in the afternoon was a great success.
It is actually nocturnal and can usually be seen in the evening twilight, at night, or at dawn. During the day, he sleeps in the caves.
Igor Tatzla believes that the mood of search engines should be good. Animals feel the emotional state of a person, and if they radiate aggression or anger, they will not let you near them. If you feel love for the environment, benevolence, they themselves can come within arm's length.
We saw Almasty several times, but our, then Soviet, equipment did not allow shooting at night, and high-quality foreign night vision equipment was not available. But we learned about one case that occurred on the Dorin-So river.
A truck got stuck at the river crossing. While they were waiting for the tractor to free the crossing, several buses piled up on the shore. People went out to stretch their legs. Among them was a Russian teacher, who was assigned to a mountain village.
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Suddenly, in the water, people noticed the corpse of a humanoid creature, probably killed by an avalanche or mudflow. The drivers even touched him with sticks. Soon the fast water carried away the body. The teacher, on the other hand, wrote about this case to Moscow, and then told the participants of our expedition.
In my life there were several meetings with Almasty. In 1985 we brought the students of the school of young technicians to the Pamirs. The gorge was narrow, and we gave all the good places for tents to children. I and the director of this school got a stone ledge above a mountain river. The ledge, it seemed to us, was quite reliable, and we set up our command tent on it.
And in the evening, as I understood, Almasty began to terrorize us. He pulled the ropes, pushed the tent and once even sat down on it. We jumped out, but did not see anyone. I immediately expressed to the director my thoughts about who worries us, but I could not imagine why this creature was driving us away.
Finally, we moved the tent to another, albeit very uncomfortable place, at the farthest end of the gorge. The terror has ended. And in the morning it turned out that the river washed away the bank, and the ledge, on which our tent originally stood, could collapse. It turns out that the mysterious Almasty warned us against danger!
Vladislav KANYUKA, Zaporozhye