For many decades this has been one of the most popular mysteries of nature. Different peoples call it in their own way - Yeti, Sasquach, Bigfoot, Kaptar, Gul-Biyavan, Alamas, Bigfoot … There are many names, but there is still not enough convincing evidence of its existence.
So this fall, disappointing reports appeared in the media: a study of another portion of hair, allegedly belonging to one of the Yeti living in Russia, showed that in reality they are of animal origin.
For new material evidence in the Bigfoot case, the correspondent turned to the head of the Russian International Center for Hominology Igor Burtsev.
The most famous evidence of Bigfoot's existence is a short film filmed in 1967 in California, where the American Patterson managed to capture a hairy humanoid creature making his way through the forest jungle. For half a century there have been disputes about the authenticity of these frames. The skeptics' verdict is unambiguous: the scene is staged, and the role of bigfoot is played by an ordinary man dressed in animal skin and disguised as a hominoid.
- At least three different people since then have stated that they are the leading actors in Patterson's film. But it is precisely such an abundance of artists that best convinces of their deception, - Igor Burtsev is sure. - Although, of course, other, objective evidence is needed. After the Canadian Rene Dahinden brought the Patterson film to our country, I studied it a lot. In total, there are 960 frames in the film, and I scrolled each one through the enlarger and studied it carefully. Only on one of them - No. 343 - you can clearly see the profile of the forest stranger. The comparison showed that it is most similar to the profile of the so-called fossil Rhodesian man.
It was possible to involve independent experts in the examination. Professor of biomechanics, Doctor of Science Dmitry Donskoy, having analyzed the gait of the creature captured on the film, made an unambiguous conclusion: the film does not feature a person, since the nature of the movements of this "hairy" is not at all human. And after examining the plaster casts of the traces of the mysterious Bigfoot made after the filming by Patterson, Professor Donskoy noted their full correspondence to the movements of the creature in the film. (By the way, we took these casts for checking at 38 Petrovka, in the forensic laboratory, and there the trace investigators confirmed that the tracks were real.) Another comment was obtained at the Institute of Orthopedics and Prosthetics. After watching Patterson's film, the institute said they did not notice any signs of imitation of movements in it.
Really, for so many years after Patterson, no one has been able to film or video footage with Bigfoot - if he really exists?
- Now there are several such shootings, but their quality is very low.
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The finds of architectural creations of hominoids have already become traditional - pyramids made up of several broken trees, wood arches …
- Search engines working in the northwestern regions of Russia have noticed that the yeti sometimes tilt two young trees towards each other and weave their tops. And sometimes for some reason they arrange more complex structures in the forest. For example, one of the trees is broken, bending it at an angle to the ground, and fixed in this position by the branches of a neighboring tree. An impressive trunk weighing at least 150-200 kg can even jam in a fork in a pine or birch tree horizontally at a height of several meters above the ground. Here is a photograph of a similar “artifact”: the top of one tree is brought under the bough of another tree - broken off and turned upside down. But - a rather thick tree is broken, bent at a right angle, and the trunk is twisted at the break. By chance, from the wind, this cannot happen,and an ordinary person cannot do such an exercise.
By the way, I happened to see very similar designs in America, in the state of Tennessee. I was invited there by Janice Carter, the owner of one of the farms, with whom we have been in correspondence since 2002. The fact is that Janice's grandfather picked up a Bigfoot cub in the forest many years ago. He left the baby, called him Fox, taught him to pronounce some English words and phrases. Then the grown-up Fox returned to the free state familiar to his family, started a family, but did not leave these places. Fox's "clan" regularly visit the farm's inhabitants and from time to time find their own food there - over 20 years, according to Janice Carter, Bigfoot stole and ate more than 60 goats. She herself met the leader while still very young, almost 40 years ago.
Why, with such close contacts with Bigfoots, did the owners of the farm not take a single photograph of these legendary creatures over the years?
- As Janice said, her grandfather basically did not want to photograph them, and she herself continued this tradition …
But you managed to "find" these savages? And what if the heartfelt story with Fox is invented?
- Hominoids are careful and avoid being seen by a stranger. However, the owner of the farm showed me the forest shelter of the Bigfoot family. This "nest" was lined with hay, which its builders were not too lazy to bring from the nearest haystack, located 200 meters away. Who else could have done this? After all, strangers do not go there: a private territory for kilometers around. In addition, we collected a lot of hair from the "nest". The American primatologists who studied them came to the conclusion that they belong to an unknown species of anthropoids.
I happened to see traces of Bigfoot stay in another American state - Michigan, where I spent several months in one of the farms last year. Territories there are sparsely populated, and the savages feel at ease. A local resident Robin, whom we met over the Internet, said that forest savages often come to visit at night. They tore off part of the wall cladding to get into the basement of the house, broke the air conditioner, braided the mane of a pony grazing in the yard … In addition, Robin showed me in the forest next to her house many "buildings", the authors of which are snowmen. These are all the same branded pyramids, arches from tree trunks. The largest of them is about 4 meters high. In the middle of this arch, into the weaving of crowns, the trunk of another tree is inserted vertically, turned upside down. Such "creativity" requires remarkable strength and great growth. Apparently, the main "archery master" is the leader of the forest savages clan settled in those places. Robin saw him more than once and called Blackie - Black. The growth of this "man" is about 3 meters.
Photo: from the archive of Igor Burtsev / mk.ru
Photo: "Architectural Creativity" of Bigfoot - arches, pyramids from tree trunks. Photo from the archive of Igor Burtsev / mk.ru
The Yeti Talent
- A number of observations that have been carried out confirm that the snowmen can speak. American Ron Morehead, Swede Olaf Siemens were able to record the voice sounds made by forest savages on a tape recorder … Military cryptolinguist Scott Nelson conducted a study of several such recordings and concluded: Bigfoots have a semantic, articulate speech. It is closest to the dialects of the tribes of the American North Indians. Nelson even managed to compile a small Bigfoot dictionary … The already mentioned Janice Carter over the years of her family's regular contacts with the "sponsored" Yeti family also compiled a similar dictionary, numbering about 500 words. Janice said that the leader of the clan of savages Fox and his shaggy relatives nicknamed her Manita, which means "little hand" in the Indian dialect.
In addition to articulate speech, Bigfoot has other talents.
“For all their seeming primitiveness, these forest people can do what Homo sapiens is not capable of. For example, hominoids have unique physical capabilities. Already in our days, for example, several episodes have been recorded when they saved people from predators. In the Arkhangelsk region, a “hairy man” seized a bear preparing to attack a lonely traveler and killed him. In another similar situation, the bigfoot simply picked up the person in danger in his arms and carried him away from the beast. It seems that Bigfoot people from different continents exist in a single information space: American Bigfoots are able to enter into telepathic communication with their Siberian, Moscow region relatives. This is the only way to explain the facts of the absolute coincidence of many traces of the activities of these living beings found in America, Asia, Europe,- the same arches, pyramids of trees, braids braided by horses … Recently, researchers have discovered a new kind of "autographs" of snowmen: these hominoids put together figures from sticks on the ground - regular triangles, squares, hexagons …
In the United States, Bigfoots are regularly observed in many places. But most of all in the western and eastern states. Moreover, record figures for the number of such contacts reach in California, but in Michigan, about 300 cases have been recorded over the past ten years! According to the latest opinion poll, about a third of the population of the United States is confident that Bigfoot really exists. There is unofficial information that during various natural disasters - forest fires, for example - the employees of the American emergency services more than once evacuated dead snowmen by their helicopters, but then these corpses disappeared somewhere without a trace. Perhaps this kind of mystery is explained by the fact that the government and state bodies simply do not know how to legalize their contemporaries who have survived at the primitive level. Now the country seems to be even preparing a law on the protection of these living beings.
Compared to the overseas States in Russia, the facts of the habitation of Bigfoot are recorded much less often - only a few cases during the year. Recently, remote areas of the Kemerovo region have become one of the most inhabited Bigfoot places. Near Mount Karatag, a large arch of tree tops, a pyramid of several broken rather high trees was discovered. Near one of the caves in Gornaya Shoria, similar structures were also found, and besides them - traces, tufts of hair … We gave samples of these hairs for examination to scientists - Japanese, Italians, British. A special DNA diagnostic laboratory in Texas is also involved in them …
Recently there was information that the results of these studies gave us a negative result: ordinary animal hair
- This is not true. Probably, such conclusions were made only on the basis of the most superficial examination of the presented material. The verification of samples in a Russian laboratory by trichologists has not yet been carried out so thoroughly as to draw final conclusions.
As I. Burtsev said, abroad there is an increasingly serious attitude towards the subject of Bigfoot. For example, one of the colleges at Oxford University opened a special project to study the biomaterial collected by search engines and eyewitnesses, presumably left over from hominoids.
- In addition to hair samples, materials extracted from the burial of Khvit that we found at one time are also being examined. (This is a descendant of a forest woman caught at the end of the nineteenth century in Abkhazia and named Zana. From relations with men from the surrounding villages, Zana gave birth to four mestizo babies who inherited her features. Khvit died in 1953) To get a comprehensive answer about the true nature his mother needs to do not only a mitochondrial DNA analysis, but also a nuclear one. And this work is expensive, and there is still no money to carry it out.
The loudest results can be obtained from the examination of other material evidence. Two years ago, the Californian taxidermist hunter Smedja went to hunt a bear, but instead of the clubfoot, some hairy creature suddenly began to descend from the mountain. Smedzha killed him with a shot from a gun, and then hid the corpse under dead wood, stones and drove away. The hunter returned to this place only two weeks later and found that only a fragment of the body remained in the cache. This piece - hair, skin, muscles - he provided to scientists for biological research. According to my information, this work has already been completed, its results should be published in one of the major scientific journals in the West, but the editors of such publications, under various pretexts, avoid publishing the results of the examination on their pages. This delay prevents the demonstration of yet another proof of Bigfoot's existence: there are people who have documentary footage of Bigfoot that lasts about an hour, but they do not want to publicly demonstrate it until the conclusions of the experts studying the Smeji trophy are published.
Still, it's strange that for many decades the Bigfoot case has not been supported by unconditional material evidence, and the "confrontation" with Bigfoot is all postponed until later … Something or someone is constantly interfering. Can you explain this?
- The psychology of people who happened to communicate with them changes after such contacts. They no longer seek to catch the savage, penetrate into his secrets … Instead, there is a conviction that the task of a Homo sapiens is not to interfere with his distant relative's life. For researchers interested in this topic, there are two main obstacles to the study of Bigfoot. Firstly, the reluctance of these creatures themselves to be recorded by people on photographic or video equipment, and secondly, the reluctance of representatives of official science to engage in attempts to get to know hominoids better: after all, the proven fact of the existence of Bigfoot does not fit into the theory prevailing now in classical science evolution.