What is known about Bigfoot. Bigfoot photo, video film about Bigfoot (Yeti, Bigfoot, hominoid) Confession of Frank Hansen

, “Ramayana” (“rakshasas”), folklore of different peoples (faun, satyr and strong in Ancient Greece, yeti in Tibet and Nepal, byaban-guli in Azerbaijan, chuchunny, chuchunaa in Yakutia, almas in Mongolia, ieren, maoren and en-khsung in China, kiikadam and albasty in Kazakhstan, goblin, shish and shishiga among Russians, divas in Persia (and Ancient Rus'), devs and albasty in the Pamirs, shurale and yarymtyk among the Kazan Tatars and Bashkirs, arsuri among the Chuvash, pitsen among the Siberian Tatars, sasquatch in Canada, teryk, girkychavylin, mirygdy, kiltanya, arynk, arysa, rekkem, julia in Chukotka, batatut, sedapa and orangpendek in Sumatra and Kalimantan, agogwe, kakundakari and kilomba in Africa, etc.).

Plutarch wrote that there was a case of the capture of a satyr by the soldiers of the Roman commander Sulla. Diodorus Siculus claimed that several satyrs were sent to the tyrant Dionysius. These strange creatures were depicted on vases of Ancient Greece, Rome and Carthage.

An Etruscan silver jug ​​in the Roman Museum of Prehistory depicts a scene of armed hunters on horseback chasing a huge ape-man. And Queen Mary's psalter, dating back to the 14th century, depicts an attack by a pack of dogs on a furry man.

Eyewitnesses of Bigfoot

At the beginning of the 15th century, the Turks captured a European named Hans Schiltenberger and sent him to the court of Tamerlane, who transferred the prisoner to the retinue of the Mongol prince Edigei. Schiltenberger still managed to return to Europe in 1472 and published a book about his adventures, in which, among other things, he mentioned wild people:

Lives high in the mountains wild tribe, which has nothing in common with all other people. The skin of these creatures is covered with hair, which is not found only on their palms and faces. They gallop through the mountains like wild animals, feeding on leaves, grass and anything else they can find. The local ruler presented Edigei with a gift of two forest people - a man and a woman, captured in dense thickets.

The Indians of the northwestern United States and Western Canada believe in the existence of wild people. In 1792, the Spanish botanist and naturalist José Mariano Mosinho wrote:

I don’t know what to say about Matlox, a resident of the mountainous region, who brings everyone into indescribable horror. According to descriptions, this is a real monster: its body is covered with stiff black stubble, its head resembles a human one, but much more large sizes, fangs more powerful and sharper than those of a bear, arms of incredible length, and long curved claws on the fingers and toes.

Turgenev and the US President personally encountered Bigfoot

Our compatriot, the great writer Ivan Turgenev, while hunting in Polesie, personally encountered Bigfoot. He told Flaubert and Maupassant about this, and the latter described it in his memoirs.

« While still young, he(Turgenev) Once I was hunting in a Russian forest. He wandered all day and in the evening he came to the bank of a quiet river. It flowed under the canopy of trees, all overgrown with grass, deep, cold, clean. The hunter was overcome by an irresistible desire to plunge into this clear water.

Having undressed, he threw himself into her. He was tall, strong, strong and a good swimmer. He calmly surrendered to the will of the current, which quietly carried him away. Grasses and roots touched his body, and light touch the stems were nice.

Suddenly someone's hand touched his shoulder. He quickly turned around and saw a strange creature who was looking at him with greedy curiosity. It looked either like a woman or like a monkey. He had a wide, wrinkled face that grimaced and laughed. Something indescribable - two bags of some kind, obviously breasts - were dangling in front. Long, tangled hair, reddened by the sun, framed her face and flowed behind her back.

Turgenev felt a wild, chilling fear of the supernatural. Without thinking, without trying to understand or comprehend what it was, he swam with all his might to the shore. But the monster swam even faster and touched his neck, back and legs with a joyful squeal.

Finally, the young man, mad with fear, reached the shore and ran as fast as he could through the forest, leaving behind his clothes and gun. A strange creature followed him. It ran just as fast and still squealed.

The exhausted fugitive - his legs were giving way from horror - was already ready to fall when a boy armed with a whip came running, tending a herd of goats. He began to whip the disgusting humanoid beast, which took off running, uttering cries of pain. Soon this creature, similar to a female gorilla, disappeared into the thicket».

As it turned out, the shepherd had already met this creature before. He told the master that she was just a local holy fool, who had long gone to live in the forest and had gone completely wild there. Turgenev, however, noticed that due to wildness, hair does not grow all over the body.

US President Theodore Roosevelt also met with Bigfoot. He included this story, artistically revised, in his book “The Wild Beast Hunter.” The story takes place in the Beet Mountains, between Idaho and Montana. From there, by the way, we still receive evidence of encounters with Bigfoot people.

In the first half of the 19th century, trapper (that is, a hunter who sets traps) Bauman and his friend explored the wild gorge. Their camp was constantly ravaged by some huge creature, which moved on two, not four, legs. The attacks occurred either at night or during the day in the absence of hunters, and therefore it was not possible to really see the creature. One day a comrade remained in the camp, and Bauman, returning, found him torn to pieces. The tracks surrounding the body were identical to human ones, but looked much larger.

Bigfoot children

A very interesting encounter with Bigfoot in 1924 awaited lumberjack Albert Ostman. He spent the night in a sleeping bag in the forest near Vancouver. Big Foot He grabbed it, put it right in the bag on his shoulder and carried it. He walked for three hours and brought Ostman to the cave, where, in addition to the yeti who kidnapped him, there were also his wife and two children.

The lumberjack did not eat, but was received quite hospitably: they offered to eat spruce shoots, which the snowmen ate. Ostman refused and survived for a week on canned food from his backpack, which big Foot I prudently took it with me.

But soon Ostman realized the reason for such hospitality: he was being prepared to be the husband of the already grown-up daughter of the head of the family. Imagining the wedding night, Ostman decided to take a risk and sprinkled snuff into the food of the hospitable hosts.

While they were rinsing their mouths, he rushed out of the cave as fast as he could. For many years he did not tell anyone about his adventure and when asked where he had been for a whole week, he simply remained silent. But when there was talk about snow people, the old man's tongue was loosened.

Yeti woman

It is documented that in the 19th century in Abkhazia, in the village of Tkhina, there lived among people a woman, Zana, who looked like a Bigfoot and had several children from the people, who later integrated normally into human society. This is how eyewitnesses described it:

Reddish fur covered her grayish-black skin, and the hair on her head was longer than on the rest of her body. She uttered inarticulate cries, but was never able to learn to speak. Her large face with prominent cheekbones, a strongly protruding jaw, powerful brow ridges and large white teeth had a fierce expression.

In 1964, Boris Porshnev, the author of a book about the relict hominid, met with some of Zana’s granddaughters. According to his description, the skin of these granddaughters - their names were Chaliqua and Taya - was dark, of a negroid type, the chewing muscles were highly developed, and the jaws were extremely powerful.

Porshnev even managed to ask village residents who, as children, attended Zana’s funeral in the 1880s.

Russian zoologist K. A. Satunin, who in 1899 saw a female relict hominid in the Talysh Mountains in the southern Caucasus, draws attention to the fact that “the movements of the creature were completely human.”

Bigfoot in captivity

In the 20s of the XX century Central Asia several were caught yeti, imprisoned and, after unsuccessful interrogations, shot as Basmachi.

The story of the warden of this prison is known. He watched two bigfoot located in the chamber. One was young, healthy, strong, he could not come to terms with lack of freedom and was raging all the time. The other one, the old one, sat quietly. They ate nothing but raw meat. When one of the commanders saw that the warden was only feeding these prisoners raw meat, he shamed him:

- You can’t do that, after all, people...

According to information from people who participated in the fight against the Basmachi, there were still about 50 similar subjects, which, due to their “wildness,” did not pose a danger to the population of Central Asia and the revolution, and it was very difficult to catch them.

We know the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service of the Soviet Army V. S. Karapetyan, who in 1941 examined a live Bigfoot caught in Dagestan. He described his meeting with the yeti like this:

« Together with two representatives of local authorities, I entered the barn... I still see, as if in reality, a male creature appearing in front of me, completely naked, barefoot.

Without a doubt, it was a man, with a completely human body, despite the fact that his chest, back and shoulders were covered with shaggy dark brown fur, 2-3 centimeters long, very similar to that of a bear.

Below the chest, this fur was thinner and softer, and on the palms and soles it was not there at all. Only sparse hair grew on the wrists with rough skin, but the lush head of hair, very rough to the touch, went down to the shoulders and partially covered the forehead.

Although the entire face was covered with sparse hair, there was no beard or mustache. There was also sparse, short hair growing around the mouth.

The man stood completely straight, with his hands at his sides. His height was slightly above average - about 180 cm, however, he seemed to tower over me, standing with his powerful chest stuck out. And in general he was much larger than any local resident. His eyes expressed absolutely nothing: empty and indifferent, they were the eyes of an animal. Yes, in fact, he was an animal, nothing more».

Unfortunately, during the retreat of our army, the hominid was shot.

Bigfoot in the Himalayas

But the snow people from the Himalayas became most famous; relict hominids there are locally called “Yeti.”

For the first time about these unusual inhabitants mountains became known from the notes of English officers and officials who served in India. The author of the first mention is considered to be B. Hodgson, from 1820 to 1843 authorized representative Great Britain at the court of the King of Nepal. He described in some detail how, during his journey through Northern Nepal, porters were horrified when they saw a hairy, tailless creature that looked like a man.

Several Buddhist monasteries claim to have Yeti remains, including scalps. Western researchers have long been interested in these relics, and in 1960 Edmund Hillary managed to obtain a scalp from the Khumjung Monastery for scientific examination.

Around the same time, relics from several other Tibetan monasteries were examined. Specifically, the mummified hand of Bigfoot. The results of the examination were questioned by many, and there were supporters of the versions of both a fake and an incomprehensible artifact.

Bigfoot people were hiding in the Pamir caves

Major General of the Soviet Army M. S. Topilsky recalled how in 1925 he and his unit pursued the snow people hiding in the Pamir caves. One of the prisoners said that in one of the caves he and his comrades were attacked by several creatures similar to apes. Topilsky examined the cave, where he discovered the corpse of a mysterious creature. In his report he wrote:

« At first glance, it seemed to me that this was really an ape: hair covered the body from head to toe. However, I know very well that great apes are not found in the Pamirs.

Taking a closer look, I saw that the corpse resembled a human one. We tugged at the fur, suspecting it was a camouflage, but it turned out to be natural and belonged to the creature.

Then we measured the body, turning it several times on its stomach and again on its back, and our doctor carefully examined it, after which it became obvious that the corpse was not human.

The body belonged to a male creature, approximately 165–170 cm tall, judging by the graying hair in several places, average or even old age... His face was dark in color, without a mustache or beard. There were bald patches at the temples, and the back of the head was covered with thick, matted hair.

The dead man lay with his eyes open, teeth bared. The eyes were dark in color, and the teeth were large and even, shaped like human ones. The forehead is low, with powerful brow ridges. Strongly protruding cheekbones made the creature's face look Mongoloid. The nose is flat, with a deeply concave bridge. The ears are hairless, pointed, and the lobes are longer than those of humans. The lower jaw is extremely massive. The creature had a powerful chest and well-developed muscles».

Bigfoot in Russia

There were many encounters with Bigfoot in Russia. The most remarkable, perhaps, occurred in 1989 in the Saratov region. The guards of the collective farm garden, having heard a suspicious noise in the branches, caught a certain humanoid creature eating apples, in all respects similar to the notorious Yeti.

However, this became clear when the stranger was already tied up: before this, the watchmen thought that he was just a thief. When they were convinced that the stranger did not understand human language, and in general did not look much like a person, they loaded him into the trunk of a Zhiguli and called the police, the press and the authorities. But the yeti managed to untie himself, opened the trunk and ran away. When a few hours later all those summoned arrived at the collective farm garden, the guards found themselves in a very awkward position.

Bigfoot caught on video

Actually, there are hundreds of evidence of encounters of varying proximity with Bigfoot. Much more interesting is material evidence. Two researchers managed to film Bigfoot on a movie camera in 1967. These 46 seconds became a real sensation in the world of science. Professor D. D. Donskoy, head of the Department of Biomechanics at the Central Institute of Physical Education, comments on this short film as follows:

« After repeated examination of the gait of a bipedal creature and a detailed study of poses on photographic prints from film, the impression remains of a well-automated, highly sophisticated system of movements. All private movements are united into a single whole, into a well-functioning system. The movements are coordinated, repeated equally from step to step, which can only be explained by the stable interaction of all muscle groups.

Finally, we can note such a sign that cannot be accurate description, as expressiveness of movements... This is characteristic of deeply automatic movements with their high perfection...

All this taken together allows us to evaluate the creature’s gait as natural, without noticeable signs of artificiality, characteristic of various kinds of deliberate imitations. The creature's gait in question is completely atypical for humans.».

The English biomechanist Dr. D. Grieve, who was very skeptical about relict hominids, wrote:

« The possibility of counterfeiting is excluded».

After the death of one of the film's writers, Patterson, his film was declared a fake, but no evidence was presented. It is worth recognizing that the notorious yellow press, in pursuit of sensations, often not only invents them, but also likes to expose past ones, both imaginary and real. So far there is no reason not to recognize this film as a documentary.

Despite a lot of evidence (sometimes from people who deserve absolute trust), the vast majority of the scientific world refuses to acknowledge the existence of Bigfoot. The reasons are that the bones of wild people have not yet been allegedly discovered, not to mention the living wild person himself.

Meanwhile, a number of examinations (we talked about some of them above) allowed us to come to the conclusion that the presented remains cannot belong to anyone recognized by science. What's the matter? Or are we again faced with the Procrustean bed of modern science?

There is a lot of unknown and unexplored things in the world. One of the controversial topics for scientists is Bigfoot; there are debates about who he is and where he came from. Various opinions and versions are expressed, and each of them has its own justification.

Does Bigfoot exist?

Yes and no, depends on who and by what characteristics are classified as this category of living organisms:

1. There are several names for it, for example, Sasquatch, Yeti, Almasty, Bigfoot and a number of others. It lives high in the mountains in central and northeast Asia, as well as in the Himalayas, but there is no reliable evidence of its existence;
2. There is an opinion of Professor B.F. Porshnev that it is the so-called relict (preserved from ancient times) hominid, that is, it belongs to the order of primates, which includes humans as a biological genus and species;
3. Academician A. B. Migdal in one of his articles cited the opinion of an oceanologist regarding the reality of the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot. Its essence was that there is no reason to believe in it, despite the fact that I would very much like to: the basis of the scientific approach lies in its proof;
4. According to paleontologist K. Eskov, this subject, in principle, can live in certain natural habitats. At the same time, according to the zoologist, the location of the creature in this case should be known and studied by professionals.

There is also a point of view that snow man is a representative of an alternative branch of the evolution of the human race.

What does Bigfoot look like?

Descriptions of the Yeti are not very diverse:

• The creature has a human-like face with dark skin, rather long arms, a short neck and hips, a heavy lower jaw, and a pointed head. The muscular and dense body is covered with thick hair, which is shorter in length than the hair on the head. Body length varies from the usual average human height to approximately 3 meters in height;
• Greater dexterity is noted when climbing trees;
• The length of the foot is reported to be up to 40 cm in length and 17-18 and even up to 35 cm in width;
• In the descriptions there is information that the yeti’s palm is also covered with hair, and they themselves look like monkeys;
• In one of the regions of Abkhazia in the second half of the 19th century, there lived a wild, hairy woman named Zana, who had children from men from the local population.

Stories about encounters with Bigfoot are accompanied by descriptions of huge, fur-covered creatures that instill fear and horror, which can even cause people to lose consciousness or get a mental disorder.

Who are cryptozoologists and what do they do?

The term is derived from the words “cryptos”, which is translated from Greek as hidden, secret, and “zoology” - to everyone famous science about the animal world, which includes humans:

• At the end of the 80s of the last century in our country, enthusiasts created a society of cryptozoologists, engaged in the search and study of Bigfoot as a special branch of humanoid creatures that have survived from ancient times and exist in parallel with “homo sapiens”;
• It is not part of academic science, although at one time it was “assigned” to the Ministry of Culture Soviet Union. One of the most active founders of the society was the doctor M.-J. Kofman, a participant in the expedition to the Pamirs to search for Bigfoot, organized through the Academy of Sciences in 1958, and a member of a special commission, which included famous scientists in the field of geology, botany, anthropology, physics;
• A huge role in developing the issue of relict hominids was played by Professor B.F. Porshnev, who considered this problem not only from the point of view of paleontology, but also included a worldview approach based on social role modern man, in contrast to his purely biological functions.

This society still exists today, and its members publish their works.

What is the correct name for hominids?

The name “Bigfoot” appeared in the 20s of the last century, and according to one version, it is due to inaccuracy of translation:

• It does not at all indicate that the creature constantly lives in the snows of the highlands, although it can appear there during its movements and transitions. At the same time, it finds food below this zone, in forests and meadows;
• Boris Fedorovich Porshnev believed that these creatures, classified as hominids, not only cannot be associated with snow, but, by and large, there is no reason to call him a man in the sense as we understand it. Residents of the areas in which the research was conducted do not use this name. The scientist generally considered this term random and not corresponding to the essence of the subject of study;
• Professor-geographer E.M. Murzaev mentioned in one of his works that the name “Bigfoot” was a literal translation of the word “bear” from some languages ​​of the peoples of Central Asia. Many people understood it in the literal sense, which introduced a certain confusion of concepts. This is quoted by L. N. Gumilyov in his work on Tibet.

It has many local “names” in different regions of the country and the world.

Bigfoot theme in art

He is present in various traditions and legends, and is the “hero” of feature films and animated films:

• As Bigfoot in folklore northern peoples Siberia performed the semi-fantastic “Wandering Chukchi”. The indigenous and Russian population believed in its existence;
• About wild people called chuchunami And mulens, says Yakut and Evenk folklore. These characters wore animal skins and had long hair, tall stature and slurred speech. They were very strong, ran fast, and carried bows and arrows. They could steal food or deer, or attack a person.
• Russian scientist and writer Peter Dravert in the 30s, based on local stories, published an article about these, as he called, primitive people. At the same time, his reviewer Ksenofontov believed that this information relates to the ancient beliefs of the Yakuts, who believed in spirits;
• Several films have been made on the theme of Bigfoot, ranging from horror to comedy. These include Eldar Ryazanov’s film “The Man from Nowhere,” a number of American films, and the German cartoon “Trouble in the Himalayas.”

In the state of Bhutan it is laid through the mountains a tourist route, called the Bigfoot Trail.

Just like in Marshak’s poems about an unknown hero whom everyone is looking for but cannot find. They even know his name - Bigfoot. Who he is - it’s just not possible to determine for sure, and whether he exists in principle.

6 rare videos about Yeti

In this video, Andrei Voloshin will show rare footage proving the existence of Bigfoot:

Bigfoot - myth or reality? Billions of people on Earth want an answer to this question.

Are you interested in the topic? bigfoot photo or Bigfoot video film? This article is exactly about that! Bigfoot or, as he is also called, bigfoot, hominoid, sasquatch is a humanoid creature that is believed to be found in highland and forested areas around the world. There is an opinion that this is a mammal that belongs to the order of primates and to the genus humans, preserved from the time of human ancestors. Swedish naturalist, creator of a unified system for classifying animals and flora Carl Linnaeus identified him as Homo troglodytes or, in other words, caveman.

Descriptive Characteristics of Bigfoot

There is no exact description of Bigfoot. Some say that these are huge four-meter animals that are distinguished by their mobility. Others, on the contrary, say that his height does not exceed 1.5 meters, he is passive and swings his arms wildly when walking.

All Bigfoot researchers are inclined to conclude that the Yeti is a good creature if you don’t make him angry

According to unconfirmed data, the Yeti differs from modern humans in its pointed skull shape, denser build, short neck length, longer long arms, short hips and massive lower jaw. His whole body is covered hairline red gray or black. The hair on the head is longer than on the body, and the beard and mustache are very short. It has an unpleasant strong odor. Among other things, he is an excellent tree climber.

There is an opinion that the habitat of Bigfoot is the snowy edge that separates forested areas from glaciers. At the same time, forest populations of Bigfoot people build nests on tree branches, and mountain populations live in caves. They feed on lichens and rodents, and they butcher the caught animals before eating them. This may indicate a close relationship with a person. In case of hunger, yetis approach people and thus behave carelessly. According to villagers, in case of danger, the humanoid savage makes a loud barking sound. But Chinese peasants say that snow people weave simple baskets, and also make axes, shovels and other basic tools.

Descriptions suggest that the Yeti is a relict hominoid that lives in married couples. However, it is possible that some people with excessively developed unnatural hair are mistaken for these creatures.

Early mentions of Bigfoot

The very first historical evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is associated with the name of Plutarch. He talked about how Sulla's soldiers captured a satyr, which according to the description matches the appearance of the yeti.

In his story “The Horror,” Guy de Maupassant describes the meeting of the writer Ivan Turgenev with a female snowman. There is also documentary evidence that in the 19th century in Abkhazia there was a woman named Zana, who was the prototype of the Yeti. She had peculiar habits, but this did not prevent her from successfully giving birth to children from people who, in turn, were distinguished by their powerful strength and good health.

In the West in 1832, reports appeared of a strange creature living in the Himalayas. Hodtson B.G., an English traveler and researcher, settled in the highlands in order to study this mysterious creature. Later Hodtson B.G. in his works he talked about a tall humanoid creature, which the Nepalese called a demon. It was covered with long thick hair and was distinguished from the animal by the absence of a tail and walking upright. Local residents told Hodtson about the first mentions of Yeti. According to them, snow people were first mentioned in the fourth century BC.

Half a century later, the Briton Lawrence Waddell became interested in the savages. At an altitude of 6,000 meters in Sikkim, he found footprints. After analyzing them and talking with local residents, Lawrence Waddell concluded that yellow predator bears, which very often attack yaks, are mistaken for humanoid savages.

Interest in Bigfoot grew in the 1920s and 1930s, when one reporter called the hairy savage the “terrible bigfoot.” In means mass media It was also reported that several Bigfoot people were caught and imprisoned, after which they were shot as Basmachi. In 1941, Colonel of the Medical Service of the Soviet Army Karapetyan V.S. inspected the Bigfoot caught in Dagestan. Soon after this, the mysterious creature was shot.

Theories and a film about Bigfoot

Today, scientists do not have sufficient data to make an official confirmation of the validity of one of the theories. However, scientists have voiced rather bold hypotheses about the emergence of the yeti, which have a right to exist. Their opinions are based on the study of hair and footprints, on photographs taken, audio recordings, identikit photographs of a strange creature, as well as video recordings that are not of the best quality.

For a long time A short film made by Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson in 1967 in Northern California was the most convincing evidence of the existence of Bigfoot. According to the authors, they managed to capture a female Bigfoot on film.

This happened in the fall, when Bob and Roger rode horses along a densely forested gorge in the hope of meeting a yeti, whose traces had been repeatedly seen in these places. At one point, the horses got scared of something and reared up, after which Patterson noticed a large creature squatting on the bank of a stream near the water. Looking at the cowboys, this mysterious creature stood up and walked away towards the steep slope of the gorge. Roger was not taken aback and, taking out a video camera, ran to the stream after the creature. He ran after the savage, shooting him in the back. However, he realized that it was necessary to fix the camera and follow the moving creature, after which he knelt. Suddenly the creature turned and began to walk towards the camera, but then, turning slightly to the left, it walked away from the stream. Roger tried to rush after him, however, thanks to his fast walking and large size, the mysterious creature quickly disappeared, and the film on the video camera ran out.

The Gimlin-Patterson film was immediately rejected by specialists from the most important US scientific center, the Smithsonian Institution, as a fake. American experts said that such a hybrid with a hairy chest, a gorilla's head and human legs simply cannot exist in nature. At the end of 1971, the film was brought to Moscow and shown to a number of scientific institutions. Specialists from the Central Research Institute of Prosthetics and Prosthetics assessed it positively and were very interested in it. After a detailed study of the film, a written conclusion was made by the professor of the Academy of Physical Culture D.D. Donskoy, who noted that the gait of the creature on the film is completely atypical for a person. He regarded it as a natural movement, in which there were no signs of artificiality, and which is characteristic of various deliberate imitations.

The famous sculptor Nikita Lavinsky also undoubtedly considered the Gimlin-Patterson film to be authentic. Based on the footage of this film, he even created sculptural portraits of a female Bigfoot.

Participants in the seminar on hominology, Alexandra Burtseva, Dmitry Bayanov and Igor Burtsev, undertook the most in-depth study of this film. Burtsev made a photographic reproduction with various exposures of frames from the film. Thanks to this work, it was proven that the head of the creature on the film was not a gorilla, as the Americans claimed, and not ordinary person, and paleoanthropa. It is also clear that the hairline is not a special suit at all, since the muscles of the back, legs and arms are clearly visible through it. The difference between the yeti and humans is also the elongated upper limbs, the absence of a visible neck, the carriage of the head and the elongated barrel-shaped torso.

The arguments on which Patterson's film is based are:

• The ankle joint of the mysterious creature, captured on film, has exceptional flexibility, which is unattainable for humans. The dorsal direction of the foot is more flexible than in humans. Dmitry Bayanov was the first to draw attention to this. Later, this fact was confirmed and described in his publications by Jeff Meldrum, an American anthropologist.

• The Yeti's heel protrudes much more than a human's heel, which corresponds to the structure of the Neanderthal foot.

• The then head of the department of biochemistry at the Academy of Physical Culture, Dmitry Donskoy, who studied the film in detail, concluded that the gait of the strange creature on the film is completely not inherent in Homo Sariens, which, moreover, cannot be recreated.

• In the film, the muscles on the limbs and body are clearly visible, which in turn excludes speculation about the costume. All anatomy distinguishes this mysterious creature from a human.

• Comparison of the frequency of hand vibrations with the speed at which the film was filmed proved the rather tall growth of the hairy creature, approximately 2 meters 20 centimeters, and if we take into account the build, then its heavy weight - more than 200 kilograms.

Based on these considerations, Patterson's film was considered authentic. About this at scientific publications reported in the USA and USSR. However, if the film is recognized as authentic, therefore, the existence of living relict hominids, which are considered extinct tens of thousands of years ago, is recognized. Anthropologists cannot do this yet. Hence the endless number of refutations of the authenticity of an excellent film certificate.

Among other things, ufologist Shurinov B.A. Contrary to popular opinions, he claims that Bigfoot is of alien origin. Other researchers of the Yeti mysteries insist that the origin is associated with interspecific hybridization on anthropoids, thus putting forward the theory that Bigfoot was the result of crossing a monkey with a man in the Gulag.

Bigfoot photo is real. Bigfoot family in Tennessee (USA)

Real photo of a frozen yeti

In December 1968, two famous cryptozoologists, Bernard Euvelmans (France) and Ivan Sanderson (USA), examined the frozen corpse of a hairy hominoid found in the Caucasus. The survey results were published in scientific collection cryptozoologists. Euvelmans identified the frozen yeti as a "modern Neanderthal."

At the same time, active searches for Bigfoot were carried out in former USSR. The most significant results were obtained from the studies of Maria-Janna Kofman in the North Caucasus, and Alexandra Burtseva in Chukotka and Kamchatka. Scientific expeditions in Tajikistan and the Pamir-Altai under the leadership of Igor Tatsl and Igor Burtsev ended very fruitfully. On Lovozero ( Murmansk region) and in Western Siberia Maya Bykova successfully conducted the search. Vladimir Pushkarev devoted a lot of time to searching for yeti in Komi and Yakutia.

Unfortunately, the last expedition of Vladimir Pushkarev ended tragically: due to lack of funds for a full-fledged expedition alone in September 1978, he went to Khanty-Mansiysk District in search of Bigfoot and went missing.

Janice Carter has been friends with the Bigfoot family for decades!

In recent years, interest in the Yeti has been revived, and new regions of distribution of modern Neanderthals have emerged. In 2002, Janice Carter, the owner of a farm in Tennessee, said in a television interview that an entire family of bigfoots had lived near her farm for more than fifty years. According to her, in 2002, the father of the “snowy” family was about 60 years old, and their first acquaintance took place when Janice was a seven-year-old girl. Janice Carter has met Bigfoot and his family many times in her life. This drawing was made from her words and clearly shows the proportions of the yeti and his peacefulness.

Recently, Russian hominologists (Bigfoot researchers) found information that in 1997, in France, in the small town of Bourganeff, a frozen body of a Bigfoot, allegedly found in Tibet and smuggled from China, was displayed. There are many inconsistencies in this story. The owner of the refrigerator truck in which the Yeti corpse was transported disappeared without a trace. The van itself, along with its sensational contents, also disappeared. Photos of the body were shown to Janice Carter, who confirmed that she does not rule out that this is not a falsification, but the real body of Bigfoot.

Bigfoot video. Speculations and falsifications on the topic of Yeti

In 1958, Ray Wallace, a resident of the American town of San Diego, published a sensation about Bigfoot, who is a relative of the Yeti living in the mountains of California. It all started when, in August 1958, an employee of Wallace's construction company came to work and saw huge footprints around the bulldozer that looked like human ones. The local press called the mysterious creature Bigfoot, and America thus received its own species of Bigfoot.

In 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, his family decided to reveal the secret. At Ray's request, the 40-centimeter-long footprints for marking the soil were cut out of boards, after which he and his brother put the feet on their feet and walked around the bulldozer.

He was so captivated by this prank for many years that he could not stop and periodically delighted the media and communities of mystery lovers either with a recording of him making sounds or with photographs of blurry monsters. But the most interesting thing was that the relatives of the deceased Wallace declared that the film made by Patterson and Gimlin was falsified. Many experts assumed that the footage was genuine. However, according to relatives and friends, this filming was a staged episode in which Wallace’s wife starred, dressed in a specially tailored monkey costume. This statement was a major blow to enthusiasts who are trying to find a humanoid mysterious creature.

But back in 1969, John Green, in order to determine the authenticity of the film, consulted with specialists from the Disney film studio, who created monkey costumes for the actors. They said the creature was wearing living skin and not a costume.

I would like to note that hundreds of volumes are devoted to hominoid observations scientific literature. But there is still no concrete answer to the question of its origin and existence. On the contrary, the longer the research and search last, the more pressing the questions are raised. Why can't you catch Bigfoot? Can small populations of these creatures survive in unconnected areas? And there are many more questions that have no answers yet...

I bring to your attention an excellent film about the Yeti with good video quality, dedicated to all aspects of this interesting topic, which has been exciting the minds of people around the world for many years.

Instructions

The science of cryptozoology is full of various secrets and riddles regarding the existence of certain animals. Among them is Bigfoot, or Yeti. This creation is perhaps one of the most amazing riddles modern humanity. As soon as they don't call Bigfoot modern world: in Canada he is a Sasquatch, in North America- bigfoot, and in Australia - yawi.

Currently, enthusiasts have collected a great variety of all kinds of information testifying to people’s encounters with this huge and shaggy creature that resembles a human. Moreover, most of these meetings allegedly took place in remote areas of the planet, where almost no human has set foot.

One of the most common indirect evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is considered to be his footprints left in the snow or soft ground, as well as scraps of his fur. Researchers have studied and classified hundreds of similar observations, but so far no evidence of its existence has been provided. In the process of studying the Yeti, many caves were explored in various parts of the world.

It is curious that in the Russian Aigul cave, located in Altai, speleologists discovered strange rock paintings on which the same Bigfoot was depicted. Moreover, scientists who have studied ancient handwritten books from some Altai monasteries claim that they also contain images of these mysterious hairy humanoid creatures. But the main information about the existence of Bigfoot is not rock paintings and books, but photographs, amateur videos, casts from huge prints of unknown feet and, of course, numerous eyewitness accounts.

Unfortunately, the lion's share of such “evidence” is scientific inaccuracies, confusing information or deliberate forgeries. Even the fur, which many hunters passed off as Yeti hair, after careful examination turned out to be deer or bear. That is why there is still no official confirmation of the existence of Bigfoot! It is worth noting that numerous testimonies of encounters with Yeti are so picturesque and vivid that many people have virtually no doubt about their true authenticity, despite the lack of significant evidence.

There is an interesting opinion regarding the existence of Bigfoot. Some zoologists and anthropologists believe that the Yeti is a relict hominid. In their opinion, Bigfoot is a mammal belonging to the order of primates, but to the genus of humans. They do not rule out that the Yeti miraculously survived from prehistoric times to the present day. It’s interesting that the current governor is behind the capture of Bigfoot. Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev promises to pay a reward of 1 million rubles.

Description

Testimonies about encounters with “Bigfoot” most often feature creatures that differ from modern humans in having a denser physique, pointed skull shape, longer arms, short neck length and massive lower jaw, relatively short hips, with thick hair all over. body - black, red, white or gray. Faces are dark in color. The hair on the head is longer than on the body. The mustache and beard are very sparse and short. They climb trees well. It has been suggested that mountain populations of Bigfoot people live in caves, while forest populations build nests on tree branches. Carl Linnaeus designated it as Homo troglodytes(cave man). Very fast. He can overtake a horse, and on two legs, and in the water - a motor boat. Omnivore, but prefers plant foods, loves apples. Eyewitnesses described encounters with specimens of varying heights, from average human height to 3 m or more.

Ideas about Bigfoot and its various local analogues are very interesting from the point of view of ethnography. The image of a huge scary man can reflect the innate fears of darkness, the unknown, and relationships with mystical forces among different peoples. It is quite possible that in some cases snow people people with unnatural hair or feral people were accepted.

origin of name

He was named Bigfoot thanks to a group of climbers who conquered Everest. They discovered the loss of food supplies, then heard a heartbreaking scream, and a chain of footprints similar to human ones appeared on one of the snow-covered slopes. The residents explained that it was the Yeti, the abominable snowman, and categorically refused to set up camp in this place. Since then, Europeans have called this creature Bigfoot.

Existence

Most modern scientists are skeptical about the possibility of the existence of Bigfoot.

...about Bigfoot he said: “I really want to believe, but there is no reason.” The words “no basis” mean that the issue has been studied and, as a result of the study, it has been discovered that there is no reason to trust the original statements. This: is the formula of the scientific approach: “I want to believe,” but since “there is no reason,” then we must abandon this belief.
Academician A. B. Migdal From guess to truth.

The attitude of a professional biologist to the question of the possibility of the existence of “Bigfoot” was illustrated by paleontologist Kirill Eskov in a popular article:

At least, I do not know the laws of nature that would directly prohibit the existence in the mountains of Central Asia of a relict hominoid - an “ape-man”, or simply a large ape. It must be assumed that, contrary to its name, it is not connected in any way with the eternal snows (except for the fact that it sometimes leaves traces there), but should live in the belt of mountain forests, where there is ample food and shelter. It is clear that any reports about North American “bigfoot” can be thrown out with a clear conscience without reading (for there are no primate species on that continent and never have been, and in order to get there from Asia through circumpolar Beringia, as people did, you must at least have fire), but in the Himalayas or the Pamirs - why not? There are even quite plausible candidates for this role, for example, Meganthropus - a very large (about two meters tall) fossil ape from South Asia, which had a number of “human” features that bring it closer to the African Australopithecus, the direct ancestors of hominids […]
So, do I admit (as a professional zoologist) the fundamental possibility of the existence of a relict hominoid? - answer: “Yes.” Do I believe in his existence? - answer: “No.” And since we are talking here not about “I know/don’t know”, but about “I believe/don’t believe”, I will allow myself to express a completely subjective judgment on this matter, based personal experience: […] where a professional has once set foot, not a single animal larger than a rat has a single chance of remaining “unknown to science.” Well, since by the end of the twentieth century there were almost no places left where a professional would not have set foot at all (at least on land) - draw your own conclusions...

- “Cryptukha, sir!”, article. Kirill Eskov, Computerra, 03.13.07, No. 10 (678): pp. 36-39.

Currently, there is not a single representative of the species living in captivity, nor a single skeleton or skin. However, there are allegedly hairs, footprints and several dozen photographs, video recordings (poor quality) and audio recordings. The reliability of this evidence is questionable. For a long time, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence was a short film made by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Northern California. The film allegedly showed a female Bigfoot. However, in 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, for whom this filming was made, evidence appeared from his relatives and acquaintances, who said (however, without presenting any physical evidence) that the whole story with the “American Yeti” was from beginning to end. the end is rigged; The forty-centimeter “footprints of the Yeti” were made with artificial forms, and the filming was a staged episode with a man in a specially tailored monkey suit.

However, it should be noted that Patterson’s film aroused genuine interest among researchers from the National Geographic Channel. In the section “Reality or Fiction” (broadcast in December 2010), an attempt was made to study and examine Patterson’s film from the point of view of the possibility of its falsification. Experienced make-up artists, a tall actor imitating a gait, special effects specialists and scientists were brought in as experts. Evaluated appearance creatures in the film, their fur adjacent to the muscles, the proportions of the limbs, the dynamics of movement, the shooting distance was taken into account, etc. As a result, according to the unanimous opinion of the experts involved, even at the current level of development of the media industry and video effects, not to mention the level 1967, it is almost impossible to achieve such a degree of realism in the plot of Bigfoot.

On the other hand, from enthusiasts of this topic one can hear accusations against “official science” that its representatives simply brush aside the available evidence. Here is a typical text of this kind:

In fact, those who say “there is no reason” simply do not even want to get acquainted with what has been “dug up” by enthusiastic researchers. “We hear countless examples of this in history.” I will give only two. When the Canadian Rene Dahinden at the end of 1971 brought us a copy of the film shot by Patterson in 1967, I personally once approached the then director of the Institute of Anthropology of Moscow State University V.P. Yakimov and offered to show the film to him and the staff of the institute, he literally put his hands forward, like would recoil from the proposal and say; "No! No need!" But this did not stop him from declaring that there was no reason...
And when at the international symposium, which he (Yakimov) chaired, Professor Astanin went to the podium to present to those present the materials of an anatomical study of the hand of the Yeti from the Pangboche monastery (Tibet), Yakimov did not allow him to speak and drove him from the podium in violation of the democratic traditions of such forums - to the protests of the participants... As a result, some of them left the symposium meeting.
And a recent example: when I came from the USA after a five-week “investigation” of the events at the Carter farm in the fall of 2004, where, according to the owner, a clan of Bigfoot lived, and I offered to speak and talk about the results in the anthropology department of the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, its head. S. Vasiliev declined under the pretext of being busy with other issues.
At the same time, when there was a noise in the press about the existence of a “Bigfoot” in the Shoria mountains (south of the Kemerovo region), the same Vasiliev stated without hesitation: “Alas, we do not have data on the existence of humanoids anywhere in the world"…
Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. ist. Sciences, Director of the International Center for Hominology, Moscow.

The Soviet scientist B.F. Porshnev paid much attention to the topic of Bigfoot.

Commission of the Academy of Sciences to study the issue of “Bigfoot”

Commission members J.-M. I. Kofman and Professor B.F. Porshnev and other enthusiasts continued to actively search for Bigfoot or his traces.

Society of Cryptozoologists

Mentions in history and literature

Abstract drawing of Bigfoot.

There are numerous known depictions of creatures similar to Bigfoot (on art objects from Ancient Greece, Rome, Ancient Armenia, Carthage and Etruscans and medieval Europe) and mentions, including in the Bible (in Russian translation shaggy), Ramayana ( rakshasas), in Nizami Ganjavi’s poem “Iskander-name”, folklore of different peoples ( faun, satyr And strong in Ancient Greece, yeti in Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, ghoul-baths in Azerbaijan, chuchunny, chuchunaa in Yakutia, Almas in Mongolia, ezhen (野人 ), maoren(毛人) and renxiong(人熊) in China, kiik-adam And albasty In Kazakhstan , goblin, shish And shishiga from the Russians, diva in Persia (and Ancient Rus'), Chugayster in Ukraine , dev And albasty in the Pamirs, shurale And yarymtyk among the Kazan Tatars and Bashkirs, Arsuri among the Chuvash, picenus among the Siberian Tatars, abnauayu in Abkhazia , sasquatch In Canada , teryk, girkychavylin, worldygdy, Kiltanya, market, arysa, Rackem, Julia in Chukotka, trampoline, sedapa And orang pendek in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Agogwe, kakundakari And ki-lomba in Africa, etc.). In folklore they appear in the form of satyrs, demons, devils, goblin, merman, mermaids, etc.

Opponents of the version of the existence of Bigfoot, which includes most professional biologists and anthropologists, point to the lack of unambiguous evidence (living individuals or their remains, high-quality photographs and videos) and the possibility of arbitrary interpretation of the available evidence. There are frequent references to a well-known biological fact: the long-term existence of a population requires a minimum size of the order of hundreds of individuals, the vital activity of which, according to critics, simply cannot be invisible and not leave numerous traces. The explanations put forward for the evidence generally boil down to the following set of versions:

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Notes

1. K. Eskov. “Cryptuh, sir!”
2. Patterson's film
3. B. F. Porshnev Current state of the issue about relict hominoids Viniti, Moscow, 1963
4. Soviet "Bigfoot" Itogi magazine
5. Zhanna-Marie Kofman
6. see, for example, “Popular Biological Dictionary”, 1991, Ed. USSR Academy of Sciences, edited by corresponding member A. V. Yablokov
7. V. B. Sapunov, Doctor of Biology. Sciences Bigfoot in two dimensions, or an alternative to the noosphere
8. J. Kofman At the origins of a new science (To the 40th anniversary of the publication of Professor B. F. Porshnev’s monograph “ Current state the question of relict hominoids" VINITI 412 since 1963) magazine "Mediana" No. 6 2004
9. KAZAKHSTAN CHRONICLE “P” Year 1988
10. Trakhtengerts M. S. Habitat of primates of the Alamas species, journal “Natural and Technical Sciences” ISSN 1684-2626, 2003, No. 2, pp. 71-76
11. Dmitri Bayanov, Igor Bourtsev In The Footsteps of the Russian Snowman 240 pages “Pyramid Publications” 1996 ISBN 5-900229-18-1 ISBN 978-5-900229-18-8 (English)
12. B. A. Shurinov 20th century paradox“International Relations” 315pp. 1990 ISBN 5-7133-0408-6
13. A Russian biologist considers Sasquatch and other yetis to be feral oligophrenics.
14. Beiko V. B., Berezina M. F., Bogatyreva E. L. et al. Great encyclopedia animal world: Scientific-pop. edition for children. - M.: ZAO ROSMEN-PRESS, 2007. - 303 p. UDC 087.5, BBK 28.6, p. 285.