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Snow homo. Bigfoot - myths and facts

The vastness of our vast planet holds many secrets. Mysterious creatures hiding from the human world have always aroused genuine interest among scientists and enthusiastic researchers. One of these secrets was Bigfoot.

Yeti, Bigfoot, Angey, Sasquatch - these are all his names. It is believed that it belongs to the class of mammals, the order of primates, and the genus humans.

Of course, its existence has not been proven by scientists, however, according to eyewitnesses and many researchers today we have Full description this creature.

What does the legendary cryptid look like?

First eyewitnesses

The first people to see the mysterious creature in person were Chinese peasants. According to available information, the meeting was not isolated, but numbered about a hundred cases.

After such statements, several countries, including America and Great Britain, sent an expedition to search for traces.

Thanks to the collaboration of two prominent scientists, Richard Greenwell and Gene Poirier, confirmation of the existence of the Yeti was found.

The find was hair that was believed to belong only to him. However, later, in 1960, Edmund Hillary had the opportunity to examine the scalp again.

His conclusion was unequivocal: the “find” was made of antelope wool.

As one would expect, many scientists did not agree with this version, finding more and more confirmation of the previously put forward theory.

Bigfoot scalp

Apart from the found hair, the identity of which is still a controversial issue, there is no other documented evidence.

Except for countless photographs, footprints and eyewitness accounts.

Photographs are often of very poor quality, so they do not allow one to reliably determine whether they are real or fake.

The footprints, which, of course, are similar to human ones, but wider and longer, are considered by scientists to be the traces of known animals living in the area where they were found.

And even the stories of eyewitnesses who, according to them, met Bigfoot, do not allow one to establish for certain the fact of their existence.

Bigfoot on video

However, in 1967, two men were able to film Bigfoot.

They were R. Patterson and B. Gimlin from Northern California. Being shepherds, one autumn on the river bank they noticed a creature, which, realizing that it had been discovered, immediately went on the run.

Grabbing the camera, Roger Patterson set off to catch up with the unusual creature, which was mistaken for a yeti.

The film aroused genuine interest among scientists who for many years tried to prove or disprove the existence mythical creature.

Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson

A number of features proved that the film was not a fake.

The size of the body and the unusual gait indicated that it was not a person.

The video showed a clear image of the creature's body and limbs, which ruled out the creation of a special costume for filming.

Some features of the body structure allowed scientists to draw conclusions about the similarity of the individual from the video footage with the prehistoric ancestor of man - the Neanderthal ( approx. the last Neanderthals lived about 40 thousand years ago), but very large sizes: height reached 2.5 meters, and weight – 200 kg.

After much research, the film was found to be authentic.

In 2002, after the death of Ray Wallace, who initiated this filming, his relatives and friends reported that the film was completely staged: a man in a specially tailored suit portrayed an American Yeti, and unusual marks were left by artificial forms.

But they did not provide evidence that the film was fake. Later, experts conducted an experiment in which a trained person tried to repeat the filmed footage in a suit.

They concluded that at the time the film was made, it was impossible to carry out such a high-quality production.

There were other encounters with an unusual creature, most of them in America. For example, in North Carolina, Texas and near Missouri, but unfortunately there is no evidence of these meetings, other than oral stories of people.

A woman named Zana from Abkhazia

An interesting and unusual confirmation of the existence of these individuals was a woman named Zana, who lived in Abkhazia in the 19th century.

Raisa Khvitovna, granddaughter of Zana - daughter of Khvit and a Russian woman named Maria

The description of her appearance is similar to existing descriptions of Bigfoot: red fur that covered her dark skin, and the hair on her head was longer than on the rest of her body.

She did not speak articulately, but made only shouts and isolated sounds.

The face was large, the cheekbones protruded, and the jaw protruded strongly forward, which gave her a fierce look.

Zana was able to integrate into human society and even gave birth to several children from local men.

Later, scientists conducted research on the genetic material of Zana's descendants.

According to some sources, their origins begin in West Africa.

The results of the examination indicate the possibility of the existence of a population in Abkhazia during Zana’s life, and therefore cannot be ruled out in other regions.

Makoto Nebuka reveals the secret

One of the enthusiasts who wanted to prove the existence of the yeti was the Japanese mountaineer Makoto Nebuka.

He hunted Bigfoot for 12 years while exploring the Himalayas.

After so many years of persecution, he came to a disappointing conclusion: the legendary humanoid creature turned out to be just a brown Himalayan bear.

The book containing his research describes some Interesting Facts. It turns out that the word "Yeti" is nothing more than a corruption of the word "Meti", which means "bear" in local dialect.

Tibetan clans considered the bear to be a supernatural creature that possessed power. Perhaps these concepts came together, and the myth of Bigfoot spread everywhere.

Research of different countries

Numerous studies have been carried out by many scientists around the world. The USSR was no exception.

The commission for the study of Bigfoot included geologists, anthropologists and botanists. As a result of their work, a theory was put forward that states that Bigfoot is a degraded branch of Neanderthals.

However, then the work of the commission was stopped, and only a few enthusiasts continued to work on the research.

Genetic studies of available samples deny the existence of the Yeti. A professor at Oxford University, after analyzing the hair, proved that it belonged to polar bear, which existed several thousand years ago.

Still from a film filmed in Northern California on 10/20/1967

Currently, discussions are ongoing.

The question of the existence of another mystery of nature remains open, and the society of cryptozoologists is still trying to find evidence.

All the available facts today do not give one hundred percent confidence in the reality of this creature, although some people really want to believe in it.

Obviously, only a film shot in Northern California can be considered evidence of the existence of the object being studied.

Some people tend to believe that Bigfoot is of alien origin.

This is why it is so difficult to detect, and all genetic and anthropological analyzes lead scientists to incorrect results.

Someone is sure that science is silent about the fact of their existence and will publish false research, because there are so many eyewitnesses.

But questions are only multiplying every day, and answers are extremely rare. And although many believe in the existence of Bigfoot, science still denies this fact.

There are many rumors and legends in the world, the heroes of which are. They come to life not only in folklore: there are witnesses who claim to have met these creatures in reality. Bigfoot is one such mysterious character.

Who is Bigfoot?

Bigfoot is a mysterious humanoid creature, possibly a relict mammal, preserved from prehistoric times. Enthusiasts all over the world talk about their meetings with him. The creature is given many names - Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, Angey, Migo, Almasty, Autoshka - depending on the area in which the animal or its traces were spotted. But until the yeti is caught and its skin and skeleton are found, we cannot talk about it as a real animal. We have to be content with the opinion of “eyewitnesses”, dozens of videos, audio and photographs, the reliability of which is questionable.

Where does Bigfoot live?

Assumptions about where Bigfoot lives can only be made based on the words of those who have met him. Most of the testimony is given by residents of America and Asia, who saw a half-man in forest and mountainous areas. It has been suggested that even today Yeti populations live far from civilization. They build nests in tree branches and hide in caves, carefully avoiding contact with people. It is assumed that in our country, yetis live in the Urals. Evidence of the existence of Bigfoot has been found in such areas as:

Himalayas;
Pamir;
Chukotka;
Transbaikalia;
Caucasus;
California;
Canada.

What does Bigfoot look like?

Since information about Bigfoot is rarely documented, it appearance You can't describe it exactly, you can only make assumptions. The opinions of people interested in this issue may be divided. And yet the Bigfoot Yeti is seen by people as:

a giant from 1.5 to 3 meters tall;
massive build with broad shoulders and long limbs;
with a body completely covered with hair (white, gray or brown);
head having a pointed shape;
wide feet (hence the nickname bigfoot).

In the 50s of the twentieth century, Soviet scientists, together with foreign colleagues, raised the question of the reality of the Yeti. The famous Norwegian traveler Thor Heyerdall suggested the existence of three species of humanoids unknown to science. This:

Dwarf yeti up to one meter tall, found in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
The true Bigfoot is a large animal (up to 2 m tall) with thick hair and a conical head, on which long “hair” grows.
A giant yeti (height reaches 3 m) with a flat head and sloping skull. His tracks strongly resemble human ones.

What do Bigfoot footprints look like?

If the animal itself is not caught in the camera, but footprints of Bigfoot are “discovered” everywhere. Sometimes the paw prints of other animals (bears, snow leopards, etc.) are mistaken for them, and sometimes they inflate a story that does not exist. But still, mountain researchers continue to replenish the collection of traces of unknown creatures, classifying them as prints bare feet Yeti. They strongly resemble human ones, but wider and longer. Most traces of snowmen have been found in the Himalayas: in forests, caves and at the foot of Everest.

What does Bigfoot eat?

If yetis exist, they must have something to feed on. Researchers suggest that the real Bigfoot belongs to the order of primates, which means it has the same diet as large apes. Yeti eat:

mushrooms, fruits and berries;
herbs, leaves, roots; moss;
small animals;
insects;
snakes.

Does Bigfoot really exist?

Cryptozoology deals with the study of species unknown to biology. Researchers are trying to find traces of legendary, almost mythical animals and prove their reality. Cryptozoologists are also pondering the question: does Bigfoot exist? There are not enough facts yet. Even taking into account that the number of statements from people who saw the Yeti, filmed it or found traces of the beast is not decreasing, all the materials presented (audio, video, photos) are of very poor quality and may be a fake. Meetings with Bigfoot in its habitats are also an unproven fact.

Facts about Bigfoot

Some people really want to believe that all the tales about the Yeti are true, and the story will continue in the near future. But only the following facts about Bigfoot can be considered indisputable:

Roger Patterson's 1967 short film featuring a female Bigfoot is a hoax.
Japanese climber Makoto Nebuka, who chased Bigfoot for 12 years, suggested that he was dealing with a Himalayan bear. A Russian ufologist B.A. Shurinov believes that mysterious beast of extraplanetary origin.
A monastery in Nepal houses a brown scalp believed to be a snowman.
The American Society of Cryptozoologists has offered a $1 million reward for the capture of Bigfoot.

Currently, rumors about Yeti are growing, discussions in the scientific community do not subside, and “evidence” is multiplying. Genetic research is being conducted all over the world: saliva and hair belonging to Bigfoot (according to eyewitnesses) are being identified. Some samples belong to known animals, but there are also those that have a different origin. To this day, Bigfoot remains an unsolved mystery of our planet.

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Bigfoot is a creature that has become almost a legend. He has many names - Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot. Carl Linnaeus called it Homo troglodytes - “cave man”. Who was the first to tell the world that Bigfoot really exists? Michel Nostradamus also said that there is a creature on earth whose appearance is something between a huge man and a monkey. The first to mention the Yeti in passing was the traveler Colonel Wendell, who made an excursion to the Himalayas in the 19th century.

Appearance of Bigfoot Yeti

Photos of Bigfoot do not give a clear idea of what Yeti looks like. Its appearance is based only on hypotheses and assumptions. They say that the yeti has a very dense physique, long arms, a pointed skull with a protruding frontal part and a very massive jaw. This is roughly how Carl Linnaeus described it.

Bigfoot Yeti is much taller and more massive than the average man, his height reaches 2 m or more

The body of the yeti is covered with fur. In some areas, people encountered Yeti, hairline which was black, according to other eyewitnesses - red, others claim that the Bigfoot are covered with gray (white) hair.

Interesting fact. All researchers and eyewitnesses agree that Bigfoot has a beard and mustache. Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot have an unpleasant odor, they live in caves and are great climbers. Although, there is an opinion that snow people build their nests among the crowns. A contradictory portrait, you will agree.

However, there is some pattern. , claim that relict hominids, as scientists call the snowy yeti, move on two limbs. Their growth varies depending on the area of residence. So, in Central Asia, where Homo troglodytes is called Yeti, and in North America, where Bigfoot is called Sasquatch, their height does not exceed 1.5-2 m. Larger individuals live in the Himalayas and Tibet - up to 2.5 m. But African yetis are “babies” - up to 1.5 m.

Are there photos and videos about Yeti?

When approaching snowy yetis, people become dizzy and their blood pressure rises. Plus, the creatures act on a person’s subconscious, forcing them to simply not notice their presence. Bigfoot people inspire fear. When yetis appear nearby, the birds become silent and the dogs stop barking, and some simply run away in fear.

The Yeti Bigfoot allegedly hypnotizes all those who meet him

Attempts to shoot a video about the Yeti or take photos were very numerous, but the equipment stopped working as usual, and this is why researchers note the poor quality of pictures and videos about Bigfoot. Yeti move very quickly, and this despite quite dimensions, some researchers tried to catch up with him, but to no avail.

Many eyewitnesses who tried to take a photo of the yeti claim that when he looks into a person’s eyes for a long time, he falls into a semi-conscious state, ceasing to be aware of his own actions. Maybe this is why many people simply forget to take out and connect the equipment to take photos and videos about Bigfoot people?

Interesting fact. All eyewitnesses claim to have seen a male yeti and a female yeti. Moreover, in different corners planets. So, Bigfoot not only exists, but reproduces? Where do yetis actually live?

So who is the snowy yeti really? An alien or the progenitor of the human race, who somehow managed to survive while retaining primitive features? Perhaps the Yeti is the result of a failed experiment in crossing a primate and a human? It is known that similar experiments were carried out by the Third Reich, but no documentary evidence has survived.

The habitat of the yeti is Africa or Asia?

In the chronicles Buddhist temples Tibet has preserved ancient records of meetings of monks with mysterious creatures of enormous stature, completely covered with hair. It was in this part of Asia that Bigfoot, the Yeti, was first discovered. By the way, yeti is translated as “a creature that lives among the stones.”

Interesting fact. The first reports of snowmen appeared in the world press in the mid-50s of the last century. Their authors were climbers who were trying to climb the peak of Everest and were looking for suitable paths among the Himalayan rocks. The adventurers were replaced by groups of scientists, intrigued by the stories of the athletes. So, the hunt for the legendary Yeti has begun.

Plaster cast of the Yeti footprint found in Tibet

The prerequisite for the first serious study of the yeti was a series of fairly clear photographs taken by Eric Shipton during an expedition to the Himalayas (1951). The photographs were taken in the town of Menlung Glasir, which is located at an altitude of 6705 m. The photo shows the footprints of the Yeti, their size is 31.25 by 16.25 cm. From that moment on, scientists from all countries where the presence of huge monkey people had previously been recorded began to undertake very serious attempts to understand the origins of Sasquatch and Bigfoot.

Bigfoot Yeti in Russia

The Yeti phenomenon was also studied in Russia, namely in the Caucasus region. This was done by the historian B. Porshnev, and later by D. Kofman. Numerous stories from local residents about encounters with snowmen, covered with hair and having enormous growth, were confirmed by the food supplies found by the researchers. Caucasian bigfoots are shy; when they see a person, they instantly disappear. According to eyewitnesses, a haze appears before the eyes, and when it disappears, the yetis seem to evaporate.

Interesting fact. Back in the 19th century, Przhevalsky, who was researching the Gobi, also encountered Bigfoot. However Russian government I was afraid to allocate money for an additional expedition. Fear was fueled by statements from clergy who spoke of yetis as creatures from hell.

Meetings with the Bigfoot Yeti took place both in Kazakhstan, where they even had the name kiik-adam - “wild man”, and in Azerbaijan, where local residents called the Bigfoot Biabanguli.

Presumably a site of Bigfoot people in northern Russia

A hunter in the Chelyabinsk region almost collided head-on with a snowman. In 2012, in Chelyabinsk, a local huntsman had to meet a humanoid creature, in which the hunter immediately recognized the legendary Bigfoot. According to the hunter, he “got goosebumps,” but that didn’t stop him from filming a video of the Yeti on his mobile phone.

Since then, Bigfoot's visits to Chelyabinsk region have become more frequent. It is noteworthy that they are not afraid to go out, and come very close to places inhabited by people. Perhaps there are so many yetis that they are trying to expand the boundaries of their habitat?

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Yeti mysterious creatures

Bigfoot and his relatives

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, dangling in front; long, tangled hair, reddened by the sun, framed her face and fluttered behind her back. Turgenev felt wild fear, a chilling fear of the supernatural.

Guy de Maupassant, "Fear"

Fictional creatures inhabit the folklore of all world cultures- be it steppe nomads, reindeer herders or South American cannibals. People living on different continents, independently invented dragons, werewolves, ghosts, water monsters, dwarfs and giants. But only a few fairy-tale creatures were able to become part of modern folklore. If you say that you met a fire-breathing dragon in the forest, you will receive an exemption from physical education and free pills for schizophrenia. But if you claim that you got into a fight in a garbage dump with a giant hairy hominid - get a real chance to be on the front pages of the morning newspapers.

In March 2006 (“MF” No. 26) we told you about “cryptids” - animals whose existence is denied modern science(at least until one of them is caught - such as the dwarf giraffe okapi or the lobe-finned coelacanth fish). Today we will talk about the “kings” of cryptozoology - archaic giants, now known as “snow people”.

Wild and unsympathetic

The ancient peoples, without saying a word, believed that giants lived on Earth long before them. The last ones were unbridled and ferocious, which is why the gods either completely destroyed them (Judaism) or drove them out of the world (ancient Greek myths). The giants left behind only huge ruins, called “cyclopean” in honor of the Cyclops who built the walls of Mycenae.

It is not surprising that meetings between people and prehistoric giants were extremely rare. Most of the giants of late European folklore had purely human features and were not considered representatives of any ancient race. Medieval "snow people" in their current understanding can be called goblin, but they were a type of spirit. The Scandinavians had jotuns and trolls, the southern Slavs had drekavaks, but the images of these forest dwellers are too blurry to talk about systematic contacts ordinary people with "snowy" ones.

Bigfoot, like UFOs, is a phenomenon exclusively of the 20th century. You can talk as much as you like about the growth of anthropogenic zones and the lack of powerful means in the 18th and 19th centuries mass media, capable of inflating any trifle into a sensation, but the fact remains: quite recently there was no Bigfoot as a mass phenomenon, but now there is. Why did creatures that evolved together with people over millions of years remain so little known that in a general cultural sense they can only claim to be a race of giants, and an extinct one at that?

Judging by the most ancient literary sources, contacts with Bigfoot people were extremely rare. The first description of such a case can be considered the Sumerian “Epic of Gilgamesh,” which tells about events 57 centuries ago. According to the first table of the epic, the goddess Aruru created Enkidu, a hairy hero living in complete savagery. King Gilgamesh invented original way to catch him: the harlot Shamhat was brought to the river bank where Enkidu was grazing. The poor woman was undressed, and the giant “knew her for seven days.” After such a marathon, the savage became weak, and his relatives - animals - began to avoid him. Thus, Enkidu was forced to become part of human society.

Scattered evidence of meetings with certain “wild people” can be found in almost every major historian. For example, Plutarch talked about how Sulla’s soldiers once caught a satyr (it should be noted that initially satyrs were not associated exclusively with horns and hooves - they were attributed with various animal traits that symbolized savagery). The Roman dictator gathered all the available translators and interrogated the prisoner, but he emitted only vile bleating and neighing, “which is why Sulla experienced great disgust and ordered him to be immediately removed from sight as an ugly phenomenon” (Plutarch, “Comparative Biography”, Sulla, 27) .

Medieval researchers mentioned wild people a lot and often, but most often they described ordinary monkeys or uncivilized natives. There were no longer blank spots left on the map of the Old World, so encounters with such creatures were spoken of only in the past tense. Once upon a time there were lions in Europe. Now even wild bulls and tarpans are no longer preserved here, and Bigfoot people have become a curiosity. For example, Heinrich von Gesler in the 14th century wrote about a wild Alpine woman whose “breasts are so long that she throws them over her shoulders.”

Enthusiasts often recall that Carl Linnaeus included Bigfoot in his famous classification of living things (System of Nature). Indeed, the Swedish naturalist wrote about “wild man” (about certain hairy “sons of darkness” living in caves and stealing food from people at night), as well as about “troglodyte man” (probably a Neanderthal). However, we should not forget that in the first edition of the System of Nature, Linnaeus called whales fish...

They lit it so they lit it

The architecture and heraldry of early feudal Europe often used the image of a “wild man” (voodoo vase), probably copied from Greek satyrs. The first masquerade in European history is associated with this creature. In 1393, Queen Isabella of Bavaria held a ball. King Charles VI the Mad and six of his entourage appeared in "Bigfoot" costumes made of linen, resin and hemp. At the height of the celebration, the Duke of Orleans accidentally brought a candle to the royal suit. He immediately flared up. The fire spread to others " forest people" Four of them died. The king got severe burns, but was saved thanks to the Duchess de Berry, who covered him with her clothes.

Origin of species

Retell modern stories about meeting Bigfoot does not make sense - most of them look like hunters' tales. They are either the same type or incredible, and in any case cannot be verified. Of particular interest are only general information about the known “species” of Bigfoot.

Lives in the mountains of Altai, Caucasus and Pamir almas(“almast”, from Mongolian - “wild man”). He is described as a humanoid with red fur, human-like facial features, powerful brow ridges, a flat nose and chin (which completely matches the reconstructed appearance of the Neanderthal).

Legends about Almas cannot boast of antiquity - they are only a few hundred years old. One might get the impression that there are almost more Almas in the mountains than there are people. In 1871, Nikolai Przhevalsky saw them, and in 1941, Red Army soldiers allegedly caught some hairy citizen in the Caucasus, interrogated him (to no avail) and shot him as a German spy.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan these creatures are known as to the bartender, however, the most popular in the West is another, Tibetan name - yeti(“man-bear” or “stone bear”). The number of encounters with him increased in proportion to the increase in the number of Europeans exploring the Himalayas. In 1832, the British noticed a certain red creature in the mountains - probably an orangutan, in 1889 - something like a bear.

Yeti also live here. Yeti, representing the highland subspecies of the troll family, have not heard that cannibalism is hopelessly out of fashion. Their opinion on this issue is: eat what moves. If it doesn't move, wait until it does. And then eat.

Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"

Khumjung and Pangboche monasteries for a long time kept the scalps of the Yeti, which was attributed to Magic force. Their research was carried out in the middle of the last century. The results are disappointing: these are just skins from the neck of a Himalayan mountain goat. The Pangboche monks also owned another relic - a mummified clawed paw of a yeti, but in 1991 it was stolen (probably having settled in someone's private collection).

In Scotland, on Mount Ben Macdui lives Am Fir Liat Mor("Big gray man"). No one really saw him, but many climbers heard strange footsteps on the slopes. Their stories are not much different from each other - they were walking along the mountain in the fog (usually in the evening), when suddenly measured steps began to be heard somewhere behind them. The pursuer rarely stepped, but did not lag behind - that is, he was several times larger than a man. People began to panic, took to flight and only glimpsed some huge gray silhouette in the fog.

This phenomenon was so widespread that it was simply necessary to find an explanation. Theories have been put forward about energy fractures and “frightening” infrasound, but it is most likely that Ben McDuy’s specific conditions (frequent fogs) create the phantom effect, well known to climbers. If a low-standing sun shines on a person’s back, and fog floats in front of him, then an eerie reflection of a figure appears in it, surrounded by a bright halo of light.

Philippine forest creature named Capri slightly reminiscent of Bigfoot in its habits (lives in trees, makes noise, shows interest in women), but at the same time has a purely human appearance, wears traditional Bahag clothes and smokes a pipe (they say that crickets in the forests are coals that have fallen from it).

Even overpopulated Japan has its own Bigfoot. He is called Hibagon(or Hinagon) as he lives on the forested Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture. The meeting with him took place 35 years ago. According to eyewitnesses, Hibagon was short, hairy, with a flat nose and sparkling eyes. All signs point to it not being Bigfoot, but rather something like a gorilla.

Among all the varieties of this creature, the fate of the American “bigfoot” is the most interesting. bigfoot or Sasquatch(the term was coined in 1920 by schoolteacher Burns, who noticed that many Native American tribes used words with the same root "sas" to mean wild people).

Until the mid-20th century, Bigfoots were not found in the United States, and stories about Sasquatch were only popular on Indian reservations. In August 1958 construction company Ray Wallace was paving the road in a deserted area of California. Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew found traces of " big feet" The feet were 40 centimeters long, the step length was over a meter. The local newspaper dubbed the find “Bigfoot,” and Wallace began to actively promote “Bigfoot” among lovers of the unknown.

But the real “birthday” of the American Bigfoot can be considered October 20, 1967, when horse rodeo participants Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin managed to capture him on film. They went to national park Six Rivers with a borrowed 16mm camera, intending to make a Bigfoot documentary in the style of The Blair Witch Project. The men agreed that, if possible, they would try to shoot the “bigfoot” - his body could be sold profitably, and besides, it would be irrefutable evidence.

However, when they saw him, they completely forgot about the weapon. Bigfoot began to quickly move away from the researchers. Patterson dismounted from his horse and set off after him with a working camera, Gimlin with a gun covered him from behind. As a result, the first half of the film was defective - the image shook and jumped in all directions, but when Patterson approached the bigfoot several tens of meters and stood still, the quality of the shooting improved noticeably. The creature looked back at its pursuers several times and disappeared into the forest.

The USA finally has its own national monster. Over the decades, the word “Bigfoot” has become a popular brand. Similar encounters were reported from all over the country. People have found traces, fur, and excrement of the “big leg.” Numerous “bigfoot” clubs have appeared, and tourism has new industry. Scientists who examined the Patterson-Gimlin film were divided into two roughly equal camps: some said that it was clearly staged (an actor in a wool suit was running in front of the lens), others noted the creature’s unusual gait and stated that it could not be human.

On November 26, 2002, Ray Wallace, the discoverer and popularizer of Bigfoot, died. His family soon admitted that Ray and his brother had faked footprints around the bulldozer by wearing large wooden feet on their feet. Why they needed this is not known exactly. They probably wanted to have a little fun, but the Bigfoot they invented soon became a national phenomenon. American hero, began to generate considerable income and gained worldwide fame. Such a trifle as the falsification of the first discovered traces does not bother enthusiasts at all.

Missing link

There are many theories about the origin of Bigfoot, but if you put aside all the unhealthy fantasies (an alien from outer space, from another dimension, the energy projection of ordinary people, the souls of our ancestors, secret government experiments, super-developed primates hiding from people using telepathy), the remaining versions can be can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

The first, the most famous, is based on the mythical roots of wild giants who supposedly lived on the planet long before man. Considering the specific geography of encounters with Bigfoot, most of which occur in Asia, North America and Eastern Europe, we can assume that we are dealing with Gigantopithecus(Gigantopithecus blacki).

The remains of this extinct ape were found in Asia (China). Unfortunately, there are too few of them to recreate the appearance of the animal. Scientists have at their disposal only a few lower jaws and about 1000 teeth, the largest of which are 6 times larger than those of humans. It is assumed that the growth of Gigantopithecus, which stood on hind legs, reached 3 meters. These giants most likely resembled gorillas or orangutans.

Against the “snow humanization” of Gigantopithecus is the fact that they became extinct almost 100,000 years ago and could hardly have spread across several continents - especially given their supposed diet (most of the bones were found in the habitat of the ancestors of modern pandas, who ate bamboo).

Other candidates for Bigfoot - Neanderthals- also do not inspire optimism. Even if they lived to see the 21st century, they would be too intelligent to lead wild image life (Neanderthals knew how to build shelters, used fire and used a variety of tools - from stone cutters to wooden spears). They were squat and stocky (height - up to 165 cm), which also does not correspond to the expected appearance of Bigfoot people.

Finally, it is absolutely certain that Neanderthals went extinct about 24,000 years ago. Their last habitats are Croatia, Iberia (Spain) and Crimea. How could they survive as single individuals all over the world - a question from the series “Who did they mate with?” Loch Ness monster in a small lake to survive to this day? Today, when the entire planet has already been photographed by satellites and put on public display in Google Earth, when Amazonian Indians dress in Chinese Adidas, and Tibetans take tourists around the mountains in Japanese jeeps, the relict hominid simply has nowhere to hide.

There are opinions that Bigfoot people appear “pointwise” in different places planets only because they are something like Mowgli or Tarzan. History knows about 100 cases of detection feral children. They are found to this day, often in tragicomic situations - for example, two years ago in Fiji a young man, Sunjit Kumar, was discovered who grew up among chickens and imitated their behavior.

In ancient times, lost or abandoned children, as well as persons with certain mental disabilities, could easily go wild, spend their entire (certainly short) lives in nature and only occasionally come across the eyes of superstitious ordinary people. Thousands of years ago they would have been called trolls and satyrs, and in the 20th century they would have been called Bigfoot. This is exactly the case that Turgenev described while visiting Gustave Flaubert (epigraph of the article) - and in the end it turned out that she was a madwoman, fed by shepherds and living in the forest for more than 30 years.

The most reasonable explanation for the Bigfoot phenomenon is the saying “Fear has big eyes.” Many secrets of the universe are hidden in erroneous perception. When tested, giant sea snakes turned out to be tangled seaweed, flying saucers turned out to be weather balloons, and Bigfoot turned out to be gorillas or bears.

The bear is such an original animal that everyone recognizes it at first sight. He does not eat his own kind, does not wander around the village at night in the hope of grabbing and dragging away a child. From time to time he climbs the tree to the very top, and from there inspects the surroundings. He especially doesn't like to be teased or disturbed.

Alfred Bram, "Animal Life"

Bram was wrong, says Japanese climber Makoto Nebuga. Not everyone recognizes a bear, especially if the person is scared and the clubfoot stands on its hind legs. Nebuga spent 12 years searching for the legendary yeti in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan and came to the conclusion that he had long been kept in many zoos around the world. The legend about him arose due to the fact that the Himalayan bear - "methi" - was confused with the "yeti" (not surprising, because the locals consider the bear to be a supernatural creature). Reality is rarely as mysterious as our ideas about it.

In 2001, experts from Oxford University published research on the red hair gene. Based on the assumption that Neanderthals were red-haired, conclusions began to be drawn that red-haired people were their distant descendants (however, Oxford authors consider this version to be too bold).

Since 1969, Skamania County (Washington) has had a law making it a criminal offense to kill any humanoid creature.

Most Bigfoot people are "discovered" in cold climates ( northern latitudes, highlands). Habitat Primate habitats are much warmer. In addition, on the territory North America large apes (hominids) never lived. At least their remains have not been discovered so far, which casts doubt on the reality of Bigfoot.

The term “Bigfoot” appeared in 1921 after the Tibetan expedition of the Royal Geographical Society, when one of the Sherpas explained to the British that strange footprints in the snow (apparently wolf tracks) belonged to “kang-mi”, that is, “Bigfoot”.

European voodoo vases are mentioned by Tolkien. In "The Lord of the Rings" it is mentioned in passing about certain "woses": the Elf Saros called Turin a "wood-wose" (wood-wose). Today this word has been modernized to wood-house (forest house).

In 1978 in national forest In Siskiyou, Oregon, the world's only Bigfoot trap was built - a small shed with a slamming door. It functioned for six years, but during all this time only bears were caught in it. It is now a tourist attraction.

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After weighing all the pros and cons, we can say with 99% probability that Bigfoot people are fiction. However, as primatologist John Napier correctly noted, there is a certain limit to the number of evidence of an encounter with Bigfoot, after which they can no longer be explained by errors and hoaxes alone. One or two stories about the “hairy monkey with glowing eyes” can be ignored. One hundred thousand stories about this are a reason to think. We can only wait and analyze. Time will judge.

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