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The science of cryptozoology is full of various secrets and riddles regarding the existence of certain animals. Among them - big Foot, or yeti. This creation is perhaps one of the most amazing riddles modern humanity. There are many different names for Bigfoot in the modern world: in Canada he is called Sasquatch, in North America he is called Bigfoot, and in Australia he is called Yawhi.

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 cave 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.

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:

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;
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;
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 we would very much like to: the basis scientific approach consists in its proof;
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 looks like human face with dark skin, pretty Long hands, with a short neck and hips, a heavy lower jaw, a pointed head shape. 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 the social role modern man, as opposed to its 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 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.

IN different regions country and world it has many local “names”.

Bigfoot theme in art

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

The half-fantastic “Wandering Chukchi” played the role of Bigfoot in the folklore of the northern peoples of Siberia. 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, had long hair, high growth 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 refers to the area of 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:

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. Persons dark 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 very much. 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 person may reflect innate fears of darkness, the unknown, 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 any one chance remain “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 convincing 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 different nations (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'), chugister 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. Frequent references to famous 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:

Notes

K. Eskov. “Cryptuh, sir!”
Patterson's film
B. F. Porshnev Current state of the issue of relict hominoids Viniti, Moscow, 1963
Soviet "Bigfoot" Itogi magazine
Zhanna-Marie Kofman
see, for example, “Popular Biological Dictionary”, 1991, Ed. USSR Academy of Sciences, edited by corresponding member A. V. Yablokov
V. B. Sapunov, Doctor of Biology. Sciences Bigfoot in two dimensions, or an alternative to the noosphere
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
KAZAKHSTAN CHRONICLE “P” Year 1988
Trakhtengerts M. S. Habitat of primates of the Alamas species, journal “Natural and Technical Sciences” ISSN 1684-2626, 2003, No. 2, pp. 71-76
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)
B. A. Shurinov 20th century paradox « International relationships» 315 pages 1990 ISBN 5-7133-0408-6
A Russian biologist considers Sasquatch and other yetis to be feral oligophrenics.
Beiko V. B., Berezina M. F., Bogatyreva E. L. et al. Great encyclopedia animal world: Scientific-pop. edition for children. - M.: JSC "ROSMEN-PRESS", 2007. - 303 p. UDC 087.5, BBK 28.6, p. 285.

About hairy creatures - half-monkeys, half-humans - there have long been reports from Siberia, then from the Himalayas, then from the west North America. What is behind the legends about the "Bigfoot"? The International Society of Cryptozoology in Tucson, Arizona, has only about three hundred members, but is the subject of constant vitriolic ridicule in the press due to the organization's strange activities. "Cryptozoology is the study of unusual living things," says the society's secretary, anthropologist Richard Greenwell. It also studies all sorts of information about unusual creatures unknown to science." In short, Greenwell and his fellow socialites believe in monsters. And to admit the existence of the “Chinese savage,” or, as he is also called, “Bigfoot,” means exposing oneself to the sharp ridicule of people who are completely devoid of a romantic streak.

Most ordinary people begin to believe in the incredible only after careful study and verification of factual materials by scientists. Cryptozoologists say that Lately A number of new animal species were discovered. Among them is the dwarf elephant, which lives in Central Africa, - it is one-third the size of an ordinary elephant, and the onza is a very ferocious species of mountain lion, which has long been the subject of legends among the Mexican peasants. Other examples of until recently unknown representatives wildlife are the pygmy hippopotamus, white rhinoceros, giant panda and a komodo dragon. "There's evidence these animals don't exist in the imagination," says Richard Greenwell. "So why couldn't there be more?" mysterious creatures? " Three types of wild creatures attract people's attention more than others, probably because eyewitnesses describe them as half-human, half-animal.

These creatures are known by various names: " Big foot" (in English "beatfoot"), "sasquoch", " Yeti", "big Foot", "Chinese savage"... Few scientists showed serious enough interest in eyewitness reports of these animals, until recently new information appeared from a completely unexpected source... Chinese savage.

There is evidence that for many centuries, Chinese peasants came across a creature they called “yeren”. The humanoid primate "Yeren" (or "Chinese savage") reaches almost two meters in height, it is capable of making tools and weaving baskets. Hundreds of sightings of this creature by peasants in central China went unreported. Until the end of the eighties, Western scientists did not have access to sparsely populated forest areas, where Chinese researchers had accumulated a wealth of factual material about this creature. But then six countries, including the UK and the US, organized a well-equipped expedition and sent it to the region to study the materials and, with luck, take for analysis any physical evidence of the existence of the “Chinese savage”, for example, a tuft of his hair.

Among those who were persuaded to travel to Central China for this purpose were Ohio State University anthropology professor Jean Poirier and Richard Greenwell. What they found there turned out to be the most exciting discovery of their lives. Poirier himself went on the expedition without much enthusiasm. Being a famous scientist, he was skeptical of all reports of such creatures. But his collaboration with the Englishman Greenwell over two years of research yielded remarkable results. An independent television crew from London, led by Geraldine Easter, took part in the expedition.

Actual proof of the existence of the forest brother of the Himalayan " Bigfoot"was the hair picked by farmers who saw strange creature on your own land. At first, scientists from Shanghai Fudan University came to the conclusion that these hairs do not belong to either humans or monkeys. Their hair was then sent to Ohio State University and the University of Birmingham. The results of the analysis, carried out by members of the Department of Space Science and Physics under the direction of Dr. Ranjit Sohi, were announced in November 1990. The conclusion of English and American scientists fully confirmed the conclusions of their Chinese colleagues. The hair belonged to a creature that was neither a man nor a monkey... And this actually proved the existence of a “Chinese savage”.

The scientists continued to analyze the structure of the hair chromosomes, and Professor Poirier said: "We have determined that this animal does not fall into any of the known categories. This is the first evidence of the existence of a new great ape." The latest discovery in Central China suggests that a creature called Gigantopithecus, which scientists believe existed half a million years ago - long before humans - was able to survive in areas extremely remote from civilization. The jaws and more than a thousand teeth of this ancient “ape-man” have been found in many places in China, Vietnam and India. Geraldine Easter states: The "Chinese savage" is either a creature we know nothing about or a Gigantopithecus that somehow managed to escape extinction in these areas on its own. He was a contemporary of panda bears, and pandas survived."

Eyewitnesses confirm

In 1981, a research society was formed in Hubei province to study the “Chinese savage”. Here are some of the eyewitness accounts collected by the society. On the morning of June 19, 1976, Gong Yulan, a peasant woman from Kunli Village, went to the mountains with her four-year-old child to cut grass for pigs. Climbing along the path between two slopes, she suddenly saw a brown creature scratching its back on a tree, six or seven meters away from her. When this creature noticed Gong Yulan and her child, it rushed towards them. Frightened, Gong ran down the mountain and then described the creature to the research group. According to her, it was taller than an adult, about 180 centimeters tall. The hair on the head is relatively long, the arms and legs are covered with hair. The creature moved vertically, like a person, with long strides. It was male, quite scary. When she was shown a photograph of an orangutan in vertical position, Gong said, “It looked like this.” Looking at the photographs of the bear, she shook her head.

Zhu Quokiang, a herdsman from Xilong, Fangxiang County, testified as follows: “On June 16, 1974, I was herding four oxen in the mountain pastures of Longdongtu when I suddenly came face to face with a creature similar to a person, but covered with brown hair. I pointed at it. gun, but it grabbed the barrel. I began to pull the gun, but could not free it. Then I shot at random, but missed. The creature opened its mouth, making a threatening grimace and revealing yellow teeth. The teeth were like a person’s, only a little wider. From "My legs gave way from fear. My three bulls ran away, but the big black bull, which had previously attacked people, snorted and rushed at this creature. It let go of the barrel of my gun and ran away." In the Kuen Lun Mountains of northwestern China in early 1950, Fan Jintquan worked as part of the geological party of the Ministry of Heavy Industry.

During his two years of contract work, he met many local residents who not only saw, but even fed the savages. Fan persuaded one old man to take him to the chestnut grove where these creatures lived. Here is his story: “As expected, a creature appeared. It was a female at least 160 centimeters tall with a cub. Perhaps because my clothes were different from the old man’s, she treated me with some caution. And the cub fearlessly ran up to the old man, "To take chestnuts from him. His mother called him. It was a sound vaguely reminiscent of the cry of either a horse or a donkey."

Zhang Yujin from the village of Hongta told how they once killed a savage: “When I was 18 years old, I served in the Kuomintang army. In the spring of 1943, I was sent on a hunt as part of a group of 50-60 soldiers. We came across a house in the mountains. The owner told us that in the mountains behind the house some kind of animal had been screaming for half a day. The district commandant, who led our group, ordered me and thirty other soldiers to take three machine guns and surround the place. When we got there, we saw not one, but two creatures. One of them sat with his head low and cried. The other walked around the first and touched him from time to time. We watched them for half an hour, then opened fire. The savage who was walking immediately ran away, and the other fell dead. Having examined him, We discovered that it was a male, about the size of a man, and his whole body was covered with brown hair.”

The stories about the crying savages have many similarities. Liu Jikwan told how in 1942 a pair of captured savages were put on public display: “I was 13 years old then, and I went downtown to look at the strange monsters caught by the Mindan soldiers and chained. It was a male and a female. Their heads were redder than human ones, hair hung from their shoulders, the females had large breasts, and the male had tears rolling down his cheeks. We gave them corn cob, and they ate it."

It is easy to doubt the reliability of such testimony. Most of the eyewitnesses are peasants, and due to the passage of time, their story raises suspicions of some distortions of the truth. But recent expeditions deep into China were purely scientific in nature. Recently, the biology department of Huadong University organized several expeditions that discovered savage footprints, caves, hair and “nests” - unusual structures woven from branches, sometimes with dozens concentrated in one place. These are supposed to be the dwellings of savages.

Big Foot

The "Chinese savage" attracted the attention of Western scientists only in last years. But in the Himalayas lives a creature that first became known to the West back in 1832. Adventure-loving Englishman B.G. Hodtson settled high in the mountains with the Nepalese and wrote home about a tall humanoid creature covered with thick fur. In Britain, it was believed that an imaginative traveler had mistakenly mistaken a brown Himalayan bear or perhaps a large langur monkey for a humanoid creature. But Hodtson described in a scientific journal how the Nepalese porters fled in horror from a standing, tailless, shaggy-haired creature that was standing upright and headed towards them. They called him "rakshas", which means "demon" in Sanskrit. The Nepalese told Hodtson that references to such savages go back to the fourth century BC.

Half a century later, another Englishman, Major Lawrence Waddell of the Indian Army Medical Service, reported that he had seen unusual footprints, allegedly “left by one of the hairy people living in the eternal snows.” He discovered these tracks at an altitude of about six thousand meters in northeastern Sikkim. In his book “In the Himalayas” he wrote: “Tibetans all believe in these creatures. However, none of those interviewed on this issue ever brought me a single reliable case.” Waddell concluded that the hairy savages were simply yellow predatory snow bears that often attacked yaks.

The next written report of the discovery of unusual traces dates back to 1914. Englishman J.R.P. Gent, a forest ranger from Sikkim, wrote that he found traces of a very strange large creature. Such messages aroused general curiosity, and in the 20s and 30s a whole stream of travelers rushed to the mountains. They obtained even more information about the amazing "Yeti". It was during this time that one newspaper reporter called the creature "the bigfoot."

Nepalese peasants, Tibetan lamas, Sherpas said that " yeti"always lived near the snowy edge separating forest areas from glaciers. These eyewitness accounts are very contradictory. Some say that the animals reach four meters in height and are extremely mobile. Others claim that they are much lower, waddle, with their heads held high, waving their arms wildly Villagers say that snow people They behave cautiously and approach human habitation only when hunger forces them to do so. They eat mainly rodents and lichen; before eating, they gut their prey, which is unique to humans. According to villagers, in case of danger, the yetis make loud barking sounds. But these are all the stories of local residents about the “Bigfoot”. Where is the evidence of its existence?

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