1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,160 In this episode, we're talking about Bigfoot in Russia. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,440 That's correct. Bigfoot in Russia. 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,400 I think about these cryptids, UFOs, all this stuff. 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,520 It's a worldwide thing. And even if they don't call it 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,960 Bigfoot, maybe they call it Yeti or urine or something else. 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,520 Seems like these large wild men are everywhere. 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,120 I found this article over at vice.com written by Tamlin 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,360 Maggie. September 7th, 2022 Bigfoot 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,880 believers uncovered a lost manuscript about the Soviet 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,120 Sasquatch, says mysterious wild men living at the edge of 12 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,680 civilization that populated our forklore for centuries. 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,560 But few are as legendary or as evasive as Bigfoot. 14 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,720 But while the Creek dwelling hominid was lurching in 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,160 America's imagination, the Soviets were tracking down 16 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,440 another elusive biped. Almost 7000 miles away in the 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,560 snow capped Caucasus Mountains, a team of Soviet investigators 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,800 were searching for Bigfoot's icy cousin, the Yeti. 19 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,040 To me, there is some pretty convincing evidence out there 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,920 that there's something going on with this whole Yeti thing. 21 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,520 Not more than half a century later, an uncovered Soviet 22 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,040 manuscript has shed light on one of the first expeditions to find 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,040 the legendary ape creature, including a supposed encounter 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,000 with the beast itself. In Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,760 Uzbekistan there were reports of mountain skulking cryptids, 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,040 naked man bears with piercing midday howls, tall hairy 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,120 creatures that petchly kicked over tents and rhubarb forging 28 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,200 troops of camel haired beast standing on 2 legs. 29 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,800 Even grizzly murder scenes where victims livers had mysteriously 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,040 been plucked from their backs. Their prime suspect was the 31 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,640 mysterious Yeti, better known in the Caucasus as the Almasti. 32 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,560 It was a 20th century fascination with Mount Everest 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,640 that exposed European explorers to the Sherpa folklore of the 34 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,240 Yeti, originally a type of sacred guardian revered in 35 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,920 carvings by the Andapur king Perthevia Sankra Gavampati. 36 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:13,280 But whenever summit was first conquered in 1953, it wasn't 37 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,360 long before these tales mutated and snowballed into a global 38 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,480 phenomenon, with 1 expedition for the newly named Abominable 39 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,040 Snowman even sponsored by the notorious British tabloid The 40 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Daily Bail, The Daily Mail. I'm not sure if the word 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,360 notorious is appropriate there. It wasn't only newspapers that 42 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,280 were interested in the USSR, Soviet polymath Boris Porchnov 43 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,800 was also taking notes. Primarily a story of 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,400 specializing in popular revolts in pre revolutionary France. 45 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,800 Boris Porchnov was also fascinated by anthropology and 46 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,760 linguistics, and suspected that reports of these mysterious 47 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,640 creatures in the wilderness could be a form of illicit 48 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:52,680 hominid. In other words, extinction 49 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,920 leftovers had survived against all odds in wild, harsh 50 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,440 climates. A respected academic, Porsche 51 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,640 had dabbed with unorthodox theories before, such as the 52 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:05,120 idea language was the driving force of evolution that allowed 53 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,000 all types of hominids to thrive, and he thought locating some of 54 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,320 these wild men might provide some clues to fill in the gaps. 55 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,600 Winning approval for the search for the Soviet Academy of 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,800 Sciences, Porsche declared his aims in the official newspaper 57 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,880 of the Communist Party, Pravda, where he solicited eyewitness 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,440 accounts of interactions with the creatures. 59 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,240 The reports flooded in. In 1958, Porsche set out to 60 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,400 follow up on the promising leads in person, accompanied by 4 core 61 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,440 experts, geologists and anthropologists. 62 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,680 But his colleagues had other ideas many simply didn't care 63 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,200 about. Yet isn't even the head of the 64 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,920 expedition of botanists, Cyril Stanikovich was much more 65 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,200 interested in setting local plant life than capturing 66 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,000 cryptids. This I'll fated expedition was 67 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,160 one of only two official investigations into Bigfoot 68 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,560 adjacent creatures, the other being a search by communist 69 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,600 China. Now Porsche manuscripts have 70 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,200 been located and translated into English for the first time, 71 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,960 detailing supposed first hand accounts of Yeti, Wildman and 72 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,560 Almasti across the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. 73 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,080 These manuscripts were almost as elusive as the Yeti itself, and 74 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,120 were considered practically lost until a small publisher in 75 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,680 Devon, England, called the Center for 14 Cryptozoology CFZ 76 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,480 intervened. It was something we wanted to 77 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,680 track down for a long time, Richard Freeman, director of the 78 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,480 Zoology Ethic Organization, told Motherboard. 79 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,160 As a purely heuristic historic document, it's worth reprinting 80 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,320 because it's the work of a very well respected scientist. 81 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,200 But the information within it that we might glean about the 82 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,600 elicit hominids is the most important thing, because there's 83 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,800 stuff in this book that's never been seen by anybody's eyes in 84 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,200 the West before, which is utterly remarkable. 85 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,160 The CFC stumbled on the masterpiece almost by chance. 86 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,800 Although the Moscow Library held a copy, they weren't prepared to 87 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,240 relinquish it. But eventually the now the CCI 88 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,400 researcher Dmitri Vayanov introduced Freeman to Port 89 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,680 Stem's great grandson who are great for them to be translated. 90 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,320 These globe trotting accounts record details of shaggy headed, 91 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,760 fur covered creatures with long breasts prowling the Pamira 92 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,360 Mountains and wild men in Kyrgyzstan that long ago walked 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,040 on 2 legs like humans but had feet twice the size like 94 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,680 paddles. Strange hominids were thought to 95 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,840 inhabit caves, mountains and creeks in the in the Fasabod 96 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:24,560 district of Tajikistan. Elsewhere in Ergot, Uzbekistan, 97 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,720 the creatures would supposedly sit for hours on earthen mounds, 98 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,280 leaving behind deep imprints. Others claimed they were two 99 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,200 meters tall, covered with red hair, lived in small groups and 100 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,560 didn't wander far. 2 meters tall would be about what, 6 foot 86 101 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,400 foot 9? A researcher from Paramount 102 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,320 Botanical Garden, meanwhile, said the 1917 Russian Revolution 103 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,560 may have brought a stop to them. Before the revolution, there 104 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,440 were wild men, and now they're not, a researcher reportedly 105 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,120 told Porchnev. Porchnev turned up many reports 106 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,720 but fell short of acquiring physical evidence. 107 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,440 Alexander Poroshenko, head of the Center of Anthropology of 108 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,560 Religion at the European University of Saint Petersburg, 109 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,960 told Motherboard that some in the Soviet scientific 110 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,040 establishment did not respond kindly. 111 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,720 Even initial fellow travellers on the expedition, like 112 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,920 Folklorus and Azi Rosenfeld, turned their back on portion of 113 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,400 when they declared tales about snowmen living in that premiers 114 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,240 do not have any foundation in reality. 115 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,320 Other Soviet geographers specializing in Central Asia 116 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,400 outright dismissed all reports of wild men in the region. 117 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,000 Later in 1969, a group of Soviet zoologist and biologist labeled 118 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,120 personnel study pseudoscientific. 119 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,400 Despite these hostile rebuffs, the Soviet Union certainly 120 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,680 proved willing to investigate a number of strange phenomena 121 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,760 through mainstream institutions, explained to Annie Bruno, 122 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,400 associate professor in history and environmental studies at 123 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,280 Northern Illinois University. Like the Tunguska explosion of 124 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,200 19 O 8, where the blast was believed by some to be the 125 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,200 result of a nuclear powered UFO crash, the Academy of Science 126 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,360 was curiously prepared to team with volunteer researchers to 127 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,600 investigate the mythical, the mystical or esoteric. 128 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,000 Although the Soviet Union worked hard to increase scientific 129 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 literacy, efforts to do so, Brennan said, often wound up 130 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,880 encouraging interest in the paranormal rather than squashing 131 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,680 them. That was the case for Porsche, 132 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,560 Nev. Although he returned only with 133 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,120 stories and otherwise empty handed, journalistic interest in 134 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,280 the Yeti remained even among science publications. 135 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,560 His official Commission was aborted, but he personally 136 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,960 amassed a a cautery of followers who were dedicated to his 137 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,560 mission, and he continued to travel with volunteer 138 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,200 researchers throughout Central Asia to collect further evidence 139 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,360 from the 1960s to 1980s, even as official backing disintegrated 140 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,640 decades after Porsche's death. Richard Freeman at the CFC may 141 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,160 just be a spiritual successor to these followers. 142 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,680 I've haunted for the Amnesty and its relatives in Russia, 143 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,800 Tajikistan and northern India, said the Roman cryptologist 144 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,040 cryptozoologist, who is also a former zoot worker and reptile 145 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,120 specialist. He also searched for the 146 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,840 Tasmanian wolf, the giant Anaconda and the Mongolian death 147 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,240 woman. While Freeman has not yet 148 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,120 succeeded in gathering conclusive physical evidence, he 149 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,640 says he has survived life threatening near misses like 150 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,400 tumbling down ravines and snatching vines at the last 151 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,960 minute like a cryptozoological Indiana Jones, and has amassed a 152 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,160 long list of such hair raising accounts. 153 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,240 Freeman told Motherboard that records of the Olmosy go back 154 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,640 hundreds of years and his book In Search for Real Monsters. 155 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,440 He writes that they were thought to be a homo of a homogeneous 156 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,720 rather than a pognant, like a great ape on A2. 157 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,960 On a 2008 trip to Casabrino, Bulgaria, part of the Caucus 158 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,960 Mountains, he learned of an Olmosy run in from biologist 159 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,440 Gregory Panchenko, a home invasion where an adult hominid 160 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,080 luncheoned homeowner's dog before stealing a wheel of 161 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,480 cheese and escaping the scene. Returning to the scene of the 162 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,800 crime, Freeman and his colleagues encountered ancient 163 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,600 Samaritan tombs nearby, with bizarrely shaped remnants of 164 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,080 skulls scattered about. But these were no wild men. 165 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,040 The remnants were only the results of a ritual binding 166 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,240 common to the peoples there in the 3rd to 7th centuries. 167 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,000 Astonishing stuff, but disappointing for the field of 168 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,800 cryptozoology. Elsewhere, near a town called 169 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,680 Neutrino, another investigation involved an abandoned farm, the 170 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,280 sight of a grizzly triple murder that lay empty ever since. 171 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,480 Local shepherds drinking close by claimed they had been 172 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,040 confronted by the Almasty, which, startled but with an 173 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,280 amiable self assurance, gently lifted one of them out of the 174 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,880 way before leaping from a nearby veranda. 175 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,640 So Freeman and his fellow travelers set up a stakeout at 176 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,440 the abandoned farm with motion sensitive camera traps, laying 177 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,920 bread and honey as bait. In the early hours of the 178 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,920 morning, the investigators heard a strange noise, a guttural 179 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,880 vocalization Freeman described as phonetic Bubba, Bubba Bubba 180 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,320 that seemed to emerge from this same veranda. 181 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,040 A few seconds later, something walked along the veranda and 182 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,880 whatever it was, it was walking on 2 legs because of the past 183 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,760 the door, which was slightly ajar, it blocked out the 184 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,400 moonlight and the Starlight to a height of at least 7 feet, said 185 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,800 Freeman. We grabbed our cameras, rushed 186 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,400 out, and whatever it was, it vanished into the night. 187 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,640 We did a Circuit of the farm, but we couldn't find anything. 188 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,080 That's the nearest I've got to seeing one of them. 189 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,040 Freeman limited. The camera trap went off, but 190 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,000 all we got was moving vegetation. 191 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,040 In spite of his lack of physical findings, Freeman believes in 192 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,320 the existence of these creatures. 193 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,680 He knows that Porsche's theory about surviving Neanderthals is 194 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,160 out of date. They were quite small, unlike 195 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,840 the tall Amnesty, and the reports he's heard suggested 196 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,880 primitive tool use. After all, Freeman says, there 197 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,560 are mysterious remnants of hominids occurring more than you 198 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,240 think, such as the Red Deer Cave inhabitants of northern China 199 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,280 whose existence intrigued scientist. 200 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,040 Nevertheless, Yeti expert Daniel C Taylor claims to have proved 201 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,080 in his book Yeti The Ecology of a Mystery, that the creature is 202 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,400 empathetically a bear in the public's mind. 203 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,720 They confuse that a folklore Yeti means there is a biological 204 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,480 1, Taylor told Motherboard. This could be an analogous to 205 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,360 saying that Santa Claus is real because there is the folklore of 206 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,760 such children believe, but anyone who has really studied 207 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,920 Santa Claus. Then there is the third Santa 208 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,920 Claus that appears at Christmas at big shopping centers where 209 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,360 children sit on the lap. That is real but different. 210 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,760 Here we go again a straw man arguments goes on down has some 211 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,600 pictures here of the of the shifted footprints, shifted 212 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,280 footprints seen by the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance and 213 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,600 photographer by Eric Shipton on the Minglong Glacier chapter. 214 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,280 Now some people think that could be a bear, but looks almost like 215 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,880 a big footprint to me. Then the article kind of veers 216 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,760 off here a little bit and it goes on down and says so finding 217 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,560 large hominids wandering around in the US or even Caucasus is 218 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,400 highly unlikely. Likely or not, the story is 219 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,840 persistent. Freeman is far from alone in his 220 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,440 beliefs. Many Yeti enthusiasts insist 221 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,800 that Siberia contains strange cryptozoological entities 222 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,680 traipsing in the tundras, and among them are Vladimir Putin, 223 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,400 who claimed to have once sighted a whole family of Yetis. 224 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,720 Undeterred, Freeman plans to a continuous hunt, which hopes to 225 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,160 return to your gig standard future. 226 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,600 As for why, despite the extensive searches, no honesty, 227 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,400 Yeti or Bigfoot has turned up just yet. 228 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:08,480 Freeman says that these creatures seem to be highly 229 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,080 talented at avoiding people, perhaps because their survival 230 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,400 depends on it. One place where their survival 231 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,040 is not disputed though is in the minds of people because whether 232 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,200 real or not, a live or extinct, many merely metaphysical. 233 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,160 We are fascinated by these creatures stomping on the snow 234 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,600 and traipsing the mountains at the edge of civilization. 235 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,200 You mean overall the article was OK, but toward the end it kind 236 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,640 of went clear off their rails a little bit trying to quote 237 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,760 somebody debunking the whole concept of Bigfoot, Yeti, 238 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,080 almasti, whatever you want to call it. 239 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,800 Now, it is interesting that it's not just in what you know, 240 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,240 Russia proper. It's all through the old Soviet 241 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:45,920 Union. We have stories of these things. 242 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,880 I want to go and take a look at another article here in the 243 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,360 article we just looked at talked about Vladimir Putin having a 244 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,480 sighting of these things. I did find this article out. 245 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:02,720 tsimrenapoche.com. It's Tim or TSEMRIMPOC he.com. 246 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,400 It's got a reprint of this article from the Siberian Times. 247 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:11,080 It says April 1st, 2016. Vladimir Putin cites A Yeti 248 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,440 family in remote Siberian mountains. 249 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,360 Russian President discovers proof that's in quotations that 250 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,080 fabled creature exists while on short vacation in Kimmeru 251 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,880 region. I would say it's probably 252 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,640 evidence, not proof, goes on and says environmental Rangers and 253 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,760 hunters. Intermountain Terrain say the 254 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,000 Kremlin leader personally witnessed 3 yetis while on a 255 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,880 recent helicopter trip to a remote location famous for 256 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,000 claimed sightings. He and his entourage saw an 257 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,320 adult male and female and a smaller child Yeti at a distance 258 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:48,000 of about 150 meters, said Dimitri Ivanov, a park wildlife 259 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,520 expert who was with the group. At first, the creatures stood 260 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,160 and watched, then took big strides into the trees briefly. 261 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,880 They reappeared as if curious about the presidential group, 262 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,760 but then vanished again. They were covered in thick, Gray 263 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,200 colored hair and took giant steps far bigger than a man. 264 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:10,200 The sighting is understood to have been confirmed by 63 year 265 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,240 old President Putin's security detachment after they inspected 266 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:14,960 the footprints in the newly fallen snow. 267 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,800 Pictures of the creatures will be released later on April 1st 268 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,320 by the Criminal Press Service. Is understood kind of work 269 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,240 that's kind of maybe not a joke doing that on April Fool's Day. 270 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,440 It is unknown if they were taken by Prime Minister Dmitri Medoff, 271 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,760 a noted photographer who was in the same trip. 272 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,400 According to local newspaper reports from Kemero, the Yeti 273 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,400 family sighting came on President Putin's latest 274 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,000 wildlife visit to remote regions of Siberia. 275 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,080 He was said to be awestruck by the sighting. 276 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,440 Kind of a remote area. Here you see these pictures. 277 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,200 Got a picture of Putin in a hang glider? 278 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,040 I don't know if he's actually flying this thing or not. 279 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,480 Now, scientists from the Siberian branch of the Russian 280 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,880 Academy of Science have been ordered to investigate the 281 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,280 discovery. But the Russians will do 282 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,120 everything to protect the Yeti and their natural habitat. 283 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,360 The president is well known for his exploits to protect Siberian 284 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,800 wildlife, including tigers, leopards, pulvers and along the 285 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,400 Pacific whales. But the Yeti find is confirmed 286 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,800 as well will be his most remarkable achievement yet. 287 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,080 Now I have read some of the people there in Siberia not so 288 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,360 happy about it, that Putin has ordered some kind of protection 289 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,720 for these Siberian tigers and they've become a real problem 290 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,400 with eating local villagers who are not no longer allowed to to 291 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,560 shoot them in self-defense. So it wouldn't surprise me if he 292 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,320 didn't believe in Bigfoot. Actually I can't. 293 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,480 I kind of think that's possible. On one occasion in 2012, he flew 294 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,520 in a hang glider over Arctic Siberia in an attempt to teach 295 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:39,960 white cranes to fly S to migrate. 296 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,640 You kind of wonder about some of these guys with these photo OPS. 297 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,760 What's really going on here? Yeti are also known as Bigfoot 298 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,720 or abdominal soul man. Sightings have been made in 299 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,280 North America as well as Russia and other areas of Asia over 300 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,560 many decades. But skeptics always dismiss the 301 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,840 claims. The location of the sensational 302 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,080 discovery was some 32 kilometers, what, 20 miles from 303 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,480 the s s cave, a place where Yeti believers have previously said 304 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,840 there were sightings. Yeah, well, you know, it's 305 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,600 coming from Russia, so you never really know what to believe 306 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,400 because the language barrier and the distance away. 307 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,960 But it's interesting that this is just out there like that. 308 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,760 We have another article here from NBC News. 309 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,680 This is dated 2011. Russians claim indisputable 310 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,400 proof of Yeti Russian researchers looking for the 311 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,880 Yeti, the Asian version of North American Bigfoot, claimed to 312 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,600 have found indisputable proof of a long sought mystery beast in 313 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,560 Siberia. Seems like they're a lot more 314 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,120 open to it than we are at least. This Articles by Benjamin 315 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,800 Radford Russian researchers looking for the Yeti, the Asian 316 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,840 version of northern North American Bigfoot, claimed to 317 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,520 have found indisputable proof of a long sought mystery beast in 318 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,800 Siberia. You know, I'm not sure if they 319 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,360 would consider the same thing as Bigfoot or not, but it's 320 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,920 similar. There isn't a ton of evidence to 321 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,400 work with, just a few strands of hair and some tracks in the 322 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,440 snow, but it's enough that the research team says it's 95% sure 323 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,800 that Yeti exists. Others, however, are mighty 324 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,920 skeptical of the findings. Is the Yeti is said to be 325 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,760 muscular, covered with dark grayish or reddish brown hair, 326 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,119 and weigh between 200 and 400 lbs. 327 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,240 The idea is relatively short compared to Bigfoot, averaging 328 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,160 only about 6 or 7 feet in height. 329 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,680 Despite dozens of expeditions into the mountain regions of 330 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,880 Russia, China and Nepal, both creatures existence remain 331 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,200 unproven. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the 332 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,800 first skip to scale Everest with Sherpa tense Norgay, found no 333 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,760 evidence of the creature. Famous Mountaineer Reinhold 334 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,880 Messner also spent months in Nepal and Tibet climbing 335 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,800 mountains and researching reports following his own 336 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,560 sighting in his book My Quest for the Yeti, Saint Martin's 337 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,120 Griffin 22,001, Messner concludes that large native 338 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,920 bears are responsible for Yeti sightings and tracks. 339 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,480 This, of course, not the first time that searchers have claimed 340 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,600 strong or even indisputable proof of Yeti. 341 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,800 In 2007, American TV show Josh host Josh Gates, But I Just Love 342 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,280 Josh's Stuff, claimed he found three mysterious footprints in 343 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,840 snow near a stream in the Falls region of the Himalayan 344 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,880 Mountains. Locals were skeptical, 345 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,040 suggesting he simply misinterpreted a bear track. 346 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,440 No follow up information ever merged in the Gates track. 347 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,440 Once touted internationally, strong evidence of the Yeti is 348 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,840 now largely forgotten. Honestly, these bear tracks are. 349 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,120 I mean, I can see where a person could be confused if you've seen 350 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,000 bear tracks before. Yeah, something else. 351 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,480 Last year, a strange, nearly hairless animal was captured by 352 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,360 hunters in the Sichuan province, China. 353 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,160 Researchers and news reports suggest that a Yeti had finally 354 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,720 been captured alive. Though the proclamation turned 355 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,040 out to be premature, embarrassed officials eventually admitted it 356 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,800 was nothing more than a mangy civet, a small cat like animal 357 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,720 native to the region. The Russian search for the Yeti 358 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,280 was conducted in part by a small group of researchers invited to 359 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,760 participate in a Yeti conference. 360 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,200 Apparently, the team found some Gray hairs and a clump of Moss 361 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,680 in a Russian cave in Kamaru region and Western Siberia, 362 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,240 according to a spokesman for the Camera River region. 363 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,640 During the expedition, the Askeya Cave conference 364 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,960 participants gathered indisputable proof that the 365 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,480 Shariat Mountains are inhabited by the snowman. 366 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,880 They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various 367 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,640 markers which the Yeti uses to denote his territory. 368 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,800 If true, it's an amazing find. Yet it's not clear why. 369 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,320 If the researchers are certain that The Cave had been recently 370 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,880 and actively used by the Yeti, they didn't simply set up 371 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,720 cameras to record the creatures or wait for the animals to 372 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,480 return to The Cave, where they could be trapped and captured 373 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,000 alive, offering conclusive proof of their evidence. 374 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,680 Some Russians view the announcement with a considerable 375 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,960 suspicion and skepticism, suggesting the sudden discovery 376 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,240 as a publicity stunt to increase tourism in the impoverished coal 377 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,640 mining region. So far it seems to have worked 378 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,880 as hundreds of people have come to tour The Cave. 379 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,120 In fact, the event seemed more of a media circus than a 380 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:00,280 scientific expedition when former Russian heavyweight boxer 381 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,680 Nikola Valyev recently tour of The Cave searching for the Yeti 382 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,240 to great media attention if populations of yetis like 383 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,040 Bigfoot really exist. They have somehow managed to 384 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,320 avoid leaving any physical traces of their presence. 385 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,760 No bodies, bones, teeth, hair, scat, or anything else. 386 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,800 Of course, just because these creatures have never been found, 387 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,640 it's not conclusive proof they don't exist. 388 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,600 All new evidence should be carefully and scientifically 389 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,520 analyzed. However, if history is any 390 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,600 guide, this latest Yeti discovery will soon fade away, 391 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,000 leading proof of the creature's existence still in question. 392 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,560 Well, it seems like you have a lot of the same stuff going on 393 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,800 in Russia as you do in the States as far as these 394 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,720 Bigfooter, yet you're concerned. Lots of talk about it, lots of 395 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,400 expeditions, but no hard proof yet. 396 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,560 I think that fits right into these things being some type of 397 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,600 a Cryptid, some type of animal that's traveling between our 398 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,200 dimension and another dimension. But I do find it interesting 399 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,640 that these folklore, if you want to call it that, these 400 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,800 eyewitness accounts even have emerged over the years, you 401 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,200 know, continents away. And they're so similar. 402 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,040 If you'd like to program, don't forget to like, follow, 403 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,640 subscribe. Doesn't cost a dime. 404 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,920 Until next time. This is UFO warning over and 405 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,080 out.