Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Bigfoot in Russia.
That's correct. Bigfoot in Russia.
I think about these cryptids, UFOs, all this stuff.
It's a worldwide thing. And even if they don't call it
Bigfoot, maybe they call it Yeti or urine or something else.
Seems like these large wild men are everywhere.
I found this article over at vice.com written by Tamlin
Maggie. September 7th, 2022 Bigfoot
believers uncovered a lost manuscript about the Soviet
Sasquatch, says mysterious wild men living at the edge of
civilization that populated our forklore for centuries.
But few are as legendary or as evasive as Bigfoot.
But while the Creek dwelling hominid was lurching in
America's imagination, the Soviets were tracking down
another elusive biped. Almost 7000 miles away in the
snow capped Caucasus Mountains, a team of Soviet investigators
were searching for Bigfoot's icy cousin, the Yeti.
To me, there is some pretty convincing evidence out there
that there's something going on with this whole Yeti thing.
Not more than half a century later, an uncovered Soviet
manuscript has shed light on one of the first expeditions to find
the legendary ape creature, including a supposed encounter
with the beast itself. In Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan there were reports of mountain skulking cryptids,
naked man bears with piercing midday howls, tall hairy
creatures that petchly kicked over tents and rhubarb forging
troops of camel haired beast standing on 2 legs.
Even grizzly murder scenes where victims livers had mysteriously
been plucked from their backs. Their prime suspect was the
mysterious Yeti, better known in the Caucasus as the Almasti.
It was a 20th century fascination with Mount Everest
that exposed European explorers to the Sherpa folklore of the
Yeti, originally a type of sacred guardian revered in
carvings by the Andapur king Perthevia Sankra Gavampati.
But whenever summit was first conquered in 1953, it wasn't
long before these tales mutated and snowballed into a global
phenomenon, with 1 expedition for the newly named Abominable
Snowman even sponsored by the notorious British tabloid The
Daily Bail, The Daily Mail. I'm not sure if the word
notorious is appropriate there. It wasn't only newspapers that
were interested in the USSR, Soviet polymath Boris Porchnov
was also taking notes. Primarily a story of
specializing in popular revolts in pre revolutionary France.
Boris Porchnov was also fascinated by anthropology and
linguistics, and suspected that reports of these mysterious
creatures in the wilderness could be a form of illicit
hominid. In other words, extinction
leftovers had survived against all odds in wild, harsh
climates. A respected academic, Porsche
had dabbed with unorthodox theories before, such as the
idea language was the driving force of evolution that allowed
all types of hominids to thrive, and he thought locating some of
these wild men might provide some clues to fill in the gaps.
Winning approval for the search for the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, Porsche declared his aims in the official newspaper
of the Communist Party, Pravda, where he solicited eyewitness
accounts of interactions with the creatures.
The reports flooded in. In 1958, Porsche set out to
follow up on the promising leads in person, accompanied by 4 core
experts, geologists and anthropologists.
But his colleagues had other ideas many simply didn't care
about. Yet isn't even the head of the
expedition of botanists, Cyril Stanikovich was much more
interested in setting local plant life than capturing
cryptids. This I'll fated expedition was
one of only two official investigations into Bigfoot
adjacent creatures, the other being a search by communist
China. Now Porsche manuscripts have
been located and translated into English for the first time,
detailing supposed first hand accounts of Yeti, Wildman and
Almasti across the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
These manuscripts were almost as elusive as the Yeti itself, and
were considered practically lost until a small publisher in
Devon, England, called the Center for 14 Cryptozoology CFZ
intervened. It was something we wanted to
track down for a long time, Richard Freeman, director of the
Zoology Ethic Organization, told Motherboard.
As a purely heuristic historic document, it's worth reprinting
because it's the work of a very well respected scientist.
But the information within it that we might glean about the
elicit hominids is the most important thing, because there's
stuff in this book that's never been seen by anybody's eyes in
the West before, which is utterly remarkable.
The CFC stumbled on the masterpiece almost by chance.
Although the Moscow Library held a copy, they weren't prepared to
relinquish it. But eventually the now the CCI
researcher Dmitri Vayanov introduced Freeman to Port
Stem's great grandson who are great for them to be translated.
These globe trotting accounts record details of shaggy headed,
fur covered creatures with long breasts prowling the Pamira
Mountains and wild men in Kyrgyzstan that long ago walked
on 2 legs like humans but had feet twice the size like
paddles. Strange hominids were thought to
inhabit caves, mountains and creeks in the in the Fasabod
district of Tajikistan. Elsewhere in Ergot, Uzbekistan,
the creatures would supposedly sit for hours on earthen mounds,
leaving behind deep imprints. Others claimed they were two
meters tall, covered with red hair, lived in small groups and
didn't wander far. 2 meters tall would be about what, 6 foot 86
foot 9? A researcher from Paramount
Botanical Garden, meanwhile, said the 1917 Russian Revolution
may have brought a stop to them. Before the revolution, there
were wild men, and now they're not, a researcher reportedly
told Porchnev. Porchnev turned up many reports
but fell short of acquiring physical evidence.
Alexander Poroshenko, head of the Center of Anthropology of
Religion at the European University of Saint Petersburg,
told Motherboard that some in the Soviet scientific
establishment did not respond kindly.
Even initial fellow travellers on the expedition, like
Folklorus and Azi Rosenfeld, turned their back on portion of
when they declared tales about snowmen living in that premiers
do not have any foundation in reality.
Other Soviet geographers specializing in Central Asia
outright dismissed all reports of wild men in the region.
Later in 1969, a group of Soviet zoologist and biologist labeled
personnel study pseudoscientific.
Despite these hostile rebuffs, the Soviet Union certainly
proved willing to investigate a number of strange phenomena
through mainstream institutions, explained to Annie Bruno,
associate professor in history and environmental studies at
Northern Illinois University. Like the Tunguska explosion of
19 O 8, where the blast was believed by some to be the
result of a nuclear powered UFO crash, the Academy of Science
was curiously prepared to team with volunteer researchers to
investigate the mythical, the mystical or esoteric.
Although the Soviet Union worked hard to increase scientific
literacy, efforts to do so, Brennan said, often wound up
encouraging interest in the paranormal rather than squashing
them. That was the case for Porsche,
Nev. Although he returned only with
stories and otherwise empty handed, journalistic interest in
the Yeti remained even among science publications.
His official Commission was aborted, but he personally
amassed a a cautery of followers who were dedicated to his
mission, and he continued to travel with volunteer
researchers throughout Central Asia to collect further evidence
from the 1960s to 1980s, even as official backing disintegrated
decades after Porsche's death. Richard Freeman at the CFC may
just be a spiritual successor to these followers.
I've haunted for the Amnesty and its relatives in Russia,
Tajikistan and northern India, said the Roman cryptologist
cryptozoologist, who is also a former zoot worker and reptile
specialist. He also searched for the
Tasmanian wolf, the giant Anaconda and the Mongolian death
woman. While Freeman has not yet
succeeded in gathering conclusive physical evidence, he
says he has survived life threatening near misses like
tumbling down ravines and snatching vines at the last
minute like a cryptozoological Indiana Jones, and has amassed a
long list of such hair raising accounts.
Freeman told Motherboard that records of the Olmosy go back
hundreds of years and his book In Search for Real Monsters.
He writes that they were thought to be a homo of a homogeneous
rather than a pognant, like a great ape on A2.
On a 2008 trip to Casabrino, Bulgaria, part of the Caucus
Mountains, he learned of an Olmosy run in from biologist
Gregory Panchenko, a home invasion where an adult hominid
luncheoned homeowner's dog before stealing a wheel of
cheese and escaping the scene. Returning to the scene of the
crime, Freeman and his colleagues encountered ancient
Samaritan tombs nearby, with bizarrely shaped remnants of
skulls scattered about. But these were no wild men.
The remnants were only the results of a ritual binding
common to the peoples there in the 3rd to 7th centuries.
Astonishing stuff, but disappointing for the field of
cryptozoology. Elsewhere, near a town called
Neutrino, another investigation involved an abandoned farm, the
sight of a grizzly triple murder that lay empty ever since.
Local shepherds drinking close by claimed they had been
confronted by the Almasty, which, startled but with an
amiable self assurance, gently lifted one of them out of the
way before leaping from a nearby veranda.
So Freeman and his fellow travelers set up a stakeout at
the abandoned farm with motion sensitive camera traps, laying
bread and honey as bait. In the early hours of the
morning, the investigators heard a strange noise, a guttural
vocalization Freeman described as phonetic Bubba, Bubba Bubba
that seemed to emerge from this same veranda.
A few seconds later, something walked along the veranda and
whatever it was, it was walking on 2 legs because of the past
the door, which was slightly ajar, it blocked out the
moonlight and the Starlight to a height of at least 7 feet, said
Freeman. We grabbed our cameras, rushed
out, and whatever it was, it vanished into the night.
We did a Circuit of the farm, but we couldn't find anything.
That's the nearest I've got to seeing one of them.
Freeman limited. The camera trap went off, but
all we got was moving vegetation.
In spite of his lack of physical findings, Freeman believes in
the existence of these creatures.
He knows that Porsche's theory about surviving Neanderthals is
out of date. They were quite small, unlike
the tall Amnesty, and the reports he's heard suggested
primitive tool use. After all, Freeman says, there
are mysterious remnants of hominids occurring more than you
think, such as the Red Deer Cave inhabitants of northern China
whose existence intrigued scientist.
Nevertheless, Yeti expert Daniel C Taylor claims to have proved
in his book Yeti The Ecology of a Mystery, that the creature is
empathetically a bear in the public's mind.
They confuse that a folklore Yeti means there is a biological
1, Taylor told Motherboard. This could be an analogous to
saying that Santa Claus is real because there is the folklore of
such children believe, but anyone who has really studied
Santa Claus. Then there is the third Santa
Claus that appears at Christmas at big shopping centers where
children sit on the lap. That is real but different.
Here we go again a straw man arguments goes on down has some
pictures here of the of the shifted footprints, shifted
footprints seen by the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance and
photographer by Eric Shipton on the Minglong Glacier chapter.
Now some people think that could be a bear, but looks almost like
a big footprint to me. Then the article kind of veers
off here a little bit and it goes on down and says so finding
large hominids wandering around in the US or even Caucasus is
highly unlikely. Likely or not, the story is
persistent. Freeman is far from alone in his
beliefs. Many Yeti enthusiasts insist
that Siberia contains strange cryptozoological entities
traipsing in the tundras, and among them are Vladimir Putin,
who claimed to have once sighted a whole family of Yetis.
Undeterred, Freeman plans to a continuous hunt, which hopes to
return to your gig standard future.
As for why, despite the extensive searches, no honesty,
Yeti or Bigfoot has turned up just yet.
Freeman says that these creatures seem to be highly
talented at avoiding people, perhaps because their survival
depends on it. One place where their survival
is not disputed though is in the minds of people because whether
real or not, a live or extinct, many merely metaphysical.
We are fascinated by these creatures stomping on the snow
and traipsing the mountains at the edge of civilization.
You mean overall the article was OK, but toward the end it kind
of went clear off their rails a little bit trying to quote
somebody debunking the whole concept of Bigfoot, Yeti,
almasti, whatever you want to call it.
Now, it is interesting that it's not just in what you know,
Russia proper. It's all through the old Soviet
Union. We have stories of these things.
I want to go and take a look at another article here in the
article we just looked at talked about Vladimir Putin having a
sighting of these things. I did find this article out.
tsimrenapoche.com. It's Tim or TSEMRIMPOC he.com.
It's got a reprint of this article from the Siberian Times.
It says April 1st, 2016. Vladimir Putin cites A Yeti
family in remote Siberian mountains.
Russian President discovers proof that's in quotations that
fabled creature exists while on short vacation in Kimmeru
region. I would say it's probably
evidence, not proof, goes on and says environmental Rangers and
hunters. Intermountain Terrain say the
Kremlin leader personally witnessed 3 yetis while on a
recent helicopter trip to a remote location famous for
claimed sightings. He and his entourage saw an
adult male and female and a smaller child Yeti at a distance
of about 150 meters, said Dimitri Ivanov, a park wildlife
expert who was with the group. At first, the creatures stood
and watched, then took big strides into the trees briefly.
They reappeared as if curious about the presidential group,
but then vanished again. They were covered in thick, Gray
colored hair and took giant steps far bigger than a man.
The sighting is understood to have been confirmed by 63 year
old President Putin's security detachment after they inspected
the footprints in the newly fallen snow.
Pictures of the creatures will be released later on April 1st
by the Criminal Press Service. Is understood kind of work
that's kind of maybe not a joke doing that on April Fool's Day.
It is unknown if they were taken by Prime Minister Dmitri Medoff,
a noted photographer who was in the same trip.
According to local newspaper reports from Kemero, the Yeti
family sighting came on President Putin's latest
wildlife visit to remote regions of Siberia.
He was said to be awestruck by the sighting.
Kind of a remote area. Here you see these pictures.
Got a picture of Putin in a hang glider?
I don't know if he's actually flying this thing or not.
Now, scientists from the Siberian branch of the Russian
Academy of Science have been ordered to investigate the
discovery. But the Russians will do
everything to protect the Yeti and their natural habitat.
The president is well known for his exploits to protect Siberian
wildlife, including tigers, leopards, pulvers and along the
Pacific whales. But the Yeti find is confirmed
as well will be his most remarkable achievement yet.
Now I have read some of the people there in Siberia not so
happy about it, that Putin has ordered some kind of protection
for these Siberian tigers and they've become a real problem
with eating local villagers who are not no longer allowed to to
shoot them in self-defense. So it wouldn't surprise me if he
didn't believe in Bigfoot. Actually I can't.
I kind of think that's possible. On one occasion in 2012, he flew
in a hang glider over Arctic Siberia in an attempt to teach
white cranes to fly S to migrate.
You kind of wonder about some of these guys with these photo OPS.
What's really going on here? Yeti are also known as Bigfoot
or abdominal soul man. Sightings have been made in
North America as well as Russia and other areas of Asia over
many decades. But skeptics always dismiss the
claims. The location of the sensational
discovery was some 32 kilometers, what, 20 miles from
the s s cave, a place where Yeti believers have previously said
there were sightings. Yeah, well, you know, it's
coming from Russia, so you never really know what to believe
because the language barrier and the distance away.
But it's interesting that this is just out there like that.
We have another article here from NBC News.
This is dated 2011. Russians claim indisputable
proof of Yeti Russian researchers looking for the
Yeti, the Asian version of North American Bigfoot, claimed to
have found indisputable proof of a long sought mystery beast in
Siberia. Seems like they're a lot more
open to it than we are at least. This Articles by Benjamin
Radford Russian researchers looking for the Yeti, the Asian
version of northern North American Bigfoot, claimed to
have found indisputable proof of a long sought mystery beast in
Siberia. You know, I'm not sure if they
would consider the same thing as Bigfoot or not, but it's
similar. There isn't a ton of evidence to
work with, just a few strands of hair and some tracks in the
snow, but it's enough that the research team says it's 95% sure
that Yeti exists. Others, however, are mighty
skeptical of the findings. Is the Yeti is said to be
muscular, covered with dark grayish or reddish brown hair,
and weigh between 200 and 400 lbs.
The idea is relatively short compared to Bigfoot, averaging
only about 6 or 7 feet in height.
Despite dozens of expeditions into the mountain regions of
Russia, China and Nepal, both creatures existence remain
unproven. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the
first skip to scale Everest with Sherpa tense Norgay, found no
evidence of the creature. Famous Mountaineer Reinhold
Messner also spent months in Nepal and Tibet climbing
mountains and researching reports following his own
sighting in his book My Quest for the Yeti, Saint Martin's
Griffin 22,001, Messner concludes that large native
bears are responsible for Yeti sightings and tracks.
This, of course, not the first time that searchers have claimed
strong or even indisputable proof of Yeti.
In 2007, American TV show Josh host Josh Gates, But I Just Love
Josh's Stuff, claimed he found three mysterious footprints in
snow near a stream in the Falls region of the Himalayan
Mountains. Locals were skeptical,
suggesting he simply misinterpreted a bear track.
No follow up information ever merged in the Gates track.
Once touted internationally, strong evidence of the Yeti is
now largely forgotten. Honestly, these bear tracks are.
I mean, I can see where a person could be confused if you've seen
bear tracks before. Yeah, something else.
Last year, a strange, nearly hairless animal was captured by
hunters in the Sichuan province, China.
Researchers and news reports suggest that a Yeti had finally
been captured alive. Though the proclamation turned
out to be premature, embarrassed officials eventually admitted it
was nothing more than a mangy civet, a small cat like animal
native to the region. The Russian search for the Yeti
was conducted in part by a small group of researchers invited to
participate in a Yeti conference.
Apparently, the team found some Gray hairs and a clump of Moss
in a Russian cave in Kamaru region and Western Siberia,
according to a spokesman for the Camera River region.
During the expedition, the Askeya Cave conference
participants gathered indisputable proof that the
Shariat Mountains are inhabited by the snowman.
They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various
markers which the Yeti uses to denote his territory.
If true, it's an amazing find. Yet it's not clear why.
If the researchers are certain that The Cave had been recently
and actively used by the Yeti, they didn't simply set up
cameras to record the creatures or wait for the animals to
return to The Cave, where they could be trapped and captured
alive, offering conclusive proof of their evidence.
Some Russians view the announcement with a considerable
suspicion and skepticism, suggesting the sudden discovery
as a publicity stunt to increase tourism in the impoverished coal
mining region. So far it seems to have worked
as hundreds of people have come to tour The Cave.
In fact, the event seemed more of a media circus than a
scientific expedition when former Russian heavyweight boxer
Nikola Valyev recently tour of The Cave searching for the Yeti
to great media attention if populations of yetis like
Bigfoot really exist. They have somehow managed to
avoid leaving any physical traces of their presence.
No bodies, bones, teeth, hair, scat, or anything else.
Of course, just because these creatures have never been found,
it's not conclusive proof they don't exist.
All new evidence should be carefully and scientifically
analyzed. However, if history is any
guide, this latest Yeti discovery will soon fade away,
leading proof of the creature's existence still in question.
Well, it seems like you have a lot of the same stuff going on
in Russia as you do in the States as far as these
Bigfooter, yet you're concerned. Lots of talk about it, lots of
expeditions, but no hard proof yet.
I think that fits right into these things being some type of
a Cryptid, some type of animal that's traveling between our
dimension and another dimension. But I do find it interesting
that these folklore, if you want to call it that, these
eyewitness accounts even have emerged over the years, you
know, continents away. And they're so similar.
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