Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Alamos the Russian
Bigfoot. That's correct, Alamos, the
Russian Bigfoot. We've been covering Bigfoot a
little bit lately on the podcast and discussing whether or not
this thing is an actual biological creature, or possibly
some sort of Cryptid, or even a alien species.
Perhaps some alien creation put here on planet Earth, and
whether that's just to repopulate the Earth to kind of
spy out the land. Or possibly these creatures are
here as punishment, this might be a prison planet for them.
It's my opinion. It almost seems more like these
things, or some sort of a hybrid interdimensional biological
creature, because the way they seem to appear and disappear,
The fact that we've never found a body, at least that we can be
sure of. But at the same time, they do
leave some physical evidence in the form of cracks.
We've had hair samples found, even though some will say those
hair samples aren't definitive. And people do see these things
they haven't shot at before. But often times when people talk
about shooting these things, they just disappear.
They kind of just kind of go into thin air.
It's as if there are impervious to bullets.
Now, unfortunately, we haven't had anybody wearing a Bigfoot
suit shot and killed, although there was, I believe, a fellow a
few years ago that was trying to do a Bigfoot prank and was run
over and killed by a car. But the reality of these things
are they seem to kind of come into our dimension and then go
again. Oftentimes they're associated
with spacecraft or other paranormal activity.
What I find interesting is, is that these types of creatures
are found all across the planet. They're not just.
They're not just limited to being here in the US.
And one of the places that they're found is in Russia, the
old Soviet Union, particularly in the far eastern provinces of
of what used to be the Soviet Union, some really rugged area.
Now. I found this
article@stillwelldemocrat.com looks like an online newspaper.
I'll post a link at the Kofi site.
You can find it there under my UFO warning.
It says in the shadows Almas the Russian Bigfoot and this is
written September 18th 2023 written by DWE.
It says Russia and Mongolia have their own type of Bigfoot that
has been named Almas. It's also known as Elmasti with
an I or Elmasti with AY, and the general name Almas is a singular
word in Mongolia for Wildman. So just like here with a lot of
the native legends, they view this thing as some sort of a
humanoid creature thought to inhabit regions of Central Asia,
Russia, and the caucus. Almas are generally considered
to be more akin to wild people in appearance and habits than to
apes. In contrast to the Yeti of the
Himalayas or the Bigfoot of North America, Almas are
typically described as human like bipedal animals between 5
foot and 6 1/2 feet tall, their bodies covered with reddish
brown hair with anthropomorphic facial features including a
pronounced brow Ridge, flat nose, and a weak chin.
They are usually described as unclothed, but a handful of
sightings referred to primitive clothing.
Many cryptozoologist researchers have been struck by the
similarity between these descriptions and modern
reconstructions of how Neanderthals might have
appeared. You notice here they're going
for a little different angle in in the US these things are often
described as being, you know, 8910 foot tall.
And here they're saying much smaller, 5 foot to 6 1/2 feet
tall. It goes on, it says.
Nearly a year ago, Igor Persev, a homologist in Russia,
attempted to talk to an ALMA on the phone in Russia while giving
a presentation at the Nebraska Bigfoot conference.
Needless to say, this was met with disdain by many in the
Bigfoot community because of the insaneness of his claim.
Well, no matter you know where you come up with these
paranormal activities at that are unexplainable, you're always
going to have some wise guy show up to either try to exploit the
situation or cause enough of a, you know, distraction that
people quit doing serious investigation and just write the
whole thing off. The point is, this creature's
been considered to be around for a long time there in Russia and
the old Soviet Union. Very interesting concept of this
somewhat smaller version, maybe even a subspecies of Bigfoot.
Now, this article here is from the unmuseum.org talking about
the Wildman of Central Asia. This article is titled The
Wildman of Central Asia and the author refers to this creature
as Alma Alma. He's dropping off the S says in
Central Asia and what until a few years ago was the Soviet
Union, there are stories of a large ape like creature that
inhabits the mountains. It goes by the name of the Alma,
unlike the better known Bigfoot and Yeti.
Reports about the Alma say that the creature is much more of a
rough, hairy human than an ape. Professor Boris Porschev of the
Moscow Academy of Sciences published a description of the
picture based on detailed stories he'd gathered from
people who'd seen it. Quote There is no underlayer of
hair so that the skin can sometimes be seen, says the
report. The head rises to a cone shaped
peak, it continues, and the teeth are like a man's, but
larger, with the canines more widely separated.
Porchnet's description also noted that the Alma can run as
fast as a horse and swim in swift currents.
Breeding pairs remain together, living in holes in the ground
for food. They eat small animals and
vegetables. The creatures are mainly active
at night. The report also noted that the
animals have a distasteful smell.
That's something that we hear quite frequently when we talk
about these reports of Bigfoot. Is this really bad smell?
It says. The first stories of Alma were
gathered in 1881 by NM Pesowalski, a traveler in
Mongolia who also discovered the Mongolian wild horse.
During the Second World War, refugees, soldiers, and
prisoners of war often reported seeing the Almah Slavmir Rezbig
in his book The Long Walk. The story of his escape from a
Siberian labor camp tells of being delayed by a pair of
Almahs. Chinese soldiers reportedly put
food out for the Almah and watched it eat a stone, and a
geologist was prospecting near Tian Sham in 1948.
One morning he awoke to cries by his guides that the horses were
being stolen. Stone and grabbed his rifle and
headed outside to find a figure standing by the horses.
It had long red hair all over its body.
The creature moved off at Stone and shouts and he chased after
it. The animal was so manlike,
though, that stone couldn't bring himself to shoot it, and
the thing escaped. Isn't that strange?
And just kind of in a moment of saying this thing, this guy
realizes that this can't possibly be just, you know, an
animal. He seems like he views it as
some sort of human hybrid. In 1957, a hydrologist named
Alexander G Pronen on an expedition to study water
resources, reported seeing a being of unusual aspect.
It stood at a distance in the snow with his legs wide apart
and with arms longer than a normal man's pronoun.
Watched it for 5 minutes. Then the creature disappeared
behind a rock. Three days later he saw the
figure again briefly. Then a week later one of the
group's inflatable boats disappeared without explanation
and was later found upstream. Pronoun found out that the
locals often have blamed the quote Wildman with stealing
household items and taking them into the mountains.
This may put on wonder if the Elmont was responsible for the
missing boat. That's something that we don't
hear a lot about with Bigfoot, with them coming in and stealing
stuff from people's houses. Occasionally you do get these
stories of these strange situations where they take
things often times little trinkets though.
But these guys really seem to be looking for things that they can
use as tools. It goes on and says omelets have
reportedly been shot and killed, but the carcasses have never
been examined by scientists. In 1937, during a clash with the
Japanese, a Russian reconnaissance unit in Mongolia
spotted 2 silhouettes coming down a hill toward them.
When the figures did not respond to a challenge, centrist shot
them. Then the next morning, the Recon
unit was surprised when they examined the bodies.
They were of a strange anthropoid ape that was about
the size of a man and covered with long red hair.
Unfortunately, because of the war, the bodies could not be
returned to Moscow for a proper evaluation.
Now see, that's pretty unusual because normally we never hear
about these things actually being shot and actually killed,
it goes on, it says. While the Soviet Union was still
together, several expeditions were mounted to look for the
Alma. They gathered some interesting
stories and a few unusual artifacts.
No Alma was ever captured, and the Soviet scientists became
split over the value of searching for it.
Doctor Brozhnev took quite a ribbing from his colleagues
because of his work on the subject.
Prozhnev speculated that the creature is perhaps the last
surviving group of the Neanderthal men.
At least a few Western researchers, including including
Doctor Myra Sharkey of Leicester University in England, agree
with him. Shackley, who visited Mongolia
in 1979, points out that the entire area is loaded with
Neanderthal artifacts. She notes that if Neanderthal
were to have survived, it would most likely have been in those
areas where the Alma is reported.
I think this is a case where we have normalcy bias creating
creeping in. Seems pretty highly unlikely to
me that we would still have Neanderthal out there running
around this independent population, you know, in modern
times. But the average person is so I
think put off and frightened by the paranormal or this concept
of these things could be, you know, interdimensional that they
they will describe it any explanation it says here since
the disburment, since the dismemberment of the Soviet
Union, little has been done to continue research on the Alma.
Those reasons, where it has been reported, are often politically
unstable. And economic conditions in
Russia, who inherited many of the scientific institutions of
the old Soviet Union, have not been favorable to allowing
continued research on the Wildman.
Well, of course, you know, things have kind of changed a
lot in the Soviet in Russia, which you know, the the main
kind of head of the old Soviet Union probably don't have the
resources to look into that stuff.
Now we have another really interesting case here that I
want to take a look at. I found this on Reddit, the user
says Marshmallow Snuggles. It's under cryptozoology from a
couple years ago. Like I said, I'll have this link
posted at the UFO Warning Kofi site now.
The title of this post says 1925 Encounter with the deceased Alma
in the Premier Mountains. According to a Soviet Major
General, Mikhail Stefanovich Toplitzky, in 1925 his forces
chased an opposing guerrilla force into a cave where most of
the enemy met their deaths. However, one of the surviving
enemy soldiers said that while in The Cave they had in a they
had been attacked by a number of ape like creatures.
One of their bodies was brought out about which Major General
Topolsky related the falling, which is here translated into
English. Of course, this would have been
just after during the Russian Revolution when the Communists
were busy murdering anybody who didn't want to go on through a
program and that extended to the far reaches of the Soviet Union.
Continue our chase. We caught up with what was left
of the exhausted gang who had stopped for arrest at a place
where the glacier was split apart by stone Cliff.
The upper tongue of the glacier hung from the Cliff in which
there was a crevice or cave. We surrounded the gang and took
up a position above where they were resting.
A machine gun was placed in position.
When we threw the first grenade. A man, a Russian officer, ran
out onto the glacier and started shouting that the shooter would
make the ice cave in and that everyone would be buried.
When we demanded that they surrender, he asked for time to
talk it over with the other bandits and went back into The
Cave. Soon after, we heard an ominous
hissing as the ice began to move.
At almost the same moment we heard shots and not knowing what
they meant, decided that it was the beginning of an assault.
So they have, sounds like, pretty much got these these
people cornered back into a cave, these these folks who were
resisting the communist takeover.
Pieces of snow and ice started falling down the Cliff,
gradually burying the entrance to The Cave.
When it was nearly buried, three men managed to escape and the
rest were buried under the debris.
Our shots killed two of the bandits and seriously wounded
the 3rd. When we reached him, he showed
us the spot where the body of a Russian officer was buried and
we dug it out. The wounded man turned out to be
an Uzbek tea house owner from Smark Land.
We questioned him and he gave us the following information.
While the bandits were discussing are ordered to
surrender, some hairy man like creatures howling inarticularly
appeared in The Cave through the crevice which possibly LED
upwards from The Cave. There were several of them and
they had sticks in their hands. The bandits tried to shoot their
way through. One of the bandits was killed by
the creatures with the sticks. Our narrator received a blow
from a stick on his shoulder and rushed to The Cave entrance with
one of the monsters hard on his heels.
It ran out of The Cave after him, but he shot it and it was
buried under the snow. You can imagine that these
communist forces had tracked down these resistors.
They the resistors, they run into this cave and his her luck
would have it that's a cave full of these Alma or Bigfoot who are
not happy that they are there in their cave.
So the the the poor Alma kind of caught in the crossfire between
these communist forces and the rebel forces that are in a
firefight between each other. It goes on.
It says to check up on this strange story we made him show
us the exact spot and clear the snow away.
We recovered the body all right. It had three bullet ones not far
off. We found a stick made of very
hardwood, though it cannot be stated for certain that it
belonged to the creature. At first I thought the body was
that of an ape. It was covered with hair all
over, but I knew there were no apes in the premieres.
Also, the body itself looked very much like that of a man.
We tried pulling out the hair to see if it was just a hide used
for disguise, but found that it was the creature's own natural
hair. We turned the body over several
times on its back and its front and measured it.
Our doctor made a long and thorough inspection of the body
and it was clear that it was not a human being.
It's just imagine that. And these guys are in the middle
of nowhere. The very Far East of what you
know was the Soviet Union. The body belonged to a male
creature 170cm tall. Now that would be about 5 foot 7
inches, elderly or even old judging by the grayish color of
the hair and places. The chest was covered by
brownish hair and the belly with grayish hair.
The hair was longer but sparser on the chest, but short and
thick on the belly. In general the hair was very
thick without any under fur. There was also hair on the
buttocks, from which fat our doctor deduced that the creature
set like a human being. There was most hair on the hips.
The knees were completely bare of hair and had callous growths
on them. The whole foot, including the
sole, was quite hairless and was covered by hard brown skin.
The hair got thinner near the hand and the palms had none at
all, but only callous skin. The collar of the face was dark
and the creature had neither beard nor mustache.
The temples were bold and the back of the head was covered by
thick matted hair. The dead creature with his eyes
open and his teeth bared. The eyes were dark and the teeth
were large and even and shaped like human teeth.
The forehead was slanting and the eyebrows were very powerful.
The protruding jaw bones made the face resembling the Mongol
type of a face. The nose was flat with a deeply
sunken bridge. The ears were hairless and
looked a little more pointed than a human beings with a
longer lobe. The lower jaw was very massive.
It's interesting. The teeth were human like so
many times. With the Bigfoot, we see the
teeth being almost like canines. Is being kind of oversized,
almost like a gorilla, it says the creature.
The creature had a powerful chest and will develop muscles.
We didn't find any important analytical differences between
it and man. The genitalia were like a man's.
The arms were of normal length, the hands were slightly wider
and the feet much wider and shorter than a man's.
Now that's where the feet were shorter.
It says with the Bigfoot, at least in the US, the feed of
course are very big and the arms are extremely long compared to a
humans. You can see that in the
Patterson Gilman film. These hands in these things just
seem to extend down about maybe half again as long as the
humans. That's why when I see that
Patterson Gilman film, it seems so real to me because why would
they go to the trouble of making the hands so extremely long in
in that costume and they seem to move as a creature walks.
That's what's so weird. I mean that detail, these really
long hands at the end of these really long arms now, the
article concludes. It says we did not know exactly
where we were because no accurate maps of the premieres
were then in existence. But we must have been somewhere
between the Yasgulum and the Russian ranges.
As we had completed our task, we had to return.
The nature of the dead creature presented us with a problem, but
it was impossible to take the body with us on the difficult
trek that lay ahead. Also, it could have caused
complications with the local population.
We would say, of course, that we were carrying the body of an
animal, but the creature looked too much like a human being.
We thought about skinning it, but it was too much like
skinning a man. At the end we decided to bury
the creature where we had found it.
We did not try to enter The Cave because we were afraid of
another cave in. So of course they're talking
about being there in the winter time, lots of snow around.
They didn't want to get trapped in that cave, even though the
the rebel that they had encountered told them that he
thought that the these creatures, these almost had come
in through another entry into The Cave.
You know, you can imagine that these things were there.
They would have known their way around pretty good.
Interesting how this is so much smaller than what we would
perceive as a Bigfoot, but it also demonstrates a lot of more
human like traits than what we think of Bigfoot.
As far as, you know, using tools, maybe even interacting a
little bit with these people. It's very strange stuff.
I want to look at one more account then before we close
this out now. This last article that we're
looking at comes from monstrous.com and it's titled
The Almsty. It's ALMASTY.
It says the almsty Mongolian for Wildman.
Is an alleged hominid Cryptid said to inhabit the Caucus and
Premier Mountains of Central Asia and the Altai Mountains of
southern Mongolia. Almus is a singular word in
Mongolia. Variants of the word include
almus, T the Snowman, djangla, mash, Man of the Forest,
Wildman, Barmu or chuchuna, and the contrast to the Yeti of the
Himalayas and the Bigfoot of the Americas.
The almus is generally considered to be more akin to
wild people and appearance in habits than to apes.
Owl mosses are typically described as human like bipedal
animals between 5 and 6 1/2 feet tall, their bodies covered with
reddish brown hair, with anthropomorphic facial features
including a pronounced brow, rich flat nose and a weak chin.
His arms are shorter than the yetis.
He has less hair, black or brown on the face and body than any
other hominids. Many cryptozoologists
researchers believe there is a similarity between these
descriptions and modern reconstructions of how
Neanderthals might have appeared.
He is said to feed on berries. Sometimes he attacks sheep but
eats only their liver. Being a nocturnal creature, it
is very difficult to catch a glimpse of this elusive hominid.
As a rule, the snowman leaves no traces of its death.
That's just like the Bigfoot. We can't seem to find a body of
these things. It says the Caucus Mountains,
the Pannier, Alti Mountains, W Mongolia, the Urals and the
Russia Northwest, the Cholesky isthemus, a 90 mile long
Isthemus in Karelia between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga.
There had been interesting sightings in the Arkanagelsk
region as well. Other paranormal phenomena, UFOs
and biophysical phenomenus have been reported in the Premier
Mountains. So there you go.
We have these UFO sightings right along with these Almasti
or Alma, what we might think of as a type of Bigfoot now under
sightings, it says. For centuries, reports about
strange creatures and rituals have leaked from the taiga Hamas
appear in the legends of local people who tell stories of
sightings in human Alamos. Interactions dating back several
100 years. Sightings recorded in writing go
back as far as the 15th century. In some cases, people have
attempted to shoot the creature. These individuals reportedly
died afterwards under mysterious circumstances.
In 1430, Hans Schlitberger recorded his personal
observation of these creatures in their journal of his trip to
Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan Slip.
Burger also recorded one of the first European sightings of
Prozwowski horses, and they cite the manuscript in the Munich
Municipal Library. It says 1603 by 210 Shackley 94.
He noted that Almasti are part of the Mongolian and Tibetan
apothecaries Materia Medica, along with thousands of other
animals and plants that Live Today.
So they just listed these things as an animal.
It's like any other animal to them.
There was just no question that they were real and that they
existed. Goes on it, says British
anthropologist Mira Shackley. In Still Living Question Mark
describes Ivan Avila's 1963 observation of a family group of
Almas Ivla. A pediatrician decided to
interview some of the Mongolian children who or his patients,
and discovered that many of them had also seen Almas's.
It seems that neither the Mongol children nor the young Almas
were afraid of each other. Ivor's driver also claimed to
have seen them. Now the author tells us that
Russian researcher Alexei Stitenkov and his team of
researchers reported a very strange encounter that took
place in 1993 while on their way to Lake Tony.
The explorers have been planning to study the area for several
years, but have been unable to do so because of a lack of
resources and the wretched state of the Russian economy.
Their plan was to determine the optimal time to conduct an
expedition to search for proof of the possible habitation of a
gigantic serpent in the region. There have been numerous reports
about the existence of such a serpent and the far eastern part
of Russia and the Promiscaya Taiga.
The group of explorers had barely begun their trek when
they had encountered a creature known to the locals as Snowman.
They were crossing the river on a raft and on the other Bank of
the river noticed a man who was covered with reddish fur.
The creature turned around, made a sound resembling grunts, and
then disappeared in the thicket. A few seconds later, the raft
had reached the shore, and Sitkanakov had a colleague chase
the creature. Their fellow explorer Sergey,
guarded the raft. They did not find the creature
and came back to the river. Sergey did find a barely visible
footprint at the site where they first sighted the snowman.
Sitkanov recalls that the creature was only 3 meters away.
So what, 10 foot? When they saw it and it was
plainly visible, The weather was sunny and clear.
The creature was about two meters in height, so we figured
maybe 6 1/2 foot tall. Its fur was of a dark hue and
not thick. Its head was somewhat triangular
in shape, widening toward the base.
The base was straight, but from the forehead toward the crown of
the head, narrow. It's kind of a conehead shape.
The creature had small eyes, wide nostrils, and a slit in
place of a mouth. The neck was not visible, and it
looked like the head was placed on wide shoulders.
They're talking about a slit in place of a mouth.
Look at that creature in the Patterson Gilman film.
Look at the mouth on that thing. It's weird.
Kind of like this slit. It says it possessed a powerful
chest. Sick enough.
Had collected many descriptions of the snowman, and it has
gathered statements from the local populace, including
hunters who have encountered Bigfoot in the wild.
Secret settlements have been found deep in the thick woods
and the settlements, I think they just mean where maybe a
half a dozen dozen things are sleeping at night.
I don't know if these things are ever known to use fire or any
kind of advanced tools, it says. Theories.
Soviet scientists speculate that you can represent the last
surviving remnant of the Siberian paleo Asiatic
Aborigines that retreated to the upper reaches of the Yana and
Decura rivers. Mayra Shackley and Bernard
Havmus both wrote that the almus are a relic population of the
Neanderthals, while Lauren Coleman suggested surviving
species of Homo erectus, another election.
Another explanation is that they are purely mythological
creatures since no hard evidence such as skeletons or specimens,
etcetera have been found. Well, you know, we don't have
dead bodies and like I said, that's another reason why I find
these things to most likely be some sort of interdimensional
creature where they're just coming and going very strange.
But you can see this is happening all over what would be
now considered, you know, the far reaches of east of the
Eastern Soviet Union in these very remote areas where whatever
they are, they have the opportunity to get away from
modern human life pretty much and just exist or live however
they do on their own without interference from man.
But there we have it. We have these Bigfoot type
sightings. Even though they're different,
they demonstrate so many of the same similarities to what we
would think of as American Bigfoot.
Whatever these things are, they're clearly spread out
across the globe. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning. Over and out.