In the recent past, scientific and pseudoscientific publications have paid much attention to the snowman. And today, no, no, and the news will flash that somewhere, someone has again met this mysterious creature. However, no one could explain where he came from - Bigfoot? I offer you, dear friends and guests of the blog, several versions of who this snowman is?
Bigfoot has been seen many times. It was found in South America, Asia (especially in the foothills of the Himalayas), the Middle East, the Urals, the Kola Peninsula, and other places. Bigfoot firmly entered Russian folklore, where he is found under the names "goblin", "avdoshki", "forest man." The meetings with this creature have been preserved in the memory of many people. What does he look like - this bigfoot.
Here is a typical description of the family of these mysterious creatures from the words of an eyewitness who smiled fortunate enough to meet with Avdoshki in the Novgorod region. The description was given in one of the issues of the magazine "Miracles and Adventures." I quote the text with some abbreviations.
“The male is huge, about two meters and thirty centimeters. Shoulders with neck about a meter wide. Deep set gray eyes. The mouth is wide, the lips are puffy and brown ... The chin is wide, gradually turning into the neck. The face is smooth with sparse hair. The nose of a person is wide, snub-nosed, with large nostrils. A human-like face. The color of the coat on the body is brown or brown. Under the arms, on the stomach it is lighter. And the hair was gray on the ridge. The female was a little smaller. Her breasts were huge, like pumpkins, with brown nipples. The eldest of the children was a male less than a half meter tall of his parents, lighter in color. The youngest was a female. ”
(// Miracles and adventures No. 5-1997).
Does this description remind you of no one? But, after all, this is one in one description of a Neanderthal man who, according to scientists, died out about 25-15 thousand years ago. Archaeologists have found the remains of Neanderthals in Europe and Asia, in Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Palestine, Iraq, the Urals, that is, in the same places where a bigfoot meets today. As for the appearance, as scientists believe, referring to archaeological finds, the Neanderthal man was stocky, with powerful muscles and a massive skeleton. The body of the Neanderthal was relatively short, the bends of the spine are weakly expressed. Therefore, according to scientists, he walked around, slightly stooping, and ran, bending down to the ground. True, the growth of a Neanderthal is called in the range of 155 - 165 centimeters. It is possible that their growth decreased as a result of evolution. But after all, other subspecies of Neanderthals, whose growth could reach two or more meters, could be preserved. Neanderthal hands were paw-shaped; the skull is a low, sloping forehead as if “running away”, the superciliary arches protruding forward, which merge into a continuous supraorbital roller. The upper jaw protrudes strongly, the incisors are large, spade-shaped. The chin comes forward. In addition, in some descriptions of Neanderthals, the presence of dark brown or brown hair on the body is noted. But this applies, rather, to earlier types of Neanderthals.
If you compare the type of description of the "forest man" and the Neanderthal, then you can see the obvious similarity, and not only the external. Ancient people were omnivorous: they ate plant and meat food. Everything went to food: edible roots, plant fruits, insect larvae, mushrooms, small animals. And now, let's compare the Neanderthal food with what the eyewitnesses say about the diet of the Bigfoot.
“They feed mainly on plant foods: the wing of butterflies, which covered huge swamps, with other herbs and roots. In addition, they ate frogs, bugs, worms, chicks, and in winter I saw how they got a wing fly from under the snow ... In winter they attacked animals - wild boars, elks, but rarely. ”
This is how Oleg Ivanov, the author of the article “Snowman in the Mirror of Evolution”, described his meeting with snow people (ChiP No. 5 - 1997)
The version that Bigfoot is a miraculously surviving Neanderthal is not the last. There are other hypotheses. In particular, some biologists believe that Bigfoot is a relic hominid that has survived from prehistoric times. Another version of the origin of the snowman has been put forward by ufologists who believe that the snowman is of extraterrestrial origin.
You probably remember the sensational adventure film “King Kong” about the huge monkey who lived on the island of Skull in the Indian Ocean. It would seem that a fantastic fictional character may have in common with reality. However, it turned out that it is common. In the Kargapolsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, local residents say that they often saw a huge growth covered with wool, a gorilla-like creature - a female with breasts like two large buckets, and a male - a shaggy man two and a half meters tall with muscular arms. One of these males scared the unlucky hunters almost to death, “knocking” on the door of their log cabin with a log from a telegraph pole. As the hunters themselves later told, the eyes of the “Kargopol Yeti” (yeti, another name for Bigfoot) were bloodshot, and he reminded them of the angry King Kong from the movie of the same name.
And finally, geologists from Inta, on the banks of the Ilych River in permafrost, found a well-preserved relict hominid. His body has abundant hair, a straight spine, a strongly flattened skull and a jaw protruding forward. The creature's growth reached 2.4 meters.
So, who are you - Bigfoot? Miraculously preserved Neanderthal or earlier type of humanoid creature? Or maybe you're an alien from space? No answer yet? But one thing is clear, there are creatures living next to us, who, perhaps, were our ancestors in the evolutionary ladder.