Bigfoot Encounters


Does Big Foot Have a Foothold in Siberia?
by M Dee Dubroff
In the last four months the Kemerovo district, in south-west Siberia, there have been no less than 12 credible witnesses who insist they have seen a Yeti or Bigfoot type Snowman. The creatures were spotted in a mountainous area known as Azzaskoy Caves 60 km from Tashtagol town centre. This area is a wilderness, remote from any human settlement. The local inhabitants call them "Black People" and claim to have seen them on a regular basis. The "Black People" are described as being 1.5 to 2 meters tall; reportedly, they are said to be covered in black hair and they walk upright...like humans. Samples of footprints have been examined.


February 2009 -- According to news sources, an expedition led by the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Kemerovo set off in search of a Bigfoot-like creature that was sighted by some frightened hunters in the area. A news report just last week claimed that some local hunters near the Azass Cave on Mount Shoriya had spotted “some hairy humanoid creatures” that resemble some kind of brown bear from a distance. They have black or red fur all over their bodies and stand some 5 to 6 feet tall. With the report came one of those things they say is worth a thousand words; namely, a photograph from the inside of the cave showing the track of an unidentified creature.



The priest is also expected to make a private visit to open and bless a small church at a gulag barracks camp in Mount Shoriya. There were many of these camps during the Soviet era. The expedition will require snowmobiles to reach the village where the Bigfoot sightings took place.

A spokesman from the Russian news-agency, RIA Novost said: “A more formal scientific expedition to investigate the sighting is currently being organized for this coming summer. The financial details are being worked out, and there are already many enthusiasts, businessmen and hunters ready to help.”


Nikita Shulbayev, deputy head of the local administration said: “People here are scared the creatures will attack villages because of hunger. We made a decision to send an expedition to research this issue. We need to understand whether they are dangerous for people and we need to calm people down.” 

The head of the department of anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow is not impressed and he stresses that despite the numerous reports of their sightings throughout the world, anthropologists have never seen or studied the body of a Bigfoot or yeti. He further stated that the spotting of singular yetis is “biological nonsense” as a large population must exist in order to create generation after generation. He made no comment about the fact that this particular sighting involved several creatures.

Whatever these things are or aren't, it would seem that the entire matter is a lot more frightening for the creatures, n'est ce pas? 

M Dee Dubroff
Russian Innovations
February 27, 2009

Additional article Posted February 19, 2009:
Russian priest to investigate bigfoot
sighting in Siberia

KEMEROVO, February 19 (RIA Novosti) - A group of people led by the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Kemerovo and a regional official set out on Thursday in search of a bigfoot sighted in the Tashtagol area by hunters, a regional spokesman said.

Earlier this week, the Kemerovo regional administration released a report that local hunters had spotted "some hairy humanoid creatures with a height of 1.5-2 meters [5'6"- 6']" near the Azass Cave on Mount Shoriya. The report was illustrated with a photograph from inside the cave showing the track of an unidentified creature.

"From the nearest village of Ust-Kabyrz, the bishop, regional head and a group of others will reach the Azass Cave by the only transportation possible: snowmobiles," the spokesman told RIA Novosti.

He added that the priest would also make a private visit to Mount Shoriya, where he will open and bless a small church at a gulag barracks open to tourists. In the Soviet era, there were a large number of gulag camps in the area northeast of Novosibirsk.

According to the head of the department of anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow, anthropologists have never seen or studied the body of a bigfoot or yeti, although there are numerous reports of their sightings throughout the world.

He also noted that yetis for some reason are always spotted singularly, which is "biological nonsense," as a large population must exist in order to create generation after generation. According to the anthropologist, Earth has been studied so thoroughly that if a population of yeti existed it would have been confirmed.

The Kemerovo regional spokesman said a scientific expedition is being organized for the summer to investigate the sighting. The financial details of the expedition are being worked out and there are already many enthusiasts, businessmen and hunters ready to help.



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