Comments on: People + Feral Lifestyle = Yetis?

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:44:00 +0000

We’ve certainly seen accounts of “wild men” or “primitive men” based on exaggerated (or downright demonizing) accounts of indigenous people. Sometimes characteristics like hairiness are added.

What, though, does one make of this?

Headline: “A Primitive Russian People”
New York Times, November 11, 1887:
“A Russian savant and explorer, M.Kouznetsoff, gave an account at the last meeting of the Russian Geographical Society of a nomadic people living in the Upper Oural and called Vagouls.”
The article says they worship bears but are advanced enough to make cloth. It goes on to say that contact with Finns has motivated some younger Vagouls to try agriculture.

There is no other mention of these people I can find, other than just the name in a list of Russian ethnic groups.

By: Texas_Grown

Texas_Grown — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:05:06 +0000

What really strikes me is that the author is serious. I’ve heard people make theories like this but as jokes. If people actually believe things like this then that can degrade the community that actually tries to study cryptids, and that has been hapening enough lately.

By: Lightning Orb

Lightning Orb — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:36:17 +0000

It does sound rather like the bogus explanation speech given by some mad scientist in one of those old b-grade monster films that’s undergone the voice-over translation. Never heard the retard explanation for Yeti or the vortex energy definition of goblins. Oh wait – those guys were serious? Well here’s another theory – maybe one of those demonic goblin energies used his hokey hocus to take over the body of the guy that wrote the article

By: sschaper

sschaper — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:08:13 +0000

Translation issues plus the heritage of Lysenkoism?

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:54:40 +0000

My take:
This is Pravda. Come on. What else does one expect from the former mouthpiece of “The Establishment Party?”
An aside, though: I did not know Turgenev had seen a Sasquatch-type creature. Interesting. Will have to look that up.

By: Andrew Minnesota

Andrew Minnesota — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:56:23 +0000

Wood-goblin? bahahaha don’t let Biscardi and the Georgia boys hear that one otherwise we’ll start to hear “we know we showed you the fake body, but the thing is the real body wasn’t dead. We kept it in a storage shed and it magicked itself out. It was a wood-goblin that’s how it got out. You got any change sir?”

I know it’s sad that this article isn’t a joke but golly there is a lot of bad “drunk logic” going on here

By: tropicalwolf

tropicalwolf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:27:25 +0000

While completely flawed, I love the term “wood-goblin” and will make it part of my lexicon from now on.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:19:43 +0000

The only mentally incompetent person I see in this equation is perhaps the person who wrote this drivel. What an amazingly meandering, nonsensical, factually incorrect, and lazy piece of hogwash. I really don’t know what else to say about it.

I wasn’t aware that science had determined, insisted no less, that wood-goblins are nonmaterial powers that take various forms just for awhile. Hmmm. News to me. Good that we have this guy to keep us up to date on all of the cutting edge scientific finds concerning wood-goblins and such. Sigh.

The thing that bothers me about this sort of tripe is that someone who doesn’t know any better and is just getting into cryptozoology and researching on the internet might just come across this and take it as fact. I recommend that anyone researching anything on the net always be aware of the reliability of the sources they are studying. It’s sad, but a lot of people tend to take everything they read as fact. Big mistake.

Anyway, everyone be careful of those “annoying enthusiasts” in the meantime. Excuse me while I bang my head against the keyboard a few more times.

By: crapple

crapple — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:48:17 +0000

They MAY be feral humans, but saying that they are “retards” doesn’t make sense, as Viergacht made a point of. But they could be feral humans, or mentally ill people who, may be smart, and may know how to survive in the middle of nowhere, refuse to live with other people.

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:12:51 +0000

Greetings All!

Someone help me out here. I’ve studied six different languages, but what is the REAL translation of “metoh-kangmi”? Sounds like some giant rubber-suited-monster fighting robot from Japan.