Comments on: Almas Skull Sample?

By: Judy Green

Judy Green — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:59:10 +0000

Okay, I found it, however, I don’t know that it is on the Internet anywhere and I don’t have a scanner. It is not a very clear image, but it is in Grover Krantz’s “Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence” on page 336.

By: Judy Green

Judy Green — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:26:12 +0000

This is some of the most exciting news I have heard in a very long time. I surely hope we get to hear the results of the testing and it doesn’t get lost out there in cyber space somewhere! I have seen an image of Khvit’s skull somewhere so I will try and find it and post the source.

By: lastensugle

lastensugle — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:43:07 +0000

Like some, natives mostly, North American know for sure that sasquatch’s for real, so does some, natives of otherwhere, know almas are real. I’m guessing they’re Neanderthal, seems the most likely to assume. They’re still here n’alive, struggling to maintain a living in our world. I say they’re Neanderthal, furry, speaking with their hands n’ everything, but here! Yetis not Neanderthal, more sasquatch-ish, but Almas are sooo Neanderthal!

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:45:30 +0000

This is a great article, I’m familiar with the story of ZANA, I’ve read much information. I think more in the existence of the yeti and snowmen, neanderthals if they can prove the skull is neanderhal what an amazing discovery. I’ve always tended to believe that the yeti was real from documentation I’ve read. Witnesses that have seen the yeti say this thing is huge and very smart. I tend to believe anyway that the yeti was neanderthal. Only time will tell if the skull is authentic, so everyone keep an open mind. You never know if one of these things gets caught.

By: dharkheart

dharkheart — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:28:21 +0000

The story of Zana, or Zanya, is one I’ve found to be particularly interesting.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:08:36 +0000

There was a recent article that Europeans have about 5% Neandertal DNA.

The skull in the drawings does not look right for Neandertals. More like a pongid than a hominid.

By: U.T. Raptor

U.T. Raptor — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:09:35 +0000

I remember it being speculated in a book I read that remnant Neanderthals could have been the inspiration for ogres, trolls, and the like.

By: afigbee

afigbee — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:10:05 +0000

Article describing a new finding that Neanderthals are more closely related to chimpanzees than humans.

(Ever had a look at Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev?)

Is there a photo of this Russian skull online anywhere?

By: kittenz

kittenz — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:53:47 +0000

I’ve always thought that there might be small, isolated pockets of Neanderthals that survived for much longer than the general population, maybe even to the present but at least into the last millenium or so.

Actually I wonder if Neanderthal people may be at the root of some of the Yeti - Bigfoot - Almas legends. Why do we modern humans always picture Neanderthals as a warped reflection of ourselves? I mean, Neanderthals were a part of the megafauna that evolved to withstand ice ages.So why do we always depict them as nearly as hairless as ourselves?

I think it goes back to the time when it was thought that Neanderthals were our direct ancestors. We pictured them as relatively hairless compared to other animals, much as are we ourselves.

I propose a much different depiction of Neanderthal people. I think it is very reasonable to presume that they had a heavy pelt - actual honest-to-gosh fur, which probably shed in summer to a shorter coat & grew heavy again in winter. Why not? I mean, THEY WERE ICE-AGE MAMMALS - why couldn’t they have been furry? I think that makes much more sense than Neanderthal having evolved all these other features for surviving long periods of intense cold, only to have to huddle in their caves shrouded in half-cured skins of other animals.

After all, unlike Cro-Magnon people and other modern types, we have no direct evience that Neanderthals even wore clothing at all. They survived for at least a couple hundred thousand years in some of the harshest cold conditions ever seen on this planet. I see no reason at all not to think that they may have been heavily furred. Many other primates are.

We have become accustomed to thinking that since our own bodies are nearly hairless, all hominids must have been so. But since no one alive has ever seen any of the extinct hominids, and they became extinct before written records existed, we just don’t know. It makes sense that a hominid evolved for the Ice Age would have a furry pelt.

By: jayman

jayman — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:30:52 +0000

At least this is something testable. I always wondered why no DNA testing had been done on Khwit’s skull earlier.
I do remember too that based on morphology, Grover Krantz dismissed the idea that Khwit’s mother could have been a Neanderthal.