Russian Snowman Revisited
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 20th, 2007
Early in August 2007, the above 1990 Nikolaj Avdeev “Russian Snowman” photograph was making the rounds. It seemed only right to take another look, with some analytic distance.
What can be learned by comparing it with this 21st Century Bigfoot toy?
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No muscle definition
No dark skin
No breasts yet no family jewels either=contradiction
Right shoulder appears to have hair that was trimmed to the same length, with scissors.
Hands not visible, which would make it too easy to prove as a hoaxe.
Russia still has the general uninformed mentality about both how and how often people attempt to make believable hoaxes, for the big bucks.
Russia, the home of strip news casters, dating services where each female competes to how many clothes they can remove for their dating service photo, and apparently an approved night clubbing accessory being a 6-D cell flashlight (if you remember the old Russian clothes apparel TV commercial).
Nuff said.
FAKE.
hey, at least it isn’t someone in an average gorilla suite dancing around the john deere tractor again. It very well could be a fake, although the only thing that kinda does it for me is that most pictures (drawings) I’ve seen for the Almas they are exponentially wider at the shoulders, due to muscles. I wouldn’t be surprised if that thing wasn’t a manican or something to that affect.
Mannequin. Notice how the arms how they have that perfect bend in them, and how calm it looks? If the photographer got that close, the “sasquatch” wouldn’t look so calm.
Fake for me.
Yeah, if was really a Russian cryptid you would expect it to be on or near a tractor.
Five year plan, anybody?
I disagree with the “no muscle definition” comments. If this is a monkey suit, unlike North American monkey suits, it has been made tight fitting. That is why I would have found it convincing had it not been for the bad seam job that’s been done around the shoulders. The face through the mask doesn’t seem Caucasian (or human for that matter) either.
Are we to gather that if the creature in the picture looked less like a toy that is designed to look realistic, then it would be more likely to real?
I think the similarities are interesting, but why aren’t they a lot more similar?
I just don’t see anything independent of my personal thoughts about what BF might look like (having not seen it personally) to think that it couldn’t look like this alleged photo.
I’m still wondering if the original was ever made available for analysis.
hey loren very informative new update article about the russian snowman. thanks bill green
Cute. I wonder what effect the Chernobyl incident had on any unrecognized primates of that region (assuming for the moment that they exist).
The toy looks more realistic than the picture.
It looks almost convincing, but I’m not sure if it’s a hoax or for real. His hair looks too clean.
Ceroill,
The southern Urals are about as far away from Chernobyl as Holland and Begium is.
I have that same action figure at home. As far as the photo.
*Headthroughdesk*
Lyndon, I thought I qualified my musing well enough, but apparently not. Let me add emphasis, I said I wondered what effect it might have had on any unrecognized primates of THAT region, that is the region where Chernobyl is. Essentially I was speculating about the possibility of crypto homonoids in Ukraine.
Re: Chernobyl and Chelyabinsk…the distance to Belgium or Holland is almost irrelevant. The direction of the jet stream and other winds and their velocity is waht is relevant.
I’m not sure if radioactivity from Chernobyl reached Chelyabinsk, though it is in the right direction in regards to prevailing wind directions…though Chelybinsk hardly needed a rain of radionucleides to make it an environmental site of special concern. The stewards of that land, much to their deserved shame, for a long time used and abuse Chelyabinsk and its mineral-rich empty-spaces as the site of any number of ecological assaults over the years. If I remember correctly, the old central government of the USSR at first thought of not even reporting the disaster since they presumed the fallout would stay within the borders of the USSR…but the wind carried the fallout in an unexpected direction…north east and it’s presence in Finland and its northern neighbors prompted an admission, belatedly, which in turn added to the momentum for change being demanded by citizens.
Ceroill,
Hairy hominds in the Chernobyl region? As far as I am aware, there isn’t a history of reports from that far west in the former Soviet Union/Ukraine. The nearest areas with a history of hairy homind reports to Chernobyl would be the Caucasus or the area north east of Moscow. That’s why I did not think you were talking about the Chernobyl area.
Sorry for the mix up.
Lyndon, that’s ok. As I say I was just speculating.
It MUST be real if it is on the web, right!
You all do know that this is not the actual picture from the Russian photographer. Apparently someone attached a deliberate fake to a genuine sighting report? The real photo is here.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/russian-update/