Siberian Snowmen Stealing Crops?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 15th, 2009
Wild Leek (Allium tricoccum)
The local Shor people in Kemerovo Region, Siberia, are reporting that something is pulling up the wild leek crop that is a staple of their diet, Itar-Tass Siberia reports. The onion-lovers leave behind abundant large footprints with clearly defined toes, similar to the prints found in the area earlier this year, the news service continues.
Snowmen sightings are common in this remote section of the taiga and they have received attention worldwide. An expedition headed by director of the International Center for Hominology Igor Burtsev visited the area at the end of March 2009 to study footprints found in Azasskaya Cave, but the effort resulted in little new information.
Now local Tashtagol District administrator Vladimir Makuta notes that he has received 14 new written reports of Snowmen sightings near the cave and the nearby Mrassu River. The witnesses say the creature – thought by some to be a relict hominoid – is 1.5-2 meters (5-6.5 feet) tall and covered in reddish black fur.
- Similar Phenomena:
siberia seems awash in hominid sightings. to the point, it seems, to be almost casual to the populations there. has there ever been a long term expedition? is there a viable hominid fossil record there?
maeko:
Myra Shackley (author of “Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma”) considers the “Siberian snowman” one of the relict hominoids she is pretty sure exist.
I think it’s really interesting that reports of these animals never seem to give them “monster” status. They sound like animals, and pretty plausible ones.