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chattanova
07-09-2007, 10:26 AM
Footprint of Yeti found by an expedition near Napal.

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There are numerous articles, sightings and accounts of the "Abominable snowman/Yeti." This account of the "Abominable Snowman/Yeti" parallels that of "Big Foot/Sasquatch." Here are some interesting statistics on the "Yeti."

The "Abominable Snowman/Yeti," like the "Big Foot's" of the North American continent, has been in existence for 6,000 years. There are no rivalries amongst the "Yeti" population. They also divide their family's with other "Yeti" families, to prevent in-breeding and depletion of their species. However, the similiarity ends there. Unlike "Big Foot," the "Yeti" did not evolve from an animal species, they evolved from the "caveman." They can be found in China, the Himalayas and on up into the former Soviet Union to Siberia. They are not related to "Big Foot." The total "Yeti" population is around 227. Their average life span is between 120 and 130 years. They are "carnivorous."

They normally have 3 per family group and they live in caves. The number of family groups is unknown, at this time. The male is around 7 feet tall and the female, around 6 feet. The male's weight is between 300 and 350 pounds and the female is around 200 and 250 pounds. They forage for food during the daylight hours. The male does not live with the family, he is a "loner." He mates with a female, then leaves, and the female is left to raise the "off-springs.

Stories of the Yeti vary in detail but many of them suggest a creature with an apelike body and a human-like face. Nepalese Sherpas have described the Yeti as having long, reddish-brown hair all over its body. One Sherpa monastery exhibited a Yeti “portrait” resembling the crossing of a wolf, tiger, and bear. Folklore describes a fearsome, savage beast with a high-pitched whistling scream; a vile, pungent odor; feet that point backwards; and supernatural powers. Superstitions say that sighting the creature
can bring ill fortune, illness, or death.

Another name for the Yeti is metoh-kangmi, a term mistakenly translated into English as “abominable snowman.” That alluring name has stuck. The Yeti, which is supposed to live high in the Himalaya but has also been reported as far away as the European Alps, is said to prowl by night leaving huge footprints in the snow.

Many expeditions have attempted to prove the Yeti’s existence, but no scientific evidence has definitively confirmed it. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’s October 1962 article “Wintering on the Roof of the World,” reports on Sir Edmund Hillary’s search for the Yeti. The famed Everest pioneer’s expedition (which had other scientific goals) did document a phenomenon that appears to account for “Yeti tracks.” In shaded snow Hillary’s team found impressions resembling fox tracks. The tracks led to a sunny area where melting had elongated the tracks into large human-like footprints. Likewise, the
melting of tracks of a snow leopard, bear, or wolf could create huge “footprints.” Over time, human footprints in the area have been seen to grow to nearly 21 inches (53 centimeters).

Hillary’s team was shown fur purportedly taken from the Yeti. Investigation revealed that it was fur from the rare Tibetan blue bear. A “Yeti scalp” was analyzed and found to have been the molded skin of a serow—a goatlike animal of the Himalaya. Hillary returned from the Himalaya believing that the Yeti exists only in legend.

Or the abominable snowman as it is commonly called has been sighted in the Himalayan mountains for 100's of years. The creature is a tall manlike creature coverd with shaggy hair. The people of Nepal see the creature regularly. Accounts say it's height is approx. 6-8 feet, conical scalp, pointed ears, hairless chest area and a human-like face. The creature is said to have a very bad temperment and will attack anyone who ventures close enough. The Yeti's descriptions are similar to those of Bigfoot.

Above is a photo of a footprint attributed to the Yeti. Judging by the depth of the footprint impressions, the average yeti most way upwards of 800 pounds. Many Westerners have also observed this creature while on expeditions in the mountains. The most recent sighting was in 1986 when the creature was observed by the famous climber Reinhold Messner. In 1992, an expedition discovered the Yeti's footprints in and around their camp when they awoke in the morning. The areas in this region are not well traversed, so it is believable that an unknown primate lives here and remains yet undiscovered by science.

http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mywebpage/yeti.html

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/9/9/7/f_tibetm_d4a2a77.jpg
A tibetian fortress below the mountains were the Yeti is supposed to roam.

registered sightings - http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/yeti.htm

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Areas where the Yeti have been sighted in Central Asia and the Himalayas are shaded with vertical black bars

1 The myth is a ancient myth that has existed in the area for centuries or more.
2 Loads and loads of locals have seen it.
3 Many people from outside the area have seen the creature, or evidence of it.
4 The Pangboche Monastery revealed some supposedly Yeti remains, said to be near human but not of any known species by some experts.
5 Many creatures have been discovered recently.
6 The Yeti could live up there without being seen that often.
7 There have been many reports of sightings in nearby Mongolia and Western China.
8 Some hair found in Eastern Bhutan once was of a unknown animal's DNA.
9 The area is so high, it is unique in altitude, so could have a special creature.
10 The Yeti could exist in a way we do not realise.

chattanova
01-09-2008, 04:23 PM
Yeti hairs not from 'any known species'

It is right up there with the Loch Ness monster: the subject of claimed sightings, passionately promoted by believers, dismissed by the scientific community. But now experts say they have found the best evidence to date that the yeti might - just conceivably - be real. Tests at Oxford Brookes University on hairs which local people believe came from a yeti in an Indian jungle have failed to link them with any known species and are said to bear "a startling resemblance" to those brought back from the Himalayas by Sir Edmund Hillary half a century ago.Ape expert Ian Redmond, who is co-ordinating the research, said: "The hairs are the most positive evidence yet that a yeti might possibly exist, because they are tangible. We are very excited about the preliminary results, although more tests need to be done."The two short hairs - 33mm and 44mm long - were picked up in thick forest in the Garo hills in the mountains of north-east India five years ago after a forester reported seeing a yeti - locally known as mande barung, or "forest man" - for three days in a row breaking branches off trees and eating their sap.The hills are one of several places in the world where similar creatures - Bigfoot in the US, the sasquatch in Canada, the sajarang gigi in Indonesia, and the yeti in Nepal - are part of local legend and from where occasional sightings are reported.After being brought to Britain, the hairs were magnified up to 200 times, and one of them was cast in varnish to make a better two-dimensional image. They were then compared with hairs from animals known to live in the hills.

"We fully expected them to come from a known animal," said Mr Redmond. "We failed to find that. So the mystery remains and we go on to the next stage of investigation."The hairs will now be examined under an even more powerful microscope and sent to two different laboratories - in Oxford and Cardiff - for DNA testing. Follicles containing cells remain on the base of the hairs, said Mr Redmond, "so there is every chance that we will be able to get even closer to the truth".

http://mysterytopia.com/search/label/Cryptozoology

biblegirl
01-09-2008, 04:51 PM
[CENTER]Footprint of Yeti found by an expedition near Napal.

http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mywebpage/yeti.html

[CENTER]http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/9/9/7/f_tibetm_d4a2a77.jpg
A tibetian fortress below the mountains were the Yeti is supposed to roam.
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Isn't there an underground base right there? :)

chattanova
01-09-2008, 05:03 PM
Isn't there an underground base right there? :)

In my guess maybe an underworld entrance :) If there is a hollow earth I believe the Yeti might origin from there..

alwayswatching
01-09-2008, 07:50 PM
Yeti hairs not from 'any known species'

im fascinated by the bigfoot/sasquatch/yeti legend,and am a definite believer.but im not sure it would be a good thing,if the legend were proved true.half the fun is the not knowing for sure,that the legend is true.if that makes sense,lol.::)

chattanova
01-09-2008, 07:59 PM
im fascinated by the bigfoot/sasquatch/yeti legend,and am a definite believer.but im not sure it would be a good thing,if the legend were proved true.half the fun is the not knowing for sure,that the legend is true.if that makes sense,lol.::)

Yes, if it becomes a known specie, it would suddenly just became another animal (especially by the media).
Your kindof right there:) but it would at the same time be great to see the face on the sceptics. 1-0 over all those that laugh at us:D:cool:

btw. we're still pretty far away from that score...:rolleyes:

chattanova
21-10-2008, 07:26 PM
Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal

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An undated handout picture from Yeti Project Japan, received on October 20, 2008, shows what is alleged to be the footprint of a Yeti (left) measured on the Dhaulagiri mountain and compared to a human footprint (right). A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

KATHMANDU (AFP) – A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.

Takahashi was speaking after he returned with his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.

Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV -- a 7,661-metre (25,135-foot) peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis in the past -- the team failed in their prime objective of capturing one on film.

But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough.

"Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those," he said.

"We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the local tell make us sure that it is not imaginary," he added.

Photographs of the prints have been posted on the expedition's website, www.everest.co.jp/yeti2008/.

The team had set out nine motion-sensitive cameras in an area where Takahashi saw what he thought was a yeti during a previous expedition in 2003.

"It was about 200 metres away in silhouette. It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimetres tall," said Takahashi.

Despite their lack of success this time, the team plans to continue the quest.

"We will come back as soon as we can, and we will keep coming back until we get the yeti on film," said Takahashi.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081020/od_afp/nepaljapanwildlifeyetioffbeat_081020163537

chattanova
21-02-2009, 12:20 PM
They’re Real: Siberian Yeti Update

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The faint outline of a Siberian Yeti track found in a cave can be seen in this Russian photograph.

“I just learned of a press report by the German division of the Russian news-agency called ‘RIA Novosti’ that gives some more and new - even curious - information about the Siberian Yeti sightings and the alleged expedition,” writes Andreas Muller, in an email to Cryptomundo.

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Muller has sent me a “fast translation of the German press report,” which I share below, after fine-tuning some edits for an English-speaking audience:

Bishop searches for Siberian Yeti

Kemerowo, Feb. 19 (RIA Novosti). On Thursday, Bishop Artistarch of Kemerowo and Nowokusnezk started to travel to the Assas-Cave south of the Donez basin (Western Siberia), a place where allegedly traces of a Yeti have been found.

Earlier, the local administration of the Kemerowo region in the south of Western Siberia had published a report stating that inside the cave local hunters had seen human-like creatures of 1.5 - 2 meters tall, covered with a thick fur. The report was accompanied by a photo of discovered traces of the unknown creature. [View it above.]

With a snowmobile, the only means of transport to the cave, the Bishop - together with the chief of the region and several escorts - is now on his way to the caves.

The exact whereabouts of the Bishop and his team is unknown at the moment because the cave’s location is beyond the reach of the local mobile-phone network.

The Asass-Cave lies 500 kilometers distance from the region’s capital city, Kemerowo, and about 80 kilometers from the next bigger town called Taschtagol.

As RIA Novosti has learned from the local administration’s press service, there are also plans to conduct a full research expedition, to validate the Yeti reports. So far financing is still in question but local businessmen as well as passionate hunters have already declared to voluntarily support the search.

http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/2/21/f_041433m_bbb4dca.jpg

Drawing by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Copyright Loren Coleman & Patrick Huyghe, 1999, 2006.

Additionally, here is the full-text of the other February 19, 2009, UK Daily Star account:

New Search for Ginger Minger Yeti!
by Will Stewart

A family of Yetis is being tracked by hunters after reports that the creatures are living in a mountain cave complex.

The animals are said to be more than 6ft tall with ginger-black hair and leave large, distinctive footprints that include toe marks.

Sightings have been made near the remote Russian mining town of Tashtagol in Siberia.

Galina Pustogacheva, spokesman for the town, said: “There have been reports over the years about these creatures, but the number has increased dramatically.

“We have had more than 10 sightings in recent weeks.”

The creatures have been seen walking on two legs by villagers from the hamlets of Elbeza and Kabarza and tourists visiting the region around the Azass caves on Mount Shoriya.

Sightings have worried locals and forced officials to launch an expedition, led by hunters and anthropologists.

“People here are scared the creatures will attack villages because of hunger,” said Nikita Shulbayev, deputy head of the local administration.

“We made a decision to send an expedition to research this issue.

“We need to understand whether they are dangerous for people. We need to calm people down.

“Scientists from Kemerovo University will help us discover what the creatures are – whether they are a rare kind of bear or a surviving primate from pre-historic times.”

No photographs have been taken of the beasts. “No-one can get close enough,” said a hunter.

But one witness said: “The creature reminds me of a bear. In his footprints one can clearly see toes.

“He is 1.5 to two metres high. He is covered with red and black hair and can climb trees.”

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/sib-yeti-update/

biblegirl
21-02-2009, 01:36 PM
For some reason I was thinking the yeti was the short one, like 3 feet tall...which one am I thinking of??

whiterain
21-02-2009, 02:47 PM
theres loads of stories round the world biblegirl and loads of names. one ive heard is orang pendek for little monkey type men folk

astrochicken
24-02-2009, 06:52 PM
Possibly entirey unrelated but still..... :P

Mount Kailash is a wierd place.

It's THE holy mountain to 4 religions (buddhists,hindis and 2 others) and was climbed for the first (and last time) by some prophet in the 11th century.

It's also smackbang in yeti territory.

infin8_possibility
24-02-2009, 06:57 PM
I heard a theory that beings like the Yeti are from the times of the Atlanteans when they experimented with genectics. Breeding a bear with a human in this case. Also Dolphins with humans to create mermaids.

chattanova
18-04-2009, 05:22 PM
Destination Truth (ses.2 ep.1) 'The Yeti'


First reported in 1832 in Nepal, the large, bipedal, shaggy yet manlike creature has been sighted ever since. Much as Sasquatch was seen around North America, his Asian "cousin" has been suspected to be wandering all across the land. The frequency of his sightings increased as more and more people scaled the Himalayan Mountains, notably Mount Everest.

While never quite captured on camera, people have spotted his shape and even what they believe to be footprints. Researchers have studied the reports for years and years, and several have recently begun to suspect that the Yeti might actually be a more familiar animal. Their principal argument on that point is that "yeti" seems to be a mistranslation of the word "meti" from the local dialect — a word that means "bear".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapEOvK3kUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmZ56tT6oo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czfU6QnVipM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Hue3E8qrY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpJbLxobONc&feature=related

chattanova
30-08-2009, 05:17 PM
Himalayan Bigfoot to undergo DNA testing

Making big news in China this week is a story about Himalaya's legendary Yeti or Bigfoot.
For centuries rumours of a half-man, half-ape that roams the upper Himalayas have circulated. The creature said to stand 3 metres tall has been allegedly seen by many locals as well as hikers visiting the area. In Chinese Yeti is often referred to as 'Xueguai'.

A number of locals living near the Nepalese border claim not only to have seen the creature, but to have collected strands of its hair. Now, it has been reported that a team of scientists have collected these strands and have already confirmed that they do not belong to any local known animals.

The scientists plan to do further testing on the hair strands.

One theory regarding the Yeti is that the sightings of the supposed cryptid are in fact that of a rare bear that lives in the area but is unknown to scientists. The scientists hope to settle this mystery with the DNA tests

http://www.allnewsweb.com/page8948949.php

arty2000
30-08-2009, 05:53 PM
Isn't there an underground base right there? :)

thats what im thinkin....bio experiments either escaping or let loose:)

transcendental stallion
14-10-2009, 04:39 PM
Yet's have reddish-brown hair and are not nearly as tall as bigfoot. They are a bit shorter than humans. They enter and leave and are enemies of the world of Shamballah. Then their is the evil simian giants called the Almaz. They are around human size but the females are bigger than the males. They will consume people do they do not hunt people.

pinkfreud
15-10-2009, 05:18 AM
For some reason I was thinking the yeti was the short one, like 3 feet tall...which one am I thinking of??


as far as i know and have read, yeti sightings are pretty varied and tibetans even classify them into different sub species: rimi (approx. 2.5m), nyalmot (around 4.5 m) and the smaller one named raksi-bombo (almost the height of an average human).


I heard a theory that beings like the Yeti are from the times of the Atlanteans when they experimented with genectics. Breeding a bear with a human in this case.


yeah, the common tibetan name for the yeti is meh-teh or man bear.


Yet's have reddish-brown hair and are not nearly as tall as bigfoot. They are a bit shorter than humans. They enter and leave and are enemies of the world of Shamballah. Then their is the evil simian giants called the Almaz. They are around human size but the females are bigger than the males. They will consume people do they do not hunt people.

eh?

yetis are reclusive like bigfoot... i don't think they've harmed humans, unless i've misunderstood your post.

antihypnosis
04-11-2009, 04:39 PM
In my guess maybe an underworld entrance :) If there is a hollow earth I believe the Yeti might origin from there..

I second that...

chattanova
05-11-2009, 04:59 PM
This might be good, it's the the second investegation done by the team. Aired yesterday.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dw0SLyCp_g

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3DWHk9KcDg

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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

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