Expedition sets off in Siberia to check Bigfoot sightings... Options

[tugboatwa]

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/03/23/bigfoot/

Expedition sets off in Siberia to check Bigfoot sightings

A scientific expedition is setting out to the mountains in Russia’s Siberia to explore the recent reports of bigfoot sightings, Itar Tass reports Monday.

The two-day expedition will take scientists to the cave located 120 km off Tashtagol town in Kemerovo Region, where local hunters spotted huge human-like creatures.

“We intend to find certain proofs, study the landscape, and conclude whether bigfoots could live there,” Director of the International Center for Hominology, Igor Burtsev, told journalists ahead of the trip.

Burtsev, who has been looking for the relict hominid for over forty years, said he was sure that “bigfoots were reality”.

The local administration has so far received 14 written reports from residents of far-off villages who allegedly saw yetis near the Azasskaya cave. According to the reports, the creatures were heavyset, about two meters’ tall and looking a lot like bears. Their bodies were covered in red and black fur, and they could climb trees.

The cave that is to be examined during the expedition is several kilometers long, passing under a riverbed. Burtsev will be accompanied by ethnography professor Valery Kimeyev, representatives of local administration, and several of the hunters who reported the sightings.

[billgreen2005big...]

this is very informative new article indeed. i hope they do find some sort of evidence etc indeed.

This post has been edited by billgreen2005bigfoot: Mar 23 2009, 06:12 PM

[peregrine]

At least Igor Burtsev is looking in Russia instead of Tennessee.

[OregonMan]

Having read this book...




My first guess is that they are bears.

[RedRatSnake]

Hi

If anything i at least hope they can find out something be it Bear or something else

Peace
Tim

[bigfootnis]

Is this the same guy that Biscardi hired to examine the GA bf body?

[Robert]

...and I bet they'll be there for a whole two weeks!

[vilnoori]

Well, at least it sells books!

[eldonkey]

Is this the same Igor who investigated the lady who claimed to give Garlic to BF's in Kentucky or Tennesse???

[DavSquatch]

yep


dav

[lookinginmichiga...]

...and I bet they'll be there for a whole two weeks!

"The two-day expedition will take scientists to the cave located 120 km off Tashtagol town in Kemerovo Region, where local hunters spotted huge human-like creatures".

Article says days...not weeks. Two weeks is not enough time to do a complete study let alone two days. It will take two days to pack in their gear set up and then pack out! Depending on how they cover the 120 km (8 miles) that is a day alone!

This post has been edited by lookinginmichigan: Mar 24 2009, 11:07 AM

[mattymcc]

Having read this book...




My first guess is that they are bears.



What the general public says EVERY TIME!

[OregonMan]

^^ Ya, I know. But in the book Reinhold describes his encounter with an odd bigfoot like creature in the middle of the night high in the Tibetan wilderness. Over the years he goes on several excursions looking for the yeti, but instead builds up a pretty strong case that most Yeti sightings are actually an odd bear called the Chemo bear that walks on two legs and looks rather Yeti like. He actually has a sighting of these bears, which are extremely rare.

It’s really two books in one – an exciting book about the author's search for the Yeti of myth, and a few chapters about an obscure kind of bear that feels tacked on at the end. Based on the sensationalistic title/cover that this book has, the book itself is a letdown because it reads something like this:

“Yeti…Yeti!...YETI!...YETI!!!!!!!. bear.”

And he seems to go out of his way to NOT mention a certain North American "ape".

[Robert]

"The two-day expedition will take scientists to the cave located 120 km off Tashtagol town in Kemerovo Region, where local hunters spotted huge human-like creatures".

Article says days...not weeks. Two weeks is not enough time to do a complete study let alone two days. It will take two days to pack in their gear set up and then pack out! Depending on how they cover the 120 km (8 miles) that is a day alone!

I missed that.

Two days. What a joke.

[vilnoori]

Hmm. If he is using flying transport and knows exactly where to go, and it is still late winter there, and he's expecting a hibernating bear in the cave, it might make some sense that he only gives himself 2 days. But for a Yeti, no.

[dogu4]

Don't know how much I'd trust any of this article or the specifics being translated, but it sounds like a lot of effort for very little time in the field. If this article is current tbey'll be up there for the best time of the year to travel across the boreal north; no bugs, no brush, no bears, relatively easy to travel big distances (even by dogs) and more daylight than any other place on earth as of this post-boreal-equinox week. Temperatures are starting to creep up and there's typically good regional weather too since the late winter siberian high pressure system is likely to be fairly stable as climatic spring for the north is still a few weeks away. Excellent time to see wildlife, and their tracks, with the brush being absent or burried under snow...so even if there search turns up nothing, it should be a lot of fun...or they're not doing it (winter camping) the right way.

[peregrine]

Appears that they had no luck.

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/03/25/bigfootupd/

Burtsev, a PhD in History and a passionate believer in bigfoots, says he sees nothing strange about bigfoots possibly showing up in the Kemerovo region. Its mountains are part of the Altai range, thought to be the favorite yetis reproduction spot. In late 19th and early 20th century, he says, female creatures with young ones were frequently spotted there.

The Russian Academy of Sciences, however, is skeptical of Burtsev's enthusiasm. To preserve a stable population, there would have to be many yetis, but only single creatures have so far been spotted, an anthropologist of the Academy, Sergei Vasilyev, told RIA Novosti. Besides, no body of a bigfoot has ever been found and studied, no matter how many sightings have been reported.