BIGFOOT Like the shocking challenge to the OK Corrai, also I besiege of the so-called Canyon of the Monkey has entered to make part of the folklore American. The history began in 1924, near a group of miners insediati on the slopes of the Sant’ mount; Elena in the state of Washington, little more than 100 km than distance to north of Portland, in the Oregon. A day, some of they saw one species of large monkey to exit from the folto of the trees. One had made fire with a gun, convinced to have hit it to the head. But the creature had found shelter in the forest. Then an other miner, Fred Beck - than he would have decided himself to tell the single episode trentaquattro years after - had met an other scimmione along the slope of the canyon and he had shot three blows to it, hurting it to the back. The animal was slipped for the crinale, losing heart itself like dead man, but when the miners were I noticed on the place had not found null. That same night, from the twilight to the mattino, their shacks had been besieged from mysterious creatures who had beaten to the doors, launch she is known and were gone up to strike on the roof. He scares to you, the miners had been forced to reinforce the doors supporting them from the inside and had talked nonsense completely without information in the buio of the night and through the embrasures of the walls and the ceiling. But little he was been worth. The creatures were evidently much angry and determined and they had not desistito from the attack that had been protratto until the first lights of the dawn. That same day the miners had abandoned the encampment. According to the description made from Beck, "Bigfoot" is one creature high than 2,40 m, sturdy and not less muscolosa. It is similar a gorilla, but some characteristics, like as an example l’uso of stones launch, induce to think it also much similar one to a man. The story of I besiege endured from Beck and its companions, united to other testimonies, on ending of the years Fifty Bigfoot yields one species of national celebrity. In truth similar history they circulated from centuries in the local traditions. The Salish Indians of British Columbia called these creatures "Sasquatch", that he means "wild man of the forests". The Indian tribes of California of the north called to them "Oh-mah-have"; while for those of the zone of the Cascades they were "Seeahtiks". The existence of entire colonies of these beings, today calmly living in the north of the United States and Canada sound, must admit it, decidedly absurd; even if the persons are little who become account of how many extending truly are the forests of conifers of these exterminated lands. Million square kilometers of totally uninhabited spots, for great part still unexplored, where, for absurdity, also herds of giganteschi dinosauri could pass unnoticed. The most ancient relative history to prints of Sasquatch laughed them to the 181. While it was valicando the montani steps that are risen to sources of the Colombia river, in the pressed ones of odierna the Jasper, in the state of Alberta, celebre explorer David Thompson and its companion of adventure, they were imbattuti in one deep print, long more than 40 cm, characterized from four fingers fortified of unghioni. Thompson, for how much interdetto, had endured thought to a gigantic one grizzly, but the companion dissuaso it, facendogli to notice that the bears have five fingers; corrected observation, but that pregiudicava the solution, being able itself to imagine a bear lacking in a finger. The 4 July 1884 the "Daily Colonist" of Victoria, British Columbia, published an article on the capture of a Bigfoot. Jacko (name with which it came indicated the hunter) had captured a copy from the reduced dimensions, high not more than 120 cm and heavy only one sessantina of kilograms. The being had been sighted from a group that was muovendo along the Fraser river, from Lytton to Yale, under the Cascade mounts, and had been captured with relative facility. It had long and thick black hats and folta a down that covered all the body. The arms were longer than those than a man and had the sufficient force to break in two a large branch. Ill-fatedly, after this citation, of the mysterious Jacko forgiveness the traces, even if the naturalist John Napier testifies that the creature came more resumptions exhibited near the Bamum circus and the Bailey circus. In the 1910 Bigfoot he returns to the ribalta for an ugly history happened in goes them of Nahanni, near the Great Lago of the Slaves, in the Territories of the north-west. The two MacLeod siblings were find to you behead to you in a gorge of go them, than from that day it came exactly remembered as It goes it them of beheads to you. In truth, the more reasonable hypothesis would make to think next to an Indian attack or about some group of desperados, however, to the age, it was spoken about Bigfoot, fact that went to add a touch of horror one legend already consolidated. In 1910 on the "Seattle Times" an article appeared on the so-called the "devils of the mountain" that had besieged the hut of a gold seeker on the Saint mount Lorenzo, near Kelso. Attacking was described like umanoidi for monstrous, from the gigantic fattezze, high halves from the 2 to i 2,50 m. The Indians local, pertaining to the tribes of the Clallam and Quinault, very knew them and they called them Seeahtiks. In their legends he says himself that the man derived from the animals and that for these beings the creation like had been stopped to half, suspended. One of the eclatanti history tied to the presence of a Bigfoot laughed them to 1924, although it has not been disclosed that much later, in 1957, capacity to the light from John Green, author of the book On the Track ofthe Sasquatch. Albert Ostmail, taglialegna and carpenter, were trying of the gold to the sources of the Toba river in British Columbia, when a day for before the time had felt to speak from an Indian boatman of the "great race" that lived on the mondiglie. After a week of inspections it had finally arranged a field base of forehead to the island of Vancouver. The successive morning but had had one surprised: the supplies had been plundered from someone. In order to discover who it could be the ladro, the second night had only made feint to go to sleep, remaining silent in waited for in the sleeping bag with a loaded gun very imbracciato. Some hour later had been waked up: "I came ridestalo from something or someone that touched to me. I was addormentato and at first it did not succeed me to comprise those that me was capitando. As soon as I put with some idea I rendered account that, infagottato in my sleeping bag, I was myself muovendo ". After po' a who it was transporting it had placed it to earth. It was therefore successful to sgattaiolare outside from the sleeping bag and four had found itself to the presence of one family of Sasquatch: the father, a great copy high male nearly 2,50 m; the mother, a son and one daughter still much small. The adult female was high at least a pair of meters, could and not have one group of forty of years and weigh 200 kg at least. In appearance it did not seem wanted fargli of the evil, but, of sure, they held it of eye in order not to leave to scappare it. Perhaps it came to imagine that, would have it withheld like companion for the young, still unripe female and without breast. After to have been forced to pass six days with they, it was successful to resume the gun and to make to leave some blow. In the general confusion, while the creatures hid in order to defend themselves, if she were given it to legs. When Green the churches as never it had attended much time before rendering public that one its extraordinary adventure, Ostman answered that it had made it because nobody would have given to it straight. In 1928 an Indian of the Nootka tribe of Muchalat name Harry introduced itself to Nootka, on the island of Vancouver, only dressed of the perizoma, panted and still visibly scared. He reported that while was oing like every day to the river in order to hunt and to fish, it had been captured from a bigfoot that he had lead it to many kilometers of distance. On decreasing of the day finally he had found himself in a species of encampment where there were not less than twenty than those strange creatures, which had made it to mean that they would have divorato it. All at once, in fact, one of most large it had bitten the perizoma like in order biting it, facendogli to mean that it was not in a position to distinguishing the skin from a indumento. For some hours, terrorizzato, it was remained paralyzed in an angle, then, in the afternoon, the tribe seemed to have lost interest towards of he and she had moved to the food search. Had the opportunity of scappare, Harry was spun via and after fifteen or so kilometers, recognized the places, he had recovered its canoe. From here, after one vogata nearly 60 km it had caught up the island of Vancouver, where it had told its terrible experience to father Anthony Terhaar, of local the Benedictine mission. The father said that Harry had arrived therefore prostrato and terrorizzato that had been hit from an unexpected collapse from which had been able to resume itself only much later. The fright had been therefore large that the hats it were become to you all white men. From that day more it had not dared to go away from the village. In 1967, Glenn Thomas, a taglialegna of Estacada, in the Oregon, while it was tracing a path to Tartan Springs on the Round Mountain, had had comfort to observe three disowned figures very the longest hats, intente to move some masses in order then to dig in order at least a pair of meters. To the end of the job, the feminine creature had extracted from a lair some roditori that had been divorati on the moment. The investigators whom they inquired on its history, in the place indicated from the taglialegna, found not less than a score than large holes and all round hard sandstones clearly move you from the not inferior weight to 200 kg. In the zone it is common that beavers and beavers find shelter in lairs basements in along period of the letargo. While, one of the cases more convincing already had come to the ribalta. In the October of 1967 two young people, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, found themselves to Bluff Creek in a county in northern California, when to the unexpected one, hardly exceeded the carried out one of the vallala, the horses, scare to you, had hurl them you of saddleback. To approximately thirty meters of distance, on the opposite crinale of the mountain, great dark creature was one, with the body all animal hair covering, than muoveva like a man. Rogcr, seized the cinema camera, had been put to filmare. The being - istinctively recognized as a female - had stopped itself, turning the look towards of they. "it did not seem was disturbed from our presence, how much made curious one from the taken machine from, one sure new what for she". When Patterson had tried to chase it, it had been endured put to run fastly, a lot that after some hundred of meters already had been detached in order to disappear in folto of one the forest of pines. The filmato one, becoming celeberrimo, extension a high being approximately 2 m, from the weight stimabile of one ton or, with hats perhaps more tawny rossicci, prominenti breasts and buttocks. Caught up an emergency position, it had been turned with completely making in direction of the cinema camera, revealing a covered face of hair nearly curious. The tip of the head had a conical shape, a shared connotation is from the gorilla of mountain that they give the first cousins of the Sasquatch, yeti or "the abominable man of snows", to which in more attitudes it seems senz' other to be similar. Being to the zoologi, a conformed skull therefore allows to give a greater force to muscles of the jaws, calls them to crush wood coppers. Obviously, the contestatori were many that considered the filmato one like bogus, asserting that the being other was not that a man of great stature dressed with the fur of one scimmione. Nevertheless in its beautiful book More Things, the zoologo Ivan Sanderson cites three illustrious scientists, the doctors Osman Hill, John Napier and Joseph Raighl, all agrees in recognizing that from filmato the not evince some detail that it induces to think next to a cheat. Of other song, a series of treads of prints taken just in the terriccio of the valley, signaled the passage of one not less high creature than a pair than meters. The Asian version of the Bigfoot American is the yeti, better known in the West with the name of "abominable man of snows". When in 1951 the himalayano explorer Eric Shipton was valicando the ghiacciaio of the Menlung on the Everest, he had had comfort to observe great prints of feet, that he had had the prontezza to photograph next placing a wood small board to you that acted as from comparazione parameter. It was be a matter of a foot, nearly 40 cm of length and beyond 20 of width, from the curious shape: three small fingers and a quarter much obvious one, the shape almost circular. That foot belonged without a shadow of doubt to a being that walked in erected position and of sure it was not be a matter neither of a lupo neither of a bear. The only animal that could itself be called in cause was the orangutan, but these monkeys more have the lengthened large finger much. Sin from when exploratory the Europeans they began to visit Asian mountains of Tibet, felt to speak about a strange creature, similar to a gigantic monkey, than the premises they called Metohkangmi, than translate in literal terms it means for the note "abominable man of snows". The legends echoed on one immensest geographic zone, from the Caucasus to the Himalayas, the Pamir to Mongolia, until the extreme borders of Russia. In Asia they centers comes calls Mehteh to you, or yeti, while the tribes orient use them the Almas word. She seems that the first reference to these beings wide diffused in the West has been relationship, dated 1832, of B.H. Hodgson, English ambassador resident near the real court of the Nepal, where one tells like the hunters of the place and the NATO to you in kind, they strongly feared the presence of a "wild man", with the covered body of hairs. More than half century after, in the 889, it was the time of the greater L.A. Waddell. While she was exploring the Himalayas, to quota 5000 m, she was herself imbattuto in some large prints, very impresse in the fresh snow. The local bearers, scare to you, said to it, without hesitation, than he be a matter himself of the recent passage of one yeti, one inclined feracious creature to attack the man in order to feed itself some. The better way for sfuggirgli was to come down to goes them, because the yeti it had long hats therefore folti and that, scendendogli on the eyes in the course of the reduction, prevented it to have one good visual perception. In the 1921 the members of a shipment guided from Howard-Bury colonel, engaged in opening for before turn a rise on the northern depositor of the Everest, had observed to debita dark distance, in the pressed ones of the valico of Lhaptala, some creatures, contrasting with the candor of the snow, than the tibetani bearers they indicated endured like yeti. In the 1925 N.A. Tombazi, member of the Royal Geographical Sociely, reported to have try invano to photograph on ghiacciaio the Zemu a being that muoveva awkwardly on two legs. Unfortunately, in the moment in which it was ready to the release, this was vanished in the null one. And therefore, with this rhythm, legends and testimonies have been interlaced until the our times, always connoted from that tone of sufficient mystery and light doubt in order to concur with science to reject every thing, speaking about dreams to opened eyes, deceits and mistificazioni. The photography released from Shiplon in 1951 had an extraordinary echo just because it had been taken from the member of a scientific shipment, than would not have had some reason to tell frottole. Beyond all then, the image spoke alone and it did not need of some comment. At least therefore it came to imagine. Instead a Department of natural history of the British Museum it did not think therefore, a lot to it that one of its more illustrious representatives, dottor the T.C.S. Morris-Scott denounced the scientific world that its idea was very various and that the photographed track belonged to a creature, the entello himalayano, than the premises they called langur. Its decided affirmation was founded on the made description of a yeti from sherpa the Ten Sing, which creature little higher spoke about one than 150 cm, from the erected sailing point, the skull to conical tip and one folta fur rossastra. According to Morris-Scott this description collimava to the perfection with that one of the langur. The main objection to this observation was in the fact that also the langur, like the majority of the monkeys, proceeds nearly always on all fours and boasts five lengthened fingers a lot, comprised that prominente that never is not rounded off. To the end, the hypothesis came rejected from the same colleagues of Morris-Scott and soon forgotten. The enigma of the man of snows continued therefore to remain such. A hypothesis a little more fantasiosa is that proposal from the Dutch zoologo Bernard Huevelrnans, exposed in one series of articles appeared to Paris in 1952. It remembered that in 1934 dottor the Ralph von Koenigwald had uncovered in an ancient Chinese pharmacy of Honk Kong some ancient teeth; the Chinese tradition attributes to the particular powder of tooth therapeutic dowries. Between those teeth there was a molar of human, great type at least two times that one of an adult normal school gorilla, idea that suggested was belonged to a high creature approximately 6 m. Some deepenings revealed that the monstrous giant - become famous all over the world with the name of gigantopithecus - had extinguished itself gives approximately means million years. For Huevelrnans, therefore, the print that Shipton had photographed had to belong to a heir, goodness knows like survivor, of the gigantopithecus. Its theory came snobbata and only little colleagues deigned to take it in consideration. In 1954 the newspaper "Daily Mail" financed one shipment to the aim to capture (or for less succeeding to photograph) one yeti. After 15 weeks of useless inspections, all it had been concluded without the succeeded minimum, if exception for a decidedly important information is only made. The shipment had uncovered that in many tibetani monasteri was conserved scalpi of yeti, considers precious reliquie you. In some cases a direct vision had concurred fascinating observations. They were all long and conical, similar ones to one mitra episcopal, and covered from a driven in animal hair, comprised one species of "crest" in the center, composed from straight hats. In a case it was uncovered that the scalpo gelosamente conserved it was a false one, is worth to say had been obtained with some brandelli of animal skin you sew yourself together. However, many others turned out gain to you from a single piece of skin. Hat fragments capture to you from these scalpi revealed them pertaining to disowned animals. Insomma, even if the yeti it had not been captured, however they were emerged tests than more sufficient to demonstrate of the existence. But nothing to make, not even this time. When to Sir Edmund Hillary it came granted, in sign of great honor, to withhold a scalpo for some time - we remember how much the object was held up care near the tibetani clergymen - Bernard Huevelmans had the opportunity to study it to bottom. It said that the shape of the head of a great mountain goat remembered it that had had way to observe to along in one zoo in the years before the war. This type of caprone, great and massive, lives also in Nepal, the earth for excellence dell’abominevoli man of snows. Huevelmans of it had then carried one to fine of study near the Royal Institute of Brussels, demonstrating with a detailed comparazione that also the scalpi conserved from the tibetani priests they belonged to this kind of animal. The skin had been flattened and worked with the vapor, but it could not be spoken about false a deliberate one. It was be a matter of a hat that came worn from the clergymen celebrating in the course of particular rituals. The tradition was ancient and went back to disowned times. The scalpi they went back to these periods, they had been hands on to you as scalpi of yeti and all they continued to think them such. To this point, it had become common conviction that the history of yeti the other was not that one legend. Nevertheless, also this time be a matter of one hurried conclusion. Sure, the many European that was pushes to the search of the mysterious creature could also are mistake to you in supporting to have seen one what rather than an other; but as the prints could be liquidated with much facility, sighted and photographed in abundance? In 1955 a French, Bordet Abbot, of it saw quite three series. In the same year the head of one shipment, Lester Davies, of filmò others. In the june of 1970, the scalatore Don Whillans supported to have noticed a creature much similar one to a large monkey on the contrafforti of the Annapurna and in the 1978 Lord Hunt it photographed some clear prints. In the meantime also in Russia they began to come uncovered some testimonies. In 1958 the lieutenant colonel Vargen Karapetyan published on a newspaper moscovita to wide pulling a wide article on the yeti - from those you leave known as Alma - interviewing to along the most famous expert of the field, professor the Boris Porshnev. In the December of 1941 its operating unit was fighting against the invading Germans on the forehead of the Caucasus, in the vicinities of Buinakst. A day some partisans had gone from he, which had sped up it to go to see a prisoner as soon as captured. They said but that he could have observed it solo from far away, because not as soon as it had been ricoverato within a room to the warmth he had denudato themselves and he had begun sudare in abundance, for more was full than pulci from head to foot. Other various from one monkey be a matter itself of a being senz': knot, dirt and spettinato, seemed sordo and spaesato, wavering. Karapetyan had intentional equally to approach it. When the long uncultivated hats from the ace had borne away it in order to watch it in face, the cleanest received impression was one silent demand for mercy and aid. It was obvious that it did not understand that that came said to it. To the Karapetyan end if n' it had gone, inviting the group of partisans that had it in guard to think that to make of that strange man. Some day after it was reached the news that was scappato. Obviously, the history smells of burnt, as it is said. Nevertheless, a relationship of the Ministry of the Interior of the Daghestan confirmed every thing, adding famous a decisive one in more. The wild man had been judged from the martial and executed court like traitor. In January of 1958 professor the Alexander Pronin, of the University of Leningrado, reported to have seen a Alma. It was found in the Pamir, when all at once it had noticed, on the background of cliffs, a creature ignota that one was scrambling up. Human shape had one, with long hats rossicci. When it was shrewed of its presence, it was remained to watch it in order nearly five minuteren, then was scomparso. Three days after, the contact at a distance had been repeated in that same place. For a series of logical reasons, the doctrine marxismi did not accept the idea of the wild man, but when the news began to accumulate itself, the evidence could not more denied being. We must to Boris Porshnev the collection of all the testimonies of sight of an Abominable one in the Russian world, a news series of which Odette Tchernine wide one has used for its remarkable entitled book The yeti. We try, now, to synthetize the facts: the relative test to the real existence of one called singular creature yeti. Alma, Bigfoot, Sasquatch or "abominable man of snows" rather are acclarata and hundred than signallings they induce to believe cannot only found on fantasies and imaginations. If, therefore, a similar being exists indeed in order, of that what could be be a matter? University professor Myra Shackley, assistant of archaeology near the university of Leicester, supports to know it. She is convinced that the yeti he is a man of Neanderthal survivor. Its hypothesis comes shared in full load from the Tchernine, on the supply of its careful study of the many Soviet cases. As we know, the man of Neanderthal is the predecessore of puts into effect them humanity. The first traces of its appearance come made to go back to approximately 100.000 years or are. He was smaller and more similar to one monkey that not the man today, equipped of one escaping forehead and one prognata jaw. It lived in caverns and the heaps of boneses of eatable animals traced in these shelters attest that the women were of the little tidy and cleaned up housewives. Probably it was also given over to the cannibalism, however it cannot be said had only animal features. The ritrovamento of some pigments colors you to the inside of the inhabited coves, demonstrates, as an example, that it loved the colors and sure appreciated the beauty of the flowers. Moreover, since it had the custom to bury the dead men, is presumable to imagine that it believed in the afterlife. Some mysterious rounded off and scratched stones, induce to attribuirgli also one some shape of religiosità, perhaps a solar cult. Our more direct ancestors, the so-called man of CroMagnon, showed oneself on the Earth only 50,000 mila or are and are to he that we must celebrates rupestri raffigurazioni to them. With its arrival, the man of Neanderthal to scompare to the unexpected, second one dynamics that still today science is not in a position to explaining. The general idea is that it has been completely destroyed and replaced from the CroMagnon. In its work from the title it The Neanderthal Question, the psychologist Stan Gooch advances one amazing thesis: this our ancient ancestors would not have been extinguished of all and the combined females with the males of the new ones arrive CroMagnon would have given origin to you to a sottorazza various, whose descendants would have been the original stock of the Hebrew race. (It is well to emphasize that the same Gooch is a Hebrew). According to he the man of Neanderthal boasted advanced psychical dowries to that one of CroMagnon and those possessed from the modern man would derive just from this ancient race. That the theory is shared or less than Gooch, it is not however impossible to imagine that the man of Neanderthal ce has not made it to survive, driven away in some enclave secret and solitary from the new race of men that was impossessando of the planet. Already cited Myra Shackley it has sifted the Aitai mounts pushing itself until Mongolia and is convinced that the Alma exists indeed: "They live to the inside of caverns, hunt for procurarsi the food, they use tools in stone and they dress with worked skins animals". Between the many cases, the Sheckley remembers that one of a Russian doctor whom in 1972 it had in luck to meet an entire family of Alma. Also Odette Tchernine filler many similar episodes and same ago professor the Porshnev, which it has carried to the light a great number of popular traditions tied to the presence of the wild man and these mysterious creatures. Near the Abzachiani, as an example, the captured and lead legends of Alma in the civil world are still today alive and tame to you. The Tchernine speaks about they calling them pre ominidi. Porshnev has investigated of person on a case of extreme regarding interest an exemplary female of Alma captured to half of XIX the century in the region of the Ochamchir. Some hunters of the zone, imbattutisi in a Alma female, had captured it and capacity to the village. He had a scimmiesco aspect, with long dark hats and hair on the body. Violent and bad, for years not he had been towards sweetening of the character and had lived in a cage, within which the caretakers threw the food. It had been assigned the name of Zana. Porshnev still succeeded to interview some persons who had seen it and they remembered it, between which a man of beyond centocinque years. Then, finally, it had been calmed and it had begun to socialize. Little to the time it had learned to complete some small job, like as an example sgranare the pannocchie of granturco. It had a great breast, muscolose legs and arms, thin and long fingers; it hated the warmth and it preferred to be to the cold. It went crazy for the grape, than divorava to clusters, the wine loved drink: it drank much for addormentarsi of blow resting deeply for hours and hours of row. He had become mother in more than an occasion with various fathers, but the sons were all dead men, for that one animal its mania to deal them too much rigidly, as an example going them to wash in the ghiacciato river (since the babies could by now consider nearly human beings, had not inherited the extraordinary resistance to the cold of the genitrice). To the end, the countrymen decided of sottrarle the last one, call it therefore, cucciolata. The children had been raise to you in the village and had grown healthy and much similar to normal human beings. They had learned to speak and they reasoned in logical way. Young he is died in relatively recent times, in the 1954 (Zana if n' he had gone in 1890). Porshnev has had way to meet two greats-granddaughter of Zana, stating some the dark skin and the fattezze of negroide type. One of the grandsons, a sure Shalikula, possessed one powerful jaw therefore to be in a position to resisting between the teeth one chair with a man seated over. Beyond whichever other speech, us seems that this is a test never obvious how much that the existence dell’abominevole man of snows, could at all not be imagination fruit.