The clearest sighting of a Yeti yet… or an elaborate hoax by some schoolboys?
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 14, 2013 12:45A ‘new sighting’ of a Yeti by an 11-year-old schoolboy is the best ever seen in Russia, an expert on the Abominable Snowman claimed today.
Blurred footage taken by a mobile phone allegedly shows the snow monster in trees in the Kemerovo region of southern Siberia.
‘I don’t doubt it was a Yeti. It stood in a typical pose with its back slightly bent, and its long arms down,’ said Igor Burtsev, director of the International Centre of Hominology in Moscow.
‘It is a real – not falsified – video. Soon the experts will try to establish what sex the creature was. The tracks in the snow were very interesting: not only long but large.
‘It looks like it first walked towards the village and then walked back in its own footprints. It fits what we know about Yetis… they walk without a swagger.’
The Yeti ‘sighting’ was filmed by Yevgeny Anisimov, who was with two friends in woods about 18 miles from the coal mining city of Leninsk-Kuznetskiy.
He ran away with friends Kirill Soldatov, 12, and Alexander Pereverin, 11, it is reported.
The sighting was reportedly made in January.
But it was disclosed ten days after Oxford University genetics expert Professor Bryan Sykes, of the Wolfson Institute, found three samples of suspected ‘Yeti hair’ from the region actually belonged to other animals.
DNA tests found that hair – supplied to The Sun by Burtsev – was from a horse, a raccoon and an American Black Bear. The latter two are not native to Russia.
Burtsev said today that there was a ‘gigantic’ body of evidence, apart from the hair samples, to show that Yeti exist in Siberia.
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