The Unexplained Files: The Yeti
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 1st, 2014
Apparently a companion piece to Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives< /em> on Discovery.
Tune in to The Unexplained Files: The Yeti on Sunday, June 1 at 11:10/10:10 PM ET/PT on Discovery. Also airs:
Monday, June 2 at 2:10/1:10 AM ET/PT
What can explain the grisly deaths of nine students who went missing in Siberia? New investigation of declassified Soviet files reveals evidence of their horrifying ordeal, and scientists examine clues that may prove the existence of a yeti.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
I really hope this new evidence isn’t going to be made up. I know this is a real event and I do see some real experts in the clips but after all the fake stuff on Discovery today, mermaids and megladon, and now the new Swamp Werewolf using YouTube footage that’s been described as from Florida and a skunk ape, I am starting to think the new photo may be a hoax. Maybe the journal they are reading from is too. I really hope its not. I guess we all need to pay attention to any brief disclaimers about authenticity from Discovery.
I hoped this would be better than the two hour nonsense, but it was almost as bad. The guy and his book were making a huge leap based on a supposed photograph. Again, I read Donnie Eichar’s book as he took you chronologically through their trip and the reports that had been in the hands of the government on the facts and he never even talked about an alleged yeti photo.
This show also took a lot of liberties with the facts: all of the injuries–they really tried to bend this toward violent altercations, but four of the hikers died at the bottom of a ravine. If you were running, in the dark, and dropped off a forty foot ravine, you could sustain those kinds of injuries. The show is hardly objective and I didn’t learn anything new.
It was only slightly better than the two hour travesty of justice and I’m not going to buy this guy’s book.
Not worth the time.
One of the interesting (read: boring) theories I have read is that there was a avalanche. My first reaction was “yeah right, coverup.” On second thought, it actually is plausible. An avalanche occurring while the group was sleeping could explain why they would have to cut themselves out of their tents, why some were not fully clothed and also explain their contusions and broken limbs. Not very cryptid, but interesting nonetheless.