Siberian Snowmen Stealing Crops?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 15th, 2009
Wild Leek (Allium tricoccum)
The local Shor people in Kemerovo Region, Siberia, are reporting that something is pulling up the wild leek crop that is a staple of their diet, Itar-Tass Siberia reports. The onion-lovers leave behind abundant large footprints with clearly defined toes, similar to the prints found in the area earlier this year, the news service continues.
Snowmen sightings are common in this remote section of the taiga and they have received attention worldwide. An expedition headed by director of the International Center for Hominology Igor Burtsev visited the area at the end of March 2009 to study footprints found in Azasskaya Cave, but the effort resulted in little new information.
Now local Tashtagol District administrator Vladimir Makuta notes that he has received 14 new written reports of Snowmen sightings near the cave and the nearby Mrassu River. The witnesses say the creature – thought by some to be a relict hominoid – is 1.5-2 meters (5-6.5 feet) tall and covered in reddish black fur.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
siberia seems awash in hominid sightings. to the point, it seems, to be almost casual to the populations there. has there ever been a long term expedition? is there a viable hominid fossil record there?
maeko:
Myra Shackley (author of “Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma”) considers the “Siberian snowman” one of the relict hominoids she is pretty sure exist.
I think it’s really interesting that reports of these animals never seem to give them “monster” status. They sound like animals, and pretty plausible ones.