Siberian Yeti Expedition: 95% Sure Of Creature’s Existence

Submitted by Scott McMan

Many of you may remember last years announced expedition to prove the existence of Bigfoot’s cousin of the cold, the Yeti. Only because of that prerequisite am I throwing another Sasquatch article up so soon this week. Come on folks! This is alleged science with real *cough* scientists, doing real sciency stuff…or something.

Said to inhabit Siberia and the Himalayan mountains, the Yeti AKA The Abominable Snowman is very much like our North American Sasquatch. Differences would include a white or very light pelt with longer hair.

Now word has come back from an international team of “experts” that there is a 95% certainty the creature exists. This deliberation was announced after a conference of scientists who are also, you guessed it, Yeti enthusiasts.

Hmm, well that’s all I need! Call the dogs in and button up the grass huts! Lets head home!

Seriously though, apparently we are supposed to accept these finding with no pictures, no video and no DNA mentioned. Although one conference participant claims to see the creatures every day. Some of you may have even heard of this woman who says there is a family of 10 living on and around her Michigan property. *cuckoo* *cuckoo* Every day you say? Family of 10 you say? Photo? Video? Hello, McFly!?!

Lets read on and see why we should jump on this bandwagon:

Siberia home to yeti, bigfoot enthusiasts insist

The vast Siberian tundra holds untold mysteries, from once-secret nuclear installations to alleged UFO crash sites.

Now, a team of scientists say they are “95%” sure that Russia’s wintry expanse is home to the mythical yeti, otherwise known as the abominable snowman.

More than a dozen scientists and yeti enthusiasts flew in from Canada, Estonia, Sweden and the US to exchange findings with their Russian counterparts at a day-long conference in the town of Tashtagol, some 2,000 miles east of Moscow in the Kemerovo region. Locals there have reported an increase in sightings of a creature in recent years.

A two-day expedition to the region’s Azassky cave and Karatag peak over the weekend “collected irrefutable evidence” of the yeti’s existence there, the Kemerovo government claimed in a statement. “In one of the detected tracks, Russian scientist Anatoly Fokin noted several hairs that might belong to the yeti,” it added. Scientists also found footprints, a presumed bed and various other markers.

“Conference participants came to the conclusion that the artefacts found give 95% evidence of the habitation of the ‘snow man’ on Kemerovo region territory,” the statement said.

“I know they exist – I see them every day,” a conference participant, Robin Lynn, said by telephone from Kemerovo. She says she has a family of 10 yeti-like creatures living on her land in the US state of Michigan.

Evidence of yeti life of the creature has allegedly been found in the Himalayas and North America, where it is know as sasquatch, or bigfoot. John Binderangel, a Canadian wildlife biologist who has been studying the yeti for 30 years, said the Siberian expedition offered further proof of the beast’s existence.

“We were shown some twisted willow branches that are referred to as markers – they were convincing evidence of this hominoid,” he said. “There were also some tracks, but we’re not quite sure what to make of them.” Conference participants called for the launch of a campaign to “work out a more serious relationship [to the yeti] in society and mass media”, the Kemerovo government said. They also proposed opening a university research centre.

The Kemerovo government has hosted a number of stunts aimed at boosting the region’s reputation as a yeti centre.

Last month, it welcomed former heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev on a search for the yeti. The 7ft “beast from the east” reportedly failed in his quest.

OK, I know I am being hard on these “scientists”, but the truth is, I am 50/50 on the existence of said biped. Heck, some days my belief gets as high as 65%. However, what am I to think of these findings? Frankly, there are thousands of people who will tell you the same song and dance. In other words, tell us something we’ve not already seen or heard.

Alright, now it’s your chance to sound off. Do you believe in the Yeti or any other large bipedal creature? Do you believe proof can only come when someone drags a corpse into the lobby of some official place, such as your backyard?

I know we had a royal rhubarb last year when we posted the articles regarding the TBRC shooting and the Sierra Kills ordeal. So tell us, are you pro kill or pro capture, or neither.

Thanks to The Guardian for this DeYetiful news.

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