The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija

placed in his Chorten after his death.
Many of the mountain lamaseries cherish bits of Yeti hair and bones as sacred relics. They think
Yetis are devils posted around the mountains to guard the gods who supposedly live on the summits.
In the fall of 1954, a tribe of headhunters in Assam reportedly killed and ate a creature ten feet tall.
The bones and fur are supposed to have been carried off to a monastery.
Tenzing has never seen a Yeti personally but he does not question its existence. His father claims to
have once met one face to face and managed to escape. Tenzing said his father wasn't a liar or given
to making up wild tales. And his description correlates with the reports of other eyewitnesses.
Almost every expedition into the more remote sectors of the Himalayas in the past fifty years has
seen and photographed the huge ABSM footprints. Usually such prints are found in the snow at
high altitudes which are beyond the reach of most ordinary animals. After all, animals are not likely
to venture into areas where no food or prey can exist. Samples of Yeti droppings have also been
collected and studied and indicate that it lives on a small rodent known as the mouse-hare. A
number of expeditions have produced reliable reports of having seen the beast itself from a distance.
It has been seen digging up roots with a stick, something no ordinary animal would do. This use of
a tool puts it in a subhuman class.
What could it be? There is some evidence that it might actually be a survivor of the early
Neanderthal man. Footprints known to have been made by Neanderthalers have been discovered
and they are almost identical to the ABSM tracks. In 1948 an ancient cave, long sealed by volcanic
lava, was opened near Toirano, Italy, and it was found to contain all kinds of interesting artifacts,
including the footprints of modern-type men, giant bears, and Neanderthalers. The latter tracks were
immediately recognized as being almost exactly the same as the footprints photographed by the
various expeditions to Everest. Of equal interest was the fact that the discovery seemed to indicate
that modern man and the Neanderthalers existed in the same era. A fact which led the Type B
scientists to quickly shuffle the discovery into the back of their files.
In the 1950s an expedition in the Middle East unearthed relics which suggested that modern man,
Cro-Magnon man, and Neanderthal man had all existed at the same time. This, too, was quickly
swept under the carpet by the pro-evolution types. After all, if these various human and subhuman
personages all lived together in a single epoch then there is something radically wrong with our
long-accepted evolutionary scale.
The evidence we are summarising here opens a whole new anthropological bag. Could the ”Wild
Men of the Woods” of Europe have been stray survivors of some ancient time, gradually driven
further and further back into the forests and mountains, forced to mate with human females in order
to survive at all, and, finally, pressed into extinction when human females were no longer readily
accessible? Could these hairy beings have survived in the remote fastness of the Himalayas and the
deep jungles of Brazil and northern Canada?
We have seen the Yeti footprints for ourselves. We have even tried to track the animal down to his
lair. In Jadoo, this adventure was fully described. Here is a summary of that narrative: [Jadoo by
John A. Keel, published by Julian Messner, Inc., 1957. Out of print.]
While traveling through northern Sikkim with a native guide named Norbhu, we heard the Yeti's
distinctive call which ”sounded like a bird very near, short chirps with a slight warble. Similar to
monkey chatter but higher pitched and less defined.”
We were very close to the border of Tibet, and soon found definite Yeti tracks. ”The tracks were
clear and spaced at a leisurely pace. It was definitely not an ape or bear, and the prints were much
too big to have been made by a barefooted man... Then suddenly, from somewhere in front of us,
there was a sharp animal scream; brief, filled with tearing pain. Norbhu jumped a foot. Then there
was only silence and the drip of water on the leaves overhead.
”A little further on a group of natives appeared and led us to their village on the brink of a narrow
river. They'd heard the scream, too. It was a panther, they said. A dying panther.... They had found a
bloody spot surrounded by Yeti tracks. They were rushing back to their village when they bumped
into us.
”Could a Yeti kill a panther, I asked?