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Says Michael Eccentrics

The writer in the magazine "Around the World", who requested anonymity, told the unusual story. Reported that in the Kostroma region (where it is, keep silent) lived ... polumedvedi half people. Lived, as the people in the houses, they said in a human voice, but had a very unpresentable appearance because of its very dense vegetation. Their mother prayed that the children were not like her, but the Lord did not heed this plea.

And one of her sons saw soundly to quickly die, very distressed that he was born in such a terrible face, and said. "Who am I need you." From the family there was only one woman. The writer reported its full name (call it conditionally Nina Koloskov), where and in what position she works. "And maybe you'll find old-timers who knew the family, and maybe it praprapradeda" - so the letter ended.

Very tempting to investigate the matter. The more information that recently appeared, as if in the 20 - 30s we had a biologist Ilya Ivanov, who was running with a "revolutionary" idea - to cross a man with a monkey. For a long time he was making his academic program at any higher authority, and, finally, seems to be resolved. Received even a trip to West Africa.

There, with the help of residents to catch chimpanzee females brought to Russia and began experiments. But then again pozasedadi academics, as the thought and decided that the findings apemen still do not. That's it like it is over. But that's open published in French-language book Belgian zoologist Bernard Eyvelmansa "Riddle frozen rights" and find them Enquiry recorded one of his familiar, trustworthy, as the author says, that in 1952 m or 1953, "she met with Russian friends doctor, escaped from the Siberian camps and wait a few days in France, an American visa.

This Russian said he was arrested for failing orders: conduct required fertilization women Mongolian race sperm gorilla. The experiments were conducted in the hospital management of the Gulag. Russian got so apemen race: they have one hundred eighty centimeters in height, covered with hair, work in the salt mines, have Herculean strength and work almost without rest. Grow faster than men, and therefore quickly become suitable for use. The only drawback of - the inability to reproduce. But researchers have been successful in this regard.

All this was done in great secrecy: they did not go out, and to avoid detection, they took away from their mothers at birth. "

So you never know? Maybe they really dug sensation author, who sent a letter to the editor, and the ancestors Koloskova apemen were the same?

I arrived at the address and no difficulty finding the workplace Nina Koloskov. Showing her the letter. Taken aback, and she read me the question: "Do I look like a bear?" It seemed not that little - nothing. An ordinary middle-aged woman with a resemblance to a monkey or a bear any more than I do. "Who wrote this crap?" - "I do not know - the anonymous letter. Maybe someone from your enemies? "-" I do not have any enemies. And from the village, I have long gone. " A little later Koloskov came to my hotel and showed a picture of his father. "You see, what a bear? Very normal person.

He was born in 1912. Then your famous biologist Ivanov if existed, under the table, walk upright and hardly thought of withdrawal kakihto apemen. " If the family is nothing to Spikelet apemen not, one can not listen to what is written above the scientist zoologist Bernard Eyvelmans. From Kostroma region's move to the U.S.. That's what happened to the investigation once Eyvelmansu hold in this country.

In the mid 60's in Minnesota saved some scientist saw Frank Hansen corpse being with features monkeys and humans. Eyvelmans believes that there is enough evidence to suggest that this hybrid was shot dead. According to Hansen, the entire back of the skull was fractured, the right eye socket is empty and covered with blood and his left eye knocked out of orbit (its contours are slightly different around the cheekbones). From these data, the forensic medical expert would have concluded that the victim was killed in front of a firearm or a sufficiently large caliber weapon at close range from a smaller caliber.

Eyvelmans brings his version of the crime: "The set of marked signs led me to believe that the hairy man was captured alive after immobilization by firing a bullet or shot in the right leg. The bullet must have touched one of the popliteal nerve, which controls the extensor and flexor muscles of the foot. Only this can explain the bending, which is absolutely insane in generalized muscle relaxation. It is also possible that in the wounded leg gangrene.

Suffering had embitter him and make very dangerous because of its great physical strength. He must have remained long in captivity, as indicated by abnormal paleness of the skin and long fingernails. Maybe one day he tried to escape or attack anyone either from their guards. Then it began to beat with a stick or iron bar, and when he tried to repel attacks, broke his left forearm. Finally, someone came to the horror of this kind of pain furious giant, killed him with a shot.

We can assume that the owners initially had the intention to sell it in some sort of zoo or exhibit at fairs, the latter is more plausible, given his human form. When he died, in order not to lose all the profits from his capture or purchase, they decided to freeze the body and present it to the public cleverly as a man preserved in ice from time immemorial. This was how this exhibit at trade shows, Wheel of the cities of America.

All this, of course, the assumptions that can be tested only at autopsy. " "One thing is certain - the creature was our contemporary. But whether it belonged to one of the known human race? "- Asks Eyvelmans.

Remember: only considered the most hairy of all living people - the Ainu, endangered white race, the last of which live on the island of Hokkaido. More recently, they can be found also on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. As this copy was found, according to the version of Hansen ', Kamchatka or near the Bering Strait, one would assume that it ain, frozen corpse was carried north by sea currents. During the conversation with Eyvelmansom Hansen expressed this assumption.

But this explanation is belied by the fact that by passing the mentioned islands and Kamchatka cold counterflow Oya Sivo goes from north to south - from the Bering Strait to Japan, and not vice versa. Besides reputation hairy Ainu overdone. They are very hairy compared to the rest of the east, but not compared to some other races. As explained Dr. Carleton Coon in his book "The Origin of races 'ain' no more hairy than hairy Scotsman or a Jew."

If the "exhibit" is not representative of any normal modern human race, it is not whether he could be anomalous representative of one of these races? Examples of hypertrichosis, excessive development of hair, recorded over the centuries and are described in the medical literature. Some phenomena are even famous in their time, such as a person or a dog Lionel Indochinese girl Kra. Most of them, including a woman with a beard, made a career fair booths. So it is natural for them to remember in this case.

However, if it is seen from the beginning to the end of the monograph, is still a classic, and doctors Ledublya Usse "hairy" (1912), we do not find anything similar to what was observed in Hansen being saved, at least in detail. "But how could such superurod, a kind of a collection of individual violations, resulting in a radical upheaval of the gene pool? And it was such a chromosomal disorder should be expected in cases of unnatural love between members of different species.

Not it logical to assume that the ape-man, like creature and a man and a monkey could be the result of communication with the monkey men or women with female obezyanoysamtsom ... "- asks the Belgian zoologist. "I must confess that at that time the idea I did not even come to mind, obviously, because in my heart I felt it too fantastic, too soaked old myth of Beauty and the Beast. In fact, one of the axioms of modern anthropology argues that hybridization between humans and animals is not possible. However, we have the fact that this hybridization is feasible, "- says Eyvelmans.

As is known, hybridization involves substantial conformity between the genomes of both potential parents - between the number and structure of chromosomes of cells, as in the case of man, and say, this is a gorilla. One can imagine that a human being with. his forty-six chromosomes, combined with the ape, which has forty-eight chromosomes, can produce a hybrid with forty-seven chromosomes, which, however, due to an odd number of chromosomes, will be sterile (like a mule or hinny, which have sixty-three chromosome, since they occur of the domestic horse with sixty-four and a donkey with sixty-two chromosomes).

On the other hand, all livestock specialists and agronomists is well known that hybrids of different species or genera have a remarkable property, which is called the hybrid force, or heterosis. Finally, since the period of human growth is much longer than that of the anthropoid, it is logical that the intermediate entity rather than a person to reach the final dimensions, and, consequently, muscle development, which will make it suitable for the job.

So, sterility, strength and rapid growth, it is precisely those "apemen" Gulag of the salt mines, reported by correspondent Eyvelmansa ... But Could not exhibit Hansen be fake? "In theory, it is certainly possible - wrote Eyvelmans - can simulate everything, but in practice I do not suppose that you can achieve such perfection in the art of forgery. After all, to make a sort of a living being, it would be necessary first to make a plaster cast made of rubber, wax or plastic, then paint it so subtly and carefully in order to reproduce all the details up to the plexus and then bumps on the skin folds over the muscles and joints, which lie under the skin, veins, and the entire range of the usual countless minor defects: scratches, scars, acne, age spots, etc.

Then followed about half a million to strengthen the hair, every angle. Finally, to represent such minor injuries as wounds, bruises, blood stains, necrosis, etc. If such work was actually carried out, the result, no doubt, would be considered as prevoskhodyaschimvse that has ever been produced most skilled professionals, be it done to Grevin Museum in Paris and the Museum Malachi Tussauds in London, for the largest museums of natural history, or even the best science fiction movie. A; 1lya to bring this up with such a masterpiece of perfection, to deceive and smell, it should stick to the meat, which would gradually disintegrated, and in addition to make it so that the gases from the rotting, not would tear shell dummy.

It would seem, the falsifiers would be much easier to make a composite shape, using fragments of different living beings, and to provide, so most of the work nature. That would be a mistake. Make invisible seams would be, of course, a child's play: in this respect the eastern forgers have diabolical skill. But here is to collect all the bets would be of almost insurmountable difficulties. "

But there was another, much more serious objection to the release of the forgery. What is the ultimate goal of any fraud? Stun the audience for profit or mystify experts exclusively of schadenfreude. To achieve this goal, the forger would necessarily create a "prehistoric man" or ape according to scientific, theatrical and popular reconstructions of such creatures. Perhaps he even tried to emphasize those features that distinguish them from modern humans. Nothing writes Eyvelmans not marked.

Most simian features, which give the prehistoric people (prognathism, runaway forehead, strong eyebrows, crooked legs, etc.), there are weak or difficult to distinguish. There is no doubt that if the hairy man conform to generally accepted descriptions of prehistoric man, it would have at fairs much greater success. Soon they would zai nteresovalas press as JIO was the most famous attractions, and many experts - anthropologists, zoologists, paleontologists, physicians and others - have rushed to study it.

But he spent more than two years has attracted no more attention than the usual fairground curiosities (at most - interesting fun), and all because they did not make much of an impression and did not fit the traditional image that the forger would have tried to do to order.

And as you can in this case, talking about fake? Fake - what? Having considered all of these assumptions, Eyvelmans finds that the corpse stored Hansen could be a hybrid of human and ape, but to be considered a definitive opinion, should be at least one more confirmation of this - as I understand, is to be found still the same instance. While it is not found, the assumption that apemen were removed and worked in the mines of Siberia, remains semi-fantastic hypothesis. The more one can only wonder what happened to them after the closure of the camps? They were killed or died of natural causes? They did not go to the Himalayas and become one of the varieties of the Yeti ...

Here is the chain of mysterious events has been a result of my trip to the anonymous and seemingly "seemingly hopeless" letter in the Kostroma region.