Major University Study of Yeti Announced!

Oxford University and Switzerland’s Lausanne Museum of Zoology have a joint study of alleged remains or samples of Yeti and bigfoot.   They will use the latest advances in genetic analysis.

Tintin Meets Lovecraft!

Belgian comic book character Tintin faced many great threats in his long career.  From the Yeti to dive bombers to Greek Tycoons.  And he’s always managed to arise victorious in the end.  But how would fare against something darker?  And older?  Much, much older?  Like the “elder gods” of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos?  Well, artist Murray Groat has imagined just such a series of confrontations in these covers for imaginary Tintin/Lovecraft mash-ups.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

Video: Yeti Appears in TV Commercial

It seems we’re seeing more and more references to bigfoot and the yeti in popular culture.  As evidenced by the humorous use of the Yeti in this ad for the restaurant chain “Red Robin”:

Raimi to Gives us Rampaging Yetis!

Sam Raimi announced an interesting project this week.  A film called Refuge about a small village plagued by assaults from a Yeti.

The project will be the freshman effort of British music video director Corin Hardy.  But, in order to demonstrate his ability with the material, Hardy will be directing a short film as a “proof of concept.”  British scribe Tom De Ville (“Lexx”) will pen the script.

Yetis … Raimi …  a combination that’s  hard to resist.

Video: David Attenborough Believes Yetis are Real

From the Jonathan Ross show, noted naturalist David Attenborough weighs in on cryptozoology.  He’s not convinced by the Loch Ness Monster, but Yetis are a different story.

Give it a watch.

Russian Bigfoot Hunt

From Ria Novsti:

KEMEROVO, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – A group of people led by the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Kemerovo and a regional official set out on Thursday in search of a bigfoot sighted in the Tashtagol area by hunters, a regional spokesman said.

Earlier this week, the Kemerovo regional administration released a report that local hunters had spotted “some hairy humanoid creatures with a height of 1.5-2 meters [5'6"-6']” near the Azass Cave on Mount Shoriya. The report was illustrated with a photograph from inside the cave showing the track of an unidentified creature.

“From the nearest village of Ust-Kabyrz, the bishop, regional head and a group of others will reach the Azass Cave by the only transportation possible: snowmobiles,” the spokesman told RIA Novosti.

He added that the priest would also make a private visit to Mount Shoriya, where he will open and bless a small church at a gulag barracks open to tourists. In the Soviet era, there were a large number of gulag camps in the area northeast of Novosibirsk.

According to the head of the department of anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow, anthropologists have never seen or studied the body of a bigfoot or yeti, although there are numerous reports of their sightings throughout the world.

He also noted that yetis for some reason are always spotted singularly, which is “biological nonsense,” as a large population must exist in order to create generation after generation. According to the anthropologist, Earth has been studied so thoroughly that if a population of yeti existed it would have been confirmed.

The Kemerovo regional spokesman said a scientific expedition is being organized for the summer to investigate the sighting. The financial details of the expedition are being worked out and there are already many enthusiasts, businessmen and hunters ready to help.

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