Yeti 'Nests' Found in Russia?

Live Science ^ | November 18, 2011 | Benjamin Radford

[decimon]

Bigfoot researcher and biologist John Bindernagel claims his research group has found evidence that the Yeti (a Russian "cousin" of the American Bigfoot) not only exists, but builds nests and shelters by twisting tree branches together.

"We didn't feel like the trees we saw in Siberia had been done by a man or another mammal.... Twisted trees like this have also been observed in North America and they could fit with the theory that Bigfoot makes nests. The nests we have looked at are built around trees twisted together into an arch shape," Bindernagel told the British tabloid The Sun.

Bindernagel was part of a small group of scientists who visited western Siberia to examine evidence of the Yeti in October. That group made headlines around the world for issuing a statement that they had "indisputable proof" of the Yeti and were 95 percent sure it existed based on the evidence – a few strands of hair – they found.

Tree twisting, also called splintering, has been claimed as Bigfoot evidence for decades throughout the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. In some cases tool markings have been found on trees said to have been twisted by Bigfoot. This suggests that the creatures are even possibly more intelligent than previously suspected and may be able to somehow locate and use pliers, monkey wrenches, and other common hardware tools. [10 Mythical Beasts That Might Exist]

Unless the marks were made by human hoaxers.

[adorno]

the creatures are even possibly more intelligent than previously suspected

Something, a thing called "logic", tells me that, if the yetis do exist, that they're even more intelligent than most people, and perhaps even the whole human race, because, it takes a superior intelligence to evade capture and "real" detection by humans.

With humans being virtually everywhere, and with yetis and bigfoots and other similar creatures supposedly being spotted everywhere, why can't real proof be found about their existence?

[Fantasywriter]

I’m with you there. If that footprint is real, it’s amazing.

[Figment]

Show me the dead body of one or the bones or even turds of one. Never been found, never will be. They don’t exist

[Malone LaVeigh]

They don’t exist.

C'mon man ... have a little faith, ;-)

[JSteff]

Yeah, but what about aliens who visit earth?

Apparently that happens thousands of times a year, but we don't have pictures of those guys either.

[Grizzled Bear]

Marvelous. Now I must relocate the Yetis. Again.

[waterhill]

I cannot confirm nor deny, but I have heard from different bowhunters ( whom do not know each other) stories about ‘something’ in the BigThicket(S.E.Texas). Its kinda spooky in there.

[fish hawk]

“Yeti”. Wasn’t that one of Barbra Streisand’s movies?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Did they find Yetis? The answer is NYet(i).

[Thorliveshere]

To paraphrase Peter Venkman, “You’re right, no human being would build nests like this.”

[LachlanMinnesota]

Weren’t the flying yeti yentas from Yakama? The head of the group was young Yoko.

[LachlanMinnesota]

Weren’t the flying yeti yentas from Yakama? The head of the group was young Yoko.

[representativerepublic]

There are tons of pictures of Yeti on Page 3 of The Sun. Have a look. Report back.

[SoJoCo]

I believe in Russia they’re known as yeren and not yeti.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Bigfoot researcher and biologist John Bindernagel ....

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Why does this sound like the opening line of a Monty Python sketch?

[decimon]

It seems that, in German, binder = bind and nagel = nails.

Not that that means anything.

[antidemoncrat]

Need a link to The Sun. From other pictures I gather they were talking about a flying Yeti. A whole different story.

[representativerepublic]

Here ya go:

Www.the sun.co.uk/page3

[representativerepublic]

Here ya go:

Www.thesun.co.uk/page3

[antidemoncrat]

I thought they said Yeti not titty...but that is much better.