Posted on 02/08/2012 2:52:34 PM PST by Red Badger
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.
The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.
He filmed the elephant-sized creature as it struggled against the racing water.
Its hair matches samples recovered from mammoth remains regularly dug up from the permafrost in frozen Russia.
The official was reportedly in the area surveying for a planned road.
Paranormal writer Michael Cohen said: "Rumours of a handful of mammoths still kicking around in the vast wilderness of Siberia have been circulating for decades and occasionally sightings by locals have occurred.
"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "
Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.
A small pocket remained on and around Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, and these did not die out until 3,500 years ago.
Mr Cohen, 41, added: "It is highly possible that a number of species, extinct elsewhere, survive in the area.
"If surviving woolly mammoths were found in Siberia, it could run against Russia's plans to further develop and exploit the area's considerable resources.
"It would be potentially one of the greatest discoveries ever."
But viewers are divided on the nature of the animal seen in the video. Some have dismissed it as a hoax while others reckon it is an elephant lost in the Siberian wilderness. The third theory is the sighting shows a bear eating a huge fish. What do you think?
Ping?.............
Interesting video.
Don’t really know what to make of it.
I could go with bear with fish. Would LOVE it to be a Mammoth, but hard to imagine they could have gone unnoticed til now. A lost elephant? Anyone really believe that? :)
+1 for ‘bear w/salmon dinner’
Bear with a fish?
Yes, it is worth a ping. There have been reports of sightings like this in the past.
That aint no bear carrying a fish. You can see a tusk in front of the trunk.
The question is...is this an elephant some sicko turned loose, or is it really a mammoth?
Who’s got the cryptozoology list now?
Beat me to it— I agree with you.
With all the modern cameras and what not, you’d think monster pictures would stop being grainy, fuzzy and out of focus....
Yep - quick poll of some afterwork fellows - say big bear with big salmon...
Yeah, I don’t see how they could go unnoticed either. Kinda hard to miss an elephant track in the snow. But that vid is OBVIOUSLY NOT a fish hanging from a bear’s mouth. You gotta be blind to think that.
Photo shop. Not a very good one at that.
Not a photoshop, in the video, you can see it move, it’s a brown bear with a big salmon in its mouth. The ‘trunk’ is obviously silver/gray, it is no doubt a bear.
Whenever someone goes immediately to insults as part of their persuasion, I don’t have much confidence that even THEY believe what they’re saying.
I’d say its grainy because it was blown up. He used a cheap camera like a cell phone camera with no zoom or crappy zoom. The pic was so small someone used a computer to enlarge and crop and that made it grainy.
Just a hunch.
This is why:
"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "
Bear with a fish.
Notice how the video fades out before it distinctly becomes a bear; oldest trick in the book.
Oh you poor dear.
Sorry to disappoint all of you, but the picture is clearly ‘Moochele’ on her recent visit to Seberia eating a healthy fish dinner.
I believe that it is clearly an establishment Republican with his nose out of joint because of recent developments.
I always hate it when someone puts Rosie’s head on Helen Thomas’s body.
If it would be true —this would be a great resource for Russia—They could make millions selling them and breeding them. There could be a mint to be made in zoos alone.
Not possible.
Indigenous tribes have been living there for thousands of years.
Agreed. The “trunk” is obviously lighter in color than the rest. It’s a fish a bear has grabbed by the head.
Problem with modern technology is the automation does not surrender control to hte operator. Back lighting in this instance is a problem. Getting the camera to focus on a distant object where the forground and background run through the subject is another. You need manual controls and the ability to use then on the fly. Most people can't react that quickly. We're going to keep getting crappy images of bigfoot and other reported strange creatures.
Woolly mammoth tusks curve up and almost join together around the trunk. Google it. Tons of pictures, all the same. The “tusk” in this video curves down and is suspiciously floppy. Ergo, bear with big fish.
It’s a bear with a fish. Zoom in and the head is shaped like a bears. And to my recollection, Tusks are not straign and point downwards at an angle.
Why is it that whenever anybody films Bigfoot, a Yeti, a Chupacabra, a UFO, or even the world’s last Wooly Mammoth they can NEVER seem to get a clear, in focus, shot????
ha
You think every specimen is going to have those perfect enormous majestic tusks like depicted in the artists’ pictures? I can show you plenty of REAL elephant pics with short straight tusks.
Looks like a brown bear with something in its mouth. The “trunk” is a different color than the rest of the animal and doesn’t move much. The animal doesn’t look to be struggling either.
If you WERE struggling in the water and had a built \-in snorkel, would you keep your nostrils down underwater?
Looks like a brown bear with something in its mouth. The “trunk” is a different color than the rest of the animal and doesn’t move much. The animal doesn’t look to be struggling either.
If you WERE struggling in the water and had a built-in snorkel, would you keep your nostrils down underwater?
And indigenous tribes have reported things like this for centuries, including in Alaska but know one believes them.
It would be easier to tell if we saw it emerge from the water. The structure of the legs and feet of a bear is much different than that of a mammoth. If the creature ran when it emerged from the water, it would be easy to tell. Even big brown bears clearly run but elephants (and I assume mammoths) just break into a fast walk. Entirely different gaits.
“Yes, it is worth a ping. There have been reports of sightings like this in the past.”
Thank you!!!!
Their stories come from the dead ones they find thawing from a glacier. By the time the story gets to the 5th “teller”, the story has changed to a living ferocious animal and they were lucky to escape alive.
It says the hair sample matches the hair of mammoths dug up in Siberia but I missed the part about how they got the new sample.
Hunton Peck, I think the close up you were able to get confirms that it’s not a mammoth. It does look more like a bear that got a bit of barbed wire caught in its left ear. Or perhaps the bear was previously tagged by Progressive hunters. It’s really hard to tell from the quality of the photo, but the body looks like it’s turning Green. Perhaps we’ll see this creature running in north America soon?
Except for the front being more lumbering and gargantuan than the rear, I would say that was Michelle Obama tanking a sausage.
Kodiak, Yup..
I suppose wading through rushing water could mask it but the thing seems to move like an elephant rather than a bear.
Yah... Bear with a fish. It’s just (intentionally, IMHO) out of focus enough to let the mind be fooled by the outline... but it’s a bear. The scale is all wrong, too. To be a mammoth it would have to be much farther away to be that small on screen, and that river would have to be some hundreds of yards wide. But just by looking at the shores on each side and the water, rocks and trees, the river isn’t nearly that big and that animal isn’t far enough away to be elephant-sized. The frame and scale of the scene only make sense if it is the size of a big bear.
It's an elephant.....Barnum and Bailey have set up camp on the other side of the trees........
It’s a wooly bully!
LOL! Go to full screen.....You gotta be blind NOT TO SEE that that's a bear with a fish hanging out of it's mouth by the tail.......
And if it WAS a bear, that would explain why the camera person chose not to pursue the animal in order to get a better picture........
Come on dude, you're potentially the first person alive on this planet who may be seeing a Woolly mammoth for the first time in a million years and you don't chase the thing down to get a close up video?
I don't think a mammoth would walk a long with its trunk under water. The water is cold, plus it couldn't breathe.
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