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'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia
The Sun - UK ^ | Wed Feb 08, 2012 | Staff

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?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Russia
KEYWORDS: archaeology; cryptobiology; esmit; fossil; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; mammothtoldme; siberia; wrangelisland
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1 posted on 02/08/2012 2:52:44 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping?.............


2 posted on 02/08/2012 2:53:29 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: Red Badger

Interesting video.

Don’t really know what to make of it.


3 posted on 02/08/2012 2:56:02 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Red Badger

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? :)


4 posted on 02/08/2012 2:56:26 PM PST by brytlea (An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
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To: Red Badger

+1 for ‘bear w/salmon dinner’


5 posted on 02/08/2012 2:56:36 PM PST by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: Red Badger

6 posted on 02/08/2012 2:57:55 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Red Badger

Bear with a fish?


7 posted on 02/08/2012 2:58:31 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Red Badger

Yes, it is worth a ping. There have been reports of sightings like this in the past.


8 posted on 02/08/2012 2:58:47 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Red Badger

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?


9 posted on 02/08/2012 2:58:57 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Red Badger

Who’s got the cryptozoology list now?


10 posted on 02/08/2012 3:00:29 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: tomkat

Beat me to it— I agree with you.


11 posted on 02/08/2012 3:00:29 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Red Badger

With all the modern cameras and what not, you’d think monster pictures would stop being grainy, fuzzy and out of focus....


12 posted on 02/08/2012 3:01:06 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: brytlea

Yep - quick poll of some afterwork fellows - say big bear with big salmon...


13 posted on 02/08/2012 3:03:07 PM PST by 2ndamendmentpa
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To: brytlea

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.


14 posted on 02/08/2012 3:06:11 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Red Badger

Photo shop. Not a very good one at that.


15 posted on 02/08/2012 3:06:54 PM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: org.whodat

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.


16 posted on 02/08/2012 3:08:49 PM PST by nobamanomore
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To: mamelukesabre

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.


17 posted on 02/08/2012 3:09:09 PM PST by brytlea (An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
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To: Tzimisce

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.


18 posted on 02/08/2012 3:11:22 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Tzimisce
"With all the modern cameras and what not, you’d think monster pictures would stop being grainy, fuzzy and out of focus...."

Sorry that is against UBM&MC Union Rules. (United Brotherhood of Monsters and other Mytical Creatures)
19 posted on 02/08/2012 3:12:30 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: mamelukesabre
Yeah, I don’t see how they could go unnoticed either.

This is why:

"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "

20 posted on 02/08/2012 3:13:10 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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