According to the eminent Belgian scientist, President of the International Society of Cryptozoologists Bernard Eyvelmans, experiments on artificial insemination of Altai women with the sperm of male gorillas specially obtained in Rwanda and Burundi were carried out in the Siberian gulag camps. The resulting viable offspring, possessing tremendous physical strength, worked in the salt mines.
Bernard Evelmans in his book "The Mystery of the Frozen Man" cites a message from his friend (who can be trusted) that in 1952-1953, “she met with friends a Russian doctor who had escaped from Siberian camps. Esculap said he was arrested for failing to comply with an order to fertilize Mongolian women with gorilla sperm. The experiments were carried out in the hospital administration of the GULAG. The Russians received a race of monkey-men with a height of 1.8 m, covered with wool. They work in salt mines, have herculean strength and work almost without rest. They grow faster than humans and therefore quickly become fit for work. Their only drawback is the inability to reproduce. But researchers are successfully working in this direction. "
But this is not a sensation. Back in 1927, an article about the experiments of a certain Soviet professor Ivanov on crossing a man with a monkey appeared in the émigré newspaper Russkoe Vremya.
At the time, this incredible message only amused the readers and nothing more.
However, the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation contain a unique document drawn up by Professor I. I. Ivanov. This is a draft resolution of the commission created on May 19, 1929 at the scientific department of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
The document reads:
“Subscribing to the resolution of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the All-Union Academy of Sciences dated September 30, 1925, concerning the great scientific significance of the outlined prof. I. I. Ivanov experiments on interspecific hybridization on anthropoids, the commission believes that:
1) the experiments of interspecific hybridization on anthropoids should be continued by prof. Ivanov in the Sukhumi monkey nursery, both between individual species of monkeys and between monkeys and humans;
2) the experiments should be furnished with all the necessary precautions and proceed in conditions of strict isolation of women, excluding the possibility of natural insemination;
3) experiments should be performed on as many women as possible ... "
African temperament didn't work
Either there were not enough monkeys in the Sukhumi nature reserve, or Soviet women were "wrongly" brought up, but the innovator professor had problems with experimental "insemination". And this despite the fact that the aforementioned high commission approved his undertaking. What to do? The answer arose in the researcher's head by itself: to go to Africa. It's full of monkeys, and the women are more temperamental ...
Resolved. I.I. Ivanov applied to the government with the idea and received financial support. In the difficult years of universal collectivization, the state allocated him nearly 30 thousand dollars for an expedition to Guinea.
In Africa, the experimenter dreamed, it would be easy to inseminate native women with the sperm of male chimpanzees. But for some reason, local ladies also refused the role of surrogate mothers. The natives, even for a lot of money, did not agree to "interbreed" with monkeys in any way, thus stopping scientific progress.
Having suffered a fiasco a second time, Professor Ivanov did not lose heart. He agreed with a doctor to conduct similar experiments at a local hospital. The governor did not seem to mind the experiments, but said they could only be carried out with the consent of the women.
And again, a complete failure: black women flatly refused to conceive and carry bastards. However, the stubborn researcher did not give up: "I attach great importance to sending pygmies from Rabon, since the above problems should not arise with them ..." - II Ivanov wrote in his report.
It is not known whether the energetic scientist crossed the monkeys and pygmies. The traces of his activities in Africa were lost. The consequences of the experiments in the Sukhum reserve also remained unknown. Either they were terminated due to lack of results, or, on the contrary, because of these very results they were strictly classified.
Something about rumors
In 1929, the expedition of Professor V. Vvedensky to the Himalayas witnessed the birth of a female "Bigfoot". The kid was "adopted" by one of the researchers. The boy grew up healthy. However, he was extremely unattractive in appearance - stooped, low-browed, very hairy. The time has come, and he was sent to primary school. He studied poorly, and after a while he left its walls and got a job as a loader.
The boy had tremendous physical strength. In fairness, it should be noted that he had to go into a laborer not of his own free will, but because in 1938 his adoptive father, as an "enemy of the people", was sent to a concentration camp, where he died. The son of the "snow woman" died at a young age for an unknown reason. Scientific notes compiled by the teacher about him are allegedly kept in the Academy of Sciences under the heading "secret" ...
In the 1960s, the famous scientist Boris was in the Caucasus. Porshnev heard from the old-timers the story of the fate of the captured and tamed "snow woman" Zana. For many years she lived with the local landowner Edgi Genabu, possessed remarkable strength, did hard work and ... gave birth to children. Apparently, these were the offspring of her owner, because Zana was buried in the village of Tkhina, Ochamchira region, at the landowner's ancestral cemetery at the end of the 19th century.
In 1964, the scientist met with the two grandchildren of this woman, who had incredible strength and worked in the mines in Tkvarcheli. They had dark skin and a softened negroid appearance. One of the descendants named Shalikua could hold a chair with a seated person in his mouth and dance at the same time!
If it has already turned out to be possible to interbreed between modern man and "wild" (one might say - primitive), why not allow the appearance of a hybrid of man and ape?
Khwit, son of Zana. On the right photo - another of her son or grandson
Other descendants of Zana: 1 - daughter Natalya; 2, 3, 4 - grandchildren - Raisa, Shaliko, Tatiana (children of Khvit); 5 - great-grandson Robert (son of Raisa).
In 1998, British surgeons implanted a three-week old fetus from a woman who died in a car accident into the uterus of a female chimpanzee. In the seventh month of pregnancy, the surrogate mother underwent a caesarean section. The baby was placed in a pressure chamber, where he developed normally. And this is not the first attempt by scientists to transplant a human embryo into an animal.
It is not far from here to the crossing of species. It is known that New York biologist Stuart Newman has already created and is trying to patent the technology for the production of beastmen, whom he calls chimeras. The scientist claims to have found a way to combine human and animal genes ...
"Frozen"
In addition, in 1968 it became known that a specially equipped van of a certain Frank Hansen had been driving around America for more than a year and a half. At cattle fairs, an enterprising Yankee (former military pilot) for $ 1.75 showed his exhibit to the curious.
In the middle of the carriage stood a metal box (like a coffin) with a four-layer glass lid. Inside, in a layer of ice, lay the body of a large man, overgrown with dark brown hair. A special refrigeration device maintained the required temperature.
Yeti Hansen
Upon learning of this, the already mentioned Bernard Eyvrlmans, together with his friend, the famous American explorer, zoologist Ivan Sanderson, rushed to the state of Minnesota, where Frank Hansen lived.
For three days, scientists examined the corpse of an unknown creature, soldered into ice: examined, sketched, shone through with a flashlight, measured with a goniometer, photographed, recorded. They wanted to illuminate the "exhibit" with X-rays and even unfreeze it for further study. But Hansen, having found out who they were, did not allow to do so, referring to the prohibition of the actual owner of the "frozen".
Scientists separately described the "exhibit" in order to preserve information about it for science. Here is a "portrait" of the phenomenon. The corpse is massive. Its weight is about 115 kg. The torso does not taper at the waist, but only towards the hips. The chest is wide in relation to the length of the body. The ratio of the length of the arms and legs, apparently, corresponds to human proportions ... But the sizes and proportions of the hands differ sharply from the human norm ... The neck is unusually short. The lower jaw is massive, wide and without chin protrusion.
The opening of the mouth is wider than that of a human, but there are almost no lips ... Rough yellow nails of a human type. The genitals are human, not ape-type, medium-sized. Anatomical details of the structure of the knees and feet reliably prove that this creature is erect. Separate details indicate that it walked on the inside of the foot, and not on the outside, as monkeys do. This exactly coincides with the footprint of the monkey-man of the Quaternary era, found in Hungary, as well as with the footprints of the footprints of living paleoanthropes (fossil people) in the Tien Shan and the Caucasus.
Ends in water
Having learned about the enormous value of his unusual exhibit, Hansen stated through the Saga magazine that he himself killed this monster in Minnesota with an 8-mm Mauser gun while hunting for a deer. Later, he changed his testimony and stated that the interview with him could not be used against him (as a murder charge), since he gave information not under oath and completely free of charge.
He promised to give the exhibit for scientific research if the authorities amnesty those people who violated the federal law on the import of goods of this kind into the country and transferred the monster to him. Otherwise, he threatened to drown the monkey man in the ocean ...
And he drowned, replacing the corpse with a dummy. Apparently, he learned about the impending confiscation of the "contraband cargo". According to information leaked to the press, the "frozen" was delivered through Hong Kong either from Siberia, or from Kamchatka.
Thus, it is possible that Hansen's "exhibit" was the result of the monstrous experiments carried out in the Siberian camps of the GULAG. So, maybe the "Bigfoot" found on the territory of our country is also a Gulag hybrid? ..
"Snowy" child
In the early 1990s, the US press reported the birth of a Bigfoot child to an American woman, Katya Martin.
In 1987, a young woman climbed the Rainer Mountains and met a 2-meter Bigfoot there. They spent several days together, and then on April 28, 1988, Katya had a son, whose head and neck were completely covered with dark curly hair.
Doctors conducted research and found that the genetic basis of the boy is only partially human.
- The son is strong and hairy - like a father, and from me he has artistic and mathematical abilities. I am very proud of him, - said the mother of an unusual child. “He knows his father is Bigfoot.
Katya herself went to the same mountains several times with the hope of meeting the father of her child ...
April 11th, 2015DNA analysis shows that the two-meter serf Zana, which could overtake a horse, was not a human... Hundreds of researchers, theoretical scientists and science fiction writers have devoted their lives to finding the sensational Bigfoot. However, a leading geneticist believes he has found evidence indicating that this person (more precisely, a woman) is not just a myth.
Professor Brian Sykes (Bryan sykes) from Oxford University claims that a huge woman named Zana who lived in Russia in the 19th century and looked like a "half-monkey, half-human", could be the glorified Yeti.Witnesses said that this woman, found in the Caucasus Mountains between Russia and Georgia, had all the features of a "wild animal" and was covered with thick reddish hair. Experts believe that a wandering "wild woman" was found in a remote Ochamchire region in Republic of Abkhazia... In the 1850s, she was caught by a local merchant who hired a group of hunters to track her down the mountains and chain her. Professor Sykes claims that Zana was held “ in a pit surrounded by pointed stakes”, And sold from hand to hand until she fell into the service of Prince Edga Genaba.
This monkey woman had at least four children with local men, and according to the Times, some of Zana's descendants still live in the area.
Sykes made his startling discovery when he analyzed saliva samples taken from six living relatives of Zana and the teeth of her deceased son Khvit. The analysis showed that they all have the right amount of African DNA, and therefore Zana was "100% African", but, surprisingly, she was not like any other known group.
She looked like a wild beast, “whose most terrifying feature was the expression on her face — it was not human, but animal,” wrote a Russian zoologist in 1996. This scientist, who collected eyewitness accounts of Zana, wrote: "Her strength and endurance were enormous." She could overtake a horse and "swim across the stormy Moscow River (as the text apparently refers to the Mokvi River - approx. Per.) Even in flood, when the water rose to the highest mark."
Some claim that she was a runaway slave who escaped the Ottoman Turks, but Professor Sykes claims that her "unparalleled DNA" refutes this theory. He believes that her ancestors left Africa more than 100 thousand years ago and lived in the Caucasian wilderness one generation after another.
Over time, Zana was tamed by the prince, who bought her and kept her as a servant on his estate in the Abkhazian village of Tkhina. From the eyewitness accounts preserved in the recording, it becomes clear that she was incredibly strong, slept on the street and ran naked around the estate until her death, which occurred in 1890.
Some of Sykes' colleagues question his other discoveries, such as that the Yeti seen in Bhutan may have actually been unknown bear breeds. Despite the lack of solid evidence from analysis of the alleged "Yeti hair", the professor says he developed a strong sense of "the existence of something like that" after interviewing dozens of witnesses. Sykes says he does not know who is the best candidate for the title of the surviving race of "people-monkeys" - Yeti, Bigfoot or Almasty in Russia. He says: “Bigfoot is looking for a lot more people. But I believe that the most likely candidate is either the Yeti or the Almasts living in remote and sparsely populated areas. "
The first stories about the Yeti appeared even before the 19th century among Buddhists, who believed that this creature inhabited the Himalayas. They described a mysterious beast that looks like a monkey and carries large stones in his hands, which he uses as a tool and weapon, and also makes whistling sounds.
In 1832 a traveler published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal an account of his trip to Nepal. He wrote that he saw a tall, two-legged animal covered with long dark hair, which, as it seemed to him, fled from him in fear.
The term Bigfoot dates back to 1921 when Lt. Col. Charles Howard-Bury published a book called Mount Everest The Reconnaissance.
Interest in Bigfoot increased in the early 20th century, when tourists began to travel to the region in an attempt to catch it. They reported very strange footprints in the snow.
The Daily Mail organized a trek to Mount Everest in 1954 called the Bigfoot Expedition. During the expedition, team leader John Angelo Jackson photographed ancient drawings of the yeti and huge footprints in the snow. They also managed to find hair samples - believed to be from the head of a yeti.
British climber Don Whillans has claimed to have seen the creature in 1970 while climbing Annapurna. According to him, while searching for a parking space, he heard strange screams, and his guide said that it was a yeti screaming. That night, he saw a dark silhouette wandering near the parking lot.
Recently, there have been more and more reports of Yeti sightings, and scientists who organized a conference on this topic in Russia in 2011 said that they were 95% confident in the existence of Bigfoot.
In 2013, one scientist said that the yeti is a distant relative of the polar bear, believed to be extinct more than 40,000 years ago. However, the researchers proved that the samples of the analyzed hair actually belong to a modern polar bear, as well as a rare breed that lives high in the mountains.
Zana, a huge furry "Caucasian captive" who lived in Abkhazia, was really a "Bigfoot". Genetic analysis carried out in the West revealed that the creature belongs to the relict hominoids
Not quite human
The influential British newspaper The Times reported on the results of a study by Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford. The scientist carried out a genetic analysis of the remains obtained from Abkhazia. And he came to the conclusion that they are not entirely human, but belong to a certain subspecies, representatives of which are only half people. And they may well be "snowmen". Or yeti, as they are called in the West. In addition, genetically they vaguely resemble blacks who lived in Africa more than 100 thousand years ago.
According to Sykes, we are talking about Zana, a hairy two-meter woman who lived in Abkhazia the century before last. The legend about her still goes on. So, the professor believes that Zana is by no means a mythical creature, but quite real - a "snow woman".
The results are impressive, - says Igor Burtsev, candidate of historical sciences, director of the international center of hominology - one of those scientists, thanks to whom the scientific world became aware of Zana. He looked for her remains, but did not find it. I found only the grave of one of the sons of Zana - Khvit. Samples of his skull and were transferred to Western scientists more than 10 years ago. In 2011, Sykes also received blood samples from Zana's living descendants.
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Caucasian captive
The descendants of the "snow woman" still live in the village of Tkhina in the Ochamchira region of Abkhazia, 78 kilometers from Sukhumi. Their ancestors - that is, the "snow people" are called ocho-kochi here - it is in Mingrelian. And abnayu is in Abkhazian. They say that at one time there were a lot of them in the mountain forests. They even had to exterminate.
In 1962, Moscow professor Alexander Mashkovtsev wandered into these remote places. Heard amazing stories about the wild inhabitants of the mountains. I retold them to the world-renowned cryptozoologist Boris Porshnev. He dug deeper and found people who personally saw the "Bigfoot" captured here. And even talked to him. That is, with her - the "snow woman" named Zana. At that time, the eyewitnesses were already well over a hundred years old. But the aksakals remembered everything.
This is the story that opened before Boris Porshnev. The pre-revolutionary leader of Abkhazia, Prince D. M. Achba, with his retinue hunted in the forests on Mount Zaadan. And once again I saw a furry giant. Ordered to catch him in the end. Which the servants did in an original way. One of them took off his sweaty pants and left them in a conspicuous place. "Bigfoot" -abnauyu- came to smell. And while he was interested in fiddling with his pants, the hunters who jumped out of the ambush tied him up.
Abnayu turned out to be a two-meter-tall female with oversized mammary glands. Her entire body, especially the lower part, was covered with a thick dark brown, like a bear, hair about half the length of the palm. Where it rubbed, dark gray skin showed. Как у перепуганного негра. The figure was massive, muscular, the rear was large and tall. And the lower leg is for some reason thin. Feet - huge, wide, with long toes, which had the ability to move wide apart. Hair grew on the face, but sparse. The almost black hair in front resembled a hat with curly curls. It started almost from the eyebrows. And from behind the mane descended to the back. The eyes were red. The lower part of the face protruded forward like a pig's snout.
"Snow woman", which was named Zana, Achba presented to his friend Prince Chelokua - all the aksakals remembered this. And he gave it to Prince Eja Genaba. He brought the "Caucasian captive" to the village of Tkhina on the Mokvi River - to his domain. This is where the fun began.
What a woman! Two-meter!
According to local residents, during her stay in the village of Tkhina, Zana gave birth at least 5 times. This means that she somehow attracted local men in a sexual sense. But it seems that she herself was not averse. After all, it is naive to believe that you can rape a two-meter athlete. Most of all she loved to swim in a mountain stream - she swam several times a day. And ... she drank. The prince taught, who became, according to the legends, the first lover of Zana.
Most likely, the relative cleanliness of Abnayu, some relaxation from wine on the one hand, as well as the lack of human women in the mountains, on the other, played a decisive role in establishing interspecies intimate contacts.
The first time I came to Tkhina was in 1975, says Igor Burtsev, in order to find the remains of Zana. But no one knew exactly where she was buried - the old cemetery was almost razed to the ground. But I was shown the grave of her son, Khvit, who died in 1954 at the age of 67. And they introduced him to his daughter - Raisa Khvitovna, the granddaughter of the "snow woman". She was born in 1934. She worked as a postman. “They found my grandmother in the forest,” Raisa told me so calmly. She herself has negroid facial features, slightly curly hair and grayish skin.
Surname Yeti Sabekia
Zana's first baby - kind of from the prince - died immediately after birth. Mother dipped him in ice-cold water. The infant, who was not so resistant to severe ordeals, could not stand the ritual apparently prevalent among the abnayu. The next children from Zana were immediately taken away so as not to catch a cold. As a result, her two daughters survived - Gomaza and Kojanir - and two sons - Janda and Khvit. But only the latter remained in the village and lived in full view of the people. And where his brothers and sisters have gone is unknown. Khwit was married twice. The last time was on the Russian woman Maria. From this marriage, Raisa was born.
I was lucky to talk with the last eyewitness, - says Igor Burtsev. - Local long-liver Zenob Chokua buried Khvit. He also found his mother alive. At that time he was a boy, but he remembers Zana well. And Khvita, who was also two meters tall, but was not so woolly. Zana's last lover, a shepherd by the name of Sabekia, "took over" it. He himself died in the 30s - immediately after the population census. However, before he died, he told both his wife and his eight children, they say, there was a sin. And he is the real father of Zana's youngest child.
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Only many years later, Burtsev managed to obtain permission from the local authorities and relatives to excavate. He organized an expedition, opened the grave of Khvit and brought his skull to Moscow. At the request of Western colleagues, he handed over samples for research to the United States and Europe.
How many years Zana lived and from what she died is unknown - she died between 1880 and 1890. But until the last days, she did not change outwardly. Has not turned gray, has not lost any of the teeth - white, large and strong, retained physical strength.
And I never learned to speak. She could scream abruptly, bellow, growl. When she was happy, she let out a thin metallic laugh. And she never smiled.
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Crazy black woman?
Even Fazil Iskander briefly described the history of Zana in his work "The Man's Camp". And through the lips of his hero Viktor Maksimovich Kartashov, he set out, in fact, his version of the origin of the "snow woman". Like, she was a large, but mentally retarded local resident who fled to the mountains and finally went wild there.
And personally, I am confused, - I say to Burtsev, - Zana's dark skin. Was she also a black woman?
I checked this version, which, by the way, was defended by Sukhum ethnographers, - Igor Dmitrievich answers. - Indeed, even during the reign of Peter the Great, several dozen "Araps" were brought to Abkhazia from St. Petersburg - that is how people from Africa were called at that time. Their descendants are still alive. That is, blacks are not a curiosity for Abkhazia. And eyewitnesses unanimously stated: “We know blacks - we saw. No, Zana was definitely not a black woman, she was all hairy and wild. "
HISTORY OF ZANA (ABKHAZ YETI AND ITS MODERN DESCENDANTS) The article tells about the life of a female relict hominoid among people. In the annals of Bigfoot, the mention of a creature named Zana occupies a prominent place. The history of Zana was studied by the scientists A.A. Mashkovtsev and B.F. Pisthnev. Zana is a captured and tamed hominoid woman. She lived at the end of the 19th century, was buried in the village of Tkhina, Ochamchira region. Many long-livers of this village, in particular over a hundred, Lamshatsv Sabekia (about 105 years old), his sister Digva Sabekia (about 120 years old), Kuona Kukunaa (about 120 years old), Alyksa Tsvizhba (about 130 years old), Shamba (about 100 years old) knew Zana and could describe in detail. "Perhaps, there is no house in the vicinity," wrote BF Porshnev, "where family memories of Zana would not be preserved."
The date and place of Zana's capture are not known exactly. According to one version, they hunted for it in the mountain forests of Zaadan, according to another - near the sea coast of the present Ochamchira region or even further south - in present-day Adjara. The nickname "Zana" speaks in favor of Adjara, which is similar to the Georgian "zangi" - black, black. When tied up, Zana fiercely resisted. They beat her with truncheons, stuffed her mouth with felt, put a log-deck on her legs. It was resold several times before it turned out to be the property of the nobleman Edgi Genab, who took her, bound, to his estate in the village of Tkhina, on the Mokvi River, 78 kilometers from Sukhumi. First, Genaba placed Zana in a very sturdy enclosure made of vertical logs. Food was lowered to her without entering, as she behaved like a wild animal. Zana dug a hole for herself in the ground and slept in it. She remained in such a completely wild state for the first three years. But little by little she was tamed, and she was transferred to a wicker fence under a canopy to the side of the house, where at first she was kept on a leash, later they sometimes began to be released. She did not go far from the places where she received food. She did not like to be in a warm room, she lived all year round in the courtyard under a canopy, where she again dug herself a hole or a burrow for sleeping. Curious villagers approached the fence, shook her with sticks, which she sometimes pulled out with fury. She drove children and pets away from herself by throwing stones and sticks at them. Zana's skin was black or dark gray, her whole body from head to toe and especially in the lower part was covered with black-reddish hair, but not very thick. The feet had almost no hair. The palms were completely hairless. On the face, they were very rare, small. On the other hand, on the head, like a hat, stood a matted shock of black, coarse, shiny hair, which descended in a mane over the shoulders and back. Like all hominoids, Zana did not have the ability to speak. For dozens of years lived here, I have not learned to pronounce a single Abkhaz word. Sometimes she mumbled, made inarticulate sounds, and in irritation - screams. Her hearing was acute. She went to her name, carried out some of the owner's commands, was afraid of his shouts.
Zana was very tall, massive: exorbitantly large breasts, which is generally characteristic of female hominoids, hanging down to the belly, with a high fat backside, muscular arms and legs, but the lower leg from knee to ankle was oddly shaped - without thickening in the middle. The fingers on the hands were thicker and longer than human fingers, on the legs they could be widely spread. When she was annoyed, the thumb was especially pulled back. She had an amazing face. It was frightening. Broad, cheekbones, with large features. Flat nose, with upturned large nostrils. The lower part of the face protrudes forward like a snout. Wide mouth, large teeth. Unnaturally protruding occiput. On the low forehead, the hair began from the very eyebrows - shaggy, thick. The eyes were reddish. Sometimes Zana would suddenly start laughing, showing her white teeth. No one noticed her smiling or crying. Her strength and endurance were immense. Zana could run faster than a horse. She swam across the stormy Mokvi River even in flood, and in the cold spring that still bears her name, she swam in summer and winter. She easily lifted it with one hand and carried a five-pound sack on her head uphill from the mill. Awkwardly, like a bear, I climbed trees for fruits, walnuts. To feast on grapes, she pulled a whole vine to the ground. In the heat, I lay down with the buffaloes in the water of the spring. At night, she went to wander the surrounding hills. She defended herself from dogs and, if necessary, with huge sticks. She treated stones strangely: she smashed them, knocking against each other. Zana was able to learn little from people, remained semi-tamed. Sometimes she entered the house and even beckoned to the table, but she obeyed only the owner - Edgy Genabu, and women were afraid of her and approached only when she was in a good mood. In irritation and rage, Zana was terrible, biting. The owner knew how to calm her down. She did not attack the children, but frightened them, and the children in the area were frightened by Zana. The horses were afraid of her. Zana ate everything that was given, including hominy, meat, and always only with her hands. From the wine I got into a good mood, then fell asleep with a faint sleep. She always slept in a pit, did not hide behind anything, but she loved to bury herself in the warm ash from an extinct fire. The most important thing that Zan was able to teach was to strike fire from flint onto lichen tinder and fan it. But her labor education, in essence, did not go further than this. She was only trained to carry out simple orders by word or gesture: turn hand millstones, bring firewood or water from a source in a jug, carry it to a water mill to the river and deliver sacks from there, take off the owner's boots. That's all. Zana did not become human. But she became a mother of people - and this is the most amazing thing in her story. The Neanderthal woman repeatedly became pregnant from various men. She gave birth without any help. She carried the newborn to rinse in water, even if it was ice cold. But the mestizos could not withstand this forest washing and perished. Later, people began to take away newborns from Zana in time and feed them.
Zana's youngest son - Khvit
Raya - the granddaughter of Zana (daughter of Khvit) * * * * * And a miracle happened four times: two sons and two daughters of Zana grew up people - full-fledged people with speech and intelligence, however, possessing physical and mental oddities, but quite capable of work and social life. The eldest was named Janda, the eldest daughter - Kojanar, the second daughter - Gamasa (died in the twenties of the XX century), the youngest son - Khvit (died in 1954). All of them, in turn, had offspring that settled in different parts of Abkhazia. "I visited two of Zana's grandchildren - the son and daughter of Khvita from his second marriage with a Russian in 1964 in the town of Tkvarcheli, where they work at the mine, - writes Boris Fedorovich. - Rumor claims that the father of Gamasa and Khvita was Edgi himself Genaba. But they were recorded during the census under a different surname. It is significant that Zana was buried in the ancestral cemetery of the Genaba family, that these two youngest children were raised by Edga's wife Genaba. "
Raya - the granddaughter of Zana with her son (the great-grandson of the "snow woman") * * * * * Gamasa and Khvit were people of mighty build, with dark skin and some other, as it were, negroid features. But they inherited almost nothing from Zana from Neanderthal traits: the complex of human traits turned out to be dominant. Khvit, who died at the age of 65-70, was described by fellow villagers as a person with only slight deviations from the norm. With dark skin and large lips, the hair, in contrast to the Negroid race, was straight, coarse. The head is small in relation to the size of the body. Khvit beyond all measure was endowed with physical strength, intractable disposition, pugnacious, violent. As a result of clashes with fellow villagers, Khvit's right hand was cut off. However, he had enough left to mow, to cope with collective farm work, even to climb trees. He had a high voice and sang well. He was married twice, left three children. In his old age, he moved from the countryside to Tkvarcheli, where he died, but he was buried in Tkhine, near the grave of his mother - Zana. Gamasa, like her brother, was much stronger than ordinary people. Her skin was very dark, her body was hairy. The face was hairless, but vegetation was making its way around the mouth. Gamasa lived to be sixty.
"From my first glance at Zana's grandson and granddaughter - Shalikua and Tayya (Raya)," Boris Fedorovich continues his story, "there was an impression of a slight darkening of the skin, a very softened negroid appearance. Shalikua has unusually strong jaw muscles, behind him is glory: he can keep in the teeth a chair with a seated person and at the same time to dance. Shalikua is endowed with the gift of imitating the voices of all wild and domestic animals. " This is all that Boris Fedorovich Porshnev learned about Zana - a relict hominoid, paleoanthrope, Neanderthal (among the people - Bigfoot) and her offspring.
Thanks to the last 16 season of the "Battle of the Psychics", even those who have never been interested in looking for snowmen and generally consider them to be fictions learned about this woman, preferring to explain the peculiarities of their appearance with a disease, for example, as in the famous "Women are monkeys". But the real facts cannot be ignored - this woman lived, many people saw her, as evidenced by numerous documented testimonies and even photographs. And not just lived, but was famous, had relationships with various men and even ... gave birth to children. This is Zana - eyewitnesses, their descendants and even serious cryptozoologists considered her a wild person who lived in the forests of pre-revolutionary Abkhazia.
Capturing Zana
Zana lived in the forests near Mount Zaadan, when Prince Achba, who went out into the forest to hunt, caught her. He did this with the help of his henchmen, who lured the savage with the help of dirty, smelly pants, left in a conspicuous place. The bait worked, and, having approached, the object of the hunt began to examine a strange object. Seizing the moment, the hunters attacked and tied up the wild man.
Zana's appearance and habits
Upon closer inspection, a hairy two-meter woman turned out to be a wild man. The hair was dark brown all over the body, especially on the lower part. Hair length averaged a palm. The skin color under the cover was dark gray. The body itself is massive, muscular, excluding the slender legs. The feet were wide with long plastic toes. There was also hair on the face, but much less long. The hair on the head began just below the eyebrows, and its length reached the back. The very face in the lower part protruded forward. The color of the eyes was red. The prisoner was named Zana ("zan" means "black" in Georgian).
Until the end of her life, not a single sign of her aging was noticed, no gray hair, no lost or weak teeth. As they say, she never learned human speech, expressing herself abruptly with exclamations, hums and growls. When she was happy, she let out a thin metallic laugh, but never smiled.
Her strength and endurance were immense. Zana could run faster than a horse. She swam across the stormy Mokvi River even in flood, and in the cold spring that still bears her name, she swam in summer and winter. She easily lifted it with one hand and carried a five-pound sack on her head uphill from the mill. Awkwardly, like a bear, I climbed trees for fruits, walnuts.
To feast on grapes, she pulled a whole vine to the ground. In the heat, I lay down with the buffaloes in the water of the spring. At night, she went to wander the surrounding hills. She defended herself from dogs and, if necessary, with huge sticks. She treated stones strangely: she smashed them, knocking against each other.
Zana was able to learn little from people, remained semi-tamed. Sometimes she entered the house and even beckoned to the table, but she obeyed only the owner - Edgy Genabu, and women were afraid of her and approached only when she was in a good mood. In irritation and rage, Zana was terrible, biting. The owner knew how to calm her down. She did not attack the children, but frightened them, and the children in the area were frightened by Zana. The horses were afraid of her.
Zana ate everything that was given, including hominy, meat, and always only with her hands. From the wine I got into a good mood, then fell asleep with a faint sleep. She always slept in a pit, did not hide behind anything, but she loved to bury herself in the warm ash from an extinct fire. The most important thing that Zan was able to teach was to strike fire from flint onto lichen tinder and fan it. But her labor education, in essence, did not go further than this. She was only trained to carry out simple orders by word or gesture: turn hand millstones, bring firewood or water from a source in a jug, carry it to a water mill to the river and deliver sacks from there, take off the owner's boots. That's all. Zana did not become human. But she became a mother of people - and this is the most amazing thing in her story.
Prisoner of Tkhina
Prince Achba, who caught it, gave it to his friend Prince Chelokua, and he, in turn, to Prince Eje Genaba, who brought her to his possessions in the village of Tkhin by the Mokvi River, 78 kilometers from Sukhumi. At first, the prince had to imprison her in a corral of vertical logs, due to her violent disposition. Little by little they were able to calm her down.
Three years later, she was already free to walk in the village along with other local residents, not counting the fact that she walked naked. She did not accept clothes and only by the end of her life learned to wear a loincloth. Her favorite activities, according to eyewitnesses, were swimming in the river and drinking.
Zana's children
During her stay in the village, Zana entered into intimate contact with several men, including Prince Genaba himself. The result is Zana's five children.
Zana drowned the first child from the prince. The rest of the children born to Zana were immediately taken away.
The four surviving children, two girls and two boys, were named Gomaza and Kojanir, Janda and Khvit, respectively. The fate of three of them is unknown.
Only Khvit remained in the village and was married twice. From his second wife Maria, Khvit had a daughter, Raisa, who was questioned by scientists and researchers. Another witness who saw Zana during her lifetime was a local resident Zenob Chokua. Although he was still small when he met, he was able to describe her in detail. As it turned out, the father of the youngest son of Zana Khvit was a local shepherd by the name of Sabekia, who brought up and gave him his last name.
The villagers remember him very well - the son of Zana - Khvit. A two-meter giant with ashy-gray skin like his mother's, thick curly hair and plump "twisted" lips, he lived in Tkhino almost all his life and died in 1954, just before he was 70 years old. Apollo Dumava also remembers him well. Khwit, like his mother, did not like children - insolent, who always climbed into his garden for grapes and pears. Once Khwit quarreled with a relative and attacked him. Defending himself, the enemy launched a hoe and cut Khvita's right arm along the elbow. She had to be amputated. Apollon Nestorovich recalls how this man of remarkable strength plowed his land, leaning on the plow with one left hand.
Khwit was just a man: he talked, married twice, left offspring - two daughters and a son.
In the Abkhaz city of Tkuarchal Savely Kashnitsky was looking for Raisa Khvitovna Sabekia. He was unlucky: last year she was electrocuted. After meeting with her son Robert Kakubava, the journalist asked permission to reshoot the photos from the family album.
The faces of Khvit and his sister inherit the traits of Zana. In the eldest daughter of Khvit Tatyana, only deep eye sockets betray her kinship with her grandmother. But Raisa and her brother Shaliko are the indisputable children of Khvit: the same powerful lower jaws, protruding cheekbones, plump lips, and dark skin.
According to some reports and testimonies, the descendants of Zana had strange, unusual abilities. “I myself saw how Shaliko, the son of Khvit, gripped the edge of the tabletop of a festively laid table with his teeth, lifted it up and danced. He did it thanks to the presence of two parallel rows of teeth: the molars grew next to the milk ones. "
The inhabitants of Tkhina told Igor Burtsev how Shaliko danced, holding the back of a chair in his teeth with a man sitting on it.
Alexander Belov draws attention to the bumpy surface of the skull. Some parts of the brain worked with special effort. For example, Khwit excellently analyzed visual information, was excellently oriented in space. But the frontal zones, which are responsible for logic and analytical thinking, acted weaker. A well-developed visual cortex speaks of his emotional excitability and, possibly, paranormal abilities.
Whether Khwit himself was a telepath is unknown. But there are stories that his mother Zana was distinguished by the gift of foresight, which is why they could not catch her for a long time. It is possible that these abilities were passed on to her descendants.
Robert Kakubava, Zana's great-grandson, told Savely Kashnitsky that his mother, Raisa Khvitovna, had the phenomenon of skin vision. They blindfolded her and spread a newspaper on the floor in front of her. Raya took off her shoes, put her feet on the newspaper and read the text without hesitation.
The time of Zana's death, as well as the place of her burial, is not known for certain. She died in the 1880s.
After death
The history of studies of the wild woman Zana began in 1962, when Moscow professor Alexander Mashkovtsev arrived in the village. There he heard stories about Zana from local residents. Soon he retold them to cryptozoologist Boris Porshnev. He began to investigate in more detail, finding people who personally saw Zana. At that time they were already over a hundred years old, but eyewitnesses well remembered the events associated with Zana.
In 1975, the research was continued by Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. Initially, no one could tell the burial place of Zana herself, but the burial place of her son Khvit, who died in 1954, has been preserved. He also met Khvita's daughter Raisa, who was born in 1934 from her second marriage. According to Burtsev's description, Raisa has black facial features, slightly curly hair and grayish skin.
Black or Neanderthal?
Years later, American scientists who studied the genome and lifestyle of Neanderthals became interested in Burtsev's research. Burtsev brought the skull of Khvit Sabekia to the laboratory for the study of genetics of Neanderthals at New York University, permission to open the grave of which he received with considerable difficulty. Studies based on material from Khwit's skull were to determine if Zana herself was a Neanderthal.
There is a version that Zana, with her dark skin, could be a black woman. This version was adhered to by the Abkhaz ethnographers, especially since Peter I also brought the "Arap" to Abkhazia, whose descendants still live in Abkhazia. However, eyewitnesses who saw Zana claim that she had nothing to do with blacks. The main argument against her Negroid origin was her profuse hairline. According to Fazil Iskander, centenarians who knew Zana could lie about her hairline in order to attract public attention to the village.
There are only stories about the appearance of Zana herself, and photographs of the descendants and the skull of one of them do not differ in signs that could prove that Zana was a relict hominid.
Brian Sykes from the University of Oxford (UK) believes that Zana, according to DNA analysis, was "one hundred percent African", but, unlike, for example, she had little physical or genetic similarity to any of the modern African groups.
Whoever she is - Zana and her descendants remain one of the most mysterious personalities in history ...
A snow woman lived in the mountains of Abkhazia in the second half of the 19th century, whose descendants still live in one of the Abkhaz villages. At least, this is the opinion of Russian and British scientists who carried out a genetic analysis of the remains found in Abkhazia. Research has shown that they belong to a subspecies, which are half human and half monkey. In other words, snow people, or yeti.
Professor Brian Sykes of the University of Oxford, who conducted the analysis, believes that the remains of Zana's descendants fell into his hands. The same snow woman, the legends about which still go around the cities and villages of Abkhazia. True, the scientist believes that Zana is not at all mythical, but a very real being.
The results are impressive, says Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. in History, director of the International Center for Hominology. Thanks to his work, the scientific world learned about Zana. For a long time he tried to find the remains of the Snow Woman, but alas, he failed. However, the scientist nevertheless came to partial success. He was able to find the grave of one of the sons of Zana - Khvit. Igor Burtsev gave samples of his skull to Western experts, including Brian Sykes.
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For the first time, the scientific community heard about Zana in 1962. Then Moscow professor Alexander Mashkovtsev wandered into the Abkhaz mountains. The scientist had a chance to hear more than one story about the wild inhabitants of these places. He recounted what he had heard to the historian and sociologist, as well as the founder of cryptozoology, Boris Porshnev. He went on and found the elders, who saw with their own eyes the snow woman, nicknamed Zana. At that time, the eyewitnesses had already passed a hundred years, but their memory was good.
Aksakals told the following story to the scientist. The pre-revolutionary leader of Abkhazia, Prince Achba, loved to hunt in the forests on Mount Zaadan. More than once he had met a furry bruiser, who resembled either a huge man covered with hair, or a big monkey. The prince became curious who was running through his forests, and he ordered to catch the mysterious inhabitant of the mountains. The servants did not dare to disobey the prince, showing resourcefulness and ingenuity in capturing the mysterious stranger. They hung their sweaty pants on a tree, and the stranger did not hesitate to appear. While he was examining his find, hunters jumped out of ambush and tied the hapless giant.
The stranger turned out to be not a stranger at all, but a stranger. She was about two meters tall, the whole body was covered with thick dark brown hair. And where there was no fur, dark gray skin showed through. The overall massive and muscular figure was combined with a thin lower leg, and the feet were wide and with long toes. There was practically no hair on his face, but black hair with curly curls grew on his head. It began almost from the eyebrows, and from behind the mane went down to the back. The eyes were red and the lower part of the face protruded forward.
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The prisoner was named Zana. Achba decided to present it to his friend, Prince Chelokua. And he gave the snow woman to another prince - Eje Genaba. All the aksakals remembered. He brought the gift to the village of Tkhina on the Mokvi River - to his domain. This is where strange things began to happen.
Locals claim that Zana gave birth at least five times. The furry seductress was able to charm more than one local man. And she also loved to swim in a mountain river - she took water procedures several times a day. However, it cannot be said that Zana led a healthy lifestyle. Firstly, men, and secondly, wine. Yes, Zana is addicted to drinking. The fatal role was played by the prince - it was he who instilled in his captive an addiction.
The first time I came to Tkhina was in 1975, says Igor Burtsev, in order to find the remains of Zana. But no one knew exactly where she was buried - the old cemetery was almost razed to the ground. But I was shown the grave of her son, Khvit, who died in 1954 at the age of 67. And they introduced him to his daughter - Raisa Khvitovna, the granddaughter of the "snow woman". She was born in 1934. She worked as a postman. “They found my grandmother in the forest,” Raisa told me so calmly. She herself has negroid facial features, slightly curly hair and grayish skin.
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The firstborn of Zana - according to legend, from the prince - died immediately after birth. Mother dipped him in ice water, but the baby could not stand such a severe test. However, Zana did not want to hurt him. This was just the ritual common among the Abnauayu - this is what the Abkhazians called Bigfoot or Forest Man.
The next children from Zana were taken at birth. They feared that she would chill the newborns. Thus, two daughters were born - Gomaza and Kojanir and two sons - Janda and Khvit. But only Khvit remained in the village. He lived in full view, but what happened to his brothers and sisters is unknown. Khwit was married twice. The second time - on a Russian woman named Maria, who gave birth to his daughter Raisa.
I was lucky to talk with the last eyewitness, - says Igor Burtsev. - Local long-liver Zenob Chokua buried Khvit. He also found his mother alive. At that time he was a boy, but he remembers Zana well. And Khvita, who was also two meters tall, but was not so woolly. Zana's last lover, a shepherd by the name of Sabekia, "took over" it. He himself died in the 30s, immediately after the census. However, before he died, he told both his wife and his eight children, they say, there was a sin. And he is the real father of Zana's youngest child.
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At what age Zana died is unknown. It is only known that it happened between 1880 and 1890. Interestingly, from the moment of capture until the last days, she practically did not change in appearance and retained her physical strength. Although in old age, as Igor Burtsev said, snowmen usually turn gray, become stooped and wrinkled.
Unfortunately, Zana never learned to speak. But when she was happy, she could laugh. If something upset her, then she bellowed and growled.
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However, there is another version about the origin of Zana. It was put forward by the writer Fazil Iskander in the story "The Man's Camp". One of the heroes of the work says that the snow woman was a large and mentally retarded local resident who fled to the mountains and went wild there.
According to one more assumption, on which the Sukhumi ethnographers insisted, Zana is a descendant of Africans who were brought to Abkhazia under Peter I. By the way, local blacks can still be found in Abkhaz villages. This hypothesis is supported by the consideration that Fazil Iskander gives in his book. According to the writer, the old people who told the scientists the legend of Zana saw that they were eager to hear the story about Bigfoot. Well, they assured the researchers that the inhabitant of the forests was indeed covered with wool.
One way or another, but the descendants of Zana continue to live in the village of Tkhina in the Ochamchira region of Abkhazia. Here they are called ocho-kochi or abnauyu.
