Almas (crypto-hominid)
From Kook Science
| Almas | |
|---|---|
| a.k.a. | Almasty, Albıs |
| Origin | Mongolian |
| Region(s) | Central Asia, Mongolia |
Almas (from Mongolian: Алмас, "wild man"; compare Chechen Алмазы, Turkish Albıs) is an appellation for a proposed cryptid (crypto-hominid) of the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia, frequently compared to the Siberian Chuchunya (tjutjuna), Himalayan Yeti, and North American Bigfoot (or Sasquatch).
Reading
- Bayanov, Dmitri (1996), In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman: A Record of Investigation, Moscow: Crypto-Logos Publishers, https://www.amazon.com/Footsteps-Russian-Snowman-Record-Investigation/dp/5900229181?tag=apopheniacs-20