What is it we’re actually seeing in the footage above, purported to show a “wild person” captured in Russia?
I first learned about the footage late last night, after it was linked to the Cryptomundo website. What are your thoughts? Real or fake… or perhaps even a viral video promoting some kind of a film? The answer is hardly surprising…
The so-called “humanzee” (sometimes also called a “chuman”) refers to the hypothetical offspring between a human and a chimpanzee. Though our two species are similar enough, in theory, to result in successful hybridization, such an experiment has never actually taken place, primarily for ethical reasons. After all, if a being is created that further adds to the blurring between the proverbial lines of human and animal, how should that creature be treated? What if an accident were to occur as a result of mishandling, or if the “manimal” were to behave in wild and erratic ways that could be dangerous to others? Conversely, what if the individual were intelligent enough to exist within society; having only one human “parent”, what rights and laws would be applicable to this individual?
Indeed, there are a number of questions… and those are only a few pertaining to hybridization between humans and our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. However, there are many other possibilities considering the vast array of fauna available on Earth, and previous tests in China and elsewhere involving combining of human stem cells with those of goats, as well as recent propositions that might allow integration of human brain cells into mice, are again raising the red flags of ethical outcry.
On this week’s edition of The Gralien Podcast, we discussed sea serpents, and the theory that some of the oceanic monsters described by witnesses may actually be undiscovered varieties of giant eels. Upon hearing this, one of our listeners, Amber Terrell, shared the video above with us, which shows a larger than normal eel larvae swimming through the ocean. As you can “clearly” see (pun intended), the creature is nearly perfectly translucent, making these creatures both difficult to spot in the water, as well as potentially difficult to identify based on a mere fleeting glimpse. But that’s not all… Read more of this entry…
Have you ever undergone a frightening or traumatic experience, during which you felt the presence of another nearby who provided comfort and support, even if no such person had actually been there? In his 2008 book The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, author John Geiger deals with peculiar instances of survival against the extreme, where individuals felt they were accompanied by a ghostly presence. Reports of this phenomenon range from prisoners of war, aviators and astronauts, to even survivors of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. “All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a companion and helper,” Geiger writes.
One fascinating instance of Geiger’s “Third Man Factor” recounts an unusual Himalayan encounter that took place in 1953, during which the famous and rugged Austrian mountaineer Herman Buhl was first to scale the Nanga Parbat, a 26,660 foot peak located in the Himalayas, making it the world’s ninth tallest. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Michael J. Ybarra noted at the time of publication how Buhl “climbed by himself and not far from the summit was forced to spend the night out in the open without a sleeping bag or tent… Buhl survived—in part, he later wrote, because he sensed that he shared the ordeal with a companion.” Indeed, Buhl had described having “an extraordinary feeling,” and the sense “that I was not alone.”
This report is interesting, not only because of the unusual paranormal aspect of sensing a “presence” nearby when there was, in fact, no one at all, but also due to its similarity to an earlier encounter where the survivor claimed he had been rescued by none other than the legendary Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Could Buhl’s experience shed some light on the true nature of one of the oddest reports of a Yeti ever told?
