Hello Ray Crowe,

  Dear Ray!
  Best regards.
  My stunet from North Ural got me a photo of Bigfoot.
  Reserve Jugyd-Va, nearest big city - Inta. Photo was made by
  electronic camera at the end of september 2006. Author anonimous,
  hunter having no interest to BF, made ladscape photo a got strange
  figure. Legend and tales on BF in this region exist. Me and my
  studentin - Inna Leontyeva - are sure, that nobody have interest to
  joke and falsification, nobody got glory or money by this photo. As
  for me, figure is more close to Homo erectus of Australopitecus.
  What about your opinion?
  Valentin

-- Best regards,

 Sapunov

Thanks to Ray Crowe's hard work we have more information from Russia!!

Here is his latest update from 2/21;07;

Bob...Russians are saying the photo is a fake.. better put some kind of disclaimer with the web photo your using. Ray

From: Victor Malyshev Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 7:54:40 AM Subject: Snow Man Files: Snow Man.jpg

Please give a realistic evaluation of attached photo - is it real or Photoshop-made trick? They said that it was made by chance on Polar Ural in vicinity of river Kozhim.

From: Michael Trachtengerts To: Victor Malyshev Date: Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 11:35:05 AM Subject: Snow Man

Dear Victor, thank you for the photo. I just now returned from Karelia and it is the reason of my late answer to you. If somebody made the hominoid figure in real landscape photo he showed a perfect skill. I did not found a border between image of hominoid and backing part. So there is some degree of probable truth in the photo. But the only shot is not enough to reveal the truth in this case. It is necessary to get from the authors detailed description of the situation, what camera was used. If it was a film camera, it is necessary to examine the original frame. I do not wish to get in a trap of fake. Please write me all you know about the photo and about those who made this shot.

With best regards, Michael.

From: Victor Malyshev To: Michael Trachtengerts Date: Thursday, October 05, 2006, 3:48:04 PM Subject: Snow Man

“About this photo and those who presented it. I am sorry for the case. It is became known that guys made a joke. But half of the town was very shocked.

Victor Malyshev”

Ray, when I saw it at first I thought that it ends with what you read above and should be ignored. But now it is obvious that all researches must be informed about existence of this fake.

Yours Michael

Hello Ray Crowe,

  Dear Ray!
  Dont be hurry with consideration of the photo. Despite of our
  searching person of author is unclear. This photo were presented to
  televizion of city Inta by any man, not looking for glory. The copy
  got in TV office husband of my studentin. The photo was made by
  expensive and hard camera Canon. My aquented specialist in computor
  graphic told that there is difference in type of fixation of figure
  and ladscape. Hence, it may be composition of two images. The figure
  looks like ancient man and is far from usial understanding of BF
  image. Invite american specialist for consultation and dont be
  harry.
  Valentin

Best regards,

 Sapunov                         

posted by JavaBob

GO TO THE TABLE OF CONTENTS or RETURN TO FRONT PAGE or HomePage

Departments

• Bigfoot Articles
• Bigfoot Headlines - Comprehensive list of news stories about Bigfoot
• Bigfoot Webpages - Growing list of various Bigfoot sites around the net
• Bigfoot Quotes
• Bigfoot State By State
• Link To Us

“BIGFOOT LIVE” (RADIO SHOW) Listen to Tom live every Wednesday at 7PM pacific time at “www.bigfootliveradioshow.com”

---