Yeti · Pamir Mountains · 1957
PAM-1957ID case-7ef2f1fed3Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Aug 10, 1957to the day
- Where
- Pamir Mountainsfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Soviet scientist A. O. Pronin reports seeing a manlike, reddish-gray woolly creature walking on two feet in the Pamir Mountains.
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Pamir Mountains
mapped to state level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Aug 10, 1957
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-7ef2f1fed3
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 11 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), January 15, 1958
Newspaper · 1958-01-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Nome nugget (Nome, Alaska), January 15, 1958
Newspaper · 1958-01-15
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.