Yeti · Золотые горы Алтая, Сибирский федеральный округ · 1982
XX-1982ID case-d04690c705Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- 1982to the year
- Where
- Золотые горы Алтая, Сибирский федеральный округto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Mongol herders identified stone tools as made by the Almas, who supposedly live in caves in the Altai Mountains.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Золотые горы Алтая, Республика Алтай, Сибирский федеральный округ, Россия
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1982
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-d04690c705
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1982 (p. n7)
ISC Newsletter · 1982
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.