[JimRed]

As a result, the majority of people alive today are related to these humans that, as a distinct population, are thought to have gone extinct 39,000-41,000 years ago.

A few may have been living in mountainous areas of eastern Russia within the past hundred years, the legendary wild men called Almas.

[SunkenCiv]

Believe it or not, the late Grover Krantz, best known perhaps as a Bigfoot researcher, studied a "wild man" captured by the Red Army during WWII, in the Caucasus; apparently the guy was incapable of speech. Castings of the footprints were available as well, and K's specialist opinion was that it wasn't a modern human foot, but didn't fit any known Homo or ape, either.