Posted on 02/08/2012 2:52:34 PM PST by Red Badger
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.
The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.
He filmed the elephant-sized creature as it struggled against the racing water.
Its hair matches samples recovered from mammoth remains regularly dug up from the permafrost in frozen Russia.
The official was reportedly in the area surveying for a planned road.
Paranormal writer Michael Cohen said: "Rumours of a handful of mammoths still kicking around in the vast wilderness of Siberia have been circulating for decades and occasionally sightings by locals have occurred.
"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "
Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.
A small pocket remained on and around Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, and these did not die out until 3,500 years ago.
Mr Cohen, 41, added: "It is highly possible that a number of species, extinct elsewhere, survive in the area.
"If surviving woolly mammoths were found in Siberia, it could run against Russia's plans to further develop and exploit the area's considerable resources.
"It would be potentially one of the greatest discoveries ever."
But viewers are divided on the nature of the animal seen in the video. Some have dismissed it as a hoax while others reckon it is an elephant lost in the Siberian wilderness. The third theory is the sighting shows a bear eating a huge fish. What do you think?
Wow! that was fast. I am very impressed. Funny too!
I’m gonna call this one a fake. The water in the stream doesn’t react to the animal’s legs. There’s no splashing or eddies as the water flows by.
"What did Thomas Jefferson keep in the East Room of the White House?
1. A collection of mastodon bones.2. Silver crafted by Paul Revere.
3. The largest library of natural history books in North America.
4. A conference table made of petrified wood.
Jefferson sent off a letter, carried by Daniel Boone, to his friend George Rogers Clark, commander of the Army of the West, asking him to collect specimens from Big Bone Lick, a sulphur-smelling patch of marsh near the Ohio River in Kentucky. The first —and only successful— shipment from Clark arrived at the White House in March of 1808. Jefferson had these fossils spread out in a large otherwise unused room that later would become known as the East Room. (It was a step up from John and Abigail Adams, who had hung their laundry there... and where the Husseins put their feet up on the tables to watch American idol.)
Who knew?
UFO’s don’t land on the White House lawn and monsters never show up when you have your Nikon. Bear with salmon.
Here's a clearer picture of the mammoth. This one was obviously taken in the springtime, after mating season when the male mammoths usually shed their tusks.........
"I totally understand".
Even cheap cellphones have decent cameras in them.
Why is it that every ‘newsworthy’ video/pic is blurry as Hell?
Just last week there was a very long video of the front end loaders scooping up the moonbat encampment in buffalo.
The quality was equal to or worse than the mammoth video
The wooly mammoth had tusks ... this animal does not. Definitely a bear with a large salmon.
I am impressed sir! Looter man from a distance!
Spasiba ...but I’m a babushka. :)
looks like bear with a long fish.
why so short a video? why so grainy in this day and age?
LOL
I agree it’s clearly a photo shop. The river water isn’t splashing up against the legs of the elephant for one and even though the video is blurry which is odd for today’s phones/cameras, at the point of contact with water it’s even blurrier.
My first thought was it’s a fake and the more I watch it the more I’m convinced my first thought was correct.
JB
Yes, this is what I thought, too, upon viewing. You don't keep your nose in the water if you can help it. Elephants pick their trunk up in the water, and they move their trunk a lot, too. Their trunk doesn't hang their like a dead fish.
That fish has a death grip on that poor bear’s tongue.
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all. The animal -- thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago -- was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
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