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Russian Hominologist in U.S.A.
By Igor Bourtsev
[From August 31 to October 3, Dr. Igor Bourtsev visited East of U.S.A. to meet local Bigfoot researchers and cooperate with them in their investigation, especially concerning events at the Carter farm and Mary Green’s research. He has a PhD in History and has spent many years searching for bigfoot/hominoids in Russia. Now he is the President of the Cryptosphere Fund for Furthering Scientific Exploration and Searches in Moscow together with Dmitri Bayanov, the Scientific Director of the International Center of Hominology under the Cryptosphere Fund and the head of the Hominology Seminar under the Darwin Museum in Moscow, he read Mary Green’s two books: “Bigfoot at my Door” and “Fifty Years with Bigfoot” (the latter with co-author Janice Carter). After having read these books and two years of correspondence with both women, the ICH gathered a small sum of money and sent Igor to the USA.]
Robert Carter with his granddaughter Jan
Habituating Bigfoots at the Carter Farm
I decided to visit the U.S. to learn more about the conditions and the activities here, to cooperate in this research, and to exchange experiences. I originally intended to stay four weeks, however, later events prolonged my visit to five. For three weeks I lived at Carter’s farm, which is usually inhabited by a family of bigfoot consisting of a large male named Fox (60) and some of his children and grandchildren. Fox is said to live in the basement of the old farm house during inclement weather. He also takes food from buckets and bags prepared for him.
A first meeting
I knew it was necessary for the bigfoots to become used to me. When other people have come to the farm, bigfoot activity stops until they become used to their presence. For about ten days there were no signs of their presence at the farm. I used this time to study the places where meetings took place with Janice during the past three decades. She showed me where her first meeting with Fox had occurred when she was seven years old; the places Fox and his family were fed by her grandfather, Robert Carter. I photographed areas of encounters, a blanket containing hairs from Fox, trees bent and twisted as if by someone with tremendously strong hands, and “tree markers” the bigfoots made from tree limbs and saplings. I spoke to neighbors who confirmed the existence of bigfoots on and around the Carter Farm and that some of them participate in the feeding program.
A night visit by Fox
In general, I have confirmed our (with Bayanov) previous opinion that this is a real story, written in the book “50 Years” and the letters by Janice and Mary.
I continued to hope to obtain new evidence at the Carter Farm, and it happened. At 1:30 a.m., September 11-12, 2004, the dogs were barking loudly and although we looked around, nothing was seen. The next morning, the 12th of September, Janice’s sister Lila, who lives in a trailer situated some 50 meters away from the farm house, came to see us early and said at approximately the same time somebody walked around her trailer, coughing several times, whistling, and then knocking softly on the trailer wall. Lila was reading a book at this time while her three children were sleeping.
After visiting Mary Green on the 13th of September, Janice and I drove back to the farm about midnight. Again, Lila met us and said somebody walked around her trailer and disappeared when we stopped the car. On the 14th of September, Janice and I went into the basement and found that an armchair had been moved about two feet aside. It looked as though a visitor wanted to broaden his resting place. A necklace, made from metal with a spider charm appeared on the blanket that was on the back of the armchair. Janice had never seen it before and it was not present in previous photos of the chair.
We also noticed the plastic bag of food hanging on a metal water pipe running beneath the basement ceiling had been placed on another pipe closer to the wall. And moved more than one and one-half feet along the pipe. We moved the bag back to its original place.
On the 16th of September, it rained very hard all day while Janice and I were at a using a friend’s house. We returned home around midnight and were stressed because Janice had to drive many miles in hard rain after her windshield wiper’s quit working. We did not check the basement that night but the next morning I found the blanket on the floor and the bag was moved again. It looked like HE was playing with us! After this event, I worked two days with a mattock loosening the extremely hard-packed soil surrounding and inside of the basement. I wanted to obtain footprints of anyone entering the basement. I then left to visit Mary, in another county, as previously planned.
In woods
During my visit with Mary, from September 19-23, I accompanied several local researchers in a place of many prior sightings. In that place a calf was previously found, purportedly killed by a bigfoot. Our research was done mostly late at night and the people called with special screams and whistles, sometimes calling them by name. It astonished me that the first night we achieved positive results. Sherry Malin received answering screams and return knocks were heard when Wayne Murphy hit trees with a club. I photographed the footprint found by this group the weekend before my arrival. A big visitor left big footprints where the food was left.
Marker in the forest
The same marker in Russia
I also photographed some wooden constructions to compare with those found in my own country in the Kirov region. In general, they are very similar to ours. I asked a forest ranger: “Who made the structures?” and he said he didn’t know. I believe this is a very promising place to search.
Back to the Farm
I returned to the Carter Farm late in the evening of September 23, checked the basement, and found no evidence. Next morning, the National Geographic TV team headed by Noel Dockstader arrived for an interview with Janice and me. They did their job and returned the next day to continue. While they were filming reports by Lila, Jan’s sister, I went to look in the basement and – O, my God! I saw the footprints. Those footprints were very specific, and I recognized in them the prints of a young bigfoot named Squeaky by Janice. His right footprint was across the direction of movement, toes inside. And two bulbs on the outer edge of the foot. Janice told the TV crew the day before about Squeaky’s peculiar gait because of damage to his right leg.
Footprints in the basement
I called the TV men and they filmed the footprints. After Jan came she confirmed the footprints belonged to Squeaky, a boy about five years old and adopted son of Nicky, the 15-year-old daughter of Fox. The boy is about five-feet-tall which accounts for his rather small foot (about 27cm or 11” long), a little less than my foot (which is 28 cm). Then I learned that food had also disappeared from the plastic bag hanging under the ceiling and the bag itself had been cut from top to bottom. We later made a plaster cast of the best footprint.
It happened on Saturday, Sept. 25, the day when I was to leave to go home. But – I could not and we postponed the flight for one week. And that next week was a most effective one! In the following days we found a very nice “three room” shelter of BFs among trees in a far corner of the farm lands, marked with a broken tall plant marker; we gathered many BF’s hairs stuck in the broken twigs of a fir-tree, bent by BFs down to the ground and now dry. Later Jan sorted those hairs by color, they belonged to various BFs. We also found a very interesting artifact – a clay ball with a bunch of hairs inside and out, looking like a tail – probably a toy for a baby BF (there is a 1.5 year old small bigfoot Nicky’s son).]
An artifact
As to the case of the Carter farm, I think the work there should be developed with the assistance of the state or some scientific establishment as equipment and financial assistance are necessary. I suppose it should be set up as a State Wild Life Reserve including several properties. It could be constantly preserved as a scientific laboratory. After 30 years, Janice became very knowledgeable about these creatures and has become an expert on them. It’s necessary somehow to support her efforts of patronizing these creatures on that land, because it is a unique case of the cooperation of the bigfoot with humans. It’s necessary not to lose this contact and this co-operation. If necessary attention is not paid to this case, we can lose the unique opportunity to make constant contact with these creatures and research them in their natural conditions.
I have not met Fox or the other creatures here, but surely I met a very warm attitude toward me and I feel the warmth of the hearts of all the people, the bigfoot researchers here to whom I’ve met – Janice Carter, Mary Green, Will Duncan, Sherry Malin, Wayne Murphy, Tom Shirley, and many others, and I have taken with me this warmth from their hearts to my country, I intend to come here again with more supplies to continue the approach to BFs. Finally, together we shall win and come to the recognition of the existence of Bigfoots, and generally – Homins! And we shall prevent their extinction.
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