In the last few days I’ve written articles on the late Bryan Sykes and his investigations into the likes of Bigfoot, the Almasty and the Yeti. And, I discussed the matter of the almost legendary figure known as Zana. So, I thought that, today, I would share with you more of this story. It was in 1964 that Professor Boris Porshnev uncovered, in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, what was described to him by the villagers of Tkhina as the bones of a female Almasty, Russia’s very own Bigfoot Or, primitive human. Brad Steiger says that according to Porshnev, a “preliminary investigation of the skeleton determined that its skeletal structure was different to that of a female member of Homo sapiens.” It was a discovery that became inextricably linked to a story that dated back to the 1800s, specifically to the mid-1860s. There was a story in the area that a nobleman by the name of Edgi Genaba, who had an estate in Tkhana, returned to the village one day with something remarkable in tow. It was a strange, savage-looking thing of primitive proportions. Clearly, in some respects, at least, it was human. But, as to whether it was actually Homo sapiens, that is a very different matter entirely. Reportedly, the creature – a female – was given to Genaba by a vassal of one Prince D.M. Achba, a keen and expert hunter and the ruler of the Zaadan region, who took the wild woman alive while out in the woods.”