Wildmen of the Pamir Mountains

There seems to be renewed interests in the 'wildmen' of Asia...probably the best known is the Yeti. But there have been expeditions into the more tropical areas of south central Asia as well. In this post, I want to concentrate on mountainous central Asia, specifically those hominids or 'snowmen' that are said to exist in the Pamir Range of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. These hominids go by several monikers...the Barmanu, the Tajik Yeti, the Almysty, the Golub-Yavan or simply the Gul.

In August 2001, the Russian magazine Karavan + I published an article about the killing of a wild man on the old Soviet-Afghanistan border. According to the author, border guards of the Kevran unit in the Pamir Mountains saw a "Snowman" during the winter of 1967/68. They reported their observation to their superior, Kuzkov, the officer in charge of the unit. He did not, at first, pay any attention to it.

The soldiers of the next watch again saw a creature and reported the fact. Subsequently, the duty officer accompanied the soldiers to the spot and personally observed the creature. Kuskov informed his superior officer, a colonel in Khorog – a settlement on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. News about this reached the Central Asia Command where, in February 1968, a high-ranking officer gave the order, ‘Catch him or, if that isn’t possible, eliminate him!’. Thereupon, the border guards shot the creature and took it to the border post. The body was stored in a woodshed. A subsequent article 3) in Karavan + I in September 2001 on the happening disclosed that the body was taken to Moscow in great secrecy.


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Tajik boy captures UFO on mobile phone camera

A Tajik teenager quickly became a local hero after he had shown a 50-second footage of a "flying saucer" captured with a built-in camera on his mobile phone.

Dozens of residents of Khujand in northern Tajikistan have reported sightings of an unidentified flying object over the city on March 22, but only Bakhtovar Khurshedzod, a 9th grade school student, was smart enough to film the unusual event.

According to the teenager, he was playing with his younger brother in the yard when a strange object appeared in the sky, flying soundlessly.

"It [the UFO] was red and it was surrounded by white light...It was moving slowly toward the mountains, then suddenly accelerated and disappeared...It was not a kite or a plane, that's for sure," the Asia-Plus news agency quoted the schoolboy as saying.

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