She really resembles a Russian woman who moved to Alaska in 1994 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Her husband operated a Military Surplus store in Fairbanks Alaska.
There is a big piece of the puzzle missing here. Yes, Zana's results showed she was sub-Saharan African. But she and her son, Khwit, both exhibited archaic traits not consistent with coming from modern human populations (European, Asian, or African). They had huge skulls with unusual characteristics that were not modern, such as pronounced brow ridges and huge eye sockets. So the mystery has not been solved. Both Zana and Khwit were able to perform physical feats that suggested they had superhuman strength and agility. Running faster than a horse or being able to swim across a raging river are examples of activities not within the range of human beings, not even trained Olympic and professional athletes. One relative of Khwit saw him get drunk at a party and start dancing while swinging around a huge table with his teeth. Look again at the photos of the skulls of Khwit and Zana. These do not fall within the bounds of modern human populations. Not only did they not look like modern folks from Georgia, they also did not look like modern folks from Africa.
Minute 12:46, you can see the genetic distance, the gray one is Neanderthals from the Altai, and the genetically closest humans are the Khoisan from Southern Africa, however the humans with the most similar skulls are the Indigenous people of the Horn of Africa, In fact Zana is genetically very similar to Dinka and Luhya, indigenous to the Horn of Africa, because in Southern Africa they were colonized by West Africans such as the Bantues, and the Horn of Africa was colonized by the Cushites who have a West Eurasian mixture.
Anyone considering the idea of the hybrid fallen angel:human female concept? The genetic engineering is nothing new, it is just getting better. The “ alien” abduction’s and taking humans for experiments is also in play. Alien to this world but not the unseen realm!
@@cartoonraccoon2078 i prefer to stay open minded given science is always self correcting as they go. To be honest my sympathies are for a woman and her child who could have well been born with a number of disabilities etc. It wouldn’t be beyond the norm for villagers to ostracize her and her son to no end. Don’t you agree that’s possible?
The untold hardships this woman had to endure at the hands of those people is appalling. On top of that she was repeatedly raped and had children from men who raped her. That poor woman. They should've just left her alone in the wilderness. At least there she wouldn't have to worry about be treated so poorly.
I don't think that by having a genetic trait that grew hair all over her body would have given her super human strength or assisted in her unbelievable speed! Possessing those 2 super human abilities is a frequent ability reported in sasquatch encounters.. not just that but also being human on the mothers side & there origin is located somewhere in the Caucasus! The male host is unidentified!
they learned laundry care from the Conquistadors in Cali. the Sabe females could tend to cooking over fires as well. the soldiers had them do many chores, as the local Indian tribes claimed to be in fear of them, so apparently this is one way the Spanish explorers dealt with things, being fearless and direct. cannot recall the rest of this interesting account, having read it more than 50 years ago without a great deal attention given at that age, 12. but my impression was that it was written as an excerpt from the correspondence, or a report of the head conqueror, the general.
The absolute horror and degradation of her treatment is a testament to how easily and casually, and with how little outcry or intervention from others, so-called 'civilized' people can descend into less than human animals themselves. What a despicable snd heartbreaking story of a ruined life perpetrated by the opportunistic sadism of the human animals she had the misfortune to find herself among.
I bet it was better than out by herself in the wild any day. Note she never went far from where they fed her. Also, if a bunch of hot chicks captured me, fed me, got me wasted, banged my brains out, gave me a free place to stay and taught me tricks.... I would not look a gift horse in the mouth either. Keep in mind she was stronger than they were and after a certain point could have just ran off or did whatever she wanted. She stayed around because by comparison it was not too bad a trade off. You go out into the woods for a few weeks then come back and tell me about it. I bet booze and random sex with free food and clean water sounds way great!
"a ruined life perpetrated by the opportunistic sadism of the human animals she had the misfortune to find herself among." She is not alone. Such self entitled sadist parasites are alive and well today, and often better than ever at hiding what they do.
I'm amazed that people believe that this is a real portrait if her! It's completely fake, dreamed up by a journalist decades ago! It keeps on reappearing every time Zana is mentioned.
as one who has actually seen one up close in Oregon 1986, not only are they real but they seem to hold a lot of traits of all hominids, quite a unique mammal species!
First account of the Zana story I've read was written by Lloyd Pye in his thought provoking book "Everything You Know is Wrong". Lloyd Pye was murdered for writing that book.
@@john_blues I followed his work for years. He died very suddenly, and very angry at what he perceived had been inflicted upon him and his family. I believe Lloyd.
@@joeswampdawghenry I followed Mr. PYE's work for years prior to his death. He died very suddenly and VERY angry at what had been inflicted upon him and his family. Wiki ? Really? The most trusted source in fake news.
I interviewed Dr. Igor Burtsev on my channel, (episode # 100) who was involved in the research on Zana, and exhumed the skull of her son, Kwitt. He is the guy holding Kwitt's skull in the picture you showed.
I have heard this story before. Everyone who watched this video saw an artist rendition of what Zana supposedly looked like. She gave birth to multiple children? This just goes to show how thirsty/hard up us guys can be.
Wait a minute! The way DNA testing companies work, is to match you with the closest population samples in their database. My Heritage doesn't have any archaic humans in their database.
I initially found this video to be clear and thorough, but the blatant omission of Bryan Sykes’ work on Zana is quite telling, at least in my opinion. Sykes’ work found that Zana was indeed African, but was archaic African. Why was Sykes’ work not mentioned? And why was more of Igor Bourtsev’s earlier work on Zana not mentioned? This video makes it seem as though it has provided the definitive narrative about Zana. It has not.
The problem is, when you read historical accounts of the Caucus mountains, large hairy bi-pedal creatures were seen for hundreds of years. Famous Soviet scientists even did a study, chronicling, eyewitness accounts, and other evidence.
Does Hypertrichosis explain why she could never learn any human language despite living with and also being trained and domesticated by these villagers for over two decades? Moreover, does Hypertrichosis explain her immense stature and what could also be described as superhuman strength? DNA aside, something seems a little fishy here with respect to the official consensus view.
It is known that humans who live in the wild without learning language lose the ability to learn language as adults. On the other hand, the populations of the Horn of Africa are characterized by being tall; some ethnic groups such as the Dinka are the tallest populations in the world.
I dont buy for a second that Zana was just a misplaced unfortunate African. We live in a time where absolutely everything is politically charged. Truth and facts suffer as a result. I think Zana was the missing link that we've been looking for, but the indisputable DNA results are extremely problematic for woke, socio-political reasons. The answer is right in front of us, but must be ignored because of feelings. None of this changes the fact that Zana was deserving of dignity and human consideration that she never received.
@@hegemonycricket9549 Anyone can do a genetic analysis today, you just have to download the data onto a multi-terabyte computer, and with an ethnic calculator you can do it, I did it and found that the Neanderthals scored closer to the indigenous South Africans like the Khoisan, but they had a rare mix that no living human possesses, 60% Archaic Human and 40% Subsaharan African. I'm not politically correct.
The opening film clip shows a man in a gorilla costume whos arms DO NOT reach below his knees, as so often described of saquatch. I cant believe that no one else has spotted this.
...WAIT... what happened to the fact that the skulls were larger than average..and their strength and bodies were larger and more than average ? Were the Africans larger and stronger by that much more than average?
He is just trying to twist the truth, gentiles know who they truly are. Still truth is truth time the spliced beings accept the truth, each soul shall know an eternity of their choice.
It's called exaggeration. Things like this have a way of increasing over time with the telling of the story. Tho she traced back to some tall population groups that often get in the 8' area. It is also possible that she had giantism.
@@UlrichSchliz Yes I have this theory that the Sasquatch people prefer colder climes, and times of the day. Part of this would include being nocturnal when the weather is cooler, being more visible or active during the day during the winter months, and sleeping off the hot summer temperatures during the summer day time. I'm guessing that around 10C or 50F would be about right for them, with hardiness down to -20C or -4F.
@@timfindlaysamazingvancouve3114 Heck I live in Texas and prefer sleeping through the day in summer here and being up nights lmao. I could tell you a thing or two about Sasquatch as well. Being a bit of a night owl myself I've been out in the countryside here at night and I've heard them scream. Absolutely blood-curdling. Others I know have actually seen them. I personally think they dig into the ground. That's where they hide, out in the deep woods, and it would mesh with your theory of them needing to keep cool.
Individuals who grow up Feral - without human contact - if found when they are older typically don't learn much, if any language. There apparently is a window of time In which we can learn how to learn language. If we don't learn our first language in this period we eventually lose the capacity to develop those pathways.
It's called, "language closure". I was exposed to English, German, and Spanish when I was teenage or less. No problem. I met Calculus at 25 years of age and it never coalesced in my mind. Calculus would have been a whole different story if I had been exposed to it in middle school or high school.
@@angelacrabtree2847 so very true. You can see this in abused and neglected children, speech, hearing, seeing, comprehension,development of trust,...And the pathways must be used and developed by certain ages to continue to develop. There's no going back. Once that time has pasted it's done
@@shiny2423 You already spoke at least one language. The pathways for language comprehension already existed when you learned you second and third language. The pathways that allow you to understand language develop when you are very young. During this period the language or languages are learned differently then in later years. They become intrinsic to how you think. You hear a word and it connects directly to the image of the thing that it means. When you hear the word dog your mind pictures a dog. Later on new languages are learned by association with your primary one(s). You hear a word and you brain connects it to the word it translates. For instance You hear the Japanese word Inu and you mind pulls up the word dog which leads to the image of the dog. But your mind has to already have the word dog to associate with the image. The less human contact During that crucial period the less language a person can learn later. Usually little more then some basic commands and maybe some very basic words. It can even be hard for the to learn to walk if they were severely isolated from before they learned how. There is a disturbingly lot of information about this from work with such individuals. Individuals who were found or rescued and were taught. The person in the article probably only received just enough to follow commands.
The Caucasus’ mountains were the starting point for the migration into the European Continent. That was at or about 12,000 years ago. The Yamna Culture (cordedware pottery) thrived north of the Anatolia farming regions of Turkey.
They ought to do a DNA study in the Slavic and middle eastern states, we all have a little Neanderthal in us but I wonder what the concentration is in those areas.
I've heard about this story before. The men in the village wanted her as a mother for their children because of her uncanny strength and endurance. This helped ensure strong and healthy children that could work hard...
There is no photos of her. The recreations and fake vid are not what neanderthals look like either. They have big wide noses, lack back hair and are shorter than humans on average.
What about the superhuman strength described here? That can’t be simply human. What about her eyes so close together and her nose does not look 100% human.
@@S.L.O.P. So it would seem however I’m not sure if though our DNA is very close to them that we would be able to reproduce successfully I would have to consult with someone whose specialty is in genetics.
Going as far back as Roman times, there were people described as having the face of dogs that were called: Cynocephali. It's unconfirmed if the condition is the same as: Hypertrichosis.
Mainstream always falls back on conditions, out of all the finds, " oh , he had such and such condition " Humanity is diverse. We have no idea of our True origins. It was not some one way , orderly migration. People .migrated then as they do now, hardly ever going from bountiful to desert conditions. Mainstream goes so far as to concoct some cockamanie " ice free corridor" theory to bolster a transmigration of Siberia. A feat nearly impossible to this day by modern Men with all the latest sub zero mummy bags, gortex, feather down, sterno, MREs, etc,etc. And they theorize ancient families did it thru some miraculous " ice free" zone. Simply ridiculous, ludicrous notion...
That would be the simple explanation except her son's skull is physical proof that something very unusual was going on. This skull had decidedly archaic traits. Yes, Zana was apparently sub-Saharan African, but she did not come from any known modern group in Africa.
This doesn't make sense. How were her physical attributes and strength so other worldly? She swam across raging rivers and she hung out with buffaloes? That's not human.
Unless she was feral raised in the wild? But it still doesn’t explain the superhuman strength or the fact that her nose and jaw as well as her eyes being so close together it just doesn’t add up to 100% human to me.
Not sure on the physical traits, but perhaps that was how it was perceived from the locals in that region? The superhuman strength to me makes sense. If she was feral for the formative years of her life, she likely developed muscles that us typical humans have, but they sit almost completely dormant, even in physically active individuals or weight lifters. You can see this readily in what is often referred to as "farm boy strength". You can find these individuals who grew up throwing around bales, tightening bolts, digging, wrestling animals, etc. These people more often than not do not look strong and when lifting weights in a weight room may not do any better than others around them, but when it comes to utilizing strength in every day tasks, they are extremely more capable than someone who may appear much stronger. I am not surprised that Zanas DNA came back normal. My theory is that Zana and others like her are Bigfoot, yeti, sasquatch etc.. I think that feral humans are what is identified as bigfoot....this is why we never find skulls or bones, why we do not need a breeding population, why they have a tendency to pop up in certain areas, why their body odor is so repulsive to us, etc. I also imagine that a human, truly living in the remote wilderness as a feral human would look and live very similar to how we imagine a bigfoot would live and act. Just my stupid take, but it makes sense to me!
See, the problem with wishing hell on people is it kinda shows that you're just as evil as they are. Eternal hellfire? Really? We're all sinners. Careful what you wish for...
So if you watch this whole video it shows nothing but the fact that an anomalous African woman ended up living and dying in Abkhazia without ever learning the local language. The stories of her being covered in fur are probably untrue as, I suspect, were the rest of the local legends surrounding her capture and life among those people. Although Zana may have had hypertrichosis, a genetic abnormality that causes excessive body hair, It is clearly stated in this video that her DNA was modern human, "just like us", a direct quote from the video.
Still why she was extremely stronger than the others , strong teeth , no gray hair no illnesses… different scull and many other things . People in Africa are not different than the rest of the population. There are many gaps between the lines tho
Fascinating! I really think the genetic searches are our greatest clues to so many questions about ourselves and even phenomena like Big Foot (Does the YT algorithm look askance at this stuff for some weird reason? You rarely see it where anybody talks about genetics.)
Zana was Subsaharan, but she had a red hair mutation according to the data, this is something that surprised me, and it matches the descriptions perfectly.
Many sub-Saharans have red hair, moreover from the village where I come it is not at all rare to see blacks with light eyes (green, blue, light brown,..) and light hair 😅
@@fillfinish7302The gene that causes red hair in Subsaharan Africans is different from Eurasians, it is the OCA3 gene, the gene that causes red hair in Eurasians is the MC1R gene. It caught my attention that in his phenotypic predilections he had red hair, but now I know that the Subsaharans do have red hair, they also have a variant of the blue eyes gene (OCA), but it is a different version of the Eurasians, this gene is found mainly in the Khoisan peoples
To say that she was "an African woman living wild in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. This conclusion is reached by incorrectly and deceptively interpreting the DNA results. She was an Alma, a species that still lives in the region! The description of her appearance and abilities clearly shows that she was not a typical human.
well ... Bigfoot saw me , but nobody believes him so. I guess we're even. He went back to tell all the other Bigfeet and was like, "I swear , the human was this big and I got this close"
It would be interesting to compare Zana's and Khwit's DNA with that of native Americans. It is commonly accepted that homo erectus originates in Mesopotamia: the Arab Peninsula. From there they entered the Balkan and later Europe. From the Balkan they migrated into Russia, and via the Bering Straight they reached the America's, giving rise to the native Americans. Now could it be possible that some of those people had hypertrichosis by birth, giving rise to the Sasquatsch and Bigfoot legends, while others never acquired hypertrichosis and were considered 'normal'. Even although Zana, and maybe her children lived in conditions placing them 'lower' than human beings in their surroundings, at least her children were more accepted and in modern days give us insights in the variety and history of today's distribution of human diversity across the world.
Where, outside of creationism, is it commonly accepted that H.erectus originated in Mesopotamia? The commonly excepted areas are West Africa, East Africa or South Africa.
Maybe she was a half breed of nephilium and edomites same creature of sasquatch shape shifting lizard people bread with daughters of men apes etc neanderthals Africans maybe she was a hybrid between both and other
Ive tried to get good information on zana but didn't have much luck. THIS documentary is absolutely packed with so much great research and documenting. Thank you! This was a great video that I really enjoyed. I now have all my curiosities about the "Zana" story satisfied thanks to alot of obvious hard work and research put into creating this informative documentary. The voi ce narrating was really enjoyable to listen to as well as the genealogy charts, actual photos of relation to Zana, the DNA testing results with explanation of what the wording in the results mean and origin theories. I'm not sure if this production was a piece from a tv show or not . The quality of it has me thinking it was... but if I'm wrong and it wasnt , I'd be very surprised. I'm gonna look around your YT channel and see if there are more high quality documentary pieces
I thought of sending this to my girlfriend to ask if Zana might be her great-grandma, but she'd probably just be insulted and tear my head off... literally!
@@masada2828 - Their ears are on top of their head. At least that’s what I’ve seen. Monkeys have ears on the sides of their head. I don’t believe Bigfoot is related to apes or chimpanzees.
@@hotrodray6802 - Do you have any pictures of the ears on the sides of their heads? Unfortunately, when I saw one cellphones weren’t invented yet. I wasn’t expecting to see one, or I would have brought my camera along. I have seen ears on top in other peoples’ videos.
I read that domesticated pigs, if they escape into the wild metamorphosize into wild boars. Their skull shape begins to change and they begin to grow bristley hair. Is it possible if humans be come isolated and become completely wild, could physically start to change?
Sasquatch is a human hybrid. The DNA says they are 1/2 human on the mothers side. The fathers side of the DNA is unknown. Some kind of monster. ??? That's DNA fact
Interesting. I wonder if Zana was bought as a curiosity given that she would have been a fur covered human for much of her life and then abandoned to the forest as she grew larger than her 'owners' . The stone playing was most likely flint knapping. She must have been massively clever to survive in the wild till she was captured and wouldnt all of us act like wild beasts if we were imprisoned and exhibited as animals to goading crowds.
@@kifi672 Not Americans as a whole...... just an idiotic faction of hedonists that dream of a utopia of pure debauchery, and they think they're going to over-run the country with their insanity.
Minute 12:46 , you can see the genetic distance, the gray one is Neanderthals from the Altai, and the genetically closest humans are the Khoisan from Southern Africa, however the humans with the most similar skulls are the Indigenous people of the Horn of Africa, in fact Zana is genetically very similar to Dinka and Luhya, we call indigenous people, because in Southern Africa they were colonized by West Africans like the Bantues, and the Horn of Africa was colonized by the Cushites who have a mixture of Western Eurasia.
12:28 It's amazing how people of the past could report her attributes accurately, whereas a modernite would have to guard their speech and describe her overall "humanity" for fear of losing their job, being cancelled, shunned, etc.
I lessoned all the way up to the kids, and I'm done. With that kind of strength and speed, and aggression, she's just gonna let u take her kids! ?😶?smh
They still havent found out the mystery, Zana was said to be "Beastlike" having super strength, can run faster than people, had RED hair and dark skin, Africans do not have Red hair, and furthermore, nobody can explain the Neanderthal appearance in the skull? cmon that should be a DEAD GIVEAWAY!!! Obviously she was a Sasquatch, a group of unknown humanoids that science has not identified yet.
@@user-kd2hz4mc3f I have never seen or heard of Blonde or Red-haired Black Africans, now white Africans yes. Africa is where the Humanoids originated from, the place where the Apes evolved to people. I see no Red or Blonde haired Chimpanzees or Gorillas, humans are closely related to Chimps so any other species of ape including monkeys are not related to us in anyway and the color of their hair would be irrelevant.
This is interesting to a certain degree but as far as Sasquatch, Yeti and other such creatures that no one ever captured and has proof of their existence .....how can you compare ? She is a human that probably suffered from a disease that covered her body with hair. She was probably so strong because she was one of those humans that was born to be strong and resilient.
What a silly comment. Show me a human who has been raised to run faster than a horse.. Or one who prefers and does live naked and shoeless outside in winter months. Show me ! You can't raise a human to have physical abilities such as these. Lol Her dna study is obviously incomplete. Looks like they only explored her mitochondrial dna. Why ? Because Sasquatch nuclear dna is of unknown origin. They were unable to and simply left it out of this incomplete documentary. That's why you need to use your critical thinking skills. You can't listen to 1 opinion and be knowledgeable. She was a Sasquatch. I'm positive of it. And I've done tons of research
I didn't capture the one I saw because I was too scared. I was 11 at the time and this was at my parents house. It was in the backyard around 4 in the morning. I just happened to look out the window.
@@jimipei a human that was born to be strong and resilient...... I'd go so far as to say no one has ever captured a human like that ! I want you to tell me who they are and where do they come from. Better yet, go capture one for me ! Ty
@@ksavage2563 How do you define human in real terms ? We know there are the weak and the strong . Of course we know that our bodies today have lost certain characteristics do to modern living ! That is another story for another time. That been said ...there are humans that are very different from the mainstream. The people that excel in math, in music , in strength beyond just at the top .You know and I know there are extremely rare individuals that exist today .Why can't some be different than the ones that you only visualize? Many reports have been made of regular sized people doing remarkable things like lifting a car off of a trapped friend. Be opened minded about such things. There are far more stranger things here on earth than ever dreamed of in heaven or hell !
