Y4 entries

• YetiThe Yeti, an ape-like creature described in Sherpa and Tibetan oral tradition and popularized in the West following footprint reports from a 1921 Everest expedition, remains unsubstantiated by physical evidence, with purported hair and bone samples subjected to DNA testing in recent years identified as belonging to bears.
• YOUNG, BrighamBrigham Young was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and first territorial governor of Utah, whose controversial doctrines including the Adam-God theory and blood atonement, along with allegations of authorizing violence through groups like the Danites, have made him a central figure in Mormon conspiracy theories.
• Younger Dryas Impact HypothesisThe Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proposes that one or more comet or asteroid fragments struck the Earth approximately 12,800 years ago, triggering the abrupt Younger Dryas cooling period and, in its more speculative popular form, the destruction of an advanced prehistoric civilization, a claim disputed by most Quaternary geologists for lack of confirmed impact evidence.
• YowieLarge hairy hominid figure from Aboriginal Australian oral tradition, adapted into modern cryptozoological reports as Australia's equivalent to Bigfoot, with no physical evidence supporting its existence as an unknown species.