Irkuiem is a Russian cryptid that is proceeding with a bizarre hopping gait, due to their front legs being longer than their back legs, these strange Siberian creatures resemble white bears with large heads and slim bodies. They have been sometimes known to migrate to Alaska through ice floes, and the skin of one of them was obtained and studied by a scientist in 1987. The results were inconclusive.
By Mythologysleuth (Cyclone62)
The irkuiem (Иркуйем; Koryak or Chukot: "trousers pulled down") or kainyn-kutkho (кайнын-кутх; Koryak or Chukot: "'god bear'") is a cryptid bear reported from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.Although Kamchatka brown bears are some of the largest in the world, the irkuiem is reputed to be even larger (and rarer), growing up to 4'5'' at the withers and weighing as much as one-and-a-half tons. However, Rodion Sivolobov later wrote that the irkuiem's "gigantic proportions" were picked up and exaggerated by journalists, and that he later determined that the irkuiem is "hardly larger than an ordinary bear". is distinguished from other bears by snowy white or "almost grey" fur, a relatively small head, short hind legs with a bulge of fat (sometimes described as buttocks) hanging down between them, sometimes a sagging stomach, and a bizarre gait compared to that of a caterpillar, "throwing down its forepaws and heaving the back ones up to meet them". Due to its unusual locomotion, it is slow and a poor runner, meaning it cannot easily escape from hunters. According to the Russian newspaper Pravda, its body is long and narrow. It is reputed to be dangerous and extremely ferocious. Kamchatkan reindeer herders claimed in 1989 that the irkuiem is capable of crossing the Chukchi Sea to Alaska by riding ice floes. The reindeer herders have a great fear of the irkuiem, which sometimes decimates their herds, and say that the best thing to do when confronted by one is to flee.