Tom Shirley
01-06-2008, 02:28 PM
THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN: NEW LOOK AT OLD EXHIBIT
It is time to update the old Iceman story and remind younger researchers of it.
It is remarkable that the Iceman started its "career" the same year as Patterson's Bigfoot movie. According to anthropologist Dr. John Napier, "At the beginning of the summer of 1967" Frank Hansen "started touring the Iceman"(BIGFOOT, 1973, p.109).
Both the Iceman and the movie are still officially believed to be a fake. But if the film subject is taken now as real by the majority of bigfoot researchers, the Iceman is denied authenticity by most of them, in spite of the fact that the Iceman initially made a louder noise in science than the Bigfoot film. Here is a quote from the article by Magnus Linklater "Neanderthal Man?" published by The Sunday Times of London on March 23, 1969: “A strange ape-like creature frozen in a block of ice is providing American anthropologists with one of the most intriguing questions they have faced in recent years. Is it a fraud, a freak, or is it a form of human being believed to have been extinct since prehistoric times? One thing is certain: it has two large bullet-holes in it. Just as a precaution the FBI have been called in...”
Here is the link to Dmitri Bayanov's re-attention:
http://www.hominology.narod.ru/iseman.htm
It is time to update the old Iceman story and remind younger researchers of it.
It is remarkable that the Iceman started its "career" the same year as Patterson's Bigfoot movie. According to anthropologist Dr. John Napier, "At the beginning of the summer of 1967" Frank Hansen "started touring the Iceman"(BIGFOOT, 1973, p.109).
Both the Iceman and the movie are still officially believed to be a fake. But if the film subject is taken now as real by the majority of bigfoot researchers, the Iceman is denied authenticity by most of them, in spite of the fact that the Iceman initially made a louder noise in science than the Bigfoot film. Here is a quote from the article by Magnus Linklater "Neanderthal Man?" published by The Sunday Times of London on March 23, 1969: “A strange ape-like creature frozen in a block of ice is providing American anthropologists with one of the most intriguing questions they have faced in recent years. Is it a fraud, a freak, or is it a form of human being believed to have been extinct since prehistoric times? One thing is certain: it has two large bullet-holes in it. Just as a precaution the FBI have been called in...”
Here is the link to Dmitri Bayanov's re-attention:
http://www.hominology.narod.ru/iseman.htm