The (Minnesota) Iceman Cometh
It looks like the one and only original Minnesota Iceman has been rediscovered and will soon be on exhibition.I swear the iceman made an appearance in the parking lot of our local Big K store back in...
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Don't want to throw cold water on believers, but I saw the original in 1969 back in Wisconsin and this doesn't really look like the same body to me. **On the other hand, I might be just too cynical.
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When I fist saw this article I thought it didn't look a bit like all those old photos and drawings of The Iceman you used to see in the Bigfoot books.Looking at that old Argosy article again confirms...
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Interesting find if it's the real fake and not a fake fake But really, the real Iceman would be of interest to paranormalists, skeptics, and forteans of all kinds...
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Reminds me a lot of the "Solid Muldoon" a fake petrified caveman with a tail "discovered" here in Colorado back in the 1880s. A couple of Harvard professors declared it to be genuine and P.T. Barnum...
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Dr Acula wrote:Interesting find if it's the real fake and not a fake fake But really, the real Iceman would be of interest to paranormalists, skeptics, and forteans of all kinds... There's a whole...
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I remember the photo drawing of what it was supposed to look like from back in the day
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Friend of Daniel wrote:When I fist saw this article I thought it didn't look a bit like all those old photos and drawings of The Iceman you used to see in the Bigfoot books.That's because those images...
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Yes, maybe I spoke too soon about Sanderson, since he did get into the weirder stuff (not that I automatically disbelieve in any of that). As far as I know, Heuvelmans was more involved in the "nuts...
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It looks like the original Iceman was sold on e-bay in February for slightly less than $20,000.Here's the text of the ad:This is the actual sideshow gaff billed as "The Minnesota Iceman" by Frank...
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I wonder what he'd think of the Cardiff Giant (NSFW)... The Cardiff Giant might have been a grift, but he was very popular. Just for yocks, here's Mark Twain's A Ghost Story, featuring the poor...
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Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Only one thin dime, one tenth of a dollar to view The Solid Muldoon! The original petrified man found in the mountains of Colorado in 1877!
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So, they found that thing from Horror Express. Where's that flamethrower...?
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All I know is, I'm sentimental about it because it's in nearly my first Cryptozoology book, ALIEN ANIMALS by Janet and Colin Bord. (The word "alien" in the title is used with the very general...
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This may be of interest:http://www.museumoftheweird.com/news/2013/06/30/frank-hansens-story-of-the-minnesota-iceman/
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The Minnesota Iceman: The fake one is real, but the real one is fake.All I know is, I'm sentimental about it The ol' Iceman also holds a tender place in my heart. As I mentioned earlier, The Iceman...
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You missed this year's festival -- start planning for 2014!
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"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." -- H.L. Mencken
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