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| Credit: Darren Naish |
I never bothered with the Minnesota Iceman before, but I admit that super-nerd Darren Naish´s blog posts on the creature are interesting.
The Iceman was a hoax promoted in the United States as a real Neanderthal corpse found somewhere in Siberia. Or so skeptics believe. Prominent cryptozoologists Ivan T Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans believed otherwise. The story broke already in 1969 and has been a kind of cryptozoology cause célèbre ever since.
Heuvelmans suspected that the Iceman was a "pongoid man" found in Vietnam and smuggled out of that country in the middle of the Vietnam War. He apparently connected this to the heterodox evolutionary speculation known as "initial bipedalism", which argues that apes are descended from humans, rather than the other way around. (This notion is still extant, or should I say tojour vivant, among Theosophists and Anthroposophists.)
Naish´s articles are written from a skeptical perspective - probably the right take.
The strange case of the Minnesota Iceman (part 1)
The stange case of the Minnesota Iceman (part 2)
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