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. '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. Here is a quote from the article by Magnus Linklater ' Neanderthal Man?', published by The Sunday Times of London on March 23, 1969: 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. According to John Napier, 'At the beginning of the summer of 1967' Frank Hansen 'started touring the Iceman'(BIGFOOT, 1973, p.109).īoth the Iceman and the movie are still officially believed to be fake. It is remarkable that the Iceman started its 'career' the same year as Patterson's Bigfoot movie. Thank you for your question, for it prompts me to update the old Iceman story and remind younger researchers of it. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Can you tell me where this information was published, and when? I was very interested that the name of the Hollywood owner of the Iceman is now known.

The corpse was both exhibited and withdrawn for religious reasons.' Now that the name of the wealthy Hollywood owner of the so-called Iceman has been indicated, I am convinced that Ivan Sanderson andīernard Heuvelmans were not mistaken when they said that what they saw was an object of biology, not fakery. I take the story seriously because of its many realistic details and because we have had similar reports in Russia. The creature was said to have been taken away by the authorities and disappeared without a trace. 'In his book The Locals, Thom Powell presents the case of a Bigfoot reportedly captured in 1999 in Nevada during a forest fire. On Bobbie Short's “Bigfoot Encounters” website, the following paragraph occurs in your review of (A compiled list of links on the Iceman below)

Iceman killer encounters