#Minnesota Iceman

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Minnesota Iceman

Description: Come one, come all! See the Iceman, found in a block of ice floating off the coast of Siberia! Or... Was it the White Face Reservoir in Minnesota? Regardless, it is certainly not a rubber suit made by Frank Hansen! Pay your ticket and come see for yourself!

[orderjackalope]

The mind-boggling tale of how a prominent science writer and a world-famous zoologist were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, and a three ton block of ice.

Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-ape-man-creature-of-whiteface-customized-my-van

Key sources for this episode include Ivan T. Sanderson's "Preliminary Description of the External Morphology of What Appeared to be the Fresh Corpse of a Hitherto Unknown Form of Living Hominid"; John Napier's Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality; Bernard Heuvelmans' Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman; Brian Regal's Searching for Sasquatch; several episodes of The Bigfoot Show, MonsterTalk, and Skeptoid podcasts; and online articles by Darren Naish.

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[ironychan]

I'm reading Bernard Huevelmans' book on the Minnesota Iceman and it's an experience. He's so determined to believe this carnival barker has a dead bigfoot in his freezer that there's a neon sign flashing FAKE! FAKE! in his face and he's totally missing it. This is his own book and he's still coming off as delusional.

[legend-collection]

Barmanou

The Barmanou is a bipedal humanoid primate cryptid that inhabits the mountainous region of northern Pakistan. Shepherds living in the mountains have reported sightings.

The Barmanou is the Pakistani equivalent of the Bigfoot. The term Barmanou originating in Khowar, but now used in several Pakistani languages including Urdu, Shina, Pashto and Kashmiri. In addition to the name Barmanou there are a few local variant names as well.

The proposed range of the Barmanou covers the Chitral and Karakoram Ranges, between the Pamirs and the Himalaya. This places the Barmanou between the ranges of two more-famous cryptids, the Almas of Central Asia and the Yeti of the Himalayas.

The Barmanou allegedly possesses both human and apelike characteristics and has a reputation for abducting women and attempting to mate with them. It is also reported to wear animal skins upon its back and head. The Barmanou appears in the folklore of the Northern Regions of Pakistan and depending on where the stories come from it tends to be either described as an ape or a wild man.

The first search in Pakistan for Bipedal Humanoid man was carried out by a Spanish zoologist living in France, Jordi Magraner, from 1987 to 1990. He wrote a paper, Les Hominidés reliques d'Asie Centrale, on the Pakistani cryptid – the wild man.

He later researched the Barmanou extensively in the 1990s, but was murdered in Afghanistan in 2002. Loren Coleman wrote that he "collected more than fifty firsthand sighting accounts, and all eyewitnesses recognized the reconstruction of Heuvelman's homo pongoides ["apelike man"—i.e., a living Neanderthal.]. They picked out homo pongoides as their match to Barmanu from Magraner's ID kit of drawings of apes, fossil men, aboriginals, monkeys, and the Minnesota Iceman."

In May 1994, during a search in Shishi Kuh valley, Chitral, cryptologist Jordi Margraner, Anne Mallasseand and another associate reported that once during a late evening they heard unusual guttural sounds which only a primitive voice-box could have produced. No further progress could be made.

[bestcryptids]

Actor James Stewart may have been a bit of a cryptozoology enthusiast on the side. He's rumored to have been both the real owner of the Minnesota Iceman (an alleged frozen neanderthal body) and the guy who smuggled the Pangboche yeti hand out of Nepal

[apokryphonmuseum]

Fake Taxidermy

Fake taxidermy has been around for centuries, and while some of it is intentionally fraudulent, others are created for entertainment or artistic purposes. One of the most famous examples of fake taxidermy is the Fiji Mermaid. The Fiji Mermaid was a popular attraction in the mid-1800s, which was believed to be a half-fish, half-human creature. However, it was later revealed to be a hoax when it was discovered that the creature was made by sewing the top half of a monkey to the bottom half of a fish.

Another well-known example of fake taxidermy is the Jackalope. The Jackalope is a creature that is said to be a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, and is commonly found in the American West. The Jackalope is believed to have been created by cowboys who would attach antlers to a rabbit's head and then mount it on a wall. Despite being a hoax, the Jackalope has become a cultural icon in the United States, and is often used in advertising and merchandise.

The Minnesota Iceman is another example of fake taxidermy. The Minnesota Iceman was a creature that was purported to be a Bigfoot-like creature, frozen in ice. The creature was displayed in carnivals and fairs across the United States, but it was later revealed to be a hoax when it was discovered that the creature was made of latex and hair.

When the platypus was first discovered by European scientists in the late 18th century, many believed it to be a hoax. The animal's bizarre appearance, with a bill like a duck, fur like an otter, and webbed feet like a beaver, seemed too fantastical to be real. Some even suspected that it was created by stitching together parts of different animals. It wasn't until live specimens were sent to England that the scientific community accepted the platypus as a genuine and remarkable species.

The Fiji Mermaid, the Jackalope and the Minnesota Iceman are just a few examples of famous hoaxes that have captured the public's imagination. These hoaxes remind us that not everything is as it appears.

[hockeyandf1blog]

Hello everyone! this is my not so interesting introduction!

I'm Blake! I go by he/they pronouns preferably! (fine with he/him and they/them as well)

my sideblog: verschumi

I'm a HUGE Pittsburgh Penguins fan, along with Dallas, Colorado, Minnesota & Philly!

I also love racing, mainly formula 1 but also Nascar, Moto GP and IndyCar!

I'm originally from Pennsylvania! (hint why Pittsburgh is my favorite team) And I'm going into college to become an automotive mechanic.

Here's some things I'm currently obsessed with:

-Hockey

-Formula 1

-Top Gun

-Soccer

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main ones:

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- #PittsburghPenguins

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[bobmccullochny]

History

October 16, 1701 - Yale University was founded in Killingworth, Connecticut (as the Collegiate School of Connecticut). The school moved to New Haven in 1716. Two years later, the name was changed to Yale College to honor Elihu Yale, a philanthropist. In 1886, it became Yale University.

October 16, 1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. She was the wife of King Louis XVI and had become the symbol of the people's hatred for the old regime due to her extravagance and frivolity. According to legend, she responded, "Let them eat cake," when told poor people had no bread.

October 16, 1853 - The Crimean War began after the Turkish Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia, Britain, France and portions of Italy allied with the Turks against Russia. It became the first war observed up close by newspaper reporters and photographers. One of the battles was immortalized in Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. Amid poor sanitary conditions, disease killed many wounded French and British troops. British nurse Florence Nightingale then pioneered modern-style sanitation methods, saving many lives.

October 16, 1859 - Fanatical abolitionist John Brown seized the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry with about 20 followers. Three days later, Brown was captured and the insurrection was put down by U.S. Marines under the command of Col. Robert E. Lee. Brown was convicted by the Commonwealth of Virginia of treason, murder, and inciting slaves to rebellion, and was hanged on December 2, 1859.

October 16, 1916 - The first birth control clinic in America was opened in Brooklyn, New York, by Margaret Sanger, a nurse who worked among the poor on the Lower East Side of New York City.

October 16, 1946 - Ten former Nazi leaders were hanged by the Allies following their conviction for war crimes at Nuremberg, Germany.

October 16, 1964 - China detonated its first nuclear bomb at the Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang.

October 16, 1978 - Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland was elected Pope. He was the first non-Italian Pope chosen in 456 years and took the name John Paul II.

October 16, 1995 - The Million Man March took place in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who delivered the main address to the gathering of African American males.

Birthday - American teacher and journalist Noah Webster (1758-1843) was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. His name became synonymous with "dictionary" after he compiled the first American dictionaries of the English language.

Birthday - Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin, Ireland. Best known for his comedies including; The Importance of Being Earnest. And his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which he wrote, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."

Birthday - David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) was born in Plonsk, Poland. He was largely responsible for founding the modern state of Israel in 1948 and is revered as "Father of the Nation."

Birthday - American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was born in New York City. He wrote more than 35 plays and was the first American dramatist awarded a Nobel Prize for literature. He also received four Pulitzers. His dramas, which dealt realistically with psychological and social problems, included; Beyond the Horizon, The Iceman Cometh, The Emperor Jones and Long Day's Journey into Night.

Birthday - American jurist William O. Douglas (1898-1980) was born in Maine, Minnesota. He served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court for 36 years and was also a world traveler, conservationist, outdoorsman and author.

[xxjoker21xx]

South Korea And The Minnesota Iceman

[brookston]

Holidays 10.9

Holidays

Abolition Day (Saint Barthelemy)

Community Day (Spain)

Curious Events Day

Day of National Honor (a.k.a. Day of Dignity; Peru)

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Fungus Day

Give Peace a Chance Day

Hangul Day (a.k.a. Korean Alphabet Day; South Korea)

Indian Foreign Service Day

Instant Karma Day

Leif Erikson Day (Iceland, Norway; Minnesota, Wisconsin)

Magic Lantern Day

Messenger Appreciation Day

Mop Fair (Tewkesbury, England)

National Chess Day (Original Date)

National Day Commemorating the Holocaust (a.k.a. Ziua Nationala de Comemorare a Holocaustului; Romania)

National Digitool Day

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Valencian Community Day (Valencia, Spain)

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Food & Drink Celebrations

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Yukon Gold Potato Day

2nd Sunday in October

Bokbierdag (National Bock Beer Day; The Netherlands) [ website ] [2nd Sunday]

Clergy Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Drink Local Wine Week begins [2nd Sunday]

Good Thief Sunday [2nd Sunday]

Grandmother's Day (Florida) [2nd Sunday]

Shojo Festival (Narumi Hachimangu, Nagoya, Japan) [2nd Sunday]

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Migrating Moon (Traditional)

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Southern Hemisphere: Egg, Fish, Pink, Seed, Waking

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Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [47 of 57]

Premieres

Babe, by Styx (Song; 1979)

Couples Retreat (Film; 2009)

Dance Dance Dance,, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)

The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill (Play; 1946)

Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger (Novel; 1964)

Little Einsteins (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Mogambo (Film; 1953)

Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Musical; 1986)

Thomas & Friends (Animated UK TV Series; 1984)

Timewasters (BBC TV Series; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Dionysius (Austria)

Abraham, Dionizije, Sara (Croatia)

Sára, Štefan (Czech Republic)

Dionysius (Denmark)

Mariina, Riin, Riina, Riine (Estonia)

Ilona (Finland)

Denis (France)

Doings, Elfriede, Günter, Sara, Sibylle (Germany)

Avraam, Lot (Greece)

Dénes (Hungary)

Abramo, Dionigi, Ferruccio, Lorenzo, Sara (Italy)

Elga, Elgars, Helga (Latvia)

Dionizas, Virgailė (Lithuania)

Leidulf, Leif (Norway)

Arnold, Arnolf, Atanazja, Bogdan, Dionizjusz, Dionizy, Jan, Ludwik, Przedpełk (Poland)

Dionýz (Slovakia)

Abraham, Abrahán, Dionisio, Héctor, Juan, Luis, Sara (Spain)

Inger, Ingrid (Sweden)

Rebecca (Ukraine)

Denice, Denis, Denise, Dennis, Denny, Dion, Gunnar, Gunther, Leif (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 282 of 2022; 83 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 40 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Júyuè), Day 14 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 14 Tishri 5783

Islamic: 13 Rabi I 1444

J Cal: 12 Shù; Fourssday [12 of 30]

Julian: 26 September 2022

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 2 Descartes (11th Month) [Roger Bacon]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 17 of 90)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 15 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.9

Holidays

Abolition Day (Saint Barthelemy)

Community Day (Spain)

Curious Events Day

Day of National Honor (a.k.a. Day of Dignity; Peru)

Fire Prevention Day (Canada, US)

Fungus Day

Give Peace a Chance Day

Hangul Day (a.k.a. Korean Alphabet Day; South Korea)

Indian Foreign Service Day

Instant Karma Day

Leif Erikson Day (Iceland, Norway; Minnesota, Wisconsin)

Magic Lantern Day

Messenger Appreciation Day

Mop Fair (Tewkesbury, England)

National Chess Day (Original Date)

National Day Commemorating the Holocaust (a.k.a. Ziua Nationala de Comemorare a Holocaustului; Romania)

National Digitool Day

National Nanotechnology Day

National Sneakers Day

Nautilus Night

Pans/Pandas Awareness Day

Region of Valencia Day (Spain)

Samitinget Establishment Day (Norway)

Scrubs Day

Strawberry Fields Day

Tavistock Goose Fair (Devon, England)

Valencian Community Day (Valencia, Spain)

World Post Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer and Pizza Day

International Beer and Pizza Day

Cupcakes For Life Day

Moldy Cheese Day

Submarine-Hoagie-Hero-Grinder Day

Yukon Gold Potato Day

2nd Sunday in October

Bokbierdag (National Bock Beer Day; The Netherlands) [ website ] [2nd Sunday]

Clergy Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Drink Local Wine Week begins [2nd Sunday]

Good Thief Sunday [2nd Sunday]

Grandmother's Day (Florida) [2nd Sunday]

Shojo Festival (Narumi Hachimangu, Nagoya, Japan) [2nd Sunday]

White Sunday (American & Western Samoa) [2nd Sunday]

Independence Days

Guayaquil Independence Day (Ecuador)

Uganda (from UK, 1962)

Feast Days

Abraham the Patriarch (Christian; Saint)

Atilla the Hun Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

The Count (Muppetism)

Denis (Christian; Saint)

Dionysius the Areopagite (Christian; Saint)

Domninus (Christian; Saint)

Felicitas (Old Roman Goddess of Good Luck & Joy)

Festival for Venus (Ancient Rome)

Full Moon [10th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Blackberry Moon (Choctaw)

Blood Moon (England, Neo-Pagan, Wicca)

Boun Ok Phansa (Laos; end of Buddhist Lent)

Dying Moon (Alternate)

Freezing Moon (Traditional)

Harvest Moon (Amer. Indian, Celtic, Cherokee, North America)

Hunter’s Moon (Amer. Indian, Colonial , Traditional)

Ice Moon (Traditional)

Kindly Moon (China)

Kojagrat Purnima (Nepal)

Migrating Moon (Traditional)

Seed Moon (South Africa)

Southern Hemisphere: Egg, Fish, Pink, Seed, Waking

Thadingyut Full Moon (Myanmar)

Travel Moon (Alternate)

Vap Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Ghislain (a.k.a. Guislain; Christian; Saint)

Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias (Christian; Saint)

John Henry Newman (Christian; Saint)

John Leonardi

Knot Day (Pastafarian)

Luis Beltran (a.k.a. Lewis Bertrand; Christian; Saint)

Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)

Roger Bacon (Positivist; Saint)

Takayama Autumn Festival begins (Japan)

Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [47 of 57]

Premieres

Babe, by Styx (Song; 1979)

Couples Retreat (Film; 2009)

Dance Dance Dance,, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)

The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill (Play; 1946)

Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger (Novel; 1964)

Little Einsteins (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Mogambo (Film; 1953)

Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Musical; 1986)

Thomas & Friends (Animated UK TV Series; 1984)

Timewasters (BBC TV Series; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Dionysius (Austria)

Abraham, Dionizije, Sara (Croatia)

Sára, Štefan (Czech Republic)

Dionysius (Denmark)

Mariina, Riin, Riina, Riine (Estonia)

Ilona (Finland)

Denis (France)

Doings, Elfriede, Günter, Sara, Sibylle (Germany)

Avraam, Lot (Greece)

Dénes (Hungary)

Abramo, Dionigi, Ferruccio, Lorenzo, Sara (Italy)

Elga, Elgars, Helga (Latvia)

Dionizas, Virgailė (Lithuania)

Leidulf, Leif (Norway)

Arnold, Arnolf, Atanazja, Bogdan, Dionizjusz, Dionizy, Jan, Ludwik, Przedpełk (Poland)

Dionýz (Slovakia)

Abraham, Abrahán, Dionisio, Héctor, Juan, Luis, Sara (Spain)

Inger, Ingrid (Sweden)

Rebecca (Ukraine)

Denice, Denis, Denise, Dennis, Denny, Dion, Gunnar, Gunther, Leif (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 282 of 2022; 83 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 40 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Júyuè), Day 14 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 14 Tishri 5783

Islamic: 13 Rabi I 1444

J Cal: 12 Shù; Fourssday [12 of 30]

Julian: 26 September 2022

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 2 Descartes (11th Month) [Roger Bacon]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 17 of 90)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 15 of 30)

[giftshopofcuriosities]

The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman. 

Discovered in the late 60′s, zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson discover a hairy corpse believed to be a huminoid neanderthal who is thought to be the bridge species between man and ape. Frozen in a block of ice, this creature was used in side-show events being displayed in shopping malls, carnivals and state fairs. Cryptozoologists believe the ice man to be a descendant of the yeti or big foot, however scientists believe it to be a hoax. In 2013 the “original” Minnesota Iceman was sold on eBay and is still currently on display in the Museum of the Weird in Austin, Texas, although this has also been refuted as the original was said to have been switched out with a latex model at some point during the original examination. The mystery of the Minnesota Iceman remains clouded with uncertainty and lack of evidence. 

[realfootage]

[cryptids-cryptids-blog]

The Minnesota Iceman is a possible hoax. Frank Hansen toured with it as a sideshow attraction throughout North America in the 60s-70s. The creature was six feet tall with ape-like features, a broken arm, and an eye that seemed to be out of its socket. 

Cryptozoologists Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans examined the creature and believed that it was real due to “putrefaction where some of the flesh had been exposed from the melted ice”; later, Heuvelmans wrote an article calling the Iceman a new species of Neanderthal, which he named Homo pongoides. 

Hansen later claimed to have commissioned a latex version of the Iceman, which he continued to tour; primatologist John Napier concluded, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, that the Iceman had been latex all along. 

In 2013, the latex Iceman was auctioned on eBay and is now featured in the Museum of the Weird in Austin, TX. 

[source 1, 2] 

[cryptid-quest]

Hoax of the Day: Minnesota Iceman

Description: COME ONE, COME ALL! See the missing link between man and ape, in person! Discovered in Siberia sometime in the 1960s, this creature is the real deal! Cryptozoologists Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans said so! It is defiantly not a rubber suit frozen in a block of ice. 

[twincitiesseen]

Yesterday I read the announcement that the 2020 Minnesota State Fair has been cancelled. Haven't missed a year since moving to the Midwest in 1992. Over the years, the fair has become that old friend seen infrequently: small changes over time to a known entity. Constant transition, but a comfortable baseline of stability. The haircut might be different, but you know who this person is at a deep level.

Even with new foods, a new ride, another new restroom building, the overall structural essence of the fair remained the same. What made it different enough to keep me coming back year after year were the ever-changing faces that would flow through those 322 acres for twelve days at the end of August and beginning of September.

Hope to see you soon, old friend.