(The Minnesota Iceman)
(Another story in regard to the Ice Man I came across. Also, check out the link
below for my personal experience of seeing the Ice Man at a carnival year ago)
Decades after mysteriously disappearing, ‘The Iceman Cometh’ again. The
infamous ‘Minnesota Iceman’ is now being exhibited at Museum of the Weird in
Austin, Texas after touring at fairgrounds and malls across the country in the
late 60's and early 70's. The museum’s owner, Steve Busti, said Wednesday that
the frozen, ‘Neanderthal or Bigfoot-like monster’ will be on display beginning
July 3. The iceman, 6-feet-tall, was billed as ‘The Siberskoye Creature’ or ‘The
Creature of Ice’ beginning in 1968. The hairy creature was displayed in a solid
block of ice inside a refrigerated coffin. A man named Frank Hansen exhibited
the iceman and claimed to have been behind its discovery, according to the book
‘Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America’s Enduring Legend’.
Two cryptozoologists, Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, examined the
body during their search for evidence of Bigfoot the same year the iceman became
a carnival exhibit. The pair believed the creature to be a real, unknown
species, with Sanderson even remarking he could smell a decomposing corpse
through cracks in the icy tomb. The pair believed the creature to be an
evolutionary missing link--Heuvelmans even dubbed him ‘Homo pongoides’. After
the two cryptozoologists examined the creature, Sanderson convinced someone at
the Smithsonian Institution to launch an official investigation. Unfortunately,
Hansen reportedly switched the ‘real’ body with a latex dummy before an
investigation took place. At first, Hansen suggested he found the iceman in
Siberia, but he confessed he shot the creature in Minnesota woods before putting
it on ice. As a result of these new claims, the FBI almost became involved,
thinking Hansen had been exhibiting a murder victim.
(Frank Hansen)
When the Smithsonian assessed the Iceman--after Hansen said he switched it
with a dummy--the museum stated it was ‘satisfied that the creature is simply a
carnival exhibit made of latex rubber and hair...the “original” model and the
present so-called “substitute” are one and the same’, according to ‘Bigfoot
Exposed’. Investigators with the Smithsonian also discovered a company on the
West Coast made Hasen an iceman in 1967, but whether or not it was just a
replica of the ‘real’ iceman. The company Hansen commissioned to make the dummy
never saw an original. After touring through the early 70's, the creature and
its eccentric owner remained out of the public eye until 10 years ago, The
Huffington Post reported. After investigating its whereabouts for two years,
Busti tracked down Hansen’s family and bought the frozen beast or rubber
impersonation, depending on who’s talking.
(See related article about me seeing the Ice Man in person below)
http://bigfootevidence101.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-saw-minnesota-ice-man.html
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