Anyone know the story behind this....?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHTqLPxfskw...feature=related

Hi

I mailed Southernyahoo about it, He had that face pic as an avatar for a long time, Maybe he got's some info on it


Peace
Tim

That's an old hoax that was put together by a professional sculptor and modeler and exhibited in France. It was an attempt to supposedly carry on where the Minnesota Ice Man left off. I'm fairly certain it was discussed here on the Forum somewhere. Maybe three or four years ago I read about the supposed details somewhere on the internet. Pretty cool!
Dudlow

when was this proved to be a hoax? i thought these were the original minnesota ice man photos? no? ah well, as they say no matter what evidence is brought forward...it will be called a hoax!


yar!

'spookysully' -- From my rapidly fading memory on this one: A few years ago I read the article published by the actual maker of the model. The original setup was displayed in France and only in France for a very short time -- about two weeks in total. It was originally set up as a curiosity booth at an otherwise unrelated trade show of some kind. After a week it was withdrawn and not seen again for a while, after which it popped up at another unrelated show, again only briefly, this time only for a few days. The ownership details and source were not originally disclosed and when the press got too close the exhibitors folded their tent and moved on for a bit. They were deliberately trying to surround the exhibit with a secrecy and mystique they hoped the public would buy into. (Remind you of the Georgia fiasco of last summer?) A number of articles began to appear in the French press which frantically searched high and low for the owners who seemed to have vanished into thin air. For a period of something like a couple of years or so nothing more was heard until the maker finally went public about how he had used latex techniques and horse hair to model the creature. Apparently he had used the Minnesota Ice Man as the general backgrounder to his project. According to the builder, the facial features were the most challenging part of the model due to general uncertainty about what the real thing would look like. So they guessed. I think it looks a lot like Lon Chaney from the original Werewolf movies from the 1930s and 40s.

I'm sure I probably got some of the details a bit skewed but essentially that is what I remember from the article. I haven't tried recently, but if you keep Googling you may find the old newspaper article I am referring to above. Good luck!
Dudlow

Dudlow,
wow, once again you've gone beyond the call of duty with your research! i had no idea that there was this much behind these photos! thanks for the heads up!

ya know, i hated to see this one go down this way. i've always kept, this one (these photographs), in a special place in the back of my mind, hoping that they'd be safe from trickery or found somehow, by someone, not to be real. but, like everything else, save for the PGF, it looks like another a**hole has taken just a little more of this mystery and muddied the waters yet again...

anyway, thanks Dudlow for the reality check eh!

cheers

R.I.P. Chewbacca,the Empire finally got him.