I was just watching TV and saw a mention of the famous, well-preserved, 5000-year-old ice-man found in the Alps a few years ago. A couple of pennies dropped. First global warming is going to keep glaciers in retreat for decades, and second this may bring to light more frozen bodies, and not only of humans, but of other animals--including Bigfoot, perhaps. (Remember the frozen leopard body found atop Mt. Kilimanjaro in Hemingway's story, The Snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro?)

Somehow we (or someone) should alert the public, and DNR employees, and mountaineers, etc. to be on the lookout for human and BF remains in the years ahead. I guess if the gov't. sends out the word, they'll mention only human remains, but that should cover BF. The most important point is to get persons who mightn't realize the value to science of mummified remains to make a report to someone if they see them. (Robo mentioned in another thread how this lack of awareness probably caused much 19th-century evidence not to be properly noted or collected.)

This is another discovery-scenario the BF community hasn't anticipated--although we got a premonition of it recently when a mummified "yeti-leg" was supposedly found in Russia a few months back.

Wow.. you remembered a thread from almost a year ago!

But you have a good point, this is something that could happen. But it might be a long time coming. I'm still betting on roadkill or hunting to bring one in first..

-robo

do any of you remember a story circulating in the last few years about a giant man frozen in a huge block of ice being towed around the midwest in a tractor trailer as part of a freak show with a carnival? I can't quite grab the memory. Seems like it might have ended up briefly at that strange little private museum at niagra falls, ny, and then just disappeared. By the way,, Some of the contents of that museum ended up here in atlanta a few years back at a small museum on the campus of emory university (and it turns out one of the artifacts was the mummy of ramses the great!!! and some high ranking egyptian government official flew over here a few weeeks ago and escorted him back to eygpt). Anyway, does that little snippet of ino that i just teased out of my brain strike a cord with anyone and if so, would you please refresh my memory about the thing? Thanks

You're thinking of the Minnesota Iceman. Wasn't exactly a giant man, more human sized, but definitely not human. It disappeared a long time ago, and people still argue over whether it was a total fake or some sort of hominoid body. A popular theory is that it was an orang pendek shot in Vietnam, smuggled back to the States in a military body bag, frozen in a block of ice, and sold to a sideshow huckster. Who knows?

It might even show up again, but who's been paying the electricity bills for its freezer all this time?

-robo

Strike a chord? yeah, try the search button.

yes, robo, that's exactly what i was thinking of. Thanks for the information.

There are already folks (Ph.D. candidates, of-course, slaving away for their respective faculty advisors) looking for items of scientific importance in areas of glacial retreat.

Planetary geologists search the areas at the foot of receding glaciers for meteorites and asteroids that have hit the glacier over the millennia. These extra-terrestrial rocks are left at the foot of the glaciers are mixed in with the glacial moraine which of-course makes them difficult to find. A BF corpse would undoubtedly be much more – visible.

Maybe they will get lucky and find what we are looking for.

Yes. I started a thread about the Minnesote Iceman, some time back, and several of the members of this group replied and were there and saw the beast in person.

I wonder what that guy ever did with that first body he had before he pulled the ol switcheroo?

I would love to see it resurface....whatever it was...