The Acámbaro Figures
In 1945 the German dealer Waldemar Julsrud began buying clay figures at Acámbaro in Mexico, dug up on the Bujares hill by a local farmer, Odilón Tinajero. Some thirty-three thousand accumulated over the years, dinosaurs among them, standing beside people. The archaeologist Charles Di Peso of the Amerind Foundation excavated the site and found the figures lying in disturbed ground with no patina of age and fresh unoxidised breaks, some still carrying file marks. In 1969 thermoluminescence testing at the Pennsylvania museum returned modern dates, and the laboratory formally withdrew its earlier results, which had been taken without allowing for the firing.
Manistee and the Gable Film
In 2007 a Michigan radio station aired an 8mm home movie apparently from the seventies: a picnic, some shooting at cans, and at the end a creature running at the cameraman on all fours as the camera falls sideways. It became the central evidence for the Michigan Dogman and went out on television. In 2010 Mike Agrusa of Michigan admitted he had shot it himself in 2003 on a digital camera, aged the footage, and played the monster in a suit; the second found reel was part of the same joke.
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