The Minnesota Iceman
From 1967 Frank Hansen toured Midwest fairs with a refrigerated case holding a hairy humanoid in a block of ice, twenty-five cents to look. In 1968 the zoologists Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson examined it, declared a new species, Homo pongoides, and approached the Smithsonian. While the institution deliberated, Hansen swapped the case: he admitted commissioning a latex model in Hollywood from Howard Ball, who made figures for Disneyland. Nobody ever saw anything but the model, and in 2013 it sold at auction for eleven thousand dollars to a museum in Texas.
Canóvanas and the Chupacabra from the Cinema
In the spring of 1995 drained goats began turning up in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas, and Madelyne Tolentino described the thing she had seen through her window: about four feet tall, huge black almond eyes, a ridge of spines down its back, thin arms. The world's entire image of the chupacabra comes from that description. The investigator Benjamin Radford tracked her down in 2010 and established that a few weeks earlier she had seen the film Species, in which the alien Sil looks exactly like that. The animal carcasses, when vets opened them, had been killed by dogs and coyotes, and still had their blood.
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