Silver Lake and the Canvas Serpent
In the summer of 1855 a sea serpent began to be seen in Silver Lake beside the village of Perry, New York. The papers took it up, excursion trains ran from Buffalo and Rochester, and the Walker House hotel was full for two seasons. In 1857 the hotel burned down, and in the attic the firemen found what was left: a frame of wire and whalebone covered in canvas, with a system of ropes and a blacksmith's bellows to raise the monster off the bottom and make it breathe smoke. The proprietor, Artemus Walker, had already left town.
London and the Alien Autopsy Film
On 17 August 1995 television in twenty countries ran a black-and-white film of figures in protective suits dissecting a humanoid body, said to have been shot at Roswell in 1947. It was sold by the London music producer Ray Santilli. Kodak said the edge codes belonged to stock made in 1927, 1947 or 1967 — but only a blank offcut was ever handed over for testing. In 2006 Santilli admitted on Sky that the original had degraded and that what the world saw was filmed in a Camden flat, the dummy stuffed with sheep brains, chicken entrails and raspberry jam.
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