Hey ppl, i was just wondering if any of you know anymore about this?



The inventor of cryptozoology, Bernard Heuvelmans has made an autopsy of the “Homo Pongoids”, a sort of missing link that has been captured and transported in a block of ice. Unfortunately, the specimen disappeared in 1968. Fortean pretends to have interviewed the owner of the relic in 1996.



Source is here http://cryptozoo.monstrous.com/homo_pongoids.htm

I know nothing more of it than what you already mentioned...sucks because this has interested me for months.

Thanks btw, i only found this because of a link you used on another topic

I don't know anymore about it either But that link is awesome

I'll see if I can dig anything up on Google...

Even more interesting is that the primate looks asthough he's shielding himself...probably an avalanche.

It does,which makes it seem more..natural.

Heard that the beast was shot and what is wrong with its left hand? The body was missing right? You can guess with this kind of things they always remain for a single shot of photography and mysteriously disappear.

Yeah,that's generally what happens.One of 3 things...
1) Either it was stolen and hidden
2) It was a fake,and it was thrown away
3) Or the government confiscated it,and hid it so people would not find out the truth about it,cause people would panic...

This photo connects to an utterly strange incident. In the sixties, Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson was informed about a travelling circus group that was at that time in Chicago and that had a frozen, furry, man-like creature. In 1968, they got to see it at the house of the leader of the company in 1968 in Winona, Minnesota.
The scientist examined it for three days, and they found out that was a 175 cm tall male, and it looked more like a Neanderthalensis, than a modern man. The only problem was that the creature was shot in the head. the bullet entered at the right eye and exited at the back of the head leaving a huge hole.
By this time, the Smithsonian started to get curious, and wanted to examine the body, but the owner, Frank Hansen said that it is not his, but a millionaire owned it, so the institute can't have it, and the body was never shown again in public. instead, a model made of latex and hair was used. The FBI was also interested, because it was a murdered man-like creature...
But, in 1969 the corpse disappeared, but the model is still on exhibition. before his death, Sanderson stated to doubt the originality of the corpse, in 1981 a suspicion rose that Howard Ball, a model-maker made it, but Heuvelmans clung to its originality. He said that he even felt the stench of rotten flesh from the body.
The strange thing is that Hansen gave different accounts on where the body came from: Once he told hat Russian seal-hunters found it, next time it was found by Japanese fishermen while it was frozen in an iceberg on the Ohotsk-Sea(near Kamchatka), than from Hong-kong and so on... Heuvelman claimed that it was shot in Vietnam and it was the neanderthal-like amas/almasty, and it was brought to the US in a bag that was normally used to bring back the dead soldiers. This is all I know, the source is the book of Karl Shuker entitled The Lost Ark

Yeah, its has been proven to be fake. I've seen it it books and on TV. Well done hoax though.

he sleeps like me, i put my arm up like that quite alot....

so hes real i reckon

Got any proof? Other than what you've heard?

I heard that some scientists say that is was one of the best hoaxes of all time,but only some said that.The majority just said that it is still a mystery,unless they have recently came to another conclusion?

They scream fake though have no proof.

All evidence suggests this is real.

Yup,it's not like the scientists have just gone on a picture.Before it was lost,they studied it,so there was a body,which means that there is more prrof that it's real,than fake...

I saw this once on Unsolved Mysteries.
I found it very interesting.

oh that program was so good, i miss it

I feel really bad for posting my first post on a long-dead thread, but I'm doing it because I really think some people can benefit from it.

The reason you weren't able to find much more about it was because the real spelling of it is Homo Pongoides. A google search will find more but here's a good link:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i1/iceman.asp

interesting...

I read the owner of it used it in the circus and there was suggestion he manufactured it.

In the mid 80's this frozen man was in Gulfport Ms. I did part time work for a man that traveled in his business. my most important job for him was to make sure that if the power went out I hooked a generator to a trailer. One day he made me swear to never tell anyone and he showed me what was in it. A few years ago I saw a repeat of the unsolved mysteries show and wrote them about it. But they were not investagating it.

so harry what was in the trailor,, come on u can tell

this is fake if it was ofund it would have bene brought to a real research facility where it disaperaing wouldnt have been possible.

Isnt that the thing that P.T. Barnum had with his freak show/circus when he first started traveling the world

If i'm right Bernard Heuvelmans wrote a book in 1974 in which he gave details. I don't have the book but i've got a reprint of a paper published in the 70s where the whole story was explained. Pretty strange.

hehe, "homo pongoids"
from the thread title I thought it was about gay penguins

The full story on the Homo Pongoides (note CORRECT spelling) is in 'The Lost Ark' by Dr. Karl Shuker