Minnesota Iceman

 

I've come across a video whose title and thumbnail compelled me to watch it; and unlike most similar clickbait this did not disappoint. It tells the strange story of the "Minnesota Iceman". This was a sideshow display that toured numerous venues in the late 1960's displaying the frozen body of what looked like a Bigfoot or similar creature that had been shot and killed. Despite its name, it's not certain that the creature came from Minnesota USA. The tour manager claimed it came from Siberia where such creatures are known as Almasty. He said it also might have been a Vietnamese "rock-ape". It was supposedly owned by a millionaire from California who wished to remain anonymous. The FBI and Canadian customs once investigated it because they thought it might be a human who had been murdered but took no further action when they realized that the creature was obviously not human. The iceman was investigated by two pioneers of cryptozoology, Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T Sanderson. After careful study they concluded decisively that the iceman was real. Sanderson even gave it a Latin name, Homo pongoides. They completely dismissed the common accusation that it was a hoax in their very detailed 1968 report. But then something strange happened. The exhibit was withdrawn from display for a while and when it returned, the being in the ice block was now very obviously a latex dummy. This was sold on Ebay in 2013. Why the switch, and what happened to the original corpse? This iceman's promoter, Frank Hansen, relates that in 1969, shortly after Sanderson and Heuvelmans' article was published, he was visited by some "officials" who told him the body needed to be taken away for examination. He never saw it again. What he got back was the rubber model. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCIOMnVl8A.

Now, these recurring incidents of state actors confiscating evidence of esoteric phenomena and suppressing knowledge of their existence is a very common theme in UFOlogy, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html. Possible motives include fear of how the revelation that we are not alone could affect trust in government, academia and the church etc; or that ET propulsion and energy generation technology could ruin the oil industry. I've even asked whether the same applies to other branches of fantastical study, for example see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/afterlife-portal.html. How on earth could we knowing we share this planet with another upright ape cause any harm? There must be a reason because this is not the only example of such a conspiracy, see the background link below. The answer could lie in the field of strategic psychological warfare. It could be detrimental, from the government's position, for humans to know we share this planet with such creatures. Upright locomotion is rare in the animal kingdom. Humans are the only known living primate which walks like that. Our closest known relatives, the chimpanzee and gorilla, walk on all fours because they are primarily tree dwellers. There are many extinct apes which walk upright and it could be Bigfoot is one wrongly listed as extinct when it is not, like the coelacanth. Its description matches a very big upright walking ape known through the fossil records as Gigantopithecus blacki which supposedly died out a hundred thousand years ago. Maybe it didn't. The mass psychological and cultural effect of Bigfoot, Yowie or the Yeti etc being real could cause people to think and feel in a way the authorities do not want us to. It might give us a subversive affinity with the natural world. Not to mention the fact that all the mainstream scientists would have to admit they were wrong and, as we know, many of them don't like doing that; including some of the most influential ones with media careers, for example see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/cern-disproves-ghosts.html. Therefore Bigfoot hunters may need to take the same precautions that UFOlogists do. Be prepared for a cover-up the moment you make your report. Collect evidence and keep it secret; photos, DNA samples, spoor plaster-casts etc.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.