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Feb 11

A Brief History Of The Minnesota Iceman

The Minnesota Iceman has been described as male, human-like, 6 ft tall, hairy, with large hands and feet, very dark brown hair about 3 – 4 inches long, and a flattened nose. One of its arms appeared to be broken and one of its eyes appeared to have been knocked out of its socket, allegedly by a bullet that was said to have entered the creature’s head from behind.

Promoter and exhibitor Frank Hansen stated the Minnesota Iceman was discovered in the region of Siberia and that he was acting as its caretaker for an absentee owner he described as an “eccentric California millionaire”. Touring carnivals and fairs with the exhibit, Hansen was once reportedly detained by Canadian customs officials, who were concerned he was transporting a cadaver. While searching for evidence of Bigfoot in 1968, cryptozoologists Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans examined the Iceman in Hansen’s house trailer in Altura, Minnesota, and concluded it was a genuine creature, saying they found “putrefaction where some of the flesh had been exposed from the melted ice.”

 

9 Responses to “A Brief History Of The Minnesota Iceman”

  2. Duke S

    So, we have Siberian Menk being shipped around the countryside over here by a Russian owner, Hansen shot it in Minnesota in the dreaded “White Face” area, it was a rock ape from Vietnam, stuffed in a body-bag by one of the troops, and shipped stateside, or the latest that it came from Bluff creek. Clearly no one has a clue where it originated, and we are fortunate to even have the partial examination by a couple of respected zoologists to go on for information as to it’s authenticity.

  4. Noreen A

    This is such an interesting subject! I read Bernard Heuveelman’s book, The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman. There are details that he talks about that describe a very primitive creature! If you want to view it for yourself it is on display at the Museum of the Weird in Austin Texas, my son went to see it and was fascinated by it.

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Jun 20

A Brief History Of The Minnesota Iceman

The Minnesota Iceman has been described as male, human-like, 6 ft tall, hairy, with large hands and feet, very dark brown hair about 3 – 4 inches long, and a flattened nose. One of its arms appeared to be broken and one of its eyes appeared to have been knocked out of its socket, allegedly by a bullet that was said to have entered the creature’s head from behind.

 

 

8 Responses to “A Brief History Of The Minnesota Iceman”

  3. Seamus J. C

    Evolution is the best way to explain the fact that more primitive skeletons are found lower down in the ground, in older rock. No remains from the genus homo coexist with those of dinosaurs, for example, and dinosaur fossils are older than mammal fossils.

    I like to say that God created evolution. But that’s not just a bumper sticker to me. God CREATED evolution, but in fact continues to create it. All physical things take form from within a spiritual matrix of intelligent “energy” (for lack of a better term), which guides our development. Genes are not the only thing, in other words, guiding our development.

    But, even if evolution, as we understand it, were completely true (it’s not, it just seems the best way we have of explaining things right now), that does not rule out the possibility that different genera of homo coexist currently–in fact, that is what seems to be true now, with homo sapiens and several types of sasquatch/yeti/almisty and god knows what else coexisting without the public’s knowledge.

    It also appears to be true long ago, from the fossil record, that several species of the genus homo co-existed. Evolutionists do not deny this, Michael Lion. They do deny that dinosaurs and humans never coexisted, though–unless you count birds as little dinosaurs, which is what they are (watch a chicken catching a grasshopper and eating it–velociraptor!)

  4. Martin Z

    The government came and took the real Ice Man and brought back a fake replica of the real thing. The creature in the glass case is a fake. These were the conditions they put on the owner if he wanted to keep displaying the creature.

  5. Jack33

    I saw the Minnesota Ice man back in 1975 at the Wisconsin State Fair.

    I remember streaks of what looked like blood running up from the wounds on the body. They were suspended in the block of ice that encapsulated the creature.
    Up near the top of the ice there were what looked like small pools where the blood had risen up and collected before becoming frozen.

    It looked real to me, but I was a kid at the time.

    Does anyone know if the rubber dummy had fake blood rising up from the wounds and frozen in the ice?

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