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For the last four years I have believed that the "Minnesota Ice Man" was a juvenile sasquatch killed at Bluff Creek in 1967 and then displayed at numerous state fairs until the smell got bad and the law got involved...at which point it disappeared for 5 months then reappeared in latex....I had seen interviews with the young zoologist, and later well known herpetologist and he was very adamant it was not a sasquatch but that it was not fake either....

He is now retired and can talk freely about it and the story is crazy.....the man displaying it had just returned from Vietnam...his job was basically shipping things home...some marines he knew had killed what they called a "rock ape" in an event documented in numerous books on the Vietnam war....He was getting out of the army and was fixing to get sent home and saw this body as a way to make money on the sideshow circuit....

.25 cents a pop to see the "ice man" "found floating in the ice off the coast of Siberia" or "killed in the woods of Canada" or "given to me by a mysterious stranger"...basically anything but "I shipped it home from 'Nam in a body bag"....

Here's some more background, along with an interview with Terry Cullen, world renown crocodile expert, conservationist and eyewitness to the Minnesota Iceman as a 17 year old kid from the midwest.....

"In the 1960-1970s a promoter by the name of Frank Hansen toured the country side with what he claimed was the real body of an ape man frozen in a block of ice. Some say that this creature was a hoax, while other claim it’s a Sasquatch, and some say it could even be a Rock Ape from Vietnam. Although the original specimen is lost to the world after Frank replaced it with a 100% fake version later on, there is at least ONE man who was there and can tell us what he saw first hand. The man responsible for bringing it to the attention of Ivan T Sanderson, and Bernard Heuvelman, Mr. Terry Cullen. Terry Cullen is the founder and director of The Cullen Vivarium, and Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, senior member of the IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group and eight of the subgroups. Terry is also a member of Species Survival Commission, Crocodile DNA Group, American Society of Herpetologists and Icthyologists, and Mabuwia Foundarion for conservation of Philippine crocodiles. Founder of Chinese alligator project, Conceptualizer and efectuater of the AZA Crocodilian School. First person to ever establish a fund raising program for crocodilian conservation. CycluraCreated first conservation program for the critically endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi) Rediscovered the crested toad (Bufo lemur) In 1963. Thought to be extinct since the 1920's Rediscovered the Jamaican rock iguana (Cyclura collei) in 1983. Thought to be extinct since the 1920's Past chairman of the Gharial survival group (USA)"

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/rock-apes-not-a-70s-rock-band.html