Midcentury Abominable Snowmen History-Making
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 24th, 2012
What seems like yesterday to some of the older members gathered here probably is experienced like ancient history to our younger readers.
When the following appeared, many of us were preteens.
In the December 1957 issue of Popular Science, the article “Science Closes In on ‘Wild Man’ of Everest” (nd: this direct article link may only work in the USA) was published.
Some of the graphic panels used to illustrate that article are below. They remain midcentury classics in Abominable Snowmen history.
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Must have been great growing up in the 1950s when all this really started blooming.
As I wasn’t born until 1970 I missed out, and was also too young to really remember the 1970s bigfoot craze with all the films and documentaries that flourished during that decade.
With me it all started in the early 1980s with the Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World t.v series.
Anyone got any reference to the story from 1890 about British soldiers shooting “a wild shaggy-haired apelike beast” near Jalap La, mentioned in the article? I haven’t heard of that one before.
Thanks Loren for posting this interesting article.