If only theis matter had come up 2 years ago, I could have seen if Courtney had any recollections of that night. He was 84 when dying on April 9, 2011.

The conversation earlier in day at Ivan’s Columbia ‘home”
centered around ‘creatures’ in Himalayans, British Columbia,
NWT Headless Valley, to which Ivan remarked such creatures
had to exist in the western U.S., but there was no proof.

In 1979, a man in British Columbia described himself to me in a
letter as a gold-prospector.
He asked for a $50 grub-stake & said “he was going into
the Headless Valley to look for gold with 2 others.
I never heard from him until 1985, when he sent another letter,
saying he and 2 others went into THE “valley’, found ‘nuggets’
and was sending me a few small nuggets”….
that looked more like small dust-particles, which I put in small bottle
and kept for a years as a conversation piece.
Somewhere along the line, probably when my Wife & I moved to WV in
July 2002, the bottle got tossed in garbage,making it the end of de gold..

He sent me some data on Headless Valley, that I never found in
any magazines or on RCMP sites…..in which he mentioned at least
150 miners or prospectors have gone into the “valley”, with only a
handful, emerging again safe.

Well, that’s another matter for now……

This Sanderson hoax scenario would explain why Frank Hansen was so cagey about where he got the Iceman. There was no real downside to his admitting it was a fake (no one pays to see the “World’s shortest horse” thinking they’ll really see the world’s shortest horse), yet he consistently refused to give credit to whomever made the model. If Sanderson had provided the model with the intent to create publicity for Yeti and Bigfoot-like creatures he obviously wouldn’t want his involvement known.

We put on our coats, walked outside to get accustom to the dark, Ivan open a door & the three of us went inside. He pulled back a board & we looked down to see a “figure of a human/animal big in deep ice”, but we never looked if it had legs, was covered by a board.

Ivan never said much as Courtney & I, looked it over, I believe it was October 1966. Although neither Court nor I ever were fearful of ‘dead of night creature hunts”, this thing gave us the “willies” & we got out of there between Red Ants & the ‘box-man”, we decided to drive home that night…At time, never heard of the Minnesota Iceman”.

I decided to post Susan Fair’s article, unedited.

Nevertheless, I have a hard time considering the Lutz statements as fact-based, since in all the years that Mark A. Hall, myself, and others (who worked directly Sanderson) have any evidence at all that Sanderson did anything other than “view” the Minnesota Iceman. Being a biologist, one of the first things that Sanderson would have done was unfreeze it, not show dinner guests the frozen object, like some sideshow barker!

If that’s true, I guess we can stamp a big red “HOAX” on that whole affair. Why else would Sanderson lie so extravagantly about the circumstances of finding the Iceman? And of course if he had it in his possession, he would have no excuse for not being able to prove if it was real or a model.

The other possibility is that Mr. Lutz’s story is not true. He seems a little fantasy-prone, so I suppose it’s tough to come to a conclusion either way. But we do know that someone’s story isn’t true.

Loren, I would recommend a knighthood in the world of Cryptozoology for this gentlemen!