This reprinted article is one full of questions, including was it mostly done as an overview of the museum or an attempt at seriously transmitting some “believed” incidents. It was strange to find and read it in the New Straits Times.

The Feejee mermaid does not still exist in any cabinet of curiosities-type museums in America or anyplace else. But manufactured copies of the Feejee mermaid abound everywhere. The original historic one that P.T. Barnum owned was destroyed in a fire at his American Museum in the 1860s.

It was not my idea that the Minnesota Iceman came from Cambodia or Vietnam. I have written about the theory in Bigfoot! and I do fully credit that hypothesis to Bernard Heuvelmans, with later support from Australian anthropologist Helmut Loofs-Wissowa.

In recent years, researcher Vern Weitzel has kept track of the Vietnam situation, and sightings of hairy unknown bipedal hominids are still current from there. However, alleged captures are not.