The book above is the source of the recreations that were photographed, and then scanned, taken out of context, or otherwise shown to Vincent Chow as evidence of the “Johor Hominid.” We all know now it was an elaborate hoax, with a society created, some guardians, and eventually a website supporting this misinformation.
This discovery is to be fully credited to Jean luc Drevillon, who cc’ed the following email to me early this Friday, August 4th morning (at 3:25 AM) but unfortunately via the Editor email address at Cryptomundo. I did not see this until mid-day when it was recently relocated. It contained all the specifics, as follows, to the exact source of this hoax. (Please, anyone, leave comments below, or you may directly email me at lcoleman (at) maine.rr.com if you have breaking news.)
Sent: Fri 8/4/2006 3:25 AM
Subject: johor hoax
Jean luc Drevillon august 4th 2006
Dear Vincent Chow.
Greeting.
I m a french hominologist and i follow the johor bigfoot affair since the begining. I hold the evidence the johor’s photos are a hoax. The picture of the eyes released today had started me thinking and i have recognized the Australopithecus’s eyes in a french TV documentary. I believe the Johor photos are the photos of the book “L’Odyssee de l’espece”, the book of the TV documentary “L’Odyssee de l’espece” released in french in 2001. I show you some scans of the book, on the picture lucy1-page38 you can recognize the eyes of the photo released. On the picture habilis1-page56 you can recognize the hand holding the stone and the face in the drawings. All of this is a hoax.
You can purchase the book .(on Amazon)
Yours faithfully
Jean luc Drevillon Toulon, France
This was followed by all the photographs that probably were scanned from the book and shown to Vincent Chow as the three said to be part of the 14. It is a deceitful and sad hoax.
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For a complete rundown on all the August 4th breaking news on the “Johor Hominid” hoax discovery, please also see:
Scarfe, please catch up in your reading and digest all the four or five blogs on this for August 4 and 5.
There is no one (intelligently) saying that Chow is the source of any scanned photos. Someone else was feeding him the photos and not letting him release them. We know why now….