Tuesday 5 March 2024

Mississippi Star

 


In the summer of 1948, several people reported finding enormous three-toed footprints in the sand at Clearwater Beach, Florida. Later on, similar tracks were discovered along the shore of the Suwannee River, some 40 miles from the ocean. During that same year there were sightings of giant penguin, at least 15 feet tall. Some saw the bird at a distance, waddling along the river; others spied him floating on the water. Ivan T. Sanderson, a cryptozoologist (Terrific job title! How exactly does one become a cryptozoologist?) declared an enormous flightless bird had somehow become separated from its natural habitat. The mystery was finally solved in 1988, when Tony Signorini showed a reporter the huge three-toed iron shoes he’d worn to perpetrate the hoax. He’d kept the prank going more than ten years, with no one the wiser. And all those big bird sightings? Maybe they’re the product of several over-active imaginations. Or maybe not.

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