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Analyzing the Loch Ness Monster

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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History of the Hippo Hoax

Duke Weatherall used a novelty ashtray made from a hippopotamus foot to fake his Lock-Ness monster footprints at the lake. Not only did the British Museum of Natural History eventually recognize that this was a hippo footprint, researchers also tracked down the actual ashtray he used and Weatherall was fired by the Daily Mail. To get revenge on the mail, Weatherall perpetrated his hoax with co-conspirators spurling, a sculpture specialist, Ian Weatherall,. His son who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers an insurance agent. The toy submarine was bought from F.W. Woolworths and its head and neck were made from wood put

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