Hairy hominid completely enclosed in ice exhibited at midwestern country fairs in the 1960s. Two prominent cryptozoologists, Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, traveled to Minnesota to see the creature. After careful examination or as careful as could be done considering that it remained encased in ice in a cramped sideshow trailer they concluded it to be real and a previously unknown human ancestor. Sanderson proposed that the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., undertake further examination of the creature, but it disappeared before the institution had an opportunity. The exhibitor claimed that the owner had taken it away to an undisclosed location. He claimed to have replaced the original with a model, which he continued to exhibit for several more years. The creature that Sanderson and Heuvelmans believed they examined was never seen again.
The creature resembled a very hairy human, about 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall and sturdy, with large feet and hands and a broken arm and a damaged eye socket. Others who saw the creature or who examined Sanderson’s drawings and notes concluded that it was more likely a well-done latex model created specifically for fair sideshows.