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NEANDERTHAL: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman Paperback – May 11, 2016

by Bernard Heuvelmans (Author), Paul LeBlond (Translator), Loren Coleman (Foreword)
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NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME… THE TRUE STORY OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN! The story begins at the end of 1968 in New Jersey, when zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson first hear from a correspondent about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being exhibited in the Midwest. Upon arrival in Minnesota, the two scientists come face to face with a “hominid” not of our species embedded in a block of ice. An inquiry into the origin of the specimen triggers a bizarre adventure involving the FBI, the Smithsonian, the Mafia, the Vietnam War, drug smuggling, Hollywood, and a secretive millionaire, giving much of the account the flavor of a riveting detective story. What happened is told in meticulous detail by Heuvelmans, who draws a startling conclusion as to the Iceman’s nature based on a comparison of its anatomy with that of modern humans and fossil ancestors. But where Heuvelman’s scientific tale ends, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s begins, in a lengthy fact-filled afterword that brings this remarkable saga up-to-date. Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001) was a Belgian-French zoologist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as “the Father of Cryptozoology.” His "On the Track of Unknown Animals" and "In the Wake of Sea Serpents" are regarded as two of the most influential works of cryptozoology. In 1975 Heuvelmans established the Center for Cryptozoology in France, and in1982 he helped to found the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct) and served as its first president. In 1999, he donated his vast holdings and archives in cryptozoology to The Museum of Zoology of Lausanne in Switzerland. Paul H. LeBlond is an ocean scientist with a long interest in cryptozoology. He was one of the founders of the International Society of Cryptozoology, and a co-founder of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club. LeBlond is an emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. LeBlond is the author of "Discovering Cadborosaurus" and the translator from the French of "The Asian Wild Man" by Jean-Paul Debenat. LeBlond is the first President of the newly formed International Cryptozoology Society. Loren Coleman has conducted fieldwork and research in cryptozoology since 1960, and is the author or contributor to over 100 popular books on cryptozoology, natural history mysteries, and the media, including "Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America," "Cryptozoology A to Z," and "Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti." For 20 years, he was an adjunct associate professor in documentary film and anthropology at six universities. He is the founder in 2003 and director of the nonprofit International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, and a co-founder of the International Cryptozoology Society in 2016.
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"In one way, the Minnesota Iceman episode is the Roswell incident of cryptozoology: a glimpse of what at first seemed proof of an extraordinary anomaly before the evidence was snatched away, to fade into secrecy, confusion, and endless dispute... [But] with the Minnesota Iceman, the ostensible evidence's existence was known and studied almost immediately by zoologists. They concluded that the body encased in ice was of a recently slain hairy man with pre-modern characteristics." - Jerome Clark, Fortean Times

"...this is an excellent study of one of Cryptozoology's biggest and most enduring enigmas: that of the Minnesota Iceman...as [Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson] follow the trail, the pair comes across not unlike monster-hunting equivalents of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson...the story is so entertaining that you don't actually have to be a fan of Cryptozoology, at all, to read it. Anyone and everyone with an interest in how and why people pursue enigmas will find Neanderthal to be highly engaging reading...A tale of a man-beast, models and mystery, Neanderthal is one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time - and for many reasons!" - Nick Redfern, Mysterious Universe

"Regardless of whether there ever was a flesh-and-blood corpse encased in a block of ice, Heuvelmans' Neanderthal is a lesson that all interested in the case for relict hominoids should take note of, and reflect upon in the wake of shifting paradigms in the here and now." - Jeff Meldrum, Journal of Scientific Exploration


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Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001) was a Belgian-French zoologist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the Father of Cryptozoology." His On the Track of Unknown Animals and In the Wake of Sea Serpents are regarded as two of the most influential works of cryptozoology. In 1975 Heuvelmans established the Center for Cryptozoology in France, and in 1982 he helped to found the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct) and served as its first president. In 1999, he donated his vast holdings and archives in cryptozoology to The Museum of Zoology of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Paul H. LeBlond was an ocean scientist with a long interest in cryptozoology. He was one of the founders of the International Society of Cryptozoology, and a co-founder of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club. LeBlond was an emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. LeBlond is the author of Discovering Cadborosaurus and the translator from the French of The Asian Wild Man by Jean-Paul Debenat. LeBlond was the first President of the newly formed International Cryptozoology Society.

Loren Coleman has conducted fieldwork and research in cryptozoology since 1960, and is the author or contributor to over 100 popular books on cryptozoology, natural history mysteries, and the media, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Cryptozoology A to Z, and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti. For 20 years, he was an adjunct associate professor in documentary film and anthropology at six universities. He is the founder in 2003 and director of the nonprofit International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, and a co-founder of the International Cryptozoology Society in 2016.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anomalist Books; First Edition (May 11, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1938398610
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1938398612
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.09 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.64 x 10 inches
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Bob Deis
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating, must-have book for anyone interested in cryptozoology in general or the Minnesota Iceman in particular
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016
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I am a fan of both cryptozoology lore and vintage men’s adventure magazines, a genre that helped create and shape awareness of many legendary creatures in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. One of the creatures whose fame was largely generated by stories in men’s adventure magazines is the mysterious Minnesota Iceman. For reasons explained in NEANDERTHAL: THE STRANGE SAGA OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN, those articles actually did more to create the mystery about what the Iceman might be than solve it.

The main part of the book is the first English translation of a book by the pioneering Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans. Heuvelmans did more than anyone to try to solve the mystery and was one of the few people to try to do real scientific research on it. His book is an in-depth account of that research and the strange, conflicting stories told about the Iceman by the odd character who exhibited its body at carnivals and fairs, Frank Hansen. Heuvelmans’ account was originally published in French, under the title THE MYSTERY OF THE ICEMAN.

NEANDERTHAL: THE STRANGE SAGA OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN would be significant simply for including the first English translation of Heuvelmans’ book. But it does more than that. It adds new perspective on the whole, bizarre, convoluted story of the Iceman and brings the story up to date by including an Afterword by Loren Coleman.

Coleman is the perfect person to provide perspective on all the pieces of the story. He was a friend of Heuvelmans and of Ivan Sanderson, the writer whose stories about the Iceman in the men’s adventure magazines ARGOSY and SAGA made it famous in the U.S. Coleman even helped Heuvelmans do some of the research on the creature in 1969, at a time when Hansen had replaced the original body with a replica for reasons revealed in the book.

Loren Coleman is now one of the reining grandmasters of cryptozoology lore. He’s the founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum and International Cryptozoology Society, an author of many books on cryptozoology and one of the go-to experts for TV documentaries and reality shows about Bigfoot, Sasquatch and other legendary creatures. If you’ve seen Coleman on any of those shows, or read any of his books (such as the excellent, encyclopedic CRYPTOZOOLOGY A TO Z), you understand why he is so highly respected by both “believers” and skeptics. He is one of the most knowledgeable and clearheaded researchers in a field that is too often either overly sensationalized and plagued with hoaxers or unfairly dismissed as total fantasy.

NEANDERTHAL: THE STRANGE SAGA OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN peels back all of the layers of the strange, multilayered tale of the Minnesota Iceman. It recounts and critiques all of the various explanations of what the creature was and where it came from – including, thanks to Coleman’s Afterword, Heuvelmans’ own theory that the Iceman was the body of a Neanderthal. I rank it as a must-have book for anyone interested in cryptozoology in general or the Minnesota Iceman in particular.
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F S Frederick
5.0 out of 5 stars Was it Homo Erectus?
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016
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Why did it take decades for this book to be translated into English? I read about it years ago and have wanted a copy.

What a spellbinding book! It gives so much detail about the "Iceman"; Dr. Heuvelmans was convinced that the specimen was a real body, and his evidence in the book proves his hypothesis. Ivan Sanderson also considered it to be a real corpse of a hominin..

His knowledge of human evolution and fossils is quite outdated as he wrote the book in the 1970's. In the intervening decades, many more and varied hominin fossils have been found in various parts of the world, fossils that are of very different ages, greatly expanding our knowledge about our remote ancestors and cousins.

Science really lost out by not getting the corpse and examining it. What is the status of the "Iceman" now? Does the body or bones still exist? Can someone work to track where the remains are now and in what shape?

Given that the body is that of a unknown hominin, this proves that such creatures exist. There are (and have been for a long time) been reports of hairy hominins from every continent, except Antarctica.
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Mg1440
4.0 out of 5 stars interesting story if you enjoy the subject
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020
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I always enjoyed the story of the Iceman, and so it was interesting to finally read a first-person account from one of the main players who were involved back in the day. Based on what I've read on the subject, I think it's highly likely that all of the other players except for the author were "in on the joke".
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S. O'Toole
5.0 out of 5 stars The cryptozoology book of 2016!
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2016
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I'm so glad this book has finally been translated! I've a long-held fascination with the Minnesota Iceman. What was it? Was it real? What really happened? Heuvelmans' book goes a long way toward answering those questions and more and, while some of his science is outdated, it's apparent that he and Ivan Sanderson believed they were looking at an actual corpse in that freezer in Minnesota. What follows their investigation is as intriguing as the creature itself.
A large chunk of this book is fairly mundane scientific comparisons of the body in the freezer to fossils and other evidence and makes for some dry reading but it's critical to Heuvelmans' theories and its importance can't be overlooked. Just a heads up to those of you who may not want to wade through what is, for all purposes, a scientific paper.
The afterward by Loren Coleman brings the mystery up to date and is a welcome addition to the original text. The Minnesota Iceman...sideshow hoax or one of the most important discoveries of all-time? It's hard to say with the passage of nearly half a century. One thing is certain; two highly qualified investigators believed it was real and it ruled, for better or worse, the rest of their lives.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mystery upon a Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2021
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I believe that the Minnesota Iceman viewed by the author for the first time was real. Hanson, who controlled the exhibit, was a bit of a con man. He didn’t own the real Iceman, and the stories about how he acquired it don’t add up to a single event. He claimed a millionaire owned it and wouldn’t allow it to be examined. Hanson consequently had fake replicas made of it that the author didn’t recognize as being like the creature in the ice block he originally witnessed. No one knows what happened to the original Minnesota Iceman.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyed this and highly recommend it to all who are ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016
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I've waited years and years to finally read this in English. Minnesota Iceman is one of the most intriguing of the American cryptids... what was it, was it real, what happened to it... Finally we get to read the story from the men who were there and saw it at the beginning, and also as an added plus Loren Coleman's research in the following years. Really enjoyed this and highly recommend it to all who are interested in cryptids and relict Hominids be they bigfoot, Sasquatch, Almas or whatever.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read for an eye witness
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021
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I saw the subject of this book as a kid. Interesting read for one who has wondered exactly what I saw for over 50 years.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great seller !
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Dave
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting addition to your Fortean library!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2022
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I first read of the Minnesota Iceman back in the early ‘70’s, and it has always fascinated me, ever since. This book, written by the acclaimed zoologist and explorer, Bernard Heuvelman’s, (also known as the father of cryptozoology), is here translated into English for the first time.
To summarise, the iceman first surfaced as a fairground exhibit, entombed in a block of ice, inside a glass-topped freezer, housed in a travelling container. Bernard Heuvelman visited the exhibit with his colleague Ivan Sanderson, and after as exhaustive an examination as was possible under the circumstances, (remember, the creature was encased in a 600+ kg block of ice), came to the conclusion that the creature was the real corpse of a previously unknown hominid, which they believed was a Neanderthal.
The bulk of the book details Heuvelman’s analysis of what he saw, and how he came to his conclusions.
Elements of the history of the creature, as deduced or supposed by Heuvelman read like the plot for a Hollywood film, though could have elements of truth - we may never know the real answers.
For me, the downside of this volume is Heuvelman’s florid and dense language, (though this may be due in part to the abilities of his translator, Paul Leblond), and the highly detailed and complex analysis of the creature’s anatomy, which though doubtless of extreme interest to many, left me none the wiser!
Loren Coleman’s Afterword is extremely readable, and sums up the story well - but the saga cannot reach a truly satisfying conclusion, unless the iceman himself can be submitted to a scientific examination!
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