![]() Nelson made his fake mummies out of papier-maché and sold them to anyone willing to display them. It was under lease from England, so perhaps it was the same being. ![]() Apparently it was exhibited by the Nelson Supply House at South Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. South America, by a party of English miners, while prospecting for gold". His mummy (a natural process acording to the pamphlet we are quoting) " was found in a cave in Patagonia. There is another virtually identical mummified Patagon (or was it the same one?), " King Mac-A-Dula", he was " nine feet high, had two heads, was as strong as an elephant, and a great warrior who led his tribe to many victories, and that after one great battle he disappeared and was never seen or heard of again". The article that I reviewed, included some photographs, one of which I reproduce below (and which seems to depict an African and not a Patagon): Their guess was that the man was a pair of conjoined twins (i.e. In the 1930s, two doctors and a radiologist inspected it in Weston and found “no perceptual evidence of its being a fake”. Somehow he arrived in England in the 1800s and was a fairground attraction since then. Why a Patagon ended up with a Malaysian name is a mystery. He was 3.7 m tall and, was known as kap dwa which is Malay for "two heads". He killed himself after murdering four of his captors. The article which was published in the ForteanTimes as "The two-headed giant" tells about a giant Patagon with two heads that was captured by the Spaniards in the late 1600s. But now it seems interesting so, let me share it with you. This statue (which may be two people hugging instead of a bicephalic person) reminded me of something that I had read and discarded as a hoax. "Fañanito" - The monster at Lake Fagnanoĭetail of "Museo Naturalista Dillman Bullock, Angol".Belief in monsters and Patagonian cryptozoology.Lake Nahuel Huapi (Tiger Island) - "Nahuelito's home".Patagonian Monsters photographs on Flickr.Patagonia origin of the name and broad description.My personal experience with Patagonian lake creatures. ![]()
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