(Historic) Yeti de Bourganeuf
" . . . The corpse appeared on display at a fair in France in March 97. Nobody knew where it came from . . .
" . . . Christian Le Noel investigated and obtained the story about avalanches, China, Eastern Germany. Did not sound true. By insisting, the guy disappeared with the corpse. Due to similarity with humans, a hunter or farmer who killed one, even by accident or fear, is afraid to tell the truth.
" . . . Picture appeared in the local newspaper "Journal du Berry". Bourganeuf is located in centre of France. 45 °57'N 1°45'E, a small town of less than 20,000 inhabitants . . .
" . . . The question remaining is where did it come from. In his investigation, Christian Le Noel had answers like "came from China through Eastern Germany," all replies he qualified as fairy tales . . ."
" . . . The corpse was displayed like the Minnesota wild man, in a freezer, on an ice bed. The story goes as follows. The corpse would have been found by sherpas in an avalanche in Tibet (This version is dismissed by Christian Le Noel, being a former staff member of the French National Park - Les Ecrins -- Alps. He had exposure to such events) and would have been hidden by Tibetan Monks in a water well under ice (But he knows that Monks are afraid of Yeti - brings bad luck, plus risk of polluting the water). Later, the Chinese army would have taken away the corpse, and after several months of display at Shanghai¯, would have been sold to a circus in eastern Germany. This one went bankrupt, and the brother of the stallholder has acquired the display. Christian Le Noel concludes saying that this is the story of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs . . .
" . . . He had contacted the newspaper reporter who had taken the photos to acquire a high quality picture, but she said that she had given away the negative . . .
" . . . The owner of the display at the fair disappeared, and the corpse was never seen again (at least not in France) . . ."