Episode 189: Fragments (ad-free)
Added 2022-01-03 05:01:03 +0000 UTCMany of the mysterious creatures in folklore have been passed down through the centuries, allowing rumor and hearsay to deliver fragments of truth waiting to be reassembled. But in some cases, the picture that takes shape is far from safe and comforting.
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Further Reading
- “Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,” Molecular Expressions, November 13 2015, https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/leeuwenhoek.html.
- “Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonie-van-Leeuwenhoek.
- “Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years,” The Conversation,” January 11 2017, https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existed-with-the-megafauna-for-at-least-17-000-years-70589.
- “Science solves the mystery of the elusive Yeti,” CNN, November 29 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/health/yeti-scientific-proof-study/index.html.
- “This Man Searched for the Yeti for 60 Years—and Found It,” National Geographic, August 19 2017, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/yeti-abominable-snowman-bear-daniel-taylor.
- “So much for the abominable snowman. Study finds that ‘yeti’ DNA belongs to bears,” Science Magazine, November 28 2017, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/so-much-abominable-snowman-study-finds-yeti-dna-belongs-bears.
- “Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson,” Royal Asiatic Society Archives, https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/c5ced656-cb74-3bef-aacf-a723d3b3a572.
- “Is There Really an Abominable Snowman?,” Macleans, April 30 1955, https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1955/04/30/is-there-really-an-abominable-snowman.
- “The Yeti: Asia's Abominable Snowman,” LiveScience, November 27 2017, https://www.livescience.com/25072-yeti-abominable-snowman.html.
- “Eric Earle Shipton (1907-1977), Photographer,” Christies, September 26 2007, https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4966479.
- “The 17th-century cloth merchant who discovered the vast realm of tiny microbes – an appreciation of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,” The Conversation, April 6 2021, https://theconversation.com/the-17th-century-cloth-merchant-who-discovered-the-vast-realm-of-tiny-microbes-an-appreciation-of-antonie-van-leeuwenhoek-158177.
- “The legend of Yeti: Everything you need to know about the elusive snowman,” Financial Express, May 1 2019, https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/yeti-abominable-snowman-everest-indian-army-yeti-footprint-yeti-photo/1564986.
- James F. Fisher, Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface. (The Hague: Mouton, 1979).
- Is the Himalayan Yeti a real animal?,” BBC, June 20, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150630-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-yeti.
- “The Soviets Are Seeing Things, Too,” Washington Post, March 16 1979, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/03/16/the-soviets-are-seeing-things-too/9c7b3652-126d-49e0-9b9b-8d06d32e50c9/x.
Comments
This episode reminded me a lot of the Dyatlov Pass episode. I know it hasn’t technically been proven, but I still think that incident was caused by a Yeti attack…
Brian Moynihan
2022-03-02 05:59:54 +0000 UTC
