S05E14 The Case of the Missing Thunderbird Photo

Blake and Karen discuss the legendary photo said to capture 19th century cowboys or soldiers with a giant bird or pterosaur.

SHOW NOTE LINKS:

The original Tombstone Epitaph article (loc.gov/resource/sn95060905/1890-04-26/ed-1/?s…) about the winged creature

Karl Shuker's blogged (karlshuker.blogspot.com/2021/01/elucidating-tw…) several (karlshuker.blogspot.com/2014/11/seeking-missin…) times (karlshuker.blogspot.com/2020/10/exposing-truly…) on the Thunderbird Photo and wrote a eulogy for Mark Chovinsky (karlshuker.blogspot.com/2020/10/when-i-intervi…), author of a thorough (strangemag.com/strangemag/strange21/thunderbir…)Strange Magazine (strangemag.com/strangemag/strange21/thunderbir…)article (strangemag.com/strangemag/strange21/thunderbir…) about the Thunderbird photo.

Ivan T. Sanderson figures into the story prominently. Kevin J. Guhl has written an extensive article about this. (thunderbirdphoto.com/f/the-ivan-t-sanderson-fi…)

I think all the researchers - the serious researchers - are converging on the "False Memory (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory)" hypothesis to explain this story.

However, debates (reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/comments/11fom00/th…) about the photo continue (reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/comments/1kxu82j/th…).

Some of the online photos were promotional photos for Freaky Links (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreakyLinks) TV show.

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