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Pangboche monastery — the Yeti scalp and hand
FOLLOWPangboche, Khumbu
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Pangboche, a village in Nepal's Khumbu, kept relics said to come from a Yeti: a scalp and a hand. In 1954 the Daily Mail reported that expedition teams had taken hair from the scalp.
HISTORY
On 19 March 1954 the Daily Mail described hair samples taken from the alleged Yeti scalp at Pangboche. Professor Frederic Wood Jones examined them. From 1957 the Texas oilman Tom Slick led Yeti expeditions to Nepal; in 1959 the actor James Stewart reportedly smuggled the so-called Pangboche Hand from India to London hidden in his luggage.
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EXPLAINED (the scalp). Wood Jones found that no animal has a ridge of hair running as the Pangboche scalp's does, and concluded the hairs were not from a scalp, nor a bear or ape, but from the shoulder of a coarse-haired hoofed animal. Alleged Yeti footprints are generally interpreted as bear tracks.
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A village in the Khumbu; the source does not say where the relics are now.
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