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R. S. Lambert, a BBC producer, spent a LITTLE PEOPLE LOST & FOUND __sibiasted open a tunnel med ne | for week with the Irvings. He went back to _ aos gold. The body was preserved in a sitting London and wrote a book about his experi- willed ineetat ieetaianae = position with its legs crossed and arms ences with the talking mongoose, or what- the native American Crow and Shoshone ©fossed on its chest. ever it was. When the book appeared, Jegends of the existence of a mythical tribe Taken from the cave, the mummy has Lambert's superior publicly branded him of "Little People’, believed to have had changed hands so many times its where- either a liar or amadman. Lambert sued in superhuman powers. abouts are unknown, although it was last court. The court believed his story and However, Crow tribe members are upset heard of in the hands of a doctor in Florida. awarded him damages equal to $35,000, 4 because the programme will feature beings At one stage it was in possession of a very substantial sum in those days. who often assisted them with powerful used-car dealer named Ivan Goodman, who Other experienced investigators also medicine. encased the mummy and displayed it in his probed the mystery of Jeff and came away Public relations officer for the tribe, office. He eventually was talked into persuaded that he or it represented an insol- Burton Pretty On Top, said he felt uneasy _ allowing scientists to study the body. = uble riddle. 4 . with the idea that the Little People would There was disagreement about the mum- Once, on demand, Jeff left his footprints, be exploited on national television. He my's authenticity. Some scientists believed or pawprints, in several pieces of soft wax, said that tribal members knew of sites _ it was merely the preserved body of a child. and these were pronounced unidentifiable where skeletal remains lay, but kept the Others said calcification deposits in the by a zoologist. They belonged to no details secret for fear of invasion by scav- ones indicated it was the body of a juve- known animal. engers and the media. nile or an adult in its later years. Still oth- Jeff stayed with the Irvings four years. “I'm not too sure whether I like that idea. ers believe bone elongation was fully Then he vanished, as mysteriously as he We have respect for the Little People. If geyeloped when the mummy was interred, had come. our beliefs are brought out and puton thus jt was an adult. The argument On one occasion, when James Irving national TV, I'm not sure of the amount of remained unresolved. demanded to know who or what Jeff really Sensitivity that will be used," said Mr The mummy has been recreated for was, the creature, speaking from his usual Pretty On Top. , . Unsolved Mysteries from pictures in the habitat in the shadows, replied: "I know _It is said there is one cave in the Big archives of the Chicago Field Museum of what I am but I won't tell you. I'm a freak. a in Maas ake SUPPOS- Natural History. I've hands and feet. If you saw me you ly is furni: in small-scale proportions C . ified." i i he f the Li ‘row spokesman Mr Pretty On Top said would be petrified. a a to be a home of the Little wihe mentias! inew af the minions pam And then Jeff added these tantalising . ence in the remote cave but chose not to ords: "I'm a ghost in the form of a , Apparently the TV programme is draw- i F Medes ~ = 8 ing much evidence from a 1988 book, dhe lage. —— nanan : Ghosts of the Old West, by Earl Murray, of |=" — > di (Source: Toronto Sun, 8 September 1974) Laurel, Montana, also a consultant on the ‘iously or prematurely. No evidence was filming. Murray claims, however, that the _8iven, however, to support this assertion. ' g. y i ‘ SHANGHAI SURPRISE! programme will not lack sensitivity, and (Source: Sydney Telegraph Mirror, 5 Something very weird appeared in the that it was October 1993) skies over Shanghai, China's largest city, only going to . on Tuesday 2 March 1993. The Xinmin present infor- Evening News reported that at 7.05 pm an mation from orange-red man-shaped object appeared the historical and “filled the sky" (which makes it sound aspect, and pretty big). appeal for a The sky-hanging man-like apparition mummy that alternately moved and stopped for 20 min- has been utes and then its head began to emit red missing for apieiall light or red flashes, and its body glowed nearly a quar- “shanuaaa 2 Ke with a yellow aura as it sent out green ten- "er of a centu- ae) drils. ry. 32 rae Then, "slowly the man transformed him- A — small self into a giant mushroom which hung in mummy had the north-eastern corner of the sky, then the been found by mushroom shrank until it became the size Wyoming of a soybean and then disappeared"...appar- miners in ently at about 8.15 pm. 1932 in the A quarter of the world’s population live Pedro moun- in China, so they're bound to have their fair ‘Ns. share of strange tales, though often lacking The miners in details. This is all we have on this one. found the 36 - (Source: Fortean Times, #70, Aug-Sept 45 cm mum- 1993; Rocky Mountain News. 5 March 1993, mified body Straits Times, 6 March 1993) when they Something very weird appeared in the skies over Shanghai, China's largest city, on Tuesday 2 March 1993. The Xinmin Evening News reported that at 7.05 pm an orange-red man-shaped object appeared and “filled the sky" (which makes it sound pretty big). The sky-hanging man-like apparition alternately moved and stopped for 20 min- utes and then its head began to emit red light or red flashes, and its body glowed with a yellow aura as it sent out green ten- drils. Then, "slowly the man transformed him- self into a giant mushroom which hung in the north-eastern comer of the sky, then the mushroom shrank until it became the size of a soybean and then disappeared"...appar- ently at about 8.15 pm. A quarter of the world's population live in China, so they're bound to have their fair share of strange tales, though often lacking in details. This is all we have on this one. (Source: Fortean Times, #70, Aug-Sept 1993; Rocky Mountain News, 5 March 1993, Straits Times, 6 March 1993) A small mummy had been found by Wyoming miners in 1932 in the Pedro moun- tains, The miners found the 36 - 45 cm mum- mified body when they Sn NEXUS¢*59 LITTLE PEOPLE LOST & FOUND SHANGHAI SURPRISE! DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994