I’ve previously highlighted several fascinating cryptozoological reports in Alien Zoo that had publicly appeared on social media, but had never before been documented in mainstream fortean publications. This month’s column focuses on another two such reports, both originating as recent public posts on Facebook.
MANDELA & THE THUNDERBIRD
Cryptozoologists are familiar with the long-running mystery of the missing thunderbird photograph – the alleged picture of a giant killed bird (or pterodactyl, accounts vary) attached to a barn with wings outstretched and some men (often said to be veteran soldiers) standing beside it that numerous people claim to have seen in books and magazines, but remains tenaciously untraceable (see ). Sceptics have cited this as an example of the Mandela Effect – the phenomenon of false memories being shared by multiple people, named after the false memory shared by many). Now, here is a hitherto-unpublished two-part report recently posted on my own Facebook page by longstanding American FB friend Kimberly Poeppey, which is so detailed and compelling that the Mandela explanation seems decidedly ineffectual in relation to it:
