Atlanta’s very own Montauk Monster
Oh yes, we’ve had our fair share of hoaxes! And at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Crime Museum in Decatur, you can see the result of this venture:
At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Within 180 minutes, the GBI called the whole thing off and correctly identified the lil’ critter as a shaved monkey. Yet ANOTHER WAY NEW YORK IS SUPERIOR TO US: they get hoaxes like the Montauk Monster, terrifying mysteries that drag on for well over a week and are rumored to be tied to horrible top-secret government animal eugenics labs or at least a cool new action movie. We get three hicks who decided to dye a monkey corpse green and pass it off as an alien.
That looks like my pappy.
Your pappy was a ugly sumbeeeotch!