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Speaking of vanished mystery photos Thunderbirds Are Go [FT105], does anyone but me recall a "non-fiction" book published in the early 1960s that included multiple action photographs of a hard-hat salvage diver grappling with an octopus roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle?
Some of the same photos were published with an article in one of the contemporary "men’s" magazines, a pulp on the order of True or Argosy, but true to form, I can’t recall the author’s name or the title of the book (something with "Treasure" in the title, as if that helps).
Do any Fortean scholars or cryptozoologists out there remember these golden oldies? I’m almost certain the photos were staged phoneys after all, the text mentions no cameraman present during the author/diver’s "fight to the death" with the man-eating cephalopod, but I’ve never seen these curious documents analysed or even mentioned by Heuvelmans, Sanderson, Coleman, Shuker, et al.
This is no second-hand urban legend, as I’ve read both the book and article, but after 30-odd years my copies and the relevant details are gone with the wind. I’m frankly more interested in expert critiques than in retrieving the publications themselves, and would dearly love to hear from anyone out there with a superior memory or library, who can shed some light on the subject.
Michael Newton, Nashville, Indiana
[email protected]
Some of the same photos were published with an article in one of the contemporary "men’s" magazines, a pulp on the order of True or Argosy, but true to form, I can’t recall the author’s name or the title of the book (something with "Treasure" in the title, as if that helps).
Do any Fortean scholars or cryptozoologists out there remember these golden oldies? I’m almost certain the photos were staged phoneys after all, the text mentions no cameraman present during the author/diver’s "fight to the death" with the man-eating cephalopod, but I’ve never seen these curious documents analysed or even mentioned by Heuvelmans, Sanderson, Coleman, Shuker, et al.
This is no second-hand urban legend, as I’ve read both the book and article, but after 30-odd years my copies and the relevant details are gone with the wind. I’m frankly more interested in expert critiques than in retrieving the publications themselves, and would dearly love to hear from anyone out there with a superior memory or library, who can shed some light on the subject.
Michael Newton, Nashville, Indiana
[email protected]