Johor Pix Hoax: More

The book above is the source of the recreations that were photographed, and then scanned, taken out of context, or otherwise shown to Vincent Chow as evidence of the “Johor Hominid.” We all know now it was an elaborate hoax, with a society created, some guardians, and eventually a website supporting this misinformation.

This discovery is to be fully credited to Jean luc Drevillon, who cc’ed the following email to me early this Friday, August 4th morning (at 3:25 AM) but unfortunately via the Editor email address at Cryptomundo. I did not see this until mid-day when it was recently relocated. It contained all the specifics, as follows, to the exact source of this hoax. (Please, anyone, leave comments below, or you may directly email me at lcoleman (at) maine.rr.com if you have breaking news.)

I m a french hominologist and i follow the johor bigfoot affair since the begining. I hold the evidence the johor’s photos are a hoax. The picture of the eyes released today had started me thinking and i have recognized the Australopithecus’s eyes in a french TV documentary. I believe the Johor photos are the photos of the book “L’Odyssee de l’espece”, the book of the TV documentary “L’Odyssee de l’espece” released in french in 2001. I show you some scans of the book, on the picture lucy1-page38 you can recognize the eyes of the photo released. On the picture habilis1-page56 you can recognize the hand holding the stone and the face in the drawings. All of this is a hoax.

This was followed by all the photographs that probably were scanned from the book and shown to Vincent Chow as the three said to be part of the 14. It is a deceitful and sad hoax.

For a complete rundown on all the August 4th breaking news on the “Johor Hominid” hoax discovery, please also see:

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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