The Ape-man of the Amazon [Photos]

The apeman is pictured here in 1937 in Brazil in a photograph published in the magazine Het Leven

Editor's Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor M. Strudwick, a Sasquatch enthusiast.

Well we have Rick Dyer, and the 1930´s had their fair share of charlatans too. According to a Dutch magazine Het Leven in 1937 a mystery ape-man could have been the “missing link” that scientists were looking for.

But alas, it was nothing more than a hoax (again).

An excerpt from Daily Mail Online:

His giant lips and furrowed brow and awkward monkey-like gait appear to be simian and the Dutch magazine Het Leven which published them in 1937 certainly seemed convinced, describing the pictures as those of a mystery apeman.

However, in spite of any excitement at the zoological and anthropological find of the past one hundred years, many online observers have cast a keen eye onto the pictures and found the tell-tale signs of prosthetic make-up on the face of the apparent monkey-man.

Rather than changing the perceptions of scientists across the world, it appears that the apeman's mouth and brow are stuck into place using rudimentary make-up.

Visible in one picture is the line of the prosthetic mouth which covers the chin up to the bridge of the nose.

And other observers have pointed out that the forehead will always be covered with hair in any make-up situation to blend in the prosthesis.

Another shrewd onlooker has pointed out that for a man recently found wild in the jungles of Brazil, he is remarkably well shaven and has a particularly neat, if unfashionable haircut.

Others online have made the sad claim that this apeman is most likely an unfortunate individual born with birth defects and exploited to wear the make-up and prosthetics to pose and pretend to be a newly discovered apeman.

Indeed, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, reports of wild and mythic ape-like beasts living in remote and far-flung locations have fascinated readers across the world.

The apeman is remarkably clean shaven for a wild creature caught in the jungle as he sits on his haunches with his knuckles closed

Starting at the bridge of the nose it is possible to trace a line which online observers have pointed out could possibly be the joining lines of a prosthesis or make-up

[via www.dailymail.co.uk]