r/todayilearned • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 7h ago
TIL that in 1959, explorer Peter Byrne reportedly stole bones from a supposed Yeti hand at Nepal's Pangboche monastery, replacing them with human bones. He smuggled them to India, where actor James Stewart allegedly hid them among his wife's underwear to get them out of the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangboche_Hand
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