In Austin, his childhood memories started to thaw. But as years passed, Steve could only vaguely remember seeing a frozen creature. "I studied it intently, people had to go around me." It was a shocking thing to see, big teeth, blown out eyeball, hair all over its body." Tiny Steve clung to the edge of the freezer for what seemed like an eternity to other paying customers. "I wasn't tall enough to see, so my Aunt positioned me next to it, I jumped up, and came face to face with the Minnesota Ice Man. All these adults were looking down into it, moving around, trying to get a good view." Inside was this big frozen box, like a freezer, with glass on top. I saw the sign 'Creature in Ice.' I went up these stairs into the dark tractor-trailer. You could examine an Ice Man photo display on your way to sharpen razors with pyramid power in Ivan's backyard.īack to Steve channeling kid Steve: "It was my Aunt Ginger, my grandmother and me. The famous unexplained creature (AKA "Bozo the Ice Man") was legendary around SITU HQ. Sanderson's crackpot enclave in remote northwest New Jersey. We know the Minnesota Ice Man, or at least know of him - from misspent college years hanging around the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU), British zoologist Ivan T. It came to our town, and set up in the parking lot at the K-Mart. #CAVEMAN ENCASED IN ICE TV#There were TV shows like 'In Search of.' My aunt knew I was gonna love this thing, which was touring around the country in this tractor-trailer. "When I was maybe 4 or 5 years old - it must've been 1974 - at the time I was really into dinosaurs, cavemen, and the Bigfoot craze was just starting. He probably tells this story a lot, but it's important, and funny. Steve is recounting a life-changing experience from when he was a kid growing up in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Sign for the World Famous Creature in Ice.Īt least, that's how it plays to us, in the darkened corridors of Steve Busti's Museum of the Weird. It started with a curse placed on a child. Was the frozen body a missing link between man and ape? Curse of the Minnesota Ice Man
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