If you're ever out near
Marsh's free museum in Long Beach, Washington, be sure to drop in and say hello to my pal
Jake the Alligator Man.
He may be dead, but he's still likes a little company. Who is
Jake, you might ask? Well, no less an authority than
The Weekly World News said, "Scientists call bizarre creature the Missing Link." But
Sideshow World has the full scoop...
"A lot of folks claim Jake was a valet in a New Orleans whorehouse. Others say that Jake was a sideshow freak who smoked cigars and could nod yes or no to simple questions when asked. There have even been people that stopped by to visit Jake that say they've seen him alive in a Texas carnival. Out of all the curiosities found in Marsh's Free Museum Jake the Alligator Man is the most amazing."
4 comments:
I could swear I've seen this exact artifact on display at one of the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museums. It was being billed at Barnum's Fiji Mermaid. Lame.
Yeah, Jake is a close relative of the multitude of so-called "Fiji Mermaids" in existence. All of them share the fact that they are taxidermied hoaxes cobbled together from monkey and fish/gator cadavers. Or just maybe... Jake is the real thing! ;>
there is one of these in a cheesy souvenier shop in Banff. I was fascinted by it as a little kid. I took my 3 kids to see it when they were small and it had the same effect on them. Lame, yes but in a kitschy sort of way
Nice! Very 'Captian Spaulding' little artifact, isn't it?
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