[Sysop's note: This file is in the grand, eclectic tradition of Charles Fort, the connoiseur of the bizarre who founded the Fortean tradition. Enjoy, but beware of taking it as factual and accurate: At a brief glance, I notice that it takes the Paluxy River alleged man-and-dinosaur footprint hoax seriously. These, including the "manprints", were long ago found to have been artificially chiseled into their present appearance by a hoaxer. The Forteans aim to find and publicise anomalies that conflict with scientific orthodoxy. If they were more selective and careful in so doing, they would do the cause of science a major favour. As it is, they tend mostly to repeat for generations allegations that have already been investigated and found disappointing by more careful researchers. -- Rick Moen, The Skeptic's Board] Basically bizarre archaeological finds-- Human skulls with horns were found in a burial mound at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880's. Except for the horny projections some two inches above the eyebrows, the men to whom these skeletons belonged were anatomically normal, though at seven feet tall, well above average height. It was estimated that they were buried about 1200 AD. Pursuit, 6:69-70, July 1973 Seven skeletons were found in a burial mound near Clearwater, Minnesota, in 1888. They had double rows of teeth in the upper and lower jaws and had been buried in a sitting position, facing the lake. The foreheads were unusually low and sloping, with prominent brows. The St.Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press, July 1, 1888 Dinosaur tracks and human tracks exist in the riverbed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. There also exists and admission of fraud. The authenticity if dinosaur tracks at several sites along the Paluxy River has remained largely unchallenged for more than 50 years. However, the discovery of manlike prints in the same rock stratum--in one case a human print actually overlaps that of a three-toed dinosaur--is unacceptable to orthodox paleontology, since the giant reptiles were supposedly extinct some 60 million years before man walked the earth. The prints had been found in areas normally submerged by the Paluxy River, which makes anyone wishing to duplicate the effect of the prints to carve away a large area of rock around the print to leave the raised ridge, and would, of course, have to work underwater. Frederick Beierle--Man, Dinosaur, and History What may be the oldest fossil footprint yet found was discovered in June 1968 by William Meister, an amateur fossil collector. If the print is what it appears to be--a sandaled foot crushing a trilobite--it would have to have been made 300 to 600 million years ago and would be sufficient enough to overturn all conventionally accepted ideas of human and geological evolution or to prove that a shoe-wearing biped from another world had once visited this planet. Meister made this potentially disturbing find during a rock and fossil hunting expedition to Antelope Spring, 43 miles west of Delta, Utah. Trilobites were small marine invertebrates, the relatives of crabs and shrimps, that flourished for some 320 million years before becoming extinct 280 million years ago. Humans are currently thought to have emerged between 1 and 2 million years ago and to have been wearing well-shaped footwear for no more than a few thousand years. The sandal that seems to have crushed a living trilobite was 10 and a fourth inches long and 3 and a half inches wide; the heel is slightly indented more than the sole, as a human shoe print would be.