Sharon Hill

A sceptical voice in the archive. Sharon Hill writes about amateur paranormal investigation and has contributed to Skeptical Inquirer. In 2014 she took on the idea of living pterosaurs behind the kongamato reports, such as J. P. F. Brown's 1956 sighting at Fort Rosebery, arguing they died out with the dinosaurs and left no descendants. In 2019 she weighed in on the Indian Army's Yeti footprints near Makalu Base Camp. Her verdict was blunt. Melted prints. A 2018 hoax analysis of hers also retells the Gwin story behind the Altamaha-ha.

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J. P. F. Brown's kongamato sighting at Fort Rosebery

1956 · Fort Rosebery (now Mansa), Northern Rhodesia, just west of Lake Bangweulu

Zambia

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

10Thinly documented

Skeptical Inquirer writer critical of prehistoric survivor claims

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Larry Gwin and Steve Wilson's Altamaha-ha sighting at Smith Lake

December 1980 · Smith Lake, an oxbow off the Altamaha River upstream of Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

15Thinly documented

Writer whose 2018 hoax analysis repeats the Gwin story as background

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Indian Army "Yeti" footprints near Makalu Base Camp (2019)

April 9, 2019 · Langmale Kharka, near Makalu Base Camp, upper Barun valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Sankhuwasabha, eastern Nepal

Nepal

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 3 photos

52Partially documented

Researcher of amateur paranormal investigation; called them melted prints