Hoaks Jacko

Hoax Jacko adalah sebuah cerita surat kabar Kanada tentang seekor gorila yang diduga ditangkap di dekat Yale, British Columbia pada tahun 1884. Cerita tersebut, berjudul "What is it?, A strange creature captured above Yale. A British Columbia Gorilla", muncul di surat kabar British Columbia, Daily Colonist pada tanggal 4 Juli 1884.[1] Artikel surat kabar asli menggambarkan "Jacko" sebagai seekor gorila dan bukan Sasquatch. Namun, cerita "Jacko" telah digunakan oleh para pendukung Bigfoot sebagai bukti keberadaan Sasquatch.[2][sumber tidak dapat dipercaya?] Banyak buku tentang Bigfoot dan kriptid telah menampilkan peristiwa tersebut dan mengutip artikel surat kabar asli.[3] Pada tahun 2008 Michael Cremo membahas cerita tersebut sebagai kemungkinan bukti keberadaan Sasquatch.[4] Cerita "Jacko" ditampilkan dalam serial dokumenter televisi A&E Ancient Mysteries tentang Bigfoot, musim 4, episode 18 yang dinarasikan oleh Leonard Nimoy. Kisah ini juga disebutkan dalam episode Bigfoot dari serial televisi In Search of..., musim 1, episode 5, yang juga dinarasikan oleh Nimoy. Kisah Jacko disebutkan dalam film dokumenter tahun 1976 berjudul The Mysterious Monsters. Loren Coleman explained in 2003 how this story achieved its popularity: "During the 1950s, a news reporter named Bruce McKelvie^[1] found the article about Jacko. McKelvie shared the Jacko account with Sasquatch researchers John Green and René Dahinden. McKelvie told them that this was the only record of the event due to a fire that had destroyed other area newspapers at the time The story's appearance in Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 Abominable Snowman: Legend Come to Life^[2] propelled the Jacko story into history."

Loren Coleman continued, "John Green continued digging and finally found two important articles that threw [skeptical] light on the whole affair. Green wrote of[f] the Jacko story as a piece of probable journalistic fiction in Pursuit in 1975." But by then the story had taken on a life of its own.^[3]^[4] Combatting this, the writer Joe Nickell cited the Mainland Guardian's dismissal of the case (below) as a hoax.^[5]

On July 9, 1884, the Mainland Guardian newspaper in New Westminster, British Columbia stated "that no such animal was caught, and how the Colonist was duped in such a manner, and by such a story, is strange."^[6] On July 11, 1884, the newspaper British Columbian reported that about 200 people went to view "Jacko" at the jail where he was supposedly kept, but the people found only a man at the jail who fielded questions about a creature that did not exist.^[7]

Anthropologist and Bigfoot enthusiast Grover Krantz suggests that Jacko was purchased by P. T. Barnum and exhibited as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. Photos of Jo-Jo between 1884 and 1885 indicate Jo-Jo was replaced.^[8] However, Bigfoot researcher Chad Arment claims that Jo-Jo was not Jacko, as Jo-Jo could speak many languages and could write his name according to an article in The New York Times, October 13, 1884.^[9]^[10]

References

^ Green, John (1973). Bigfoot: On the Track of the Sasquatch (edisi ke-Reprint). New York, NY: Ballantine Books. hlm. 35. ISBN 0345234294.
^ It comes at the start of Chapter 2: "Ubiquitous Woodsmen: Reports from Canada (1860 to 1920)"
^ Coleman (2003), 40–42
^ See also Green (1978), 85–88
^ Joe Nickell (January–February 2007). ""Mysterious entities of the Pacific Northwest, part I,"". Skeptical Inquirer. 31 (1): 21.
^ New Westminster Mainland Guardian, July 9, 1884
^ British Columbian Newspaper, July 11, 1884
^ Krantz, Grover (1992), Big Footprints: A Scientific inquiry into the reality of Sasquatch, Johnson Books., ISBN 1555660991
^ Arment Chad (2006), The Historical Bigfoot, Coachwhip Publications., ISBN 1930585306
^ The New York Times , October 13, 1884

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