Regular readers will know that I recently published a book on cryptozoology, titled Hunting Monsters (Naish 2016). You can buy it here. At the time of writing it’s only out as an ebook but in just a matter of weeks it’ll be available in hardcopy too. Purely because it’s an interesting story that I’ve promised to cover here for quite some time, find below the section from said book on the Minnesota Iceman – a story that will be familiar and tedious to some of you, and wholly novel and alien to others of you. I’ve added references to the text (these are not present in Hunting Monsters for style reasons) and have altered it slightly such that it works better as a stand-alone article.