Stills available online from a 'mockumentary' b/w video
showing the supposed discovery of a dead dragon - click stills to enlarge (© Cuarto Milenio – reproduced here
on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis only)
I investigated and debunked the following case back
in summer 2016, and others have done so too, but as it is still inciting
speculation online I am presenting herewith on ShukerNature my own findings regarding
it, in the hope that this deceased dragon can finally be laid to
rest permanently.
In August 2016,
several correspondents brought to my attention a remarkable b/w video snippet doing
the rounds online that showed a team of scientists apparently finding the
recently-deceased, still-intact, non-decomposed body of a bona fide dragon.
Worryingly, judging from comments posted underneath the video, quite a few
people seriously considered it likely that this beast was real. Consequently, I
lost no time in investigating the video to determine its origin and uncover the
true nature of the dragon in it. Happily, I soon discovered that the video was
actually a deliberately-created faux film clip contained within a Spanish TV documentary
on dragons entitled Cuarto Milenio (Fourth Millennium), fronted
by zoologist Fernando Gonzalez.
Moreover, the
dragon itself was a very skilfully-produced, large-sized model, over 12
ft long, created specifically for the documentary by acclaimed
Spanish artist-sculptor Juan Villa Herrera and a team of assistants at his
workshop, which took a week to prepare. The dragon was constructed from latex
and flexible foam, except for its wings, teeth, and claws. Unfortunately, some
unidentified person(s) had taken a copy of the documentary's faux film clip and had
distributed it online as proof that dragons do exist, thereby creating the appreciable
confusion that duly ensued – and which even engendered a variant claim that the
dragon in question had been found in Tibet!
At the time of
writing, a copy of the b/w faux film clip can be viewed online here,
uploaded on 23 February 2016. A colour version of it can be viewed online here, uploaded onto Facebook by Sokh Phally on 19 August 2016. And a superb video revealing how the dragon was
constructed step by step by its creator and assistants can be viewed online here, uploaded by Juan Villa Herrero on 21 February 2016.
And for the most
comprehensive and extensively-illustrated documentation of dragons currently in
print. be sure to check out my full-colour book Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture – the perfect Christmas
present for all serious draconophiles everywhere!
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