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Hunt for the Missing Link
The fifth week came. The topic still had not moved from anything ape-like.
"'When you have eliminated the impossible,' Sherlock Holmes used to declaim to Dr. Watson, 'whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'" As Ken finished that quote he gave a smile. That was the truth. "The absurd absorbs divers animal aficionados. Ardent to concoct a plan of answering the likely actuality of such animals as Bigfoot, one group has even come up with the suggestion that they are 'pets' lost from flying saucers during terrestrial landings, or, if you prefer, laboratory animals deliberately left behind by UFO crews to determine whether extraterrestrial creatures can survive here. But scientific method demands that theories and hypotheses, no matter how intriguing, grow from evidence, and most people are left to try to fit Bigfoot and his cousins into the natural evolutionary lines that eventually gave rise to such other creatures as modern men and apes. Regrettably, however, if you want to examine the skulls and skeletons of such a prime candidate as Peking Man for linkage to Bigfoot, you run smack into a real-life mystery that would rival espionage fiction and wild adventure novels for strange twists and turns. Because Peking Man, a possible 'missing link,' is himself missing. Discovered in 1926, the fossil remains of this prehistoric man mysteriously disappeared in the turmoil that followed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The priceless bits of bones are still the object of an all-out, modern-day search. It is necessary to go back to one of the more recent developments in the search for Peking Man… It is July 27, 1972. Christopher G. Janus, a wealthy, 62-year-old Chicago stockbroker, is on a high-speed elevator, whooshing upwards in the Empire State Building…" What followed was an hour of talk about bones and some business in China.