A carnival and store-opening exhibit depicting  an ancient apeman, constructed for Frank Hansen, was a realistic latex figure with real hair, made deliberately difficult to view by being exhibited frozen in a large cake of ice. Incredibly, this exhibit fooled two professional but somewhat flaky zoologists, one of whom  proclaimed it to be a new species of ancient apeman, the other of whom said it was a Neanderthal man. Hansen claimed it had been discovered frozen in a glacier in Siberia, then purchased by an eccentric millionaire who allowed him to exhibit it for "educational purposes." The exhibit was repeatedly exposed as a hoax, and representatives of the company which had made it for Hansen openly identified it as their work. After a lot of publicity, both positive and negative, Hansen withdrew the Iceman from exhibition. However, in later years he toured with a new exhibit which showed what was apparently a different iceman. There is controversy as to whether he had gone to the trouble of getting a new figure made, or that this is the old figure with a drastic posture change. It is remarkable but true that Hansen later sold one version of the iceman to a museum in Austin, TX, where it is on exhibit today, still frozen in a large cake of ice!