It is a good thing we have museums that preserves the world’s historic, valuable, unique and odd items. Now the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation holds the most famous, intriguing and hot item that can be displayed. It boasts of possessing what they claim to be from the other world creature such as the monkey from Mars.
Fascinating items that are currently being displayed in the forensic science of the bureau's state crime lab lobby includes an illegal moonshine still and the microscopic fibers that solved the 1981-82 Atlanta child murders. The preserved remains of the MARSkey are tucked away in a glass cylinder.
It was the height of UFO hysteria that was sweeping the nation when three prankster performed a UFO hoax. The two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass which they thought would passed off as an alien.
To complete their alien hoax, they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 1953. They burned a circle into the pavement with a blowtorch before a police officer came around the curve in his patrol car.
The three men recounted their fib story to the policeman saying that they came upon a red, saucer-shaped object in the road that night. They also added that there were several 2-foot-tall creatures that were scurrying about. And to make their story more authentic, they said that the highway was left scorched because they hit one with their pickup before the creatures jumped back in the saucer and blasted skyward.
Brown took down the strange account and filed a report at police headquarters before going home. It sure did spread like wildfire because as soon as Brown’s shift ended, his phone started ringing off the hook with everybody else trying to find out about it.
The creature was examined that evening by Dr. Herman D. Jones (the founder and director of the GBI lab) and Dr. Marion Hines (an anatomy professor at Emory University). They proclaimed it to be a hoax. Until now, it is not clear where the men got the monkey. However, they eventually admitted to the prank and were charged with a $40 fine for obstructing a highway.
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