#Grover Krantz

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Grover Krantz (1931-2002) was an anthropologist who donated his body to the Smithsonian Museum to show how skeletons can be educational tools.

His only condition was that he wanted his beloved dog next to him even after death. The museum honored his request.

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Source from the Smithsonian Magazine.

In 2002, anthropologist Grover Krantz made a unique arrangement for his final resting place: donating his body to the Smithsonian, with a heartfelt condition. Krantz insisted that his cherished Irish Wolfhound, Clyde, accompany him in death. True to his wishes, when Krantz's body was put on display in 2009, Clyde stood faithfully by his side for all to see.

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archive of my screenshots about dogs

for the dogs that barked at me on the sidewalks in connecticut by hanif abdurraqib // the dog hair by lydia davis // reddit story about the loss of a dog by josevilla7 // beware of the dogs by stella donnelly // post by sandw1tchshop // artwork by @dappermouth // grover krantz and clyde in written in bone exhibition // artwork unknown, screenshot from trashgurrl (if you know, link it) // unknown, screenshot from blaiirbear (if you know, link it) // askouija reddit question from draconidzinnia

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The real skeletons of Grover Krantz (1931-2002) and his giant Irish Wolfhound Clyde, on display at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

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Grover Krantz and his dog at the Smithsonian Museum.

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Os esqueletos de Grover Krantz (1931-2002) e seu cachorro gigante chamado Clyde, em exibição no Museu Nacional de História Natural do Smithsonian.

Grover Krantz foi um professor e antropólogo excêntrico, amante dos animais. Antes de morrer, ele disse ao antropólogo do museu, David Hunt: "Fui professor toda a minha vida e devo continuar sendo professor depois de morto, então por que eu simplesmente não te dou o meu corpo? " Quando Hunt concordou, Krantz acrescentou: "Mas há um porém: você tem que manter meus cachorros comigo."

Então, depois que Krantz faleceu, não houve funeral. Em vez disso, seu corpo foi enviado para a fazenda de cadáveres da Universidade do Tennessee, onde os cientistas estudam a decomposição humana para ajudar nas investigações forenses.

Seu esqueleto e o de um de seus cachorros agora fazem parte da exibição “Escrito nos Ossos” que mostra como ossos podem revelar informações sobre o passado.

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Two Stories of Enduring and Steadfast Bones

Today’s Quote morphed into a blog post- but that’s okay. Sometimes you just have to go where the Muse sends you:     Before this fire of sense decay, This smoke of thought blow clean away, And leave with ancient night alone    The steadfast and enduring bone. A Shropshire Lad – XLIII – The Immortal Part by A. E. Housman Skeletons of Grover Krantz and His Dog, Clyde, at the Smithsonian…

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Grover Krantz Was An Anthropologist Who Donated His Body To The Smithsonian Museum To Show How Skeletons Can Be Educational Tools

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Dahinden was right, if they are real theyre smarter than every fucker following grover krantz into hell trying to kill a "specimen"

Cute dog tho

"...not since leonardo davinci" he says 🙄 girl please, what? i KNOW she got your ass for that when you got judged

Oh fuck, legendary squatcher hours

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On This Day in Cryptid History

November 5th: In 1931, anthropologist Grover Krantz was born. Krantz is known for being one of the first mainstream scientists to research and express belief in Bigfoot. After his death, his bones were articulated and placed in the Smithsonian Museum.

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Grover Krantz was an anthropologist who donated his body to the Smithsonian Museum to show how skeletons can be educational tools. His only condition was that he wanted his loving dog next to him even after death. The museum honored his request.

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Grover Krantz was an eccentric anthropologist and devoted pet lover. Before he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in 2002, Krantz decided to donate his body to the Smithsonian. He said, "I’ve been a teacher all my life and I think I might as well be a teacher after I’m dead, so why don’t I just give you my body. But there’s one catch: You have to keep my dogs with me.”

Anthropologist David Hunt agreed to the conditions and posed Krantz with his favorite dog Clyde, an Irish wolfhound. The two were on display for two years at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

More info: http://bit.ly/18eEGwI

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#huh. fascinating. i did not know any of this #i just reblogged that picture of byrne because big doggo and death practices (@anthropologist-on-the-loose)

That was a different guy, actually! That was Grover Krantz, a scientist who was famous for being one of the first scientists to actually believe in Bigfoot. He and Byrne were two of the "Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery," the four most prevalent Sasquatch researchers in the mid-20th century alongside Rene Dahinden and John Green (no not that one)

I’ve talked about this before but I feel obligated every now and then to talk about the time Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger from a Nepalese Buddhist monastery to America.

The Pangboche Hand was the skeletal hand of a yeti who was a disciple of Lama Sangwa Dorje, and the finger of the hand was stolen in 1959 by a Bigfoot researcher named Peter C. Byrne after the monks refused to let him take the hand for research. Once Byrne got the finger into India, “It’s A Wonderful Life” star Jimmy Stewart, James “Anatomy of a Murder” Stewart, smuggled the finger out of India and to the States by — allegedly — hiding it in his wife’s lingerie case, because no gentleman would ever check a woman's lingerie case.

Byrne, by the way, was hired to steal the finger by eccentric millionaire oil tycoon Tom Slick, who spent the ‘50s obsessed with cryptozoology before dying in a plane crash in Montana. Not important for the story, important to me personally that you know this.

And I tell you this because “Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger in his wife’s lingerie case” is a fun collection of words and also to remind you that cryptozoology is awash with colonial assholes who will step over other cultures to find the “proof” they feel entitled to.