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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD AND THE DEAD PTERODACTYL

ne of the most tantalising fortean mysteries is that of the missing thunderbird photograph – an elusive early picture supposedly snapped during the mid-1800s and depicting either a very large dead bird or a very large dead modern-day pterodactyl pinned with wings outstretched onto a barn with American Civil War soldiers posing in front of it, yet which despite having been reputedly seen by numerous people since then in various books or magazines cannot be traced anywhere. But what if this photo had appeared not in any publication but on the cover of a record album instead?

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