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"THE SURPRISE FACTOR"

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The winter of 1938 was one of the crudest in New York. But especially the snowfall of November 27  was noteworthy. Snowflakes the size of golf balls fell that night. Just right before dawn it stopped snowing but the sky remained overcast the next day and in the early morning almost one foot of snow covered the streets. That day few people dared to leave their homes, and in the section of Fifth Avenue that goes from 44th Street (past St. Patrick's Cathedral) to 79th Street, the accumulated snow was not the only reason. The police received hundreds of calls warning of the presence on that place of a kind of primate more than six feet high with a broad-shouldered frame working their way through the snow like it was nothing. On that area lived influential people, hence the mayor received the information firsthand. And what did the mayor do about it? Naturally, he called ENIGMA CONSULTANTS S.L. So, as other brave citizens had done to move that day through the city, Michael and Jacob put...

"THE YETI: LIE OR FALSITY?"

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Much has been said about the Yeti since the photo of a strange creature came to light in 1927. This photo shows a living being very similar in everything to a man except in its fondness to wander through the snowy mountains of the Himalayas without any clothes on. The locals claim to have seen him swinging on a rocking chair while humming a fashionable song. Such a statement has been questioned by National Geographic based on the evidence provided by one of its affiliates, although such evidence thawed instantly. Professor Min Gao, from the Central University of Beijing, argues that the probability of the existence of such a creature is one in two. However, the sightings do not stop happening. A Tibetan woman claims to have seen the Yeti at the market in the city of Nagqu buying some donuts typical of the region. Another witness who lives near a railroad speaks of "strange beeps at night". In the West it is speculated on with the possibility that the Yeti is not more than a m...