Most cryptozoology museums are cases of blurry photographs and plaster casts. Allen Hopps, who spent decades building haunted houses, made the opposite: dozens of life-sized figures you meet face to face, or face to chest. Mothman, the Wendigo, Wisconsin’s Beast of Bray Road, several distinct takes on Bigfoot. The point is scale — standing where the person who reported the sighting stood, at the height they said it was.
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