The question that first came to mind for me while reading this linked article was, how’d the guy know what a Neanderthal looks like? He’s not a scientist. He’s not an expert. And, as the only Neanderthals we have seen are artistic recreations based on recovered fossils, and those constitute the best guesses of the experts, nobody really KNOWS, not for certain, what the Neanderthals looked like. Primarily, nobody knows how hirsute they were. But I’m splitting hairs. I’m sure what eyewitness Bernard Tillman actually meant when he gave his statement is that he’d seen a human-like creature resembling a “caveman” or one of the primitive forms of human beings featured on Discovery Channel specials and in Horror movies. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll go with his designation of the fellow as a “Neanderthal.”
His sighting, if it really happened, occurred in the Kings Mountain area of North Carolina at sundown one day this past November. Tillman made no mention of the creature, or man, acting aggressively towards him during the half-minute encounter, which is fortunate for him, as he claimed the brute stood a full ten feet tall . . . Wait a minute. Neanderthals were not that tall. In fact they were shorter than modern humans, though stockier and stronger. That means the being Tillman encountered, whatever it was—and if it existed—could NOT have been a Neanderthal.
