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Pickled Dragon found

Pickled DragonEveryone else is convinced it’s a hoax, but just for fun, I think I’ll enjoy playing with the idea that this pickled dragon could be real.

A pickled “dragon” that looks as if it might once have flown around Harry Potter’s Hogwarts has been found in a garage in Oxfordshire, England.

The baby dragon, in a sealed jar, was discovered with a metal tin containing paperwork in old-fashioned German of the 1890s. Allistair Mitchell, who was asked to investigate the dragon by a friend, David Hart, who discovered it in his garage, speculates that German scientists may have attempted to use the dragon to hoax their English counterparts at the end of the 19th century, when rivalry between the countries was intense.

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p>Hoax, shmoax. I can believe in dragons if I want to!

Besides — living as close to Capitol Hill as I do, believing in fairies is easy enough. Why not dragons too? ;)

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Posted in Links. See also: Pickled dragon…published! | Fun with Pig Latin | It’s real! No, it’s a hoax! Wait… | Martin Luther’s Toilet | Eragon and Dragon Wings .

By Michael Hanscom
January 30, 2004

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  1. ronald said
    on January 3, 2006

    i know more about this great found.

  2. Mo said
    on March 28, 2006

    I saw the story of the baby dragon on the history channel, I was checking out a show about the history of dragons. I jumped on my computer to see what I could find, as you can tell I am really into the history of it all. And don’t feel strange I believe too. There are just to many legends for it to be a coindence. Anyway just saw the site and thought I would right. Later Mo

  3. Chris said
    on April 30, 2006

    Has anybody scientifically tested it or even opened the jar?

  4. Heather said
    on May 10, 2006

    Hoax or no hoax…I still believe in dragons and always will.

  5. TJ said
    on May 12, 2006

    I also saw the show history of dragons on the history channal. I thought the show was so interested that I went online to check more about dragons. I found this and I read every one comment on dragons. I belive dragons once lived on earth.

  6. Mallory said
    on July 12, 2006

    I also saw the show on the history channal…i went on the internet to figure out more about it. i really like to think that its true that they really are real…i mean why the hell would so many civizations know about the same myth.

  7. joVee said
    on July 12, 2006

    Did they ever prove or disprove if it was fake or not? All the articles I find are just saying it is a hoax, but nothing saying it was biopsed to dis-credit it. For all those dragon lovers, like me, try reading Eragon & Eldest you will enjoy!

  8. Quinn said
    on July 22, 2006

    I like to hear about a real scientific investigation made on this dragon instead of people just saying its a “hoax”

  9. Blake said
    on September 2, 2006

    It’s fake

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/3576987.stm

    ^ PS: Don’t buy that liers book -_-

Continuing the Discussion

  1. eclecticism linked to this post on March 31, 2004

    Pickled dragon…published!

    Last January, I passed on a story involving a pickled baby dragon in a jar that was making its way around the ‘net. Turns out the entire thing was a hoax…a hoax that landed the perpetrator a book deal!

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