It’s not exactly like misplacing your car keys – unless your car keys weighed over 600 pounds and was covered in fur.
Since at least 1965, a stuffed bison from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science had been missing – or so they thought. The legend of the missing giant grew over the years, with former employees passing down the stories to new employees generation by generation.
The museum has been open for more than 100 years, since 1908 believe it or not, then called the Colorado Museum of Natural History. When it opened there were five bison in their collection that came from naturalist Edwin Carter. Except, somewhere around the mid 60s, it dropped to four. Nobody seemed to notice, or at least not until many years later…