Case file · High strangeness
Acámbaro dinosaur figures
From 1944 German merchant Waldemar Julsrud collected some 32,000 clay figurines in Acámbaro, Guanajuato, many resembling dinosaurs, which young-earth creationists still cite as proof humans lived with dinosaurs.
1944 CE · 20.03, -100.72 · status: hoax
The sceptical view
Archaeologist Charles Di Peso found in 1953 that the pieces showed no ageing and were being made and buried by local farmers paid per figure. Thermoluminescence dates were inconsistent, and the 'dinosaurs' match popular images of the time, not modern paleontology.