Talk:Monster of Glamis
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So how much truth is there in all this? Runcorn 19:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
It's a reasonably well-known story, and all the essential elements are there. However, it is littered with little inaccuracies, such as describing the Bowes-Lyons as a clan. It is, however, unverifiable and so is a record of the story's existence rather than the existence of what it describes.Mon Vier 14:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Factual dispute
"several hundred thousand pounds, a lot of money in those days" that's dumb, it's a lot of money THESE days, much less THOSE days. "Several hundred thousand pounds" today would be worth at least USD$500000, and in the 1800s would probably be worth something closer to two million. this figure of several hundred thousand needs to be corrected
- It's the early 1900s. Still, that does make it an awful lot of money. I do wonder about the accuracy of a lot of this article; this is just one fairly minor point. --Runcorn 18:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Workman incident
The article contradicts itself - in one place it says the workman incident was in the 1870s, in another it says the 1900s. Ben Finn 20:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- As I say, I do wonder about the accuracy of a lot of this article.--Runcorn 06:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Phocomelia?
I know that this forum isn't really the place for speculations, but I can't resist throwing out the following question to anyone who may be more knowledgeable in the field of medicine than me.
Could it be that the "Monster of Glamis" - if he in fact existed - was simply the unfortunate sufferer of the birth defect known as quadramembral phocomelia? The descriptions given certainly seem to fit the bill. Jonas Liljeström 13:54, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
