[UA] Cliomancy major charges up for grabs.

[Russell Rayburn]

On 4/3/07, Ben Baer <mangork at gmail.com> wrote:
> My links are a bit sketchy sine I haven't seen this in a couple years. Wiki
> offers this ". The accuracy of that story has since been questioned, not
> least because motorcycles are specifically forbidden inside the 30km reactor
> exclusion zone, which can only be accessed through permanently manned
> checkpoints. Chernobyl tour guides and tourists to Chernobyl have claimed
> that that Filatova visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone only as part of an
> organized tour.[1] Chernobyl tour guide Yuriy Tatarchuk recalls that
> Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for
> pictures." Her website appeared soon after.[2]"
> Neil Gaimans Blog, where I first heard about this has some links to the
> debunking
> http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/fraud-exposed-and-true-thing.asp
> including a link to an Urban Exploration forum where they point out the
> inconsistencies in her story, and a couple people who have talked with the
> Cherynobyl administration, including the guide who gave Elena her tour.
>

Heard some of that as well, although the counter argument is Filatova
bribed her way in to parts of the exclusion zone.  When the authorites
( whom she didn't pay off ) started bitching, she supposedly clamed up
to avoid getting anyone in trouble.

Also, since her bike is in a few of the shots I suspect she made it
into a few places.  Yeah, it could be photoshopped, but to my unexpert
eye it didn't seem so.

Inconsistencies could be explained away as poetic license.

Not saying I completely buy it, but I don't think there's enough out
there for a full debunking either.  Obviously, I could have missed
something.

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