[UA] Cliomancy major charges up for grabs.

[graver]

Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote: On 4/3/07, Ben Baer  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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Hrm, real or not real, 
faked phototos or someone really got all through there with the bike and all, the real question of importance to the underground would be this:  what are the odds that she her self WAS a cleomancer.  Odds are, she's just who se appears to be and the charge has yet to be harvested as I'm fairly certain there are more normal people then there are Cleomancers... at least, I think so *looks around paranoid*

 
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