15f7/1236109695-pangbochehand.jpgBecause nobody ever told me.

While visiting India in 1959, Stewart reportedly smuggled the remains of a supposed yeti, the so-called Pangboche Hand, by hiding them in his luggage (specifically, in his wife’s underwear) when he flew from India to London, as a favor to Tom Slick.

Nobody ever tells me anything.

Thanks, Wikipedia, for the photo and for the information about Jimmy Stewart smuggling a yeti hand out of Nepal in his wife’s underpants.

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