7 November 2009 10:28 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Since it first started airing trailers in front of District 9, there's been some debate over whether or not Universal Studios' Fourth Kind is a true story or not.
Evidence for it being true is the purported 'real' footage of the 'real' Dr. Abigail Tyler. The strongest claim for it's authenticity is all the footage of Dr. Tyler in the film is stamped "Chapman University", a real Southern California school. Surely, a real university would not participate in such shenanigans...?
First clue as to the existence of "Dr. Abigail Tyler" is that her online research started a month ago, coincidentally when Fourth Kind turned on it's PR blitz.
So how did they get Chapman University in on the hoax? Fourth Kind's writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi is an alumni of the school. Chapman's Chappenings site comes clean on Osunsanmi and alien owls here.
Even though this has been debunked, Chapman »
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