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AgentSun
04-01-2005, 11:09 PM
A long time ago, this website was posted.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

it is an amazing website and an amazing account...

however...

many experts claim that the account is a hoax.

here's the Museum of Hoaxes side of it.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/chernobyl_trip/

i think that the accounts may have been quite real..the history is real and the pictures are too. i don't think the simple fact that it was poetically spun into a solitary motorcycle trip changes how haunting it is.

i think that even if the thing was staged and that she and her husband took a car into chernobyl, it doesn't change that much of chernobyl is a haunting mystery and a tragedy.
TheBladeRoden
04-01-2005, 11:57 PM
yes
arthurfrdent
04-02-2005, 01:12 AM
It's sad really. I think she has the brain to really put together something riveting, and amazing to read and see. Now regardless of the truth she has lost credibility... and I would also say after reading through the slashdot thread... I wonder if the "guide" is and better source? Just like everything there, truth is an empty shell, where fact is only a specter...
who45
04-02-2005, 07:22 AM
i think that even if the thing was staged and that she and her husband took a car into chernobyl, it doesn't change that much of chernobyl is a haunting mystery and a tragedy. I agree.
BrowderChick
04-02-2005, 12:39 PM
Regardless of whatever, however and what-not, that tale and the photos are still the truth of what really happened there. Its still haunting to see that and to know the details of what happened. It was a horrible part of World history and is still a part of it today. :(
scrape_medic
04-02-2005, 11:59 PM
Who cares if she had a "support team", the pictures are real enough and its not exactly a secret..:rolleyes: Does someone somewhere need to get a life, if all they have to do in the world is find a conspiracy in every little thing.
Shipscat
04-03-2005, 10:11 AM
Wow..I hadn't actually seen the site before. You can bet Martin Cruz Smith did, though..has anyone read "Wolves eat Dogs", set in Chernobyl?

I have to say, AFD, I really can't say that the 'debunkers' seem any more credible. Notice how this Tony Brown on the UER thread promises a website with pictures from the same tour that Elena is supposed to have taken, but isn't seen again after 7-13-2004-not that I've found, anyway. All the proof is that one panoramic view picture..