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Wearing a pair of huge metal penguin feet, he wandered along the beach at night. By sunrise, puzzled locals spotted the footprints and believed they belonged to a 15-foot penguin. Some people swore they saw it, while newspaper stories spread headlines across the country. The tracks kept showing up for years, and scientists later examined them, with some arguing that they were genuine animal marks there. But decades afterward, the man admitted it was only a prank meant to fool everyone