Dr Alan Forkst to Walt Disney

FOR MR. DISNEY'S EYES ONLY

Dear Mr. Disney:

    Here is the full report. Before I go any further let me not waste any of your time and say that the SECOND plan we spoke about ought to be executed and I will expect the extra sum I mentioned and when you hear what I have been through you will agree I am sure.

    This town of Waterford is a dark damp place full of filth and probably disease. If I did not bring several cans of Underwood deviled ham with me I would have starved to death the food here is so obnoxious. I do not think anybody in this town is not a pickpocket you can not step out of a door here without feeling a hand in your pocket. But you are interested in results not in that.

    Everybody in Glasshouse Lane where Mr. Michael Widger lives leaves their doors open and brings half their furniture out on the sidewalk and conducts their personal business and quarrels amidst the smell of sewage and rotten fish innards. Begging children are everywhere and a dirty little girl would not let go of my leg. Widger's neighbors found my questions about him very funny and I could get very little information out of them.

    Widger's wife Josette opened the door to me. She is huge with hairy arms and looks like Min and Bill rolled into one. Any sort of animal up to the size of a beaver could live in her hair.

    Seeing Widger was a shock I did not know if I was approaching a madman. He moves about in jerks and hops as if he is imitating a cartoon character and talks in an unnatural falsetto voice that makes him cough. He and his wife both have overpowering smells which I will not attempt to describe. The house was very dark and Widger would not go outside. Every time I tried to examine him closely or move the hair material aside, he would whine like a dog I was afraid he would scream. His wife stood over us with some kind of shovel and threatened me at least with looks every time he whined. I could see that he has no normal external ears but there are holes there and scars and they were probably cut off (impossible to say when).

    He says he was born without his two little fingers but they have obviously been removed artificially but not recently, i. e., less than two years. And it was no accident to have both little fingers cut off right at the base.

    Widger now claims to have a tale and has something in his pants but he refused to take them down or let me do it. It could be a hose or heavy rope. I managed to get a sample of the material that his mouse ears are made of. I sent it to the Turner Laboratories in Dublin where they discovered the material was:

(Cost of analysis: 4 pounds ($20.00).)

    There is an ugly amateurish painting on the wall dated 1934 and dark with soot showing Widger with his mouse ears and without his own ears but the hair around the ears is reddish not brownish black as it is now. Widger has a thin reddish beard that does not match his mouse hair and he darkens his eyebrows with makeup.

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CONCLUSION: It is impossible scientifically that the ears are a natural growth, but Widger has had the ears and has been missing his two little fingers at least since 1934 and maybe 1931. Also, I have found no way to prove that he did not have both oddities in 1928. The second plan is the only option and I will carry it out. Perhaps tomorrow night.

TOTAL EXPENSES TO DATE (CONVERTED): $385.00.

 

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