Kranz's skeleton displayed with his dogs at the Museum of Natural History as he requested

The renowned Bigfoot and ancient hominid researcher, cryptozoologist, anthropologist, evolutionist, university lecturer, writer and simply a most original man, Grover Krantz, bequeathed his body to science.

Krantz, who was seventy and dying of cancer, approached his colleague David Hunt, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, shortly before his death, asking him to accept his body after he died and to use the skeleton as a teaching aid for students or as an exhibit. There was one condition: that he should not be parted from his beloved dogs.

And indeed, when Krantz died in February 2002, there was no funeral. After the farewell, his body was sent to a special department of the University of Tennessee, where forensic scientists study the decomposition of human flesh in various conditions, and from there the bones of Krantz and of his wolfhounds travelled to the Museum of Natural History, where he is on display to this day, embracing his dog Clyde. As he had wished, he goes on teaching something even after death.