Old story

Eighty-eight years young! Virmaram Jat has every reason to feel that way. Far from the world of artificial inseminations and Viagra, this farmer settled in a border hamlet in the midst of sand dunes, in Barmer district of Rajasthan, has become the proud father of a baby boy.

Villagers couldn’t stop marvelling at his “feat.”

mystery.jpegSo says an August 8, 2006 report in the Times of India.

Blas? newspaper readers may ask a question that appears in the Improbable Research Teacher’s Guide: “Can you think of even one different explanation that works as well or better?”

(Thanks to investigator Adiyasa Dwitama for bringing this to our attention.)

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