If you spent any time in grocery store lines in the 1990s, then you are probably at least a little familiar with the face and story of Bat Boy, who graced the cover of the tabloid Weekly World News frequently. Bat Boy was reportedly discovered by Dr. Ron Dillon in a "hellhole cave in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia."
The first headline about Bay Boy ran in 1992, and the story immediately went viral, albeit in an old-school, pre-internet kind of way.
The story went like this: Those who found Bat Boy weren't always able to keep track of him because he was frequently in different locations. Bat Boy was accused of any number of small crimes, such as theft, and was described as not having human morals.
It was said that Bat Boy was approximately 10 years old when he was found. His mother, named Susan Boy, was reportedly human, and his father was a bat. The outlet went on to detail an ancestry chart that was said to prove that bat-human hybrids have existed among us for centuries.
Bat Boy was reportedly the brainchild of artist Dick Kulpa, who later told Vice he came up with the drawing after an editor requested a space baby. He admitted, "The image is all baby. We enlarged the eyes and did wonders in these computer programs. Even then, in 1992, there were no add-ons. I worked in concert with the retouch department and designed this character. In this specific case, it was absolute and they followed my detailed instructions to the letter. So that’s where Bat Boy was born, but it wasn’t called Bat Boy originally."
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