Police sources are reported as saying that he’s now gone completely underground, and will likely not be heard of again for several months. The safe-house is being checked for any possible clues, but Baron Mulkrin is a master of deception, and will likely blend into society undetected until his next dastardly plan comes to fruition.

Our teams of detectives are trying to track him down to his nearest safe-house, it’s believed he has many places of refuge for just this type of event. If they fail to catch him within the next 48 hours it’s likely that he will go to ground, and probably attempt to build a secret lair once again.

The Professors 15 day trek began 2 days after arriving at base camp 1. He developed his own unique climbing ability using tail-swinging, to move like a mountain goat quickly up the mountain side. When asked in detail about this new technique the Professor stated that this was a method that he’d been practicing for months in Nepal. Tail-climbing is something that he believes every sockmonkey could learn, and would benefit from as it would boost their self image, and give them a positive mental attitude.

6 days into the climb things began to get harder, Professor Bananabrows made camp, and then a storm began to set in. It was with renewed determination several days later that the incredible journey continued onwards. He began to cast his mind back to when he was learning to tail-climb, the ability to focus completely on the tail, and its surroundings. It required utter concentration and timing but it was the months of preparation in the mountain regions of Nepal that gave him he strength to continue upwards through the thin air.

When he finally reached the top, he placed a single frozen banana on the summit before beginning his descent, after going no-where any Sock monkey has gone before, and helping to raise awareness of the plight of sock monkeys worldwide..

Following recent disclosure of security camera footage he was subsequently arrested while sneaking outside his luxury secret hideout for a banana forage during the middle of the night.

He was caught by the long arm of the law, and we have exclusive images of the arrest and baron Mulkrin in his cell. This should ease those who fear that the arrest is just a rumor, and they can once again go shopping for bananas in safety.

The Legend Of King Mulkrin
Every Civilization has it’s legends – individuals who stand out above everyone else because of good deeds and great works. Baron Mulkrin, is the stuff of legend, not through generosity, or the benefits that he’s brought to the Sockmonkey community but through years of domination, and suppression, of cruelty and slavery. His name is spoken in hushed whispers, It strikes fear into the hearts of any Sockmonkey that knows its dark history.

We only have a passing history of Baron Mulkrin, he remains an enigma, and is steeped in myths. We do not know his age, for some reason the stories of Baron Mulkrin have been told from generation through generation of Sockmonkeys’, if it was just one Sockmonkey then even in human terms he would be hundreds of years old. The earliest of the stories are based in early Sockmonkey History, and at the beginnings of early civilization when the great Sockmonkey continent lay between America and Europe.

King Mulkrin (at this time he was not a Baron) was the ruler of this great Sockmonkey land, while the human civilizations were just beginning to form the land mass of Clothopia and the civilization it held was centuries ahead both in culture and technology. It wasn’t without it’s waring tribes however. Over time the power went to his head. King Mulkrin gradually became more ruthless with his enemies, destroying the cities of his enemies and conquering and pillaging all who stood against him. He ruled with an Iron tail, no-one dared to challenge him.

Soon the entire continent was under the control of his ruthless army, some say there were over 30 million Sockmonkeys’ under his control. King Mulkrin wasn’t satisfied, he wanted to conquer more, but he had run out of land to conquer without leaving his continent. King Mulkrin hated water, and didn’t trust anything underneath his feet that wasn’t solid, so he set the poor subjects of his land the task of building a bridge across the sea as far as they could go. The Sockmonkeys’ had no need of exploration before, they rarely travelled over water, and their boat technology was little better than a hollowed out coconut. So they began working on the massive bridges, not knowing the foolish task that lay ahead of them.

The impatient King was more and more fed up with waiting for the bridge to be built so he enlisted slave labor to help build it, but he didn’t realize how far away land was as he grew even more angry, and like all bad Kings he just blamed his workers as they still hadn’t reached the other side.
The years passed and the bridge spanned over many thousands miles long from east-west. King Mulkrin grew even angrier, He didn’t realize that it was a pointless task, too pig headed or to evil to care. Millions of Sockmonkeys’ worked on the bridge, some falling off the sides with exhaustion, some becoming lost at sea – swept away by large waves, others being whipped into service, toiled days and nights carrying stones and rock to help build foundations. It was thought that the bridge would never be finished before the King lived out his life, but King Mulkrin never seemed to get any older, outliving the people worKing on the bridge, and their children, and grandchildren.

The entire civilization began to suffer terribly as all resources were poured into bridge building. Then one day as the sun began to set on the horizon King Mulkrin arrived at the end of the bridge, and looked across the horizon and saw a distant peak of land. The end was in sight and soon his plans for global domination could begin again. It was a further 200 bobbins before the first Sockmonkey touched land on the other side of the bridge but there was no time for celebration. King Mulkrin prepared his vast armies intent on conquering America, so arrogant was he that he thought the bridge, almost complete in the opposite direction would be finished in time for his victorious army to conquer Europe after they’d dominated America.

The stories do not make note of the exact numbers, but it is thought that over 15 million Sockmonkeys’ began their journey across the bridge that year, the trip taking many months to complete, with King Mulkrin waiting on the other side for his army to gather on the new lands he was eager to begin an attack on the early civilizations that scouts had discovered.

It appears that fate decided that King Mulkrin’s plan was doomed to failure, as a series of massive earthquakes began to tear up the continent of Clothopia, The bridges were destroyed, and tidal waves ripped up the coast where King Mulkrin was waiting. Millions of Sockmonkeys’ perished beneath the waves, as Clothopia sank beneath the deep ocean. King Mulkrin and several hundred thousand survivors took refuge in America, they started to form their own new civilization, building great pyramids and a new city in the dark south american jungle. The humidity of the climate took its toll on the Sockmonkeys, and tropical diseases claimed many. Disease and famine completely halted the founding of the Sockmonkey civilization in south America, and many Sockmonkeys escaped to the cooler north to try and start a new life.

It was decades later that the Inca’s discovered these temples and claimed them as their own. King Mulkrin would have disappeared from the history books at that point if it were not for a discovery of some dusty photographs of an early English Baron.

Early 20th Century
It is not known how King Mulkrin lived so long and made his way over to Europe, possibly a return trip via a spanish explorers ship. What we do know is that the name Mulkrin was used by a highly secretive English Baron who upset a lot of people by using cheap labor on his farms. There are rumors that it was this Baron that travelled to Germany and instigated the first world war to control the entire European market in banana smuggling. To control such a market would have required immense resources with contacts across every continent. It would have brought Baron Mulkrin incredible wealth and riches, he soon needed a new base of operations, his location was too well known and he was wanted across almost every continent.

He is rumored to have built a secret base inside an extinct volcano – using slave labor and intimidation of local natives to achieve his selfish plans. He began work on secret technology in order to ensure his control of the banana markets. When bananas became too commonplace he needed to reduce the availability to increase his profits so he got in touch with his German contact – Adolph Hitler. The second world war gave him the ideal opportunity to regain control of the market. When Hitler became too ambitious Baron Mulkrin leant out some of his scientists to work on the Manhattan project to build the first bomb With a guarantee that his crimes would be overlooked for 50 years.
It is rumored that Baron Mulkrin has once again formed his secret organization and is again plotting to regain control of the global banana market, or possibly achieve his ultimate goal – controlling the entire world. We are still trying to uncover more details of the secret organization.

She was brought up in a typical upper class jet-set lifestyle, playing polo, going to concerts, or helping her older brothers pick which racehorse to buy. To the casual observer it seemed like a dream lifestyle. What wasn’t commonly known was that most of the gold and massive fortune that belonged to the Phentom-Phoams family was due to owning the only silk-mines in south Africa. It was the cheap almost slave-labour of thousands of Sockmonkeys’ in these deep and dangerous mines that was driving their vast fortune. The terrible working conditions were fraught with danger, there were frequent cave-ins, fires, and floods.

Over the years countless numbers of Sockmonkeys perished in those hellish mines, some even being born down in the mines never even seeing daylight before malnutrition and flash floods took them from this world.

The Phentom-Phoams family only cared about the money coming in, and sat back in their luxurious mansions ignoring the pain and anguish they knowingly caused to the mine workers. Divine was too young to understand all this. It was a family secret, that was only told to their members after it was decided that they would not tell the world about their dark family secrets.

So this would have continued, however after centuries of mining the seams of silk began to run out, with no-work to occupy the slaves, and no money supplying their food – the poor workers began to starve, being kept in captivity inside the mines.

It wasn’t long before a revolt took place – thousands of Sockmonkeys’ driven to the brink of existence had no choice but to rebel, a dark wave of dust covered Sockmonkeys’ poured out of the mines and began burning everything in sight. The target of their revenge was the Phentom-Phoams family, and their mansion estate. Seeing the mob coming towards them the family consisting of the young divine phentom-phoams, her parents realizing the seriousness of the situation gathered up her brothers and sisters, and rushed upstairs to hide in the attic – They
forgot the poor Divine who was playing in the basement, and did not hear the incoming crowd. The angry mob had worked themselves up into a frenzy and tore through the house like a whirlwind, smashing windows, stealing paintings and books and all the time searching for family members.

Divine heard the commotion coming from above her and hid inside a potato sack, shivering with fright. We don’t know quite what happened next but according to records and eyewitness accounts the mob broke through into the attic and dragged the family outside. They set light to the house but by some miracle the sack that Divine was hiding in was completely missed by falling debris and the mob. By the next day Divine crawled out of the rubble, and the sack to find the dead bodies of her entire family outside the ruins of her home. The ex mine workers were still not satisfied, they told their story to the world, and the Phentom-Phoams wealth was redistributed amongst the surviving Sockmonkeys’ who had worked in the mine.

Divine, had no-where to turn to, so over the years she became a Street Sockmonkey, living off her wits, scavenging food and sleeping where she could. She managed to piece together her family history and lived her life in secret, afraid of people finding out about her family’s dark past. She moved to Majorca, and became an alcoholic, and sockmonkey of the night.

It was during this stage of life where she met an alcoholic by the name of Bananabrows, an odd looking Sockmonkey, he wasn’t interested in using her like so many before, he talked and talked to her for hours,
just paying for her company. She began to fall in love with him despite herself, he was so different to the other Sockmonkeys, he seemed genuinely interested in helping her.

They had a whirlwind romance – this loving sockmonkey had put something into her life that she had never known before, he seemed wealthy, and bought her a small flat to live in. One day she woke up and he was no longer there, he’d simply vanished, She was heartbroken, and it was shortly after that she discovered she was pregnant. She had 2 baby Sockmonkeys to look after and she was desperate. A Sockmonkey doesn’t get any help from the government with childcare, and Divine was thinking of taking to the streets again. It was through chance that she heard about the Sockmonkey Sanctuary, a place to help a Sockmonkey find their way once again. By hitchhiking, hiding on boats, and walking Divine Phentom-Phoams arrived – exhausted at the door of the Sockmonkey sanctuary.

There are rumors that indicate he might be behind the recent kidnapping of several sockmonkey celebrities. To what evil ends we do not know. Our researchers and criminal profilers are currently carrying out research to provide the full background profile to Baron Mulkrin. If you see this sockmonkey you are warned to stay away. DO NOT approach him under any circumstances, but to call the Standard Sockmonkey Hotline. S.O.S already have agents in the field trying to track him down, before the dark evil cloud of the Baron once again threatens the safety of our planet.

We were contacted by Archibald Clothalot, spokesman of the S.O.S (Save Our Sockmonkeys) Emergency helpline who reports that treatment like this has become commonplace in the society in which we live today, and that people need to be told that this kind of treatment must come to an end. Sockmonkeys are not third-rate citizens, or cutesy comfort toys. We will conitnue to keep an eye on the situation in order to secure freedom for the sockmonkeys.