  The contradiction between evidence for and against the existence of the
Theta+ pentaquark might be resolved if it only appears as a result of a
particular production mechanism which is present in some experiments and absent
in others. We examine the implications of Theta+ production via decay of a
cryptoexotic N* resonance with a mass of about 2.4 GeV corresponding to a peak
in the experimental data for the invariant mass of the (Theta+,K-) system.
Further experimental checks are suggested.
