Is the Starchild Skull really from a human-alien hybrid?
THE DARK and forbidding storm clouds had been building all afternoon. It hadn’t rained for months in this dusty corner of north west Mexico and the sky promised a deluge of biblical proportions.
As the wind whipped at her skirt, young Maria made a momentous decision. She would take cover in the entrance tunnel of the old copper mine. Maria shivered as she remembered the stories of strange creatures that stalked the abandoned mines, but she had no choice. She needed shelter from the approaching storm.
With a huge intake of breath to fortify her quailing spirit, Maria plunged into the tunnel. Before long, the outside world was no more than a pin-prick of light behind her. She fumbled in her pocket for a box of matches and struck one against the wall. For a few moments, the whole tunnel was bathed in an eerie phosphorescent glow. And then she saw a spine-chilling sight, a child’s skeletal hand was poking upwards from the dusty floor. She was horrified and mesmerised in equal measure.
Maria crouched down and began brushing aside the thick layer of sand that covered the cave floor. She quickly unearthed a tiny boney arm, then a torso – and finally, a skull. A bizarrely misshapen skull that looked like that of an alien.
The skull stared at her with huge blank eye-sockets that were at least three times bigger than normal. The almond-shaped head was huge and must have housed an enormous brain. Equally strange were the tiny holes where the ears, nose and mouth should have been. Maria could only imagine what the creature had looked like when it was alive. But one thing was certain, it clearly wasn’t human.
Maria’s discovery of the skull, which only came to light ten years ago, has sparked one of the strangest mysteries of modern times. It has raised the hackles of UFO conspiracy theorists and academics alike. All are asking the same question. Is the ‘Starchild Skull’ from an alien or merely the remains of a cruelly deformed child?
Lloyd Pye, an archeological researcher from Florida, has spent the past decade investigating the skull’s secrets and is currently on a lecture tour of the UK to explain his remarkable findings. Lloyd has become convinced that the Starchild Skull is from an alien creature known as a ‘Grey’.
The Greys are the archetypal aliens that featured in such films as Close Encounters and the X-Files. UFO researchers say they are about the same size as a seven-year-old human child but have an enormous almond shaped head with piercing black eyes. They lack ears and tongues and communicate via telepathy. The Greys are variously described as being cruel and cunning, or wise and compassionate.
“Anyone with an understanding of basic human anatomy and that of the Greys would make the same staggering connection,” says Lloyd Pye. “They have no choice.”
“There are at least two dozen major physiological differences between this skull and that of a human. We’ve done genetic tests on the skull. The creature’s father was not human although his mother certainly was. My hunch is that the creature was a human-alien hybrid.”
In the face of such an outlandish claim, one’s first reaction is to dismiss it as pure hokum. But could the Starchild Skull really be that of an alien?
Lloyd’s theory is gathering a surprising amount of support from scientists and doctors. Dr Ted Robinson, a Canadian craniofacial surgeon who trained at the Mount Vernon Centre for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Middlesex, says that Lloyd Pye may indeed be correct. Dr Robinson spent twelve months studying the skull using some of the most powerful scientific tests available and probed its secrets using the latest brain scanning techniques.
“This skull is unique,” says Dr Robinson. “It’s not the skull of a deformed child. This is my area of expertise and I can state categorically that this skull’s shape is not the result of a human abnormality. I have also sought out the expertise of leading neurologists, paediatricians and surgeons. Every one has agreed with me. It’s not a deformed human skull. It is something else entirely.
“The Starchild Skull is a total enigma. Maybe it is the skull of an alien. I simply don’t know.”
