Pedro the Pygmy Mummy Found
Reports are coming in that a legendary small mummy named Pedro has been found after having been lost for almost a half of a century.
Does a race of small humans or pygmies exist? Was the strange mummy, nicknamed Pedro real proof of these people? Many ancient legends speak of small humans or pygmy people that have inhabited the Earth in times past or even up to the present day. While almost everybody in the modern world dismiss these as just stories and folklore, there are still many cultures around the world that hold on to these beliefs. Some even believe that a mummified body of one of these small pygmy people exists and was discovered in Wyoming almost 80 years ago.
The story begins in October of 1932 when two prospectors (Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr) looking for gold blasted into some rock in the San Pedro Mountains in Wyoming. After the blast, a small room was revealed and there sitting on a small ledge was Pedro the pygmy. The mummy was sitting with its arms crossed which covered its legs, weighed about 1 pound and was only 7 inches tall (in the sitting position, an estimated 14 inches if standing). Some of the more strange features with the body of Pedro were a flattened skull, large bulging eyes and a jelly like substance that was found on top of its head.
Almost everyone across the nation dismissed the story as a hoax immediately after its discovery saying that it was either a dummy or that the two prospectors stole a baby with medical defects from some kind of medical facility. Undeterred, both Mayne and Carr petitioned any scientist interested to come and test the mummy. In 1950, the mummy was x-rayed and an almost fully formed skeleton was shown to be inside the remains. It was also shown that there were numerous bones broken including the spine, collarbone and skull.
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