The Starchild Skull

In 1930s Chihuahua a teenage girl discovered a strange skull.  Is it a human-alien hybrid?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome to Mexico Unexplained, where we will explore the magic,
the mysteries, and the miracles of Mexico. This series presents
information based partly on theory and conjecture. The podcaster's purpose
is to suggest some possible explanation, but not necessarily the
only ones to the subjects we will examine. Here is
your host, Robert Viitto.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Welcome and Mui bian benidos to episode number thirteen of
Mexico Unexplained, or we examine the Magic, the Mysteries and
the Miracles of Mexico. Broadcasting from sunny San Diego, California,
I'm your host Robert Biddow. Today I'm Mexico Unexplained. We
will examine a curious nine hundred year old skull found

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in Mexico in the nineteen thirties. It appears human like,
with a bulging forehead, no brow ridges, and a small mouth.
At first glance, it is other worldly. Is the skull
from an alien or alien human hybrid or is it
from a dwarf or child with an extreme medical condition.

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We will first look into the history of this skull.
We will examine what makes it different from a normal
human skull, and then we will look into some of
the scientific tests done on the skull to determine exactly
what we are dealing with. So where did the skull
come from? During the nineteen thirties, a Mexican American teenage

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girl from West Texas was visiting family members in the
summer at a small village in the central part of
the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Much as we see today,
the girl's family was truly by national living in and
visiting different sides of the border during most of the
girl's childhood. In one of those visits, the girl went

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exploring on her own and came across an abandoned mine shaft.
Inside the mine tunnel, she discovered a human skeleton lying
on its back and an armbone sticking out of the dirt.
With the hands of that armbone wrapped around the upper
arm of the exposed skeleton. The girl dug up the

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buried skeleton, which she described as smaller than the exposed
one and somewhat deformed. She gathered up all of the
bones and hid them nearby. She had the intention of
taking them back to the States, but left them in
her hiding place until it was time for her to

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go back. Between her hiding of the bones and the
time of her return to Texas, there had been a
flash flood in the area that had washed away most
of the bones, but had left the two skulls. The
misshapen skull was damaged, missing the jaw and most of
the teeth. She took what she could back across the

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border and kept the skulls for the rest of her life.
She had them stored in a garage, and at one
point she applied a varnish or clear shellac to the skulls,
probably in an effort to preserve them. The girl, who
would die well into her seventies, told the story of

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the skulls but a few times and could never recall
the exact location or the town she had visited at
the time of her discovery. Chihuahua is nicknamed e Lestallo
Mars Grande, the largest state by Mexicans, and its terrain
can be inaccessible and difficult to manage. The girl only

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knew that it was near the Barrancas del Covre, known
to the outside world as Copper Canyon, the largest canyon
system in the world, in the remote Sierra Madre Occidental.
When the discoverer of the skull died in the mid
nineteen nineties. The skulls passed to friends and eventually ended

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up in the hands of Melanie Young, a neonatal nurse
from El Paso, Texas. In nineteen ninety eight, Nurse Young
approached several of her co workers at the hospital where
she worked to try to understand what medical condition could
would have caused the skull to be so deformed. No
one of her medical colleagues could give Melanie an adequate

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explanation as to what was responsible for the deformity, and
she could not rest without answers. That is when she
contacted Lloyd Pie, a paranormal researcher who had just published
a book titled Everything You Know Is Wrong Book One
Human Evolution. From this meeting, the Star Child Project was

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eventually formed in February of nineteen ninety nine, with Pie
as its director. After getting assistance from his contacts in
various medical fields, Pie began to suspect that this Mexican
skull had extraterrestrial origins. The initial tests on the skull

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discovered the basics. It is from a male and the
wear on its teeth would indicate that it is not
of a child. The skull dates to around eleven hundred
a d. And is contemporary to the Mixed Tech and
saple Tech kingdoms of the south of Mexico and the
powerful toll Tech Empire which dominated central Mexico at the time.

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Lloyd Pie identified twenty four distinctive star Child's skull anomalies
which set it apart from a normal human skull. Number one,
the bone is like no other bone on Earth. Its
biochemical signature is much richer in collagen than regular bone.

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Number two. The bone is uniformly half as thick or
less than normal human bone. It is not thin in
a specific area or areas due to abnormality. It is
thin all over. Number three. The skull itself weighs half
as much as a human skull of a comparable size.

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Number four. The surface of normal human bone is covered
with tiny holes called lacune, which perform the vital function
of replacing old bone cells with new ones. The star
Child bone shows virtually no lacune. Number five. Inside the
bone are microscopic fibers that may act to reinforce and

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strengthen the bone. Number six. All bone is like a
sandwich with hard cortical bone on the outside, and porous
cancillus bone that looks like a sponge in the middle.
The cancillus bone is where the bone marrow is stored.
After death, this marrow turns black and is consumed by

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micro organisms. The concillus holes of the nine hundred year
old skull found next to the star child are completely empty. However,
the cascilla less holes of the nine hundred year old
starchild bone contain traces of a red residue. Number seven.

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The lower face of the star Child's skull is much
smaller than the normal human number eight. It has no
brow ridges, which all primates have. Its forehead is smoothly
curved straight down to its upper eye sockets, unlike humans
or any other higher primate number nine. When a human

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forehead reaches its upper eye sockets, normally there is a
sharp drop down to the pinched together bones that create
the upper nose. In the star child, there is no drop.
The nose extends straight and smooth from the forehead, staying
wide and flat until the point where it is broken off,
unlike that of humans and all other higher primates. Number ten,

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The star child skull's eye sockets are unusually shaped and
are only point seven inches at maximum depth, compared to
normal human eye sockets, which average about two inches deep.
Number eleven. The optic foramens are the openings in the
back of the human eye socket, which let in the

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optic nerve and all the other nerves and blood vessels
that feed each eyeball and allow it to function. In
the star child skull, these are shaped and positioned differently.
Number twelve. The star child skull has no frontal sinuses.
In extremely rare condition. Number thirteen, all that remains of

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the star child's lower face is the right side maxilla.
The roof of its mouth was flat, lacking any sign
of normal human arch and like all of the lower face,
it is much smaller than that of a normal human.
Number fourteen. The starchild's zygomatic arches his cheekbones are broken off,

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but from the small fragments that remain, it is clear
that the space between the cheekbones and the other bones
of the face is much smaller than it would be
in a normal human. This is significant because the chewing
muscles for the lower jaw pass through this space and
so must have been much smaller than in a normal human.

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Number fifteen. Human chewing muscles attached from the lower jaw
to the side of the skull, extending over a large
area of the skull. The starchild's chewing muscles cover only
about half as much of the skull. Number sixteen. The
starchild's skulls ear holes are positioned lower on the head

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than in a normal human. Number seventeen. The star child's
inner ears are approximately twice the size of normal human
in her ears. Number eighteen. The star Child's neck muscles
attached in a way that indicates it was a very
small neck relative to typical humans, no more than half

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of normal size. Number nineteen. Human neck muscles normally attach
at an elevated point in the rear center of the
occipital bone the rear bone of the skull. That elevated
point is called the external occipital protuberance, or indian for short.

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All humans, and indeed all primates on Earth, have an indian.
The star child skull does not number twenty. In addition
to the external occipital protuberance on the outside of the skull,
there is an internal occipital protuberance on the inside. This

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functions like a shelf holding some of the weight of
the brain. While the star child does not have this
internal shelf, it is much smaller than it would be
in a normal human Number twenty one. Though the rear
of the star child's skull is widely expanded and greatly flattened,

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this is not the result of deliberate binding or cradle boarding.
This was verified in two thousand four by doctor Ted
Robinson and his team Number twenty two. At the top
of the rear of the star Child's head is a
noticeable crease at the rear of its sagital suture where

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it meets the lambdoidal suture. The only possible way this
can happen in a human skull is if there is
an abnormal fusion of the sagital suture. A cat scan
showed that no such abnormal fusion exists in the star
child's skull. Number twenty three. The star child skull's physical

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size is one of a small adult in the range
of five feet tall or an average twelve year old,
which means its brain should be about twelve hundred cubic centimeters.
An average adult has fourteen hundred cubic centimeters of brain. Instead,
the star child has sixteen hundred cubic centimeters of brain

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and the last one number twenty four. The teeth of
the skull are a controversial subject, as many experts feel
they show the star Child was a child of about
five years old. However, the biting surfaces of the teeth
are worn and ground to a degree that seems impossible
for if such a young child, especially one with smaller

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than normal chewing muscles. You can see photos of the
Star Child's skull an artist's rendition of the skull on
our web site Mexico and explained dot com. Given these
physical anomalies, what of the DNA evidence? The skull has
been tested at least six times. As it is very

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expensive to run such tests, a full genome on the
skull has not yet been developed. The first test took
place at a Canadian lab in nineteen ninety nine. The
Star Child's Skull Project dismisses the results found at this
lab because of carelessness and contamination. The lab was also

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not equipped to search for ancient DNA, and the supposed
y chromosomes discovered, which were not found by the next
lab to investigate the skull, were alleged to be from
someone who had handled the skull over the years. The
second round of DNA tests took place at a California

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lab called Trace Genetics, and those findings showed that the
skull had some Native American DNA consisted with the indigenous
tribes of Chihuahua, but there was much of the DNA
that was either missing or unexplained, according to the Star
Child's Skull Project website. The skull was then sent to

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an undisclosed lab with the geneticis doing pro bono work
on the skull. This unnamed geneticist had found some DNA
in the skull that was conclusively human, but when the
data was sent to the National Institutes of Health to
find matches with other species on the remaining DNA, it

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was found that there were no conclusive matches with any
known species on Earth. Testing on the skull is ongoing
and many tests need to be replicated in order to
be upheld to rigorous scientific scrutiny. Scientists and amateur debunkers
have come out harshly against the idea that the skull

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represents tangible evidence of aible in visitation, or, in the
case of the claim of being an alien human hybrid,
ancient alien genetic manipulation of humans. Debunkers claim that not
enough tests have been run and demand that the anonymous
geneticist at the secret lab who has been responsible for

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most of this testing should come forth and be known.
Others dismiss anything to do with extraterrestrials out of hand
and say that the simplest explanation is often the correct explanation,
that the skull belonged to an unfortunate human, a dwarf
suffering from massive deformities, or a child with a case

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of Hutchinson Guildford syndrome, or simply hydrocephaly. We will have
links to websites on both sides of this discussion at
our website Mexico Unexplained dot com, so you can decide
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