The San Pedro Mountains Mummy

The Mystery of the San Pedro Mountains Mummy






Photos and x-ray of the San Pedro Mummy








Little People and the Pedro Mountain Mummy – Legends of America

The Pedro Mountain Mummy – Wyohistory

The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy – Atlas Obscura

The Lost Remains of the Pedro Mountain Mummy – Strange Remains

By M R Reese


Babies have certainly been born with teeth, natal teeth, and other, and in the case of ectodermal dysplasia, the teeth are pointed.

If it ia a child with an unformed skull how do you explain well formed teeth? No child is born with teeth and especially not with
pointed teeth.

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Yes, and this is yet another example of a truly intriguing anomalous discovery that, unfortunately, is not available for further study because it "disappeared" at some point and has never been seen again.
I know it could just be coincidence, but this happens too frequently for me to be able to chalk it up to mere happenstance.

This is clearly not the body of an infant nor some sort of simian. It is human. The skull deformity may be accounted for by damage post mortem but without an autopsy it is impossible to state it positively.

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Anacephaly is a possible explanation. I've been interested in the Pedro case for a long time, and over the years I've heard many people say that must be the answer...and perhaps it is part of it. But it can't be the entire answer.

For one, there are xray images of Pedro, and his bone structure is apparently that of an adult male, albeit one of extremely small proportions--but they are the proportions of an adult. Anecephalic infants have anomalous bone structure relative to a normal infant, but they don't have adult proportions.

Nor do they have, afaik, a full head of teeth. Sometimes an anecephalic child will have a few visible teeth in the front, but again they are not to adult proportions. (And they definitely aren't pointed. I've seen the claims that Pedro's were pointed, I have no idea if that is correct or not but it does fit some of the folklore.)

One interesting bit that isn't included in the article is that the native folklore supposedly says that when a member of the little people became old and weary and ready to move on to the next life, there would be a farewell ceremony, a sort of food-and-drink-and-dancing-girls(very small ones) party, at the end of which the old fella would be dispached quickly and painlessly with a hard blow to the back of the head with a heavy mallet. Anyone who was mortally wounded were also killed this way.
If it is true this was in the folklore before the discovery of Pedro, that would be very interesting, I think.

Finally, there is the question of the tomb/chamber/cave and Pedro's placement in it--up on a small ledge near the ceiling, sitting in a sort of lotus position. The room had no discernible entrance and didn't appear to go anywhere. It was just a hollow spot deep in the rock.


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