Alien-Looking Skeleton Poses Medical Mystery
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Anticitizen One
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So gnomes are real guys
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Cow Mengde
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The guys (the little guys) in your pictures are down right giants compared to the skeleton here. That's pretty crazy when you think about it.
Count Dookkake
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Only medical mystery I see is how people dumb enough to believe this hoax are able to survive.
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What hoax is that?
I don't know man, have you read thumbelina?
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To be fair it does scream hoax all over the place.
Fenderputty
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Yeah I thought we just had the debunking thread on GAF about this.
Omegasquash
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The likelihood of this being alien or a different species is slim to none. Forgive me if I snort my nose at this, but...nope.
Yeah fuck the whole alien bit. The thing is freaky enough as it is. I want answers. I want miniature humans! Flying model aeroplanes!!
How tall were they at age 6?
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Nope. That was ruled out. It wasn't "built". There is DNA in the bone marrow. The thing is real.
I read something today that said it may have been a fetus that was resorbed into someone's body and "lived" as a tumor would, inside that person.
I just can't believe something this crazy hasn't been described in nature before. Except like, folklore. It is extremely scary, to me. That thing is like one of my biggest fears embodied.
isn't there some horror movie that deal with something similar?
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Maybe you are thinking of Basketcase. Also there was an episode of Tales of the Crypt called "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" that dealt with the theme above.
No movies aside from them, that I know of, and I SWEAR I almost posted a thing on here a few weeks ago about how I think little, mutant evil human creatues is very underserved in horror.
Also that thing reminds me of the screaming mandrake creatures from Harry Potter that freaked me out when I saw the movie.
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Count Dookkake
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Might be slightly misremembering THE DARK HALF.
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What did the creature look like from that movie.
Count Dookkake
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Just a regular dude.
That's fine, not accusing you or anything. But the pic on the left is quite clearly something completely different than the stuff on the right.
How does that exclude something carved out of human bones exactly?
The little cat-fighting gremlin from Cats Eye.
ok...so you carve something out of bone.
or you have something with intact miniature bones, complete with tiny marrow hollows. how do you make something like that? 3D printer?
ok...so you carve something out of bone.
or you have something with intact miniature bones, complete with tiny marrow hollows. how do you make something like that? 3D printer?
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I have been on high alert about this too. Someone must have spent just an absolutely huge amount of time creating that thing. If it is fake. Also Stanford's reputation would be destroyed and so would a prominent researcher. I don't think it's fake, but I am just - astounded at this. It is terrifying and fascinating.
Fascinated, terrified AND on high alert. Simmer down, hot pants.
Threat level: Rustled
BannedEpisode
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I'll admit I jumped to the alien angle without reading the article.
Pretty lame of me, but I only did so because this same mummy has been the focus of other threads and trailers for UFO conspiracy movies.
My bad.
If some people manage to do stuff like this:
I have no doubt someone can manage to make that thing in the OP.
Yeah, the whole age thing is utter BS. With the most recent methods based on DNA, the margin of error is 5-10 years... And that's with fresh samples, not stuff buried for 2000 years.
PeteZaTheHutt
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I'd recommend a visit to your doctor.
It's not a matter of detail in miniature. It's the matter of the things actually being fully formed. You can carve something out of bone, yes. You can't carve a bone.
soxinthebox
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If some people manage to do stuff like this:
I have no doubt someone can manage to make that thing in the OP.
But is it still realistic to carve a tiny skeleton out of bones from a 6 year old though?
Poimandres
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The people who really look like idiots are the ones who cry "hoax" with absolutely nothing to support this notion. It is looking much more likely to be a fetus, perhaps a case of fetus in fetu.
But nobody has made any claims about what this actually is, so unless this is a case of improbably detailed modelling, there is no hoax here.
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I think they need to allow others to study that thing. We already know that at least one person's reputation is hanging on this being real, along with Stanford in general. I hope The Skeptics Guide to the Universe discusses this in length this week. In true scentific stufy fashion, that mummified body should be given to other experts to study. Then we'll know for sure.
I am still 50/50 on it. If it is real, it is mind blowing. If not, someone pulled off an amazing hoax. Other theories I have read say it may have been a fetus that wasn't fully developed, and lived as a tumor would, inside someone's body, for 8 years. Which is just as weird. This is all so fucking weird.
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Well I tried. Did these posts give you any hints at least? Now I am curious.
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