The Starchild Skull, 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.

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