Throughout history, humans have discovered many strange skulls with unusual characteristics. Some of these skulls have abnormally large sizes, while others have unusual shapes or features. These skulls have caused confusion and speculation for many years, and many people believe that they may be evidence of lost species or civilizations.
Elongated Skulls
Perhaps the most common among the strange skulls ever discovered by humans are the elongated skulls. Many of these skulls have been found in Peru, especially near the Nazca Lines and the Paracas Peninsula. New discoveries are still frequently made by tomb raiders, who sell them on the black market. These skulls are characterized by their flat, elongated shape, and in many of them, mummified hair and skin remain intact. These skulls can also be found in other places such as private museums, the Paracas History Museum, and regional museums in Ica.
Similar skulls have been found all over the world, including in Bolivia, France, Norway, Malta, Egypt, northern Iraq, Ukraine, Siberia, South Africa (where the indigenous people believe these skulls belonged to the Boskop people), and Vanuatu in Oceania.
Current science suggests that the deformed shape of these skulls is due to an ancient custom of indigenous peoples, who tightly bound the heads of infants to deform them. However, why this phenomenon appears to have occurred worldwide, in cultures with no known contact with each other, remains unexplained.
In fact, these discovered skulls sometimes have a size nearly double that of a normal human skull. Many of these skulls also lack certain sutures that a normal human skull has, including the frontal suture and the sagittal suture. However, they do have an additional suture running diagonally across the forehead. The bones of these skulls are often much thicker and more robust than ours.
Meanwhile, the practice of binding the heads of children did indeed exist in some cultures, possibly as a result of the admiration people had for the gods in their beliefs, who had elongated heads. They imitated the head shape in the hope of becoming more like these gods.
In Egypt, not only have these skulls been found, but also numerous decorations and wall carvings depicting people with elongated heads, many traces of which date back to the era of the pharaohs. Egyptologists consider these to be stylized depictions of ordinary people with royal headdresses. But unusually elongated skulls have also been found in mummies, such as that of King Tutankhamun, whose head was unusually elongated compared to others.
Some elongated skulls from the Paracas Peninsula have undergone DNA testing, but the DNA found does not match any known life forms on Earth.
Preston Nichols, a technical engineer who worked on the highly secretive Montauk Project near New York, suggests that these were the beings worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt, with longer heads and larger eyes than ours.
However, many conspiracy theories suggest that these elongated skulls belonged to extraterrestrials from the Sirius B system. Indigenous tribes in the mountains of China, Tibet, and the Dogon tribe in Mali, Africa, also speak of ancient encounters with visitors from the Sirius star system. The priests of the Dogon tribe informed Western researchers about the existence of a third star in the Sirius system—a small star named Sirius C—long before mainstream science discovered it in 1995.
Anunnaki Skulls
Alongside the elongated skulls, these skulls are believed by many conspiracy theorists to belong to a reptilian humanoid species from the constellation Orion and the planet Nibiru. Over 200,000 years ago, these extraterrestrials were responsible for creating our species, Homo sapiens.
They mixed their DNA with the DNA of the Bushmen in South Africa, who originally came from Lemuria. In this way, they created a new race. The Anunnaki needed gold dust to protect the weakening atmosphere of their planet, Nibiru, from the harsh effects of the cosmos. After this event, the Anunnaki continued to visit humans regularly. They interfered with human development in negative ways, even until recent times.
Moreover, researcher Bill Ryan from the Project Camelot stated that the Anunnaki had significantly larger chins compared to humans. This description matches many of the skulls that have been discovered, which have wide and large chins. In the photos below, the non-human jaw shape is clearly visible, and certain skull sutures are absent.
Starchild Skull
This skull was discovered by an American couple in a mine in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico. They then brought the skull home and kept it as a memento in their garage in El Paso, Texas, until the end of their lives. In 1998, the strange skull came into the possession of two other El Paso residents, Ray and Melanie Young.
However, Melanie, a nurse, believed the skull to be a human deformity. Thus, she gave it to author and researcher Lloyd Pye (then 18 years old), who had written a book about human-like beings such as Bigfoot in the USA and the Yeti in the Himalayas, as well as about the Anunnaki’s influence on human development.
Pye was fascinated by the skull (of which only the upper part remained) and had its DNA tested multiple times. Repeated tests showed that the skull was hundreds of years old and that the mother of this “creature” was likely human, but the father’s DNA did not match anything found on Earth. Pye named the creature “Starchild” and proposed the skull to the scientific community. However, they showed no interest, considering it part of a deformed human child’s skull, likely caused by congenital hydrocephalus. Later, a similar skull was found in Peru.
Sealand Skull
The Sealand Skull was discovered in 2007 in Olstykke, Denmark, by workers replacing sewer pipes. Due to its strange shape, most scientists dismissed it as a joke and showed no interest in studying it. It wasn’t until 2010 that the skull was examined at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Denmark for the first time.
Researchers concluded that it was real but had no idea to which species it belonged on Earth. The skull is larger than that of Homo sapiens, so they initially suspected it might belong to some type of horse. However, further examination revealed it didn’t belong to any horse species either.
The skull was then sent to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Carbon dating revealed that it belonged to a living being from 1200 to 1280 BC, but they couldn’t provide more information about its origins. To date, this is the only skull of its kind discovered, and excavations around the area where it was found have not uncovered any other body bones.
Andahuaylillas Mummy
In 2011, Renato Davila Riquelme of the Privado Ritos Andinos museum in Cusco, Peru, made an astonishing discovery—a mysterious mummy with an elongated skull found in the city of Andahuaylillas, a southern province of Quispicanchi, Peru.
The mummy had a bizarrely shaped head, 50 cm in length, but the body was small, like that of an infant (the skull was nearly as long as the body). The mummy’s teeth were fully developed, but it had fewer molars than humans. Its eye sockets were much larger than a human’s. Its fontanelle was open—a condition usually only seen in children under one year old.
Davila Riquelme invited three anthropologists from Spain and Russia to examine the mummy. They studied the strange mummy and concluded that it could not be human. They wanted to conduct DNA research on the remains of the eyeball in the right eye socket to determine its genetic DNA and thereby help ascertain whether it was human. However, the results of that research have never been made public to date.
These enigmatic skulls represent a small fraction of the archaeological treasures that hold profound mysteries. Each skull serves as a unique chapter in our past, illuminating the evolutionary journey and diverse tapestry of humanity. Unveiling and deciphering these enigmas is an ongoing quest, promising groundbreaking discoveries that will continue to reshape our understanding of the human story.
