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Do leprechauns really exist – small wizards from the traditions of Irish folklore however in the United States in 1932 was discovered the mummy of a man no more than 45 centimeters.
This happened in the San Pedro Mountains of Wyoming. Gold diggers Frank Carr and Cecil Mine used explosives to search for gold vein, and came across a stone room in which was tiny human mummy.
As soon as the find became a matter of publicity, it was immediately tackled scientists, however, at first they thought it was just a doll. AND it was only in 1950 that the mummy was first examined using x-rays, as a result of which it was determined that this still a skeleton, moreover humanoid. Broken bones in the area the spine and collarbone even made it possible to conclude that this the creature was killed.
The study of the mysterious mummy continued even later. For example, her engaged in anthropologist at the University of Wyoming George Gill who felt that this is the body of an ancephalous child. Radiocarbon analysis showed that this baby was born before 1700, and DNA testing revealed that he was an Indian. In addition, scientists also suspected that a mummy could just be a hoax. It was about all this that went debate of scientists described in Casper Star-Tribune article July 7, 1979 Scientists, apparently, did not come to unanimous opinion of what constitutes the found mummy, which it could well be the mummy of leprechaun (this assumption is also not excluded).
Later, the mysterious mummy was stored in the local Wyoming Mititsa Pharmacy to customers as an amazing gimmick. But soon the mummy was sold to a businessman from the city of Casper Ian Goodman, who resold it to a rich New Yorker Leonard Wadler – this marks the mysterious finds of two gold miners are lost.
And although later, according to Casper Star-Tribune, even announced a reward of 10 thousand dollars for providing a “mummy leprechaun “for further scientific research, still not yet one collector did not respond to this call. It remains the secret, what was this mysterious find, the mummy mystical creature, which, we note, was carefully hidden in mountains in a stone crypt specially created for her …
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