January 25, 2000: Star Child Skull - Lloyd Pye, Peter Davenport, Matt Moneymaker
Bigfoot Field Research Organization founder Matt Moneymaker then joins to analyze the sighting. He explains that the creature likely belongs to a primate species once thought extinct, noting that modern surveillance technology is almost never directed at locating such animals. He argues the evidence points to a flesh-and-blood species rather than anything paranormal.
The program later brings on Lloyd Pye to discuss the Starchild Skull, a 900-year-old anomalous skull discovered in a mine tunnel in Mexico. Pye details the unusual physical characteristics of the skull, including its expanded cranium and thin bone structure, and reports on scientific testing underway to determine whether it has a non-human origin.
Key Moments
Witness sees a Bigfoot at her woodpile: A Pacific Northwest woman walks out at 3:30 a.m. to fetch firewood and finds a roughly seven-foot-two, grayish-brown haired creature standing twenty feet away, peering through her dining room window.
Provenance of the Star Child skull: Lloyd Pye traces the chain of custody: roughly 60 to 70 years ago a teenage girl exploring a forbidden mine tunnel about 100 miles southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, found a human skeleton with a smaller, misshapen body buried beside it; flooding washed away the bones except for the two skulls, which she smuggled into the United States and quietly kept until passing them on near death.
Plastic surgeon rules out hydrocephalus and cradle-boarding: Cranial-facial surgeon Dr. Ted Robinson explains that CT scans show no inner-table erosion (ruling out hydrocephalus), all cranial sutures are open and growing (ruling out craniosynostosis), and the skull's flattening is not from cradle-boarding; he describes huge temporal bossing and possibly no room for a cerebellum.
Not completely human: Pressed by Bell, Robinson says he cannot rule out an unknown genetic abnormality but the skull doesn't match any pediatric reference, the eye orbits are shallow with the optic nerve entering low, and he ultimately allows that 'it's not completely human.'