Let’s hope he is not “trolling” the general public.
The invention of a supposed “goblin fetus” in Mexico has caused a stir online, with users debating the identity of the bizarre, folkloric-looking find.
The bizarre specimen was reportedly exhumed during construction work at an abandoned warehouse in Santa María Regla, which is northeast of Mexico City.
“Samples have already been taken to determine a scientific explanation,” Francisco Mayoral Flores, the mayor of town where the alleged eagle was found, told Jam Press.
Because the attached photos show, the mummified corpse boasts a small body, pointed ears, overgrown shnoz, and gnarled, clawed hands and feet, very like certainly one of the evil emerald imps from The Lord of the Rings.
In step with this, Flores was quick to call the stays “goblin or nagual.” For the uninitiated, the latter being is described in Mesoamerican mythology as a man with the power to remodel into an animal.
“The Goblin’s Child” is currently on display on the Museo de los Duendes – which accurately translates because the Goblin Museum – in the municipality of Huasca de Ocampo, where the police officer serves as mayor.
While his evaluation may sound bizarre, Flores suggested it was quite reasonable considering the magical realm he presides over.
“If it had been found in one other municipality, it would not matter,” the mayor declared. “But due to the goblin and mystical themes, there’s a cultural and social demand to provide it meaning.”
Useless to say, social media wasn’t exactly Flores’ “silly” fairytale explanation, and one disbelieving viewer found it “ridiculous.”
“Is that this a joke?” one other wondered, while a third snapped, “Good thing it’s a magical city!”
Within the meantime, one attentive viewer commented that the proportions didn’t match the outline of the goblin in the cryptozoological canon. “You mean to inform me that goblins are born the dimensions of a man and turn into tiny as they grow up?” they wrote.
Meanwhile, “doctors and veterinarians have found it to be a malformed cat or dog fetus,” based on Mayor Flores, noting that samples were taken to verify his identity.
Ultimately, he concluded that “everyone can judge for himself based on his beliefs and traditions.”
Flores shouldn’t be the primary to swear he has seen the mythical creature.
In 2021, three men in Australia claimed that after they were walking home from work, they encountered the seemingly Bigfoot-like “Yowie”, leaving them terrified.
Prior to now, people were even guilty of making mythological hybrids through taxidermy and other tricks.
One in all the more famous chimeras in American mythology is the legendary Jackalope: a rabbit with the horns of a pronghorn antelope.