At the Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza, there is a small curio chamber that houses a variety of intriguing artifacts. Recently, a photo of a particularly unusual mummy went viral on the internet.
According to the description on the zoo’s official website, this chamber houses authentic and replicated nineteenth-century exhibits from the Maritime Museum in London.
However, there is no clear distinction between genuine and manufactured items. Inside this Kunstkammer, several peculiar items are displayed, including the skeleton of a child with two heads, an eight-legged lamb fetus, mummies of Egyptian animals, a meteorite fragment, cutlery from Fijian cannibals, and a supposedly cursed doll.
Recently, a visitor to this “mystery chamber” took a photograph of a mummified humanoid creature with an unusually elongated skull. The mummy is displayed on a wire stand and would have been created by the evaporation of fluids from the body, as indicated on the accompanying plaque.
Records suggest that this particular mummy was discovered in 1875 among the collection of curiosities belonging to a certain Palmer-Hudson. However, further details about its origin remain unknown.
Subsequent discussions on Reddit and other platforms where the photo was shared sparked debates about its authenticity — whether it could be a genuine mummy, possibly of extraterrestrial origin, or a fabrication.
One user argued that the mummy doesn’t have enough historical antecedents to be a fake. It seems to have been kept discreetly for decades in this small Belgian museum of curiosities, with no attempt to commercialize it or perpetuate a media hoax using its existence.
Another observer noted similarities between this mummy and the popular alien mummies exhibited in Peru, which were recently presented at the Mexican Congress.
Despite the different head structures, both sets of mummies share the common point of having three fingers on their hands.
A different individual found on the internet a 19th-century image depicting the remains of a child with an unusually elongated skull, drawing comparisons to the Belgian mummy. The resemblance is striking, except for the presence of three fingers on the hands, which diverges from the image depicted.
There is no direct information from the zoo about the creature.
