José de la Luz Maldonado, Jaime Maussan and Homer Simpson have a lot in common… more than it seems. Just let´s remember…
Along with their schoolmates Lisa and Bart Simpson, they spend all day looking for bones, as payment from the school authorities due to a previous occasion when Lisa did not sue them for a scorpion in her soup. When, just about to leave and due to the lack of enthusiasm from the rest of her teachers and classmates, Lisa finds a very strange human skeleton, which seemed to have wings. The inhabitants of Springfield went to the place to see the excavation. Seeing the winged skeleton, Ned Flanders claims it was an angel’s. Homer, seeing that it was Lisa who made the discovery, takes the skeleton home and exhibits it in his garage, charging admission to see it when he sees how interested others were in the novelty.
Lisa realizes it is apocryphal and that it had been buried on purpose for her to find it. As it turns out, it was just an advertising campaign where the mall owner and marketer took advantage of people’s faith to guarantee success with their project, she asks that something be done about it; but no one listens to her and they all run off to the new mall. Then the girl asks the paleontologist why his tests did not show that the angel was fake, but he confesses that he never did the tests, also leaving.
Chapter based on the Cardiff Giant, which was a fraud perpetrated in 1869 by tobacconist George Hull, who had a human figure 3.10 meters tall carved from a block of plaster, then buried it and had it discovered by a well builder.
Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy the giant for $60,000 but as he could not make the purchase, he commissioned a replica of the giant, claiming that the original was actually a hoax, and trying to pass off his giant as the real one. Finally, Hull’s deception was discovered when chisel marks were found on the statue.
However, ignorance, contempt for critical thinking, eagerness to believe and be recognized coupled with greed are repeated in Mexico.
In a house in the San José Río Verde neighborhood, in the city of Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco that belongs to Mexico, there was a real fairy.
A young man named José Maldonado, a resident of San José Río Verde, in Guadalajara, Jalisco (a state in the North of Mexico) claimed that he had captured before August 10, 2011 what he discovered as a sparkling flying object moving between the branches of a guava tree.
According to statements to the local press, when he had it in his hands he realized that it was a fairy, which was injured in one foot and that’s why it stopped moving. He decided to put it in a jar with formalin and put it on display in his house, the fairy was very small, not more than 3 centimeters, had red boots and gloves and long hair tied back.
Anyone could enter the house to see the find after paying a recovery fee, most pay between 2 and 3 Mexican pesos, although there were those who gave more money. On the other hand, the Exhibition mounted by Jaime Maussan, last year in Tijuana called Chullpa, the mysterious mummies of Nazca offered night tours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for a cost per person of 250 pesos and general admission in regular hours has a cost of 180 pesos per person plus visitors could acquire some souvenirs such as mugs, shirts, a book with all the details of the investigation and even stone, silver or copper sculptures. The prices of the souvenirs range from 95 pesos to 400.
The Nazca mummies vary in size, with heights ranging between 60 centimeters and 1.60 meters, their skulls are notably elongated, in total they have only 12 fingers, 6 upper and 6 lower, their faces have large and elongated eyes, they do not have a septum and their nasal arches are slightly pronounced. The mummies have very narrow torsos.
The Nazca mummies were found by Leandro Rivera Sarmiento in 2016 in Nazca, south of Peru1. This place is famous for the lines drawn on the surface, which can only be seen from the air1. Many followers of the UFO phenomenon claim that these lines were made by extraterrestrials.
Leandro Benedicto Rivera Sarmiento (A.k.a “Mario”), before discovering or bringing these dolls to light, according to journalistic reports in 2010 was arrested in Puno for desecration and trafficking of remains of the Nasca culture as a member of a gang called “Los palpeños”. Also in 2007 he was arrested for fraud along with other 10 people for scamming passers-by with the waterfall modality.
After a long legal process concluded on May 1st of 2022 sentenced Leandro Benedicto Rivera Sarmiento, who was the discoverer of the so-called “Tridactyl Mummies” or “Alien Mummies” of Nazca, for crimes related to huaqueo and damage to goods and archaeological sites.
August 10th of 2011 and September 12th of 2023 are fateful dates for critical thinking and scientific thought in Mexico. Second-hand embarrassment and self-embarrassment is the least one can feel for the people, science and rational thought of a country as intelligent as Mexico is.
Maussan has exhibited his mummies without any modesty or hygienic control when in recent days the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico stated that the appearance of fungi in the traveling exhibition is a cause for concern because of the way the mummies are handled and presented to the public referring to “The mummies of Guanajuato”, the exhibition was presented in the United States in 2009. But it has been a recent exhibition in Mexico City, where six mummies are displayed in glass showcases, which has led the institute to alert the public, especially considering that they do not know to what extent those showcases are hermetic.
“It is even more worrying that they continue to be exhibited without safeguards for the public against biological risks,” said the institute in a statement, according to Associated Press. “From some of the published photos, at least one of the exposed corpses, which was inspected by the institute in November 2021, shows signs of proliferation of possible colonies of fungi”… if that is with human mummies and if his are or not aliens, I don’t want to imagine what consequences could be shown for the population that was in contact with these, which also have remains of diatomite!
Contact with diatomite can cause certain diseases or delicate health conditions such as:
Silicosis: Inhalation of crystalline silica, a component of diatomaceous earth, can produce in humans a pneumoconiosis called silicosis, a disease similar to that caused by asbestos.
Carcinogen for human lung: Crystalline silica has been classified as carcinogenic for human lung.
Toxins: Some diatoms can produce toxins that can cause diseases in people and animals. Symptoms depend on how and how long they were exposed to what type of toxin. Symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, numbness of lips, tongue and throat, dizziness.
It is important to remember that any exposure to diatomite should be handled with care to avoid these health risks.
I want to think that none of those I have mentioned above have acted with malice, but honestly, I can’t… I only remember that in Maussan’s case, many corpses were altered for a purpose as gruesome as wanting to justify supposed alien life, how many graves have been desecrated to loot treasures like in Egypt but here they have even dared to defile bodies including those that could be children…
Previously I wrote a small article, “And When I die”, where I mentioned how deplorable it is to expose bodies and human remains in exchange for money, later here in Mexico was established the Ocaña Law, this has as main objective to safeguard the dignity and posthumous honor of deceased people and their relatives, as well as prevent misuse of all types of information related to any investigation of the circumstances of death or injuries they present. This law was born from the case of renowned actor Octavio Pérez Ocaña, where there was an exhibition in media photos, audios and videos for profit, psychologically and morally damaging relatives and revictimizing him, why not respect the deceased?. It should be noted that the fairy was not a biological organism, but it was profited from the morbidity caused by seeing a fairy being, almost like with Maussan’s mummies or those from Guanajuato. The crime is and will be playing with human intelligence.
The 1936 film Freaks tells the story of a “freak show” led by Hans (Harry Earles), a man with dwarfism who inherits a large fortune, and Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova), an attractive trapeze artist who tries to seduce the dwarf to get his money. Along the way, and when the lies come to light, the “freaks” begin to rebel against the trapeze artist. In this film, a “monster” is defined as someone who is capable of doing anything for power and money, regardless of the damage they may cause along the way…
