In the summer of 1934 two gold miners who were chasing a seam of gold blasted the rock to get their hands on the treasure hidden in the mountain Pedro. They indeed got their hands on a treasure but it wasn't gold. It was a cave which was 15 feet long and 4 feet wide and there they found a diminutive human sitting cross legged arms wrapped around the torso.
It was about 14 inches high and was mummified by the Wyoming climate. Facial expression of the mummy was unusual with a flat nose and a flat forehead and soon it became an exhibit famously knows as "Pedro". In 1950s the mummy was lost and it was never recovered. Most people thought that it is a hoax but the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the anthropology department of the Harvard University examined the mummy and proved that it is not.
However the experts have so many different theories about what actually pedro was. First theory is that he is a baby suffering from anencephaly, a rare genetic condition. But pedro also exhibits the features of a fully grown adult such as a full set of teeth. His x rays also revealed what appeared to be solid food in his stomach. Damaged spine, broken collarbone and smashed skull shows that his death was not natural. Due to these facts some people claim he is a dwarf. According to a native American legend a mythical race of tiny people has lives in the area of Wind river and the Pedro ranges and they used to kill their own who were suffering from infirmity by a blow to the head.
So whether he is a Nimerigar, the mythical creature or an infant is still unknown. Without his mummy all we can do is to speculate using the decades old evidence.
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