Mystery mummified creature with ‘human-like hands’ probed by scientists

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Mystery mummified creature with ‘human-like hands’ probed by scientists – The Mirror

The creature has been compared with the mythical chupacabra – a bloodsucking cryptid from American folklore. Hence the “capacabra” nickname

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.