{"id":4366,"date":"2026-02-25T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:30:56","slug":"a-teenager-sparks-alien-panic-after-discovering-a-bizarre-shriveled-figure-claimed-to-be-an-extraterrestrial-corpse-buried-near-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/a-teenager-sparks-alien-panic-after-discovering-a-bizarre-shriveled-figure-claimed-to-be-an-extraterrestrial-corpse-buried-near-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A teenager sparks alien panic after discovering a bizarre, shriveled figure\u2014claimed to be an extraterrestrial corpse buried near his home."},"content":{"rendered":"

When 17-year-old Curt-Leigh Dixon stumbled across a mysterious dead body with spindly arms, a shrivelled head and giant teeth, he thought he\u2019d found an alien corpse.<\/p>\n

His \u2018groundbreaking\u2019 discovery sparked a frenzy of speculation online and in his hometown of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, where villagers hailed it as proof extra-terrestrials live among us; others said it was, at the very least, a strange cross-breed between a seal and a monkey.<\/p>\n

Either way, they knew it would make the town rich\u2026 until the local vet revealed it was a baby baboon.<\/p>\n

\"You're<\/p>\n

You\u2019re taking the monkey: Some villagers hailed the find as proof extra-terrestrials live among us while others said it was, at the very least, a strange cross-breed between a seal and a monkey<\/p>\n

Pictures of the strange beast taken by Curt-Leigh\u2019s father Llewellyn Dixon, a national park ranger, appeared to show a wrinkled and mummified beast unlike any on Earth.<\/p>\n

\"Alien-looking:<\/p>\n

\u2018It was a newborn female baboon, with umbilical cord still attached to her body.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was most likely killed by the bite through her scull soon after birth, possibly infanticide, which is very common in some primate species when a new male takes over the troop.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\"Alien-looking:<\/p>\n

Alien-looking: The mysterious dead body had spindly arms, a shrivelled head and giant teeth<\/p>\n

\"Alien-looking:<\/p>\n

Shrivelled head: The body was sent to local vet Dr Magdalena Braum who immediately scotched the discovery within seconds, saying: \u2018Anyone could see it was baby baboon\u2019<\/p>\n

She said its strange shape and apparent mummification was down to the fact it had been carried around by its mother after death.<\/p>\n

\"Weird<\/p>\n

Weird sight: Dr Braum said its strange shape and apparent mummification was down to the fact it had been carried around by its mother after death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When 17-year-old Curt-Leigh Dixon stumbled across a mysterious dead body with spindly arms, a shrivelled head and giant teeth, he thought he\u2019d found an alien corpse. His \u2018groundbreaking\u2019 discovery sparked a frenzy of speculation online and in his hometown of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, where villagers hailed it as proof extra-terrestrials live among us; others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1124,1125],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-teenager-sparks-alien-panic-after-discovering-a-bizarre","tag-shriveled-figure-claimed-to-be-an-extraterrestrial-corpse-buried-near-his-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}