The Pedro Mountain Mummy: Wyoming | 50 States of Folklore

Midnight Signals: History, Folklore and Unexplained Mysteries · Mar 2, 2026 · 32m · transcript

In October 1932, prospectors Cecil Main and Frank Carr blasted into the San Pedro Mountains of Carbon County, Wyoming, looking for gold, and instead opened a sealed stone pocket that had not breathed in centuries. Inside, perched on a rock ledge like a patient sentry, sat a tiny cross-legged body no taller than a man’s shin, skin turned to dark leather, fingers tipped with perfect little nails, and a face that looked human and alien at the same time. Skeptics called it a malformed infant. The X-rays, as the story is usually told, showed something else: the skeleton of an adult with sharp…