Genetic Manipulation by Aliens or Simply Roberts Syndrome?

Most rational people would never believe genetic manipulation by extraterrestrials has ever taken place on Earth. In other words, if you told a friend you thought aliens had visited our planet with the intention of creating alien-human hybrids, they most likely would suggest you double up on your medication as soon as possible. But if you showed them a picture of the creature that was born to a German woman by the name of Johanna Sophia Schmied in the year 1735, they just might believe you have adequate evidence to support your bizarre claim.

In a museum in Waldenburg, Germany, the creature that 28-year old Johanna gave birth to is still preserved in a 16-inch jar of formaldehyde.

And it very much resembles an alien.

Or at least how aliens are portrayed in movies.

The creature has an extremely large head with a massive protuberance in the forehead region (the head had been completely filled with brain tissue despite its tremendous size.) It has tiny arms and legs that contain only one bone in the forearm and lower leg regions, instead of the normal two. Its hands and feet are fully formed, yet its fingernails are animal-like and the toes distorted. Its huge eye sockets are deep and menacing and spaced widely apart. It has a small, almost nonexistent nose, while its lipless mouth gapes open almost as large as one of its eye sockets.

The baby was stillborn, had no kneecaps, and its heart was enclosed in a thin membrane instead of the normal heart sac (pericardium). It had a large liver, kidneys that varied in size, and no external genitalia. Taking more than seven hours to deliver, the baby's abnormalities were plentiful and gruesome enough that many fringe groups still believe it is genuine evidence that aliens visited Germany in the 1730s with the harrowing intention of creating alien-human hybrids.

Drawing of a green Alien head.

Credit: LeCire

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