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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave.

This is Short Stuff, which is off to a bad start already.

That's right, and this is the story of the saddest skeleton.

It is really sad.

There's like five different reasons it's sad,

but you can kind of understand a little bit

why the skeleton would get so much attention.

It's known as the Atacama skeleton,

and it was found in the desert of northern Chile, Atacama Desert, in an abandoned

town called La Noria back in 2003.

That's right.

It's little, very small, about six inches in length or 15 centimeters, and it has a very

interesting shape to the skull, very conically shaped, and also has only 10 pairs of ribs, wherein we usually have 12 pairs.

And so, of course, right away, there were UFO people saying, it's an alien. It's got to be a tiny little alien.

There's no other explanation. Yeah. Look at that thing. Other people said, hey, not so fast.

It looks more like a non-human primate, maybe a shapeshifter.

We don't know from what weird place this thing came from.

But that's just the beginning of the story.

I don't want to ruin anything just yet.

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