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Don Day Weather

Mostly sunny in Wyoming on Monday with a chance of afternoon rain in some areas. Partly to mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain in some locations.  Highs from the low 70s to near 90. Lows from the low 40s to near 60.

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Sunny today with a high near 84 and becoming cloudy overnight with a low near 56.

Sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 7 p.m. and a low near 56.

  Sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 59.

  Sunny today with a high near 81 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 52.

   Sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 57.

 Mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 43.

 Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 46 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

 Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., increasing clouds and breezy today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 49.

  Increasing clouds today with a high near 77 and mostly cloudy overnight a low near 44.

 Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., increasing clouds and breezy today with a high near 73 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 49 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., increasing clouds today with a high near 80 and cloudy, gradually becoming partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 48.

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:  Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 74 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 40.

Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 58.

:  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 57.

  Mostly sunny today with a high near 85 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain and a low near 56.

   Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 59.

   Patchy fog before 9 a.m., mostly sunny today with a high near 84 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, patchy fog after 3 a.m. and a low near 52.

:   Mostly sunny today with a high near 84 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 54.

Mostly sunny today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight, a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Sunny today with a high near 84 and wind gusts as high as 18 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain after midnight, a low near 59 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph.

:  Sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain, a low near 56 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph.

  Sunny and hot today with a high near 90 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 60.

   Sunny today with a high near 84 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 57.

  Sunny today with a high near 85 and cloudy, gradually becoming partly cloudy overnight with a low near 55 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Sunny today with a high near 84 and partly cloudy overnight a low near 58.

  Mostly sunny today with a high near 79 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 55.

  Sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 51.

   Sunny today with a high near 81 and mostly cloudy overnight a low near 58.

   Sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 54.

   Sunny today with a high near 81 and mostly cloudy overnight a low near 55.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Monday, August 17, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Mostly sunny in Wyoming on Monday with a chance of afternoon rain in some areas. Partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain. Highs from the low 70s to near 90. Lows from the low 40s to near 60.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Monday, August 17, 2026

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Renée Jean

Wyoming Life

Steve Priest grew up on a farm in Ohio, but even he didn’t know what he was in for when his daughter settled on llamas for an FFA project.

It was supposed to be a short-lived livestock experiment.

Instead, it’s become a herd of long-necked pack animals that now escort Elk Mountain visitors on farm tours, appear at parties and holiday events, and could soon return to Wyoming trails for guided treks. 

“They look like something that came out of a Dr. Seuss book with the long necks and everything,” Priest said with a chuckle. “They’re in the camel family, so they look different than a lot of livestock animals people have seen.”

And that’s part of their charm at any celebration.

A goofy-necked llama has a way of making people smile. It’s all giggles and good feelings from there. 

That’s made Priest’s llamas unexpectedly cool party guests in Elk Mountain. They’ve also become a quirky tourism draw for visitors of the nearby Elk Mountain Hotel. 

“A lot of people who stay at the hotel will come over and do farm tours,” he said. “They’ll lead the llamas around, pet them, feed them and play with them.”

Llamas are good sports about it all — even when there’s some dress-up involved.

“They’ll wear hats,” Priest said. “Like we’ve taken them over to the hotel and they do a breakfast with Santa and they have quote-unquote costumes they wear — some that look like reindeer, some that look like elves, or whatever.”

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Llamas have a protective streak in them that makes them effective at fending off predators. And that was about all Priest knew about llamas before his daughter’s FFA project. 

He wasn’t sure how effective they would really be against Wyoming predators, but they quickly showed him — and he was impressed.

“We actually had a mountain lion get in with them, and one of our female llamas fought it off,” he said. “They are very tough, very protective, and they’ve got some big guard instincts.”

He doesn’t believe they’d hold up against a grizzly bear, but so far black bears, too, have steered clear.

“When there’s a predator, they’ll make a sound that’s a cross between a horse and I don’t know what,” Priest said. “We’ve heard it a couple of times because there’s something back in the willows.”

That first call alerts everyone in the group of llamas to orient on the threat. 

“I think there’s enough of them that they would band together and fight it if need be,” Priest said. “A grizzly bear could easily take them down, but the black bears are a little smaller … there’s enough (llamas) that (black bears) have just passed on by.”

One problem with llamas — which leads quickly to getting more llamas — is they’re herd animals. One lonely little llama is going to be unhappy if left to itself.

“So we started out with four,” Priest said. 

Then Priest’s son pointed out that llamas make great pack animals for hunting and hiking — a growing trend in Wyoming — so the family decided to get four more. 

“One of them, Barb, was older and she ended up passing away at I think she was 20,” Priest said. “Our females are Peg and Linda and then our males are Peak, Boulder, Chris, and Kuzco.”

Now Priest is well on his way into a breeding program to grow his small llama herd — even though the daughter and son who started it all are no longer at home. They’ve both gone off to college. Priest’s daughter is studying occupational therapy while his son is working on an agriculture degree.

That makes the llama herd all Priest’s now, but he’s not worried. 

“(My children) will go wherever life takes them,” he said. “That’s what I always tell them. Go wherever life takes you, and enjoy the ride.”

Priest is going to keep growing his llama herd, though he hasn’t decided just how big it should be.

“I’m just playing it by ear,” he said. 

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Llamas have a chill and calming demeanor, one humans find catching. It’s one of the first traits Priest appreciated. 

“I work in technology for my job,” he said. “And so the ability to just go unplug and take them and be in the outdoors, playing in the outdoors with them, is something I really enjoy.”

They are great hiking companions, Priest added.

“Their eyesight is so much better than ours,” he said. “Like, you’ll be walking and you won’t notice a deer that’s standing 200 yards out, because it’s frozen and not moving.”

The llamas notice it though, and freeze, with their eyes locked in that direction.

“Then you look over there and you’re like, ‘What are you looking at?’” Priest said. “Then it will move a bit and you’re like, ‘Oh I see what you’re looking at. There’s a deer over there.’”

Llamas can carry roughly 70 to 80 pounds, depending on their own weight, and Priest said they’re a little easier to take care of than other pack animals. Their diets aren’t as restricted as horses. They’ll browse woodier plants like thistle, sagebrush, and dandelions. They still require careful pasture management, because some ornamental and native plants can be toxic. 

“Llamas aren’t necessarily as spooky as a horse, and they’ll go anywhere you can go,” Priest said. “You can’t ride them, just lead them, but they’ll follow you along and they’re really fun to have around.”

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Ask Steve what the next five to 10 years with his llama herd look like, and he won’t unveil any grand business plan.

He talks in terms of keeping the llamas and enjoying them, sharing them with visitors, and being open to new ideas — like yoga with llamas if someone in Elk Mountain ever wants to teach it. 

“They’re easygoing,” he said. “They would probably just come up and nuzzle people and bother them, because they think they’re going to get a treat while they’re doing yoga.”

Unlike alpacas, which are generally more reserved around human touch, Priest said his llamas don’t seem to mind hugs.

“They’ll come right up to people and let them hug on them and love them,” Priest said. “They’re just a very, very laid-back animal.”

Priest eventually hopes to offer hiking treks in Elk Mountain with his llamas again, but now his focus is on building a healthy, strong herd for hunting with family and friends, as well as funny farm tours and parties.

The side gig doesn’t pay the mortgage, Priest acknowledged. But it helps cover the hay and grain, and it’s bringing tourists all over the country to his pasture for llama selfies. 

He’s also taking the advice he gave his own children — going wherever the llamas in his life take him, and enjoying the ride with a string of long-necked, Dr. Seuss-looking pack animals.

Contact Renee Jean at renee@cowboystatedaily.com

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<title>Llamas Are Becoming A Big Tourism Draw At Farm In Elk Mountain, Wyoming | Cowboy State Daily</title>

What began as an Elk Mountain girl’s FFA project has grown into a herd of party-going, trail-hiking llamas that draw visitors for farm tours, selfies, and wackiness. "They look like something from a Dr. Seuss book," says owner Steve Priest.

Llamas Are Becoming A Big Tourism Draw At Farm In Elk Mountain, Wyoming

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Dale Killingbeck

Seven years in prison beginning at 19 for putting a club into the head of a Swiss miner was followed by a couple of decades as a preacher and labor movement orator.

His personal reformation rewarded him with a Wyoming state role enforcing children and animal welfare.

But after just months on the state job, allegations of “white slavery” involving two teenage Casper girls in 1924 meant Baptiste John Minort needed to resign his state position and pulpit role. 

Those charges were eventually dropped and he was back filling a pulpit in Torrington when a “disturbing the peace” charge in 1926 was filed, alleging he had been in a rooming house with a woman in Nebraska he claimed was his wife under an assumed name.

An old character that many believed was buried and destroyed for the 42-year-old Torrington grain store manager and police court judge suddenly had resurfaced.

“Torrington Pastor Slays Family, Suicides,” the Casper Daily Tribune reported on Nov. 15, 1926. “Wife and Four Children Dead as Climax to Late Scandal.”

Newspapers across the country carried the headlines that an Associated Press reporter wrote likely were caused by “wagging tongues” and “domestic difficulties.”

Minort was born Feb. 20, 1884, in France and emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 to Missouri.

In 1901, at 17, he married Luisa Elizabeth Huber and they had five children, including Baptiste John Jr. in 1902, sons Carl, David and Clarence in 1912, 1915, and 1917, and daughter, La Von in 1922.

When he was 19, Minort was charged and convicted for killing a Swiss miner, Vincent Gaffney, at a coal camp in Riverton, Missouri, in March 1903 after a dispute about missing money from Gaffney’s room. Gaffney boarded with the Minort family.

“Minort claimed that Gaffney drew a revolver on him, then, in order to protect himself, he struck Gaffney twice on the head with a club, knocking him against a barbed wire fence, after which he choked him,” the Henry County Democrat reported on March 26, 1903. “Gaffney died as a result of his injuries.”

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After his conviction on a second-degree murder charge, Minort was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released after seven.

Newspaper accounts state that while in prison he started reading the Bible and when he got out moved to Nebraska. Whether he pursued formal religious training is not known.

 In May 1914, he took a role as a pastor at a Sterling, Nebraska, church and also had a role as the chairman and clerk of a Sunday school convention.

The Sterling Sun reported he was helping at a revival meeting in Falls City, Nebraska. His efforts in evangelism and teaching grew his church by 200 people, according to a report in the Norfolk Daily News.

By 1922, he was serving as a pastor in a church in Alliance, Nebraska, and was the main speaker at a Labor Day gathering in Casper.

The Casper Daily Tribune on Sept. 5, 1922, reported that Minort delivered an “inspirational address” that promoted the idea of trade unions and how they eliminated “classes” in society. Hundreds gathered to hear him.

“America has no class from which it is impossible to emerge,” he said. “America is distinguished throughout the world by the high standard of living which the masses of her people enjoy.”

By 1924, he had moved to Torrington and taken the pastorate of a Baptist church. He was appointed by Gov. William B. Ross to be the state commissioner of child and animal protection on July 22. Minort embraced the role by bringing charges against 22 boys and girls involved in a wild Cheyenne party in October of that year at the YWCA and Pine Cove. 

He blamed the parents for allowing their children to be at the party.

He also made headlines by uncovering a plot of a stepson to accuse his stepfather of choking an old man to death so he could inherit his mother’s property.

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But on Nov. 8, he was accused by a federal grand jury of transporting two juvenile delinquent girls across the state line to Nebraska for immoral purposes under the Mann Act. Minort had taken the pair from their uncle in Casper and was supposed to take them back to a Cheyenne facility.

“The girls told police and federal authorities that Minort, instead of going to Cheyenne, stopped in Mitchell, Nebraska, where he is alleged to have mistreated them,” the Grand Island Independent newspaper reported on Nov. 12, 1924.

Minort responded that the charges were false and he had taken the girls there to be under the care of an aunt. Still, he resigned from his role as the state commissioner and stepped down from the pulpit. The Torrington community rallied around him and a fund was set up for his defense.

Those charges were eventually dropped by the federal district court in April 1926 because the girls could not be located to testify.

Meanwhile, Minort worked for the Cheyenne Police Department supervising chain gangs and then got a job managing the Torrington grain elevator. When the charges were dropped, he was named as a police court judge in Torrington and he resumed preaching at a church in the city.

On Nov. 7, 1926, Minort was caught by Bayard, Nebraska, police in a rooming house with a woman from Torrington who was not his wife. He had registered under the name of “Joe Lander and wife.”

A man from Torrington saw him and remarked he looked like Minort. The town’s marshal investigated and called Minort’s wife in Torrington at 3 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 8.

“Minort, after admitting his identity, asserted that he had been the victim of a ‘frame-up’ and that he had been forced at the point of a gun at Bayard (by men) to get into the automobile with the woman and had been intimidated into registering with her as husband and wife,” The Wyoming State Tribune reported on Nov. 15, 1926.

The newspaper reported that the landlady of the rooming house did not confirm his story. Minort was fined $25 and ordered to pay costs of $15.

On Saturday, Nov. 13, Minort resigned his post as a police judge for Torrington.

Early on Nov. 14 Minort, who had prepared a sermon he called “Breaking the Alabaster Box” for church that morning, took a 12-gauge shotgun and shot his wife in the head as she lay sleeping in a bed with their young daughter, 4. He then used a .22-caliber rifle to shoot his daughter twice in the head.

Two sons, who lay in their beds, were killed with one bullet to the head from a .32-caliber revolver. His second-oldest son was killed as he entered his mom’s bedroom with a shot to the head. He was dressed and, according to the Wyoming State Tribune on Nov. 15, had been working for another family in the country and likely returned home for church before being shot.

Minort took time to write letters to the sheriff, his surviving son at a college in Missouri, and to the public as well as to a religious rival in Casper.

Then he called the local undertaker just after 9 a.m. and told him he needed him at the house.

When the undertaker arrived, he could see Minort on the kitchen floor, gasping for air before he died, the Wyoming State Tribune reported. Police were summoned and found a mirror on the kitchen table that he apparently set up so he could shoot himself in the head.

They then discovered the breadth of Minort’s actions in eliminating his family.

In his letter to the public, Minort asserted that he had been framed in the incident with the Torrington woman in Bayard. In his note to the sheriff, he gave his son’s address at college in Missouri.

In a letter to his son, he explained that his mother had told him she would kill herself if he brought shame to the family again. Minort wrote he was going to save her from “spiritual torment” by killing her.

“I killed her and the rest of them rather than have the shadow of the past upon them,” he wrote. “Mother and children are in heaven and I suffer my own fate through the hands of destiny.”

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Minor told Baptiste John Jr. to just dig a hole and bury the family in one grave to save on burial costs and that he could sell a box of shells he had at the grain elevator for $20 to get some money to help with costs.

“Well my son, I must hasten, as the gun beckons to me and I must hurry before I have lost my nerve,” he wrote, adding that the rest of his son’s life was his own. “So, do the best that you can.”

A coroner’s grand jury ruled that the murders and suicide were all the responsibility of Minort. The family members were buried in Valley View Cemetery in Torrington.

Minort’s surviving son was a sophomore at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, and learned of the shootings from the college dean as he wrote a letter to his father during the afternoon on Tuesday, Nov. 16, according to the Daily Standard newspaper in Excelsior, Missouri on Nov. 17, 1926.

John Minort along with Minort’s brother, Louis, the mayor of Lexington, Missouri, attended the funeral, which was packed with mourners from the Torrington community. All the slain were in caskets, Minort’s exhortation to his son ignored.

The community bore the costs of the funeral and burials, the newspaper reported.

The Western Nebraska Observer reported on Nov. 25, 1926, that the son “bore up bravely” to the tragedy.

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“It was remarked that the crowd seemingly were forgiving and even sorrowful in their attitude toward the dead man,” the newspaper reported. “Many were seen to pause beside his casket and drop a tear. … Torrington people, heard to comment on the affair after the funeral, declared that Minort had not been himself, to all appearances for several weeks past.”

Three years after the tragedy, the young Minort returned to Torrington and visited old friends. 

The Scottsbluff Daily Star-Herald reprinted a story from the Torrington paper on June 16, 1929, that stated that Baptiste John Jr. had been involved in a cafe business and had to quit college due to lack of funds.

“He has enjoyed a fair success and will continue in the cafe business,” the newspaper reported. “His friends in Torrington are glad to learn that he is pleasantly located and making a success of his efforts.”

Minort went on to marry twice, once in 1934 in Missouri. The marriage lasted a year. He married his second wife in 1945 and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

Baptiste John Minort Jr. lived his last years in Utah and died on Aug. 16, 1970. 

Heworked as cook for most of his life and is buried in Price City, Utah.

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<title>Wyoming History: Disgraced Pastor Shocked State By Killing Family, Self In 1926 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Shocking headlines from 100 years ago after a pastor from Torrington gunned down his wife and four of his five children, then himself. He wrote he had brought shame to them when caught with a woman in a rooming house in Nebraska under an assumed name.

Wyoming History: Disgraced Pastor Shocked State By Killing Family, Self In 1926

Kerry Drake

John Adolfi, a creationist in Syracuse, New York, searched for many years for Noah’s Ark and a race of giants who supposedly walked the Earth. But until he died last November, the elusive Pedro Mountain Mummy found in Wyoming in 1932 still clearly haunted him.

In 2005, Adolfi posted a $10,000 reward for the tiny mummified remains of the 

” as he came to be known in the region. Pedro hasn’t been seen in public since 1950, but in the past 76 years the mummy has been the source of extraordinary speculation about its origin.

Adolfi’s goal was to have the mummy tested through DNA samples, magnetic resonance imaging, and improved X-ray technology to establish exactly what it was so he could disprove the theory of evolution.

Countless newspaper and magazine articles have been written about Pedro, who is also the subject of a host of videos on YouTube and was featured on an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” in 1994. 

Some of the videos make sensational claims, including that he was a member of a tribe of 

But was the human-like Pedro an example of the Nimerigar, a mythical tribe of savage pygmies with sharp teeth that Native Americans thought were hiding in the mountains? 

Nimerigar is literally translated as “people eaters,” and it’s said they shot their Indian prey with tiny bows and poisoned arrows. 

In 1941, the Milwaukee Journal asked in a headline, “Did a Race of Pygmies Once Live in America?” According to this account, the preserved mummy was a 65-year-old man.

Most disturbing was the article’s claim that X-rays showed “food in the stomach appears to have been raw meat. The teeth in the front of the mouth are pointed and of the flesh-eating variety.”

Or was the mummy an example of a benign race of humanoid pranksters? 

One aspect of the legend is that people who go near the San Pedro Mountains in southern Wyoming should carry something shiny to offer the Little People as a gift, so they knew no harm would come to them.

Perhaps all the fascination is due to the fact that while so little is known about the mummy, including its whereabouts, there is no doubt that it existed, that it looked freakish, and there are still copies of X-rays — but not the X-rays themselves — that have led to scientific speculation that Pedro was either a full-grown adult or an infant with an abnormality called anencephalus, in which only the brain stem develops. 

Complicating matters was the appearance of a large wound on top of its head.

There is just enough photographic and other evidence left for people to claim Pedro was anything they want it to be.

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Two decades ago, Adolphi told then-Casper Star-Tribune reporter Brendan Burke — who became so curious about the mummy that he added Pedro to his unofficial beat — that he realized proof of a previously unknown prehistoric relative of man would not disprove evolution.

But Adolphi maintained that a new humanoid species would poke holes in the paradigm evolutionists have created regarding human origins.

Six months later he was interviewed again by Burke, who reported that while Adolfi said he received many leads, none had panned out.

A Wyoming woman told him the mummy was in the possession of an Indian tribe not based in Wyoming. But Adolfi investigated and determined that tip was a dead end.

So was another person who reported seeing Pedro at a garage sale in New Jersey. And an 86-year-old Wyoming man who had what appeared to be a hominoid mummy that could fit in the palm of one’s hand.

But the man was not willing to have the artifact X-rayed, Adolfi said, because he didn’t want to know if it was an authentic Nimerigar corpse or a vegetable carving. And the man wanted to continue believing that his mummy was “the real deal.”

Adolfi said he was willing to pay less money for evidence of other pygmy mummies, but he apparently never got his hands on one.

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 on his YouTube channel Lost World Museum, though, is fascinating. 

Adolfi interviews a man with a Middle Eastern accent and wearing clear plastic gloves who wants to show him his own find. The man speaks in a foreign language to someone off camera, and relays the answers in English.

The man unwraps what looks much like Pedro from Wyoming, but in a slightly different pose and with a lot more hair. He says the artifact was discovered about a half-meter underground by accident.

“Unfortunately, we can’t share too much with (viewers) about location or what’s going to happen with this little fella,” Adolfi says. “But I wanted you to see this for yourself, examine it, and ask yourself, ‘Is this a full-grown human? Or is it just a mummified fetus?’"

“The doctor here says it is fully human,” the man volunteers. “It’s estimated to be 1,500 years old.”

“They do have plans for it,” Adolfi says when the man is gone. “I know there are some questions about the legalities of it. I know if this was in the United States, such as the Pedro Mountain Mummy, there’s Native American rights there, and obviously there's archaeological rights there, there are human rights there.

“But over in the Middle East, Far East, there are laws and whatnot that you have to follow. But they’re big boys, and they’re going to do whatever they’re going to do, I guess.”

Adolfi speculates that the mummy “is going to be put in someone’s private collection, and it’s never going to be seen again.”

Wherever Pedro is, or whether he still even exists, George Gill, a University of Wyoming anthropology professor, has seen the medical research and he said it’s definitely an anencephalic infant. 

He said in 2013 that further testing on a female pygmy mummy later brought to Gill and sent to Children’s Hospital in Denver to obtain X-rays, a DNA sample and a radiocarbon date yielded the same result.

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The Pedro Mountain Mummy was discovered in 1932 by two gold prospectors, Cecil Main and Frank Carr, who detonated some explosives near the Pathfinder Reservoir and opened up a cave, according to an article in the Oct. 21, 1932, Casper Tribune-Herald.

Inside on a ledge by itself was Pedro, sitting with his feet tucked under him and his arms crossed. 

In 2005 New York creationist John Adolfi offered a $10,000 reward if someone brought him the "Pedro Mountain Mummy" found in Wyoming in 1932 but never seen in public after 1950. With Adolfi's death in November, no one will ever claim the reward.

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