The Taree Man

In November 2011 a skull was found at Manning Point, near Taree, in New South Wales, Australia. It was initially believed that it was the skull of a missing local teen. It was found that it was not true. It was found that 80% that the skull dated from 1650-1700 and 20% from 1780-1810. Even though it was initially believed that the skull belonged to a woman DNA found that they were a ma. It's believed that he was between 28 to 65-years-old white male.

It is believed that Captain James Cook was the first European to reach Australia in 1770. If the skull was from an earlier time period it could rewrite history.The remains could have been from anywhere as there were heavy rains meaning the skull could have been washed out of a private or unknown cemetary. 

Some theorize that since the skull was in good condition and found alone with no other remains that it may have been part of a private collection that was popular in the 19th century. 

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

The Daily Telegraph July 1, 2013

Strange Remains

MONSTERS: La Cegua

 

Photo by Anudariya Munkhbayar

La Cegua was a beautiful woman cursed to become a spectral monster in Costa Rica. It was said that she resided in Cartago. The story is said to have happened between 1563 when Cartago was established and 1823 when San Jose became the capital. She was half native and half Spaniard and was extremely beautiful. She would then fall in love with a Spanish soldier. They would have a sexual relationship and believed he loved her two. When the Spaniard left she had broken down and gone mad. A curse would befell her and she would use it against men she deemed unfaithful to their loved ones.

She will first appear to adulterers as a beautiful woman but then transform into a face of a rotting horse skull. In her womanly form, she has an oval face, large black eyes, long curly hair, red beautiful lips, a slender and tempting body, and a voice much like a siren. She is typically wearing full white or black, but there have been occasions where she wore a vapourous pink dress or a luxurious period dress. There are possibly more than one La Cegua and they may work together at times.

Travelers in Costa Rica are to be careful on their journeys. Especially on lonely roads at night. She typically appears in front of drunkards or womanizers. She will then ask the stranger if they could take her to her ride (in older tales it was a horse and more recently a modern vehicle). After she gets onto the man's horse or in his vehicle she rides with him for a while. She tempts him and transforms into her monstrous version either killing or disabling him and making him go mad.

She sometimes doesn't appear on the road and instead at dances and festivals in towns. She usually flirts with every man who approaches her. The one who succeeds in having a hookup with her will accompany her to a clearing of the Guanacaste pampa under a leafy Guanacaste tree. They make love all night, but when he tries to kiss her that face appears.

There is another version in which it is a crying child instead. When the child is found on the side of the road the person will give them a ride. The child would then resort to turning into its horse face.

It's said in order to escape her wrath is to throw mustard seeds at her. She will take her time and pick them up. This gives enough time for the victim to run and flee the La Cegua.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Myths and Folklore Wiki

We Love Costa Rica

Villians Wiki

UNIDENTIFIED: January 23, 1923 Yuma, Arizona John Doe

Around 6 pm on Jan. 23, 1923, a man was struck by Train No. 102 in Yuma, Arizona. He was buried at the Yuma Pioneer Cemetary. 

He was a white male around 60-years-old. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Unidentified Wiki

MONSTERs: Futakuchi-Onna

 

Futakuchi-Onna is a Japanese Yokai characterized by the two functioning mouths on her head. She has one in the front and one in the back that her hair covers. It’s said that the second mouth forms on the back of the head of a woman who typically eats very little. It's described as hurting and split happens in the back of the head where lips, teeth, tongue, and hunger form. The mouth in the back begins to mutter awful things to her and it begins controlling her hair at its will to feed itself.

In one tale the Futakuchi-Onna is married to a miser who noticed she never ate anything. Even though she never ate but food in the home disappeared. One day he pretends to leave the home to catch her sleeping and undid her hair tie to see a second mouth. Her hair began to scoop rice and placed it inside the hideous mouth. He planned to divorce her, but she found out. She tried to trap him in a bathtub and carry him to the mountains. He would then successfully escape her through a lily marsh.

Another tale with the Futakuchi-Onna is a woman who allowed her stepdaughter to starve to death. 49 days after the stepdaughter's death the woman felt a pain in the back of her head and a mouth former. the stepdaughter's voice could be heard and beg for food. The other mouth would scream if not fed and the stepmother had to live in constant hunger because of this. 

SOURCES:

Cryptid Wiki

Yokai

Wikipedia

UNIDENTIFIED: January 19, 1941 Charlotte, North Carolina Unknown Newborn Girl

On Jan. 19, 1941, the body of a newborn was found abandoned in the woods in Charlotte, North Carolina. The baby girl had died from exposure recently. 

She was a newborn African American female.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

 

UNIDENTIFED: January 17, 1923 Blyth, England John Doe

 On January 17, 1923, a police inspector was at Amble Sands in Blyth, England. They had spotted a human bone protruding from the sands. The skeleton was believed to belong to a man and the skull had no marks of violence. It's possible that the body may have been there for up to 60 years and he may have been a crewmate on a shipwreck that had happened 60 years before. 

John Doe was believed to have been a male between 30-40 years of age.

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

UNIDENTIFIED: January 16, 1950 Eastville, Virginia John Doe

 On January 16, 1950, the body of a man was found on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Eastville, Virginia. His cause of death is unstated/unknown, but he had been dead for around 6 weeks. 

John Doe is a white male between 35 to 40-years-old. He was 5'9" and 140 lbs. He was wearing clothes, but they were not described.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki