The Crystal Skulls: Mystery, Misunderstanding or Hoax?

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Interestingly, there is evidence, corroborated by Mitchell-Hedges, that the skull belonged to Sydney Burney. Anna’s father purchased the skull from Sydney’s son in a 1944 Sotheby’s auction. Anna says that her father loaned the skull to Sydney, who cheated him by putting it up for sale. To retrieve the skull, Mitchell-Hedges purchased it. Now, under close scrutiny, this makes no sense.

• Any archaeologist would have record of a skull they had for more than a decade. Mitchell-Hedges would have recorded its discovery and probably photographed it. This would have been enough evidence for the police to do an investigation into ownership of the skull.

• Anna said that Sotheby’s refused to stop the sale, so her father had to buy the item. This would not have stopped a police investigation. Mitchell-Hedges pursued nothing. He just paid the money and took the skull, like any other buyer would have done.

• Burney’s son denies that it belonged to Mitchell-Hedges. Of course, a thief would deny it, but with everything else, it seems like Burney was telling the truth.

• Neither Anna nor her father said or published anything about the crystal skull until after the auction. If they had it before then, why did they not flout the properties they claimed it had until after they supposedly got it back.

Today, the Mitchell-Hedges skull is owned by Anna’s widower. He, like his deceased wife, refuses to let experts study the skull.

The truth behind the crystal skulls is that none has been verified as Mayan, Aztec, supernatural or anything other than skulls crafted from quartz with modern tools. There is no way of knowing which skulls were the first or why they were made, so there is still a possibility that there are Pre-Columbian crystal skulls, of which artists have made replicas. Of course, there is also no way of knowing if the first skulls were hoaxes that prompted forgeries, either.

Sources
The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull, retrieved 12/2/11, mitchell-hedges.com/en/present/crystal_skull/home.html
The Skeptic’s Dictionary, retrieved 12/3/11, skepdic.com/crystalskull.html

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