DEMONIC skulls allegedly found near a Nazi briefcase in a remote mountain range have raised the shocking prospect the Third Reich had links with ALIENS.
By JON AUSTIN
The skulls were reportedly discovered by a team of explorers led by scientist Vladimir Melikov in a cave on Mount Bolshoi Tjach, Republic of Adygeya, Russia.
Despite being found two years ago, news of it has only gone global after a separate find in woods nearby of a Nazi briefcase and German full-colour map of the Adygea region made in 1941.
According to reports the briefcase, picked up by a local hermit, had the emblem of the Ahnenerbe - the most secretive Nazi institute founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935 to find evidence that the Aryan race had once ruled the entire globe.
But it soon branched into occultism, paranormal research, pseudoscience and the study of UFOs and weapons development due to Himmler’s obsession with such topics.
The strange appearance of the skulls has led to speculation the Nazis could have made contact with aliens or even summoned demons in the remote area and these were the remains.
Conspiracy websites have connected the mysterious skulls with the occultism of the SS Ahnenerbe institution and concluded the skulls could be those of dead demons or even aliens.
Mr Melikov was reported as saying the creature was "unlike anything known to man".
He said "among the most mysterious features of the skulls is the absence of cranial vault and jaws", while "the eye sockets were unusually large having facial features resembling humans”.
He added: "Even when compared with the skull of a bear, it is hard to think that you do not have in your hands the remains of an alien creature."
Some have speculated the "discoveries" are all part of an elaborate hoax, with suggestions the facial features could have been hollowed out of large animals' pelvic bones.
Paleontologists in Moscow, when shown pictures of the skulls, reportedly dismissed them as submerged skeleton heads that "could have been exposed to sand for long periods of time" - and which "could have altered their shape”.
But Russian newspaper reports say other German discoveries have been made in the area, including last summer when Elbrus hunters found a second suitcase with the Ahnenerbe logo.
It is thought to have belonged to the huntsman of the German division "Edelweiss", and was found alongside a ring showing a soldier in a mountain cap, and a set of Nazi uniforms.
The Edelweiss was an emblem of the Gebirgsjaeger - the German Mountain troops during WW2.
Also, in 2014, reports said locals in the same area found the burial site of German infantry believed to have been killed in an avalanche years earlier.
The skulls and briefcase are now said to be stored at an archaeological complex at Belovode - a site of many historical excavations.
The Ahnenerbe were said to have made expeditions all over the world,including to Tibet, Antarctica, and the Caucasus, looking for contact with aliens or the secret of absolute power, according to Ivan Bormotov, the associate professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the enterprise Maikop State Technological University.
Researchers claim the SS was in the area to hunt for gold and explore the mysteries of ancient tombs. They also looked at increased natural radioactivity near Kishinskogo canyon.
Before the war, German engineers also helped the Soviet Union with the road construction at Pitsunda.
Ahnenerbe hydrologists later found the make up of water from the karst cave under the lake Riza, could be used to produce human blood plasma for use in eugenics.
Mr Bormotov said the water was taken back to Germany on submarines, but plans for a tunnel from the sea to the lake to make this easier were halted by WWII.
He said the "living water" as it was called was "more than enough" to secure secret investigations possibly carried out in the mountains of Adygea.