Universal Digest revealed on August 19, 2015, a mysterious Mayan statue had been circulating the Internet and social media sites. Believing this was a hoax, but being fair to ask for assistance in discovering the source of such a contrived fake, we published this article and the responses were overwhelming; unfortunately, it was in liking the post.

Here is the link to the previous article: https://www.universaldigest.com/mysterious-mayan-statue

After being directed to an earlier post in April of this year in a friend social media site, the resultant explanations were similar to what had been ascertained, thus far, in the above article, until today!

With thanks to many for hard work to discover the source of this hoax (and one friend who wishes to remain unidentified-just doing his part), we all still missed one small point about the statue, a shadow below the head. Although, the perpetrator still remains anonymous, the location of the statue has been discovered. It resides in Mexico City. A very slight shadow was noticed by someone just below the head of the artifact.

To this end, Universal Digest commends and recognizes ETS&ETC.com via HOSTMIDIA for exposing this hoax. Here are some condensed, following comments from their article:

“I’ve been looking at how more attention to this statue photo and also been, since 17, seeking the original picture and the statue on other web sites or photographs, but found nothing. However, with an analysis below is clear that must be an assembly. Note, whoever did the editing, be looked on rounded shade, a head, protruding on the chest of the statue. In this image, the changed brightness, contrast and saturation was adjusted for better viewing. I would like to put an end to this farce finding the original statue, but still did not get the original source.”

Still, the above statement in light of research stands out as a revelation as to how the hoax was perpetrated. The following photo with annotation depicts the photo discovery. The shadowing area from lighting above shows the new head section with the QR Code is different from the shadow. Well done.

The point of what the actual artifact is, well, it is a mute point. We have an answer and it is a fake. Had some research not continued, we would not know now. Image depicting shadowing is shown at article end.

We are just committed to reporting the truth and when others find it, we give credit. Thanks to those who have helped this come to pass. We live in a world of those who wish to believe before researching for themselves.

And, in doing so, this was provided by Mick West of Metabunk.org, Administrator to debunk the statue, this article is published on 8.22.2015 with thanks: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/decoded-statue-with-a-qr-code-head.6728

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