I find the discussion about the Tridactyl mummies fascinating. It has become quite obvious that there's a mixture of real bodies and fake models that pay homage to them, and early media of that really muddied the waters.

But it does sound like those larger ones are (were) real living beings, and not desecrated modern human bodies like a lot of people want to suggest. It would not be the first hominid we've come across in the last decade or so obviously, but they are the strangest.