Lloyd Pye

Pye's first book That Prosser Kid (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature,^[7] and was called "lively but unoriginal" by The Boston Globe.^[8] It received negative reviews in The New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times.^[9][10] His 1988 book Mismatch was called a "novel that ought to go on your must read list" by Deseret News.^[11]

Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Extra, Animal Planet, and Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom.^[12] Pye stated that he believed Bigfoot to exist,^[5] as well as the similar Mongolian cryptid the Almas.^[13]

In the 1980s, Pye wrote for television shows, including Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Magnum, P.I..^[14]

In the late 1990s, Pye obtained a curiously shaped skull from a couple in El Paso, Texas, that he believed was an alien-human hybrid. DNA tests show that the skull is from a human male. American clinical neurologist Steven Novella has said the skull belongs to a child who suffered from hydrocephalus.^[3][4]

In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.^[2]

Pye was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Lloyd A. Pye Sr., an optometrist (c.1922–2007), and Nina Jo Pye (née Boyles); Lloyd Pye had two brothers and a sister.^[15][16][17] He earned a football scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans as a Running back/Punter from 1964 to 1968.^[18][19] He was the Tulane Green Wave football team's leading punter 1967–1968.^[20] He later lived in Pensacola, Florida.^[16][21][22]

In 2013, Pye was diagnosed with lymphoma and retired from active research and promotion of the starchild skull. Lloyd Pye died December 9, 2013, at his home in Destin, Florida.^[14]