RIP Lloyd Pye

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on December 18th, 2013

Lloyd Pye was my friend. We didn’t see eye to eye on many of his theories, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was a good man who definitely thought outside the box.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Amite native, Lloyd A. Pye, Jr., is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 20, at Blythewood Plantation in Amite. He passed away on December 9 in Destin, Florida, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Visitation will begin at noon followed by eulogies at 3:00 p.m. The public is invited and requested to RSVP to Blythewood Plantation at (985) 748-5886 or blythewood@gmail.com.

Pye was a 1964 honor graduate of Amite High School and a member of the Warriors’ state champion football team his senior year. He received a four-year athletic scholarship to Tulane University where he was a running back and star punter, placing in the top 10 kickers nationally. Upon graduation from Tulane in 1968 he served two years in the U.S. Army as a military intelligence specialist during the period of the Viet Nam war.

At age 31 Pye published the first of several books, entitled That Prosser Kid, a semi-autobiographical novel that drew upon his experiences as a college football player. He later published a second fiction novel dealing with Soviet espionage, Mismatch, before relocating to Hollywood for a decade developing his skill as a television screenwriter.

Returning to his Louisiana roots, he launched into a series of non-fiction articles and books that would lead his career into the field of alternative knowledge. His most notable work was entitled Everything You Know is Wrong, a well-researched book about human origins that thrust him into the spotlight of the alternative knowledge community.

As his stature rose, Pye became an international lecturer and featured speaker at conferences throughout North America and Europe, as well as Australia, Egypt, and Brazil. During the latter part of his career he became the caretaker of a 900-year old human-like relic known as the Starchild Skull, shepherding it from anonymity through more than a decade of scientific testing to determine its genetic heritage. He believed the skull was of divided origin, half-human and half-alien, and made numerous television appearances on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, and Animal Planet to discuss his theory. Not long before his death, Pye recorded an episode for Ancient Aliens to be aired in early 2014.

Pye is the son of the late Dr. Lloyd A. Pye, Sr. and Nina Broyles Pye. He is survived by his mother, a sister, and two brothers.

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About Craig Woolheater
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005. I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films: OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.


2 Responses to “RIP Lloyd Pye”

  1. deadfoot responds:

    He had it almost beaten, and then it snuck back quick and took him. It really sucks.

    I know the meat and potatoes Bigfoot crowd don’t tolerate a lot of his theories on hominids and genetics, and of course the infamous Star Child skull (which is ironic, because there are plenty of even more “out there” theories that he didn’t advocate and steered way clear of).

    Fairly recently, Lloyd was able to put together a team and they are continuing all of his work. But man, the world just lost a great one…

  2. size 13 responds:

    Surprised and saddened by this news.Sorry to see an old comrade go. Had several discussions with him and we tended to agree on most things.I always thought that his best is yet to come.I will miss his dialogues and emails.Goodbye for the while,Lloyd.See you again soon as I come over.

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