In the original article Fifty Shade of Grey Aliens we noted, in part:
…when you consider various images of grey aliens; it all began with thinkers and authors pondering what future humans may look like.
Herein, we will elucidate an example of this via the Outer Limits episode “The Sixth Finger” (Season 1, Episode 5, originally aired October 14, 1963 AD).
The show’s premise is augmented evolution or, conscious, intelligent manipulation of already existing bio-organisms. We find that a scientist is experimenting on how to make an ape more intelligent by speeding up evolution.
An unlearned young man, frustrated with the drudgery of his coal mining job, volunteers to be a human test subject.
He is placed into a device and the first, physical, change that he experiences is that his forehead enlarges (causing a receding hairline).
We next see him with a much larger head, pointy ears (and a dying mullet as he is completely bald except for hair that is a few inches long towards the back and bottom of his head).
Finally, he appears with a very large head and while his eyes are not bigger, the sockets are. Oh, and grows a sixth finger on each hand.
In the meantime, he develops mind reading and telekinesis, etc.
Thus, with no alien/extra-terrestrial context, whatsoever, we end up with a future human looking much like a typical grey alien.
Here is a more detailed description from Wikipedia – The Sixth Finger:
A scientist develops the means to advance the evolution of man by 20,000 years, and then continues beyond his control. The man who is evolving encounters police officers and says to them: “Your ignorance makes me ill and angry”… Set in a remote Welsh mining town, the story is about a rogue London scientist, Professor Mathers, who – feeling guilty about helping to develop a super-destructive atomic bomb – discovers a process that affects the speed of evolutionary mutation, for the purpose of bettering the human race. A disgruntled miner, Gwyllm Griffiths, volunteers for the experiment, enabling the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities. As a man sent forward equal to 20,000 years of evolution, Gwyllm soon begins growing an overdeveloped cortex and a sixth finger on each hand. When the mutation process begins to operate independently of the professor’s influence, Gwyllm takes control of the experiment. Now equal to 1 million years of evolution, and equipped with superior intelligence and powers of thought that are capable of great destruction such as telekinesis, Gwyllm seeks vengeance on the mining town he loathes.
Later, however, he ends up evolving beyond concepts such as love, hate, and the desire for power, and instead intends to turn himself into a vortex of pure intellect with the help of his girlfriend, Cathy Evans. Out of love for him, however, Cathy reverses the process at the last second, bringing Gwyllm back to his former self. But, the out-of-control reversal is too much for Gwyllm, and he slowly succumbs to the adverse effects while Cathy comforts him.
The opening and closing narration goes thusly:
Where are we going? Life, the timeless, mysterious gift, is still evolving. What wonders, or terrors, does evolution hold in store for us in the next ten thousand years? In a million? In six million? Perhaps the answer lies in this old house in this old and misty valley….
An experiment too soon, too swift. And yet may we not still hope to discover a method by which within one generation, the whole human race could be rendered intelligent, beyond hatred, or revenge, or the desire for power? Is that not, after all, the ultimate goal of evolution?
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