Warning – these aren’t your Egyptian mummies all wrapped up in linen bandages. These mummies are naked – well, actually some of them are clothed which actually makes them a little creepier. Also – there are babies.
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I was brought to the cemetery on the first day of the year 1903. On February 19, 1910, they removed me from the crypt number 212 of the fourth series of Santa Paula Cemetery.
I have been invited to other museums in different countries, who would have thought it, a traveling mummy. But do not think that this was pure luck, the fact is that I am the best preserved mummified body: I have my dentures and my skin does not have any holes. Considering that for many years I had no protection whatsoever from nosey and touchy people, I am in much better shape than my partners.
I was almost 70 years old when I came to rest at the Santa Paula Cemetery, but on January 20, 1973, I was found as a statue of eternity. I became part of the second group of mummified men, women and children since before me were others.
I rest in a white and smooth nightgown that accompanies me in this eternal dream.
There is evidence that this approximately 40-year-old woman was probably from a poor family and poorly nourished for a pregnant woman of her age.
The fetus was about 6 months into his gestation and died when his mother died. Currently, he is the smallest human mummy in the world.
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I’ll never think of dia de los muertas the same way again. This is very creepy
Yeah – it is one of those things that isn’t quite as creepy in person, but still pretty creepy when you think about it.