Dead bodies keep mummifying in this mountain town — and scientists are baffled
May 11, 2024
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as posted by the channelNo need for embalming fluid in this mysterious village. In a scenario straight out of a zombie apocalypse movie, deceased residents in the Colombian mountain town of San Bernardo spontaneously mummified without preservatives — and with their clothes, hair and even eyes often still intact.
“People were a little incredulous about what was happening,” Rocio Vergara, a guide at the town cemetery’s Museum of Mummies, told Agence France-Presse, Science Alert replied.
The petrified corpses, which belong to people born in roughly the past century, were first exhumed in the 1950s from the alpine village’s cemetery after it was relocated because of a flood.
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