Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – The ‘Carlaween’ countdown continues with the Guanajuato mummies of Mexico which are famous for looking as though they were buried alive. These are naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak in Guanajuato, Mexico, 1833. Natural mummification can occur in dry and hot environments. Between the years of 1870 and 1958 the dehydrated deceased were disinterred. Many of the mummies appear to have hideous facial expressions – as though they’d been buried alive. The theory is that because many of the bodies were buried *immediately* to control the spread of cholera, in some cases the dying may have been buried alive by accident… The facial expressions could be post-mortem artefacts but one case stands out as being particularly horrible: according to accounts, one of the mummies who was buried alive was Ignacia Aguilar. She suffered from a rare sickness that made her heart appear to stop on several occasions (catalepsy). During one of these incidents, her heart stopped for “more than a day”. Thinking she had died, her relatives decided to bury her. When her body was disinterred, it was noticed that she was facing down, biting her arm, and that there was a lot of blood in her mouth. The mummies are currently displayed in a museum called El Museo de las Momias (“The Museum of the Mummies”). As of 2007, 59 mummies were on display, of a collection that totals 111.
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#buriedalive #mummification #naturalmummification #halloween #guanajuato #mexico #diadelosmuertos | Posted on 05/Oct/2023 11:58:35