The mummies were discovered in a cemetery in guanajuato, making the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in mexico. People started flocking to these mummies out of curiosity. You dont need to crawl through the narrow passages of egypts great pyramids to meet your favorite mummy. The interest around the guanajuato mummies only grew from there, and by the early 1900s, they had already become a tourist attraction. First the very young or very old died, then everyone else. One day, townspeople suddenly became sick and died. Need a cheap hotel in the mummies of guanajuato museum. The mummies of guanajuato 1970 pitted the wellknown mexican professional wrestler santo and several others against reanimated mummies author ray bradbury visited the catacombs of guanajuato with his friend grant beach and wrote. Contrary to popular belief, the 108 mummies in the museum are not from soil graves but were removed from the aboveground crypts. The human bodies appear to have been disinterred between 1870 and 1958. The count cagliostro and scientist raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world. Sources of legends since its discovery, the guanajuato mummies were of course a natural source for a horror film, and by the early 70s, movies starring wrestlers became a very popular sub genre in the troubled mexican film industry, as the mystique and charm of the wellknown athletes suited perfectly a wide range of stories on almost every. Robbery of the mummies of guanajuato 1972 mexico have a sad, but interesting history that dates back to a cholera outbreak 1833.
During that time, a local tax was imposed requiring relatives to pay a fee to keep their relatives interred. Mummies museum in guanajuato city, mexico sygic travel. The mummies of guanajuato inside the museum, cemetery, and. The cemetery adjoining the mummy museum has both underground and aboveground burial sites. This place was subsequently turned into a museum called. The mummies of guanajuato, mexico have a sad history that. Robbery of the mummies of guanajuato poster 1 goldposter. With blue demon, mil mascaras, santo, elsa cardenas. During that time, a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for perpetual burial. Why see mummies when you can visit the diego rivera museum or browse for jewelry and clothes with a latte in hand. The mexico mummies you see in the guanajuato mummy museum all share a horrifying story.
Word spread and tourists began to arrive paying a few pesos to the local. The rest of the group traveled the twenty minutes to see the guanajuato mummies. The mummies of guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around guanajuato, mexico in 1833. And finally it gave the idea to set up a museum for these mummies near the cemetery. The mummies of guanajuato become famous the local population was fascinated with these mummies of guanajuato and began sneaking into the warehouse to peek at them. In the case of the guanajuato mummies, the subjects only had to wait a few hundred. Featuring over 100 corpses of men, women and even infants propped up behind glass displays. The bodies appear to have been disinterred between 1865 and 1958. The mummy of the legendary wrestler satan awakes 100 years after his. Another of the guanajuato mummies was a woman who died in childbirth and her 24weekold fetus, believed to be the youngest mummy in existence. The place, guanajuato, a colonial town in the center of mexico. In the case of the guanajuato mummies, the subjects only had to wait a few hundred years, and were not so much discovered as evicted.
The mummies of guanajuato 1970 pitted the wellknown mexican professional wrestler santo and several others against reanimated mummies. Due to weather and soil conditions, bodies tend to dehydrate and mummify in the city of guanajuato, mexico. All of them have been conserved through a natural dehydration. About 30 years after the outbreak, the city cemetery was filling up so quickly that room was starting to become a serious issue, and in an attempt to fix the problem, guanajuato enacted a tax that demanded families pay up in order to keep their deceased relative buried. This attraction allows visitors to come face to face with death. The mummies of guanajuato are naturally mummified bodies interred around guanajuato, mexico. Eventually, 111 mummies were unearthed and put on display for tourists. Some bodies for which the tax was not paid were disinterred, and someapparently those in. Mexicos astounding mummy museum with the worlds smallest mummy. Tour of accidental mummies of guanajuato aarp viva. Count cagliostro and a scientist bring the mummies of guanajuato back to life, they must now be stopped by wrestlers mil mascaras, blue demon, blue angel. Explanada del panteon municipal sn, guanajuato 36000, mexico.
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