The Mexican city is home to this interesting and dark museum: the corpses preserved date back to the nineteenth century and have all been perfectly preserved by the composition for exclusively natural causes that are still unknown.
The story that accompanies them, however, has some really scary implications ...
It preserves 111 buried corpses following a great cholera epidemic that occurred in the city in 1833. Subsequently, a law provided that to keep the bodies of loved ones in the cemetery, a tax had to be paid.
The mummified bodies were kept in a building and since 1900 the mummies have become an attraction for tourists.
The first mummy to be unearthed in 1865 belonged to a French doctor, a certain Remigio Leroy, whose body no one claimed. This was "stored" in the catacombs of the cemetery, and as mummies were excavated they were kept underneath.
The news spread and in a short time it began to attract the attention of tourists, eager to visit the bodies.
Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato
Address: Explanada del Pantean Municipal s/n, Centro, 36000
Phone: +52 473 732 0639
Site:
https://museodelasmomiasdeguanajuato.negocio.site/Location inserted by
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