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History of the Screaming Mummies: https://i.imgur.com/AWiZeUL.jpeg
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History of the Screaming Mummies: https://i.imgur.com/AWiZeUL.jpeg
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TeamSpicyTacos
GTO is an amazing amazing town. You get to drive through water tunnels, and make sharp turns. Crazy old city, one of the oldest Spanish cities in the western hemispheres.
TrueLegateDamar
Frogblender
If your co-worker pranked you by switching off the lights here, the jury would give you a free pass.
SerialChickenLover
Putting them in a museum isn’t much better than making them a tourist attraction.
ChallengerDeep
At some point, cremation - atomization - makes sense.
RevolutionOnHerLips
that's terrifying
SirKaill
I just got to see these mummies 2 weeks ago super neat. They have a more permanent location near silao now.
jammer909
They have every reason to scream. We should be screaming too.
Munchman347
At least a few of the show people were still drawing an audience. 'The only bad publicity is an accurate obituary...'
Milomaine
Toyah wrote a song about them called 'Mummies'. I didn't know the backstory was so sad
https://youtu.be/qUcwLeiZWd4?si=nH5gFEsYN93p-yRe
DinoNuggetButtPlug
I’ve been here before. I’ve never seen them called the screaming mummies. Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato is the museum. And it’s “museum of the mummies of Guanajuato. The city’s building are also painted beautiful colors. It looks like a painting.
greyghost714
A really cool city. Many of the roads are underground. I guess they're old mining paths. The Cervantes Festival is an incredible time and happens in October I think
JustSomePersonThere
It’s a fantastic festival.
Huor
Do I like this? No. No I do not.
BishlamekGurpgork
You don't even know what they taste like, yet.
theimgurappsucksballs
Me too, mummy. Me too
WatermelonT
Need a... urgh... hand? Ugh... me too
Muppes
wait...did they put one of them in pants?
RoutemasterFlash
To hide his erection.
Frogblender
The most forbidden fruit.
iananimated
What happens when you don't wire the jaw closed after death and prop someone upright.
Goodburrito
This. There's a weirdly large amount of things that mortician have to do to a corpse to make them look like their resting peacefully.
iananimated
Yes. The spiky contact lenses weird me out. At my grandmother's funeral one of the staff asked if we wanted to open the casket. "We did a great job on her, she turned out great" is not really something you want to hear at a funeral. We didn't open the casket.
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SpamYarBlockers
Werner Herzog is a poser. I saw the Screaming Mummies of Guanajuato live at CBGB in 1987
januarylover
His guest role on Parks & Rec was so completely unexpected (I had no idea he'd be on there) that I choked on the cereal I was eating. Is that a staircase to nowhere? Yes, good eye.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
OizysMomus
Cool!
SlyMrFox
Personally filmed them up close.
secularink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Fiend I love that man!
spinbutton3
I am feeling that more and more
secularink
WienerBeener
When do we eat them?
BishlamekGurpgork
When they're ripe.
secularink
DarthGoodguy
MapleSyrupMafia
Forbidden beef jerky.
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Boksha
Eat? That seems like a massive waste. I bet they'd make great paint, though.
nspriest233
Yes they do make great paint but also dry jerky. Same people who ground up mummys for paint ate them at high flatulent baquets.
UdensZirnis
They have to ripen for at least 2 milennia. 3, if you are not in a hurry.
DarthGoodguy
OizysMomus
History of the Screaming Mummies:
OizysMomus
Why do the mummies appear to be screaming?
PrincessLeliana
doesnt actually explain why theyre screaming
Type17
When you're dead, and there's nothing to prevent it, your jaw drops open under gravity.
OizysMomus
Rigor mortis may have set in more quickly in people dying from cholera because they were so dehydrated to begin with. I guess that’s why Marley’s ghost in the story “A Christmas Carol” had his mouth tied shut with a cloth when he visited Scrooge.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/36/47/b43647148ba428a8c24959724083fd53.jpg
MarcUK
Nah, he was just too tight to pay for dental work. :-)
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Oh my god that's what it was?! It always seemed like an odd choice but for some reason I never questioned it!
PosthumousExile
I thought it was that toothache thing!
OizysMomus
I found this on a funeral home web page: “ when a body dies, rigor mortis causes the muscles to stiffen within 24-48 hours and the jaw is one of the first areas affected. Funeral staff have to work promptly after death to pose and secure the mouth before the rigidity makes it difficult. Techniques have developed over the decades to address this mortis mouth opening which include wiring the jaw shut or even using superglue”.
Ihaveatinypeepeeohwell
In some Asian cultures they tie a cloth around the face presumably to prevent the jaw drop
CapitalNick
Yes and no. Rigor mortis eventually subsides after 37-48 hours.
OizysMomus
Interesting. Does that mean if you wait more than 48 hours the jaw will loosen up enough to close it? If not, I’m picturing a bunch of overworked mortuary assistants during a plague epidemic desperately stapling, glueing and wiring the mouth shut before it’s too late.
CapitalNick
I'm no mortician, but I think so. I think the rush might have more to do with preserving the body sooner than later.