In this chilling Fright Facts Week episode, Gordy uncovers one of the most haunting museums on Earth — a place where nature accidentally mummified hundreds of people. Deep beneath the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico, a strange mix of climate, soil, and 19th-century tax policy turned an ordinary cemetery into a gallery of preserved faces frozen in time.
Why did only a handful of bodies mummify while others decayed? What scientific conditions made this town a natural embalming chamber? And how did it all lead to one of the world’s most unsettling tourist attractions — the Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato?
From cholera epidemics to gravedigger discoveries, and even a Mexican wrestling movie where heroes battled the undead, this is a story where science meets folklore, and tragedy becomes tourism.
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Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato. (2018). Official archives and visitor information.
García, A., & Medina, M. (2011). Natural Mummification in Guanajuato, Mexico: A Climatic and Forensic Analysis. Universidad de Guanajuato.
Carmichael, E., & Sayer, C. (1991). The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico. University of Texas Press.
National Geographic. (2016). Mexico’s Accidental Mummies.
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH). (2018). Preservation Records.