Random Modern People Who Turned Into Mummies Before They Were Found (14 items)

(#5) An Ohio Mummy Was Found Hanging By A Young Boy

In 2014, a boy in Dayton, OH, walked into a seemingly abandoned house to find a shocking sight in a closet: a mummified man hanging.

Police later determined the man was Edward Brunton. He had apparently taken his life in 2009, but his body was perfectly preserved thanks to the warm climate and lack of moisture.
(#9) A Carved Up Mummy Man Was Found Beside A Road In Spain

A Spanish truck driver stopped along the side of a rural road and found a mummified body that was missing an arm and part of its torso.

Spanish police said the man, who was never identified, had been dead about two months.
(#11) The Woman Who Drove Around With A Mummy In Her Car

A Costa Mesa, CA, woman drove for months with a mummified body in her passenger seat before the corpse was discovered by police. After finding the car parked in a high-end neighborhood, police found the former real estate agent, who wasn't identified, in the driver's seat, along with the mummy. The corpse was determined to be a transient named Signe Margit, a woman who had two master's degrees and had founded a non-profit before vanishing.

The driver, who was using her sick father's car, told police she was afraid she'd be blamed for the woman's death, so she simply piled clothes on it and waited for it to mummify.
(#2) Scientists Discovered Wasps, Bees, And A Squirrel Nesting Inside A Partially Mummified Man

This is a first. In Poland, researchers discovered a partially mummified body hanging 80 feet in the air from a tree. Scientists found honeybees, wasps, and even a squirrel taking up residence inside the man's body, which they believe went unfound for nearly 13 years. The woodland critters were found after researchers took the body to Wroclaw Medical University's Forensic Medicine Department. The body was uncovered in 2016, but it wasn't until September 2018 that researchers unveiled their findings in a study.

"No one before us had the opportunity to describe a case of nesting of these species of animals inside a human corpse found in a tree," said study author Marcin Kadej of the Institute of Environmental Biology at the university. "[It] brings a new perspective and gives us new information on the behavior, ecology and biology of these animals."
(#4) A Mummified San Francisco Hoarder Was Found In A Million Dollar House

A foreclosed house became a nightmarish find for a San Francisco tax official when he discovered the mummified body of an elderly hoarder inside. Police in oxygen masks entered the home and found the one of the worst cases of hoarding they'd ever seen, including giant piles of rotting garbage, rats, and hundreds of bottles of urine. The woman, dead for five years, was found in the bedroom of the decrepit house, where, incredibly, her daughter lived as well. The daughter was removed from the house, and it was completely cleaned and remodeled.

Shockingly, the house, in the popular Lake District, went back on the market - and sold for $1.56 million.
(#7) The Croatian Woman Who Sat Deceased For Four Decades

Hedviga Golik was a longtime resident of Zagreb, including the four decades during which she sat deceased in her apartment. The woman was last seen in 1966, at which time she made tea and settled in to watch television.

Nobody disturbed her until 2008, when her mummified corpse was found in an apartment that had otherwise been untouched. Neighbors believed she had moved out, and the ownership of the apartment was in dispute, meaning nobody saw fit to actually check on her.