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Juan Sebastian SERRANO

DARK SECRETS: Frozen in time colombian town s unexplained mummies | Vintage Vibes

Clovisnerys Bejarano visiting her mother Saturnina Torres, who died in 1993 and was spontaneously mummified (Credit: AFP)

In a small town high in the Colombian Andes, Clovisnerys Bejarano kneels before a glass box holding the petrified corpse of her mother, who died 30 years ago, but looks as if she might just be asleep.

Saturnina Torres de Bejarano is dressed in the same rose-print dress and green woolen jersey she was interred in, clasping a fake red carnation in her eerily well-preserved hands.

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