Did you know …
That ancient Egypt wasn’t the only place that made mummies? It’s true!
In the 1960s, Springfield, Missouri, also had a thriving mummy industry! I don’t know if it was a cult thing or some kind of tourism ploy, but Springfield was cranking out mummies like you wouldn’t believe! Normal mummies! Dog mummies! Grandpa mummies! If you had a body that you kinda wanted, but weren’t sure what to do with it, you’d get it mummified in Springfield.
So why don’t we see any “Come to Springfield for the Weather, Stay for the Mummies!” highway signs anymore? Because there was a series of strangling deaths in 1968, and pretty much everyone blamed the mummies. Of course, it would later turn out that the chief of police was a sociopath, but the mummy industry never got back on its feet (as it were).
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