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

(#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.
(#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.
(#13) A British Gas Worker Found A Mummified Woman

A gas company employee in Southampton, England, went to the house of a woman who hadn't paid her bills in four months, only to find her mummified corpse.
(#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."
(#3) A Mummified German Sailor Was Found In A Yacht In The Philippines

In 2016, Filipino sailors were shocked to find a mummified corpse sitting at a desk in a yacht drifting off the coast of the island of Barobo. The man was later identified as German sailor Manfred Fritz Bajorat, who had been missing since 2009.

Bajorat was found with his hand just inches from a radio, indicating that he died attempting to call for help, possibly while having a heart attack.
(#8) A Woman Found Mummified In A Detroit Garage

Detroit resident Pia Farrenkopf had all of her bills set to autopay, had no family near her, traveled constantly, tended to go in and out of contact, and had recently left her job. So when she died in her car, parked in her garage, nobody noticed. It wasn't until her checking account ran out of money that authorities came by - to put the house into foreclosure.

Her mummified corpse was found in the backseat of her Jeep in 2014, with no signs of either suicide or foul play. It's believed she died some time in 2009.