41 Years Ago

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(12-10-2018 05:44 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  How ironic that Orlowek lived in Silver Springs and was searching for the Booth dummy on the west coast?

It appears to me that you have heard the same rumor as to where the mummy supposedly resides as I have heard... The last I heard, however, was about 25-30 years ago and the "mummy keeper" vowed that he was going to deep-six that piece of parchment so far into hiding that no one would ever find it.

In the 1980s, the then-president of the Surratt Society was an authority on death rituals, mourning practices, etc. She was allowed to visit the then-owner. His house was filled with similar attractions ranging from shrunken heads to other mummies, and he did not want his neighbors to know.

Dr. John Lattimer used to worry about the toxicity of the mummy because the old methods of embalming had some dangerous ingredients involved.