| BUFO PARANORMAL & UFO RADIO Presents Charles Hanion Charles talks to BUFO on Mammoth Cave Paranormal, The Mummies of Mammoth Cave, Race pre-existing Native American Indians, Crop Circles and Ghosts of Mammoth Cave. Listen to his Interview Here Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave By Colleen O'Connor Olson & Charles Hanion Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave is a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, historical and more recent first hand accounts of unusual experiences by National Park Service employees, cave explorers, and scientists. The Mummies of Mammoth Cave Information Compiled by Mary Sutherland Source: Harold Meloy, Mummies of Mammoth Cave. BACK TO BUFO PARANORMAL & UFO RADIO |
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| Fawn Hoof Mummy This is the mummy that put Mammoth Cave on the map. Photograph made at Washington D.C., prior to 1896. Discovered in 1813 by miners mining for saltpetre from the Kentucky Caves. Found in Short Cave. Worker had struck a flat rock beneath the clay floor. The rock was lifted and beneath was a small crypt with above mummy inside. Body was in a state of perfect preservation and sitting erect with arms folded up and hands laid across the bosom, wrapped with two deer skins to keep hands in position. Skins were ornamented with the imprints of vines and leaves. Also found within the crypt was a large square woven or knitted sheet. The hair on the head of the mummy ws cut off within an eighth of an inch of the skin, except near the neck, where it was an inch long. The color of the hair was DARK RED, the teeth white and perfect. The finger and toe nails were perfect and quite long. Features were regular and judged to be female having heighth of close to 6 foot tall. Skin was darkened but not black in color. The greatest curiosity was that this mummy seemed to have been mummified or embalmed much like what we would find confined to the Egyptians and had not been encountered before in the Americas untl this discovery, said John Hay Farnham, American Antiquarian Society. Shape and conformation of the ears were perfectly preserved as well as hands, fingers and toenails. The teeth all in their proper place, the lips though dried, were yet coral in their appearance. Much of the hair was perfect as well as the whole body in general. Seems though that the feet were small in proportion to her body. Based on relics found in buriel vault, it seems that she was a woman of importance. Color of her dried body was liked that of dried tobacco witha yellowish hue. The Smithsonian Institution received her body in 1876 and body has since been dissected and later lost altogether. Fortunately the above picture was taken before her desecretion. |
| Scudder's Mummy Photo courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , PA. Here we again find a unique coloring to the hair. The scalp was reported to have been covered with sorrel or foxy hair. (red). The skin although dried shows little inury, dusky in color . The teeth are white and sound. Hands and feet slender and delicate. Was found in 1814, cave in the town of Glasgow, Ky, about 9 feet under the surface. Wrapped in deer skins and articial cloths, found in sitting position about 200 yards from the entrance of the Cave. "Seems the fabrics appear to be similar to those of the Fegee and Sandwich Islands" (J.G.Bogert, Esq. ) This mummy was later sold to P.T. Barnum. |