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Bodies Don't Decompose as Normal in This Colombian Town, And Nobody Knows Why


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.

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