Corpse Found Sitting in Front of Television for 42 Years

Posted by Chris Jensen | May. 16, 2008 07:02AM PST | 54491 views | 1 comment

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Detectives in Croatia have a little explaining to do. A woman by the name Hedviga Golik was reported as missing way back in 1966 when neighbors lost all sign of her. Apparently, no one thought to look in her apartment until yesterday. In order to establish who owned the long dormant apartment, cops finally entered and discovered the missing woman sitting in a chair in front of a black & white television. She had been sitting there for 42 years!

A police spokesman said: "So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.

"When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.

"The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there."

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Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Slacker

Posted by Chris Jensen | Mar. 18, 2008 07:36AM PST | 419 views | 2 comments

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Archaeologists working at a site in east Kent have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old skeleton who was buried with a beer mug. Looks to me like it's the remains of the town drunk, but scientists who supposedly know more than I on the topic instead believe the remains are those of someone with a high status.

Possibly ceremonial objects were found buried with the individual, who could have been a high-status male.

No clues are given as to what those ceremonial objects are, but they probably found a fake I.D., rolling papers and a bag of Bronze Age weed. This pushes back the evolution of the slacker by several thousand years.

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