Eugene the mummy -NSFW
EMBALMED BODY PICTURE IN THE LINK DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE.
For nearly four decades a small Ohio town, had an embalmed man put in a shed, and on display for the millions to see.
In the town of Sabina, Ohio in 1929, A African American male, between the ages of 30-50 was found dead on the side of the road.
Many people say they saw him walking around the tiny town days before he was found, claiming he looked very ill, his death was determined to be natural causes.
The man had no identification on him, but a Cincinnati Ohio address. The address turned out to be a vacant lot. They called him “Eugene” (a name of a neighbor near the vacant lot)
The Littleton Funeral Home in Sabina Ohio embalmed him, and had placed him in a shack, on a little couch, hoping somebody, anybody, would know who “Eugene” was. The typical 30 days hold for identification went by with no one claiming the body.
For 35 years his body was embalmed many times, to preserve him, and put on display in hopes to find his family. Millions came out to see the body, bringing in a lot of revenue for the small town.
In the 35 years he was there he was used by a group of high school/college students as a prank prop, stealing his body and placing him on park benches, taking him to the Ohio state fair, and putting him on bench at the Ohio State University Campus. The Town folks would take him around town on Halloween, putting him on porches and giving people a scare.
However each time he was taken he was brought back to the Funeral home to be put on display.
Of the millions of people that came to see his shack and him on display, he was never identified. After the Decades of pranks and no help with identification, he was laid to rest in the graveyard in Sabina.
Tombstone reading: “Eugene” found dead 1929 buried 1964
Will he ever be identified. ?