New photos of more than a dozen ‘natural mummies’ are on display in Colombia have been released.
A town in Columbia displays dead bodies
Some of the corpses - able for public viewing at a mausoleum in the small Andes town of San Bernardo, 40 miles away from the capital Bogota - are believed to be 100 years old but no one knows they have been so well preserved.
Locals have been pontificating that it is due to their healthy diets, which includes fruit known as guatila or chayote, however this does not give an answer as to why their clothing was so well kept after a century.
Identities of the bodies - which include children - are known and were dug up to give more space to tourist attractions despite protestation from the Catholic church.
In 2015, Ever Pabon, one of the children of the deceased shared how he likes to see his father “any time”.
He told the Wall Street Journal in 2015: “Most people who lose their parents put them in the ground or cremate them and can never see them again, but if I miss him, I can see him any time, and he's exactly how he was in life."