Mummy Pulled From Ebay. To Be Unmystified April 12.

[malq]

I can't wait to see what they find.

WILSONVILLE, OR (KPTV) -

Some nationally-known scientists are coming to Oregon to investigate the remains that belong to a Wilsonville family.

The mummy was among the heirlooms Hilary Lester inherited from her late father. She says it may date back to 1840, but her father acquired the mummy in the late 1970s as a bonus while buying a music machine.

"I remember him telling me it was from P.T. Barnum and it traveled around in front of circuses to get everybody interested," Lester said.

When she tried to sell it on the auction website eBay last year, the mummy generated renewed interest. Eventually, scientists from the former National Geographic program Mummy Road Show contacted her. They are coming from the East Coast to study her mummy in a lab at Oregon State University this month, Lester said.


"They're going to do CT scans. I mean it's going to be a patient; they're going to go in there and figure out best as they can what's in it," Lester said.

She says they will likely find animal bones and that the mummy was in fact created as a circus prop.

The mystery will be unraveled on April 12 at OSU.

Cool slideshow at link
http://www.kptv.com/story/17317343/m...lle?hpt=us_bn7

[Marv]

It looks like jesus in the news report, ha ha! Imagine how she is going to feel if there is an actual body in there. I wonder if she will still keep it in her home?!

I would LOVE to have a rummage around all those old gadgets in that house.

[zwietracht]

A mummy mystery has finally been unwrapped for a Wilsonville woman.

Hilary Lester has been living with a creepy looking relic for decades now, not knowing exactly what or what it was. But that all changed when she put it on eBay. A couple of scientists on the East Coast saw it for sale and they were so intrigued, they flew to Wilsonville to investigate it.

The mummy, named Gretchen after Lester's high school rival, was brought home by Lester's father in the late 1970s. Ron Beckett and Gerald Conlogue -- best known as the scientists from the old National Geographic show 'Mummy Road Show,' gave Gretchen a head-to-toe exam at Oregon State University's Veterinary Medicine School. They were impressed by Gretchen's ribs and a wide-eyed Lester was already fascinated by their findings.

"We found a wood tooth, so they believe she's got a wood tooth," Lester said.

Gretchen was then scanned and X-rayed. It turned out that Gretchen was mostly made of wood, nails, bandages and possibly animal bones.

"It's pretty safe to say that she is fake ... man-made," Lester said.

http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/Mum...147250875.html

[malq]

http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/Mum...147250875.html

Thank you zwietracht! I love a good mystery that has an ending. It's like watching a full episode of scooby doo.