From a gigantic jack-o'-lantern to the dirty secret of flying amphibians.- Oh my gourd -
But even Grazer would be defeated by the monster American pumpkin that has just squashed the world record for a gigantic gourd.
A mummified man who has been lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years has finally been given a burial after being identified as James Murphy, a New Yorker of Irish descent. Finally, the man only known as "Stoneman Willie" will be buried.
READING, Pa. — A leather-skinned mummified man lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, known only as “Stoneman Willie” to the public got two things Saturday he went without
A mummified man known as Stoneman Willie in Reading, Pennsylvania, was given a proper burial and his real name, James Murphy, after 128 years. Murphy, an Irish alcoholic, died in 1895 while in jail. His remains had been accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with embalming techniques.