9 People Who Were Found Dead Years After Their Deaths

 The Croatian Woman Who Sat Dead in Front of Her TV for 42 Years

The remains of a woman were found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favorite armchair in front of her black and white television set. Croatian police said that she was last seen by neighbors in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old. Her neighbors thought she had moved out of her flat in Zagreb.

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Isaac Brown, the Five-Year-Old Boy Who Feels No Pain

Isaac Brown is a 5-year-old boy from Iowa who suffers from a rare genetic condition which makes him immune to pain, but not to the effects of his frequent injuries. Painful falls, deep cuts and other agonizing injuries that normally make children scream at the top of their lungs and cry out for their parents, don’t determine any kind of reaction from little Isaac. Even after he broke his pelvis by falling from playground equipment, he calmly acknowledged that something was wrong, but he didn’t feel pain.

Photo: Carrie Brown

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Mummies of the World (18 pics)

Not to look nervous! 10-month-old, who lived in Peru 6420 years ago, an aristocrat of the 17 th century South African woman with a tattoo on each breast and face, the woman with tuberculosis, a child with heart disease and another with a tumor on his face. "Mummies of the world" - traveling exhibition of mummies, the largest we've ever had in history. 45 mummies and 95 artifacts from 15 museums in seven countries. The exhibition opened yesterday in the Science Museum of California at Los Angeles. Soon she will depart for a three-year tour in the U.S..

 

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