The Whispering Dead of Guanajuato

They called them the whispering dead. Bodies with open mouths, frozen mid-scream.

But no one knows exactly what silenced them. In the 1800s, a mysterious cemetery

tax in Guanajuato, Mexico, forced families to pay to keep their loved ones buried.

Those who couldn’t pay… were unearthed. (follow us.) When workers opened the crypts,

they found something shocking — the bodies hadn’t decayed. They were naturally

mummified by the desert air, their faces twisted in pain, as if still alive

when they were buried. Whispers spread through the town: that their souls were trapped,

still wandering the tunnels beneath the city. Follow for more sacred and strange