Today, when someone finds human remains that appear to have died tragically, it might make the news, and hopefully be followed by a respectful burial or cremation. But propping up those remains as some kind of attraction is a thing of the regrettable past. But this was often done (including in ethnographic and natural history museums). Fet-Mats is an example of this practice. Fet-Mats was a so-called “petrified man” whose remains were found in 1719. Miners found the body in a long-abandoned, water-filled tunnel. The body looked to have been…
