Little Girl Has Been Dead For over 100 Years. But Still Blinks Her Eyes In Her Coffin

 


Wonders shall never end. Little Girl Has Been Dead For over 100 Years. But Still Blinks Her Eyes In Her Coffin.

Rosalia Lombardo died at the age of two in 1920 from pneumonia. Her death left her father dejected, who failed to face reality and strove to take measures for preservation. Approaching a noted

embalmer, he decided to go for mummification.

Alfredo Salafia was a skilled professional who tactfully performed Rosalia Lombardo’s embalming so well that even after 100 years of her death, she appears nothing but a sleeping beauty.

Impeccable Preservation

She has been mummified in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Italy, where she lies beneath the glass case and simply seems to be dozing off. Tourists remain in awe with her little stiff puffy cheeks, blonder tufts of hair wrapped above her head, tied by silk bow.

Scientists carried an x-ray scan which revealed her all internal organs to be intact. How was Alfredo Salafia able to achieve such mastery? Well, because his work didn’t take a typical approach in preserving the mummy.

He was able to keep Rosalia’s body in impeccable condition because of a secret formula he used. Documents found in 2009 with Alfredo’s relatives revealed the procedure he followed.

Instead of removing the internal organs and filling the empty cavities with natron salts for desiccating the body, Salafia created a puncture in Rosalia’s body. The punctured body was injected with glycerin, formalin, zinc salt, alcohol, and salicylic acid.

The ingredients were carefully selected because each carried out a unique, specified, and useful job. Formalin was responsible for killing bacteria, glycerin for disabling desiccation, salicylic for wiping out flesh fungi, and zinc for offering rigidity. It is due to the magic of zinc that her cheeks didn’t cave in.

The unprecedented efforts of Alfredo Salafia have made Rosalia Lombardo remembered as one of the best-preserved mummies.

The Creepy Mystery


But it is not only the sleeping beauty’s reputed preservation that attracts eyeballs, but it is mummy’s unusual behavior of blinking the eyes. Tourists swear by the strange mystery that leaves some immensely fascinated and others insanely horrified.

Rosalia Lombardo has been photographed. In 2009 National Geographic documentary had an MRI performed and the sequences of her photo reveal her eyelids actually shuttering. By 1/8 of an inch, her eyes do open and close. Interestingly, like all her other body parts, her blue eyes glisten in low lights.

Scientists and other theories have tried to bust her mystery which is tagged as “miraculous.” Many theorists have concluded that due to fluctuations in the temperature inside the crypt, Rosalia Lombardo’s eyelids contract, resulting in a blinking effect.

But this theory is opposed by other experts like Capuchin Catacombs’s curator, Dario Piombino-Mascali. According to him, the blinking of an eye is nothing but an optical illusion. The light plays its part, filtering inside the catacombs window through various directions. The angle with which the light strikes her face throughout the day changes, giving an onlooker a chill vibes as if she is closing and opening her eyes several times.

Coupled with the optical illusion, what amplifies the belief of her being mortal is the solution of ether and paraffin, which is wiped across her face, making one feel as if she is directly gazing. How can she even gaze? Apart from the blinking phenomena, upon closer look, her eyes are never fully closed, which seems an intentional act by Alfredo Salafia to make her look more alive and creepy.





The question pops: is it really the optical illusion, or she really blinks? Is it really science or a miracle? I think there can be the latter possibility — as, after all, this world is full of strange, creepy happenings. Interestingly, many cults believe in Rosalia’s spirit returning to the body. Who knows?


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