Welcome to the Pantheon municipal in Celaya.
This is one of the two homes of
the mummy museums in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico
How Mexican cemeteries work
is a little bit strange compared to how
they work in Canada, where i'm from.
Here, you buy a plot of land, you put your
deceased loved one or whoever it is in
the ground, and you pay tax on that space.
If you don't pay the tax every year,
you no longer own the space, and they take
the body out of the ground and someone else gets it,
So. That happened here.
Bodies were being taken out of the
ground because people didn't pay their
taxes on the spot and they discovered
that the bodies were still preserved.
There's something very special in the ground here
that causes the bodies to stay
almost intact when they're buried.
We're going to find out more about it today,
in the Museo de Momias in Celaya, Guanajuato.
let's do it
"She says they are pretty, I don't think they are pretty" *Laughing*
Whoa......
Oh my god...
This is so much more intense than I thought...
You can smell it... you can smell the mummies
and you have to see some of these faces...
Well I... I think... It's I think this....
This is probably top three most shocking
things I've seen in my entire life
because again... Body, closed mouth....
totally fine. I've seen skeletons before
but I've never seen, I've never seen
something like this before
Alison was saying, Alison's our guide
here for the museum museum, she was saying that
there's 23 mummies in the museum and
they are all about 40 or 50 years old or so
as far as that's the age ago they died.
Because of the soil and there's lots
of salt and mineral in the soil a lot of
them were buried in wood and that also
helps suck out the moisture and
preserved them because of the salt and mineral content
and that's why they look like this
and that's why a lot of the tissue
doesn't rot and fall away.
She also said, they all look like this...
- Their mouths are wide open, which makes them look like they were frightened to death.
- Like they died screaming, is what it looks like.
However, the actual reality is when
you pass away the ligaments in your jaw
start to deteriorate, and so your mouth opens.
I don't see that being the case
for everybody, but some of them look like
they did not go easy...
This guy was definitely a vampire
In the museum there's 23,
In this room there's 13 mummies including one baby goat,
that was buried in the cemetery and preserved
I wouldn't call him cute
Ryan needs a moment it's a little bit intense
- Honestly it's more intense than I thought - I thought... yeah
- I thought there'd be more skeletons, not so human like. - Yeah more skeletons
- and the fact that I thought they'd be 200 years old, and their soul had been gone for a while.
- No, there's still some soul left inside. - There's still soul. They're just 40 years old dead.
- That's new, that's fresh.
All right, room number two.
Honestly though, it's like it's a bit much.
You can see skeletons in biology class
You can see, maybe, if you watch the news
or on certain internet pages you
can see fresh dead bodies with some blood.
but it's the in-between that is...
Shocking
It...
Makes you feel uncomfortable
If you've seen any of my other videos,
you know sometimes they enjoy visiting these
places to get to get to your perspective on life.
Every one of us will look like this someday
and it's heavy to think about.
But if you do think about it,
it can help you make choices in life
that are a little bit different.
I have never seen anything like this in my entire life.
This moment will change my life.
There are faces here that I will see... In my dreams.
The faces of people who were dug out of the graveyard.
Ok... That was the Mummy Museum in Celaya.
Which was a little more intense than we thought it was going to be.
It's still really really cool though...
Like mummies is a really cool thing cool concept,
cool sort of death thing.
They were telling us a cool story that since the mummies aren't that old,
only about 40 years old. That family members would
still come during Day the Dead to see
their grandparents and share moments with them.
which is actually quite beautiful.
Because we put our dead in the ground and forget about them.
Being able to actually come spend Day of the Dead with your grandmother or grandfather is...
Awesome. Creepy maybe.
- It's creepy but it's how you celebrate it - Umhmm
- It depends on your culture I guess.
- A beautiful end of the story.
Experiences over Possessions.
Kick the Grind
Thank you guys for watching. Catch you next Wednesday!