The Mummies of Guanajuato   This is the first time I have heard
of this.  The Guanajuato mummies were discovered in a cemetery
of A Guanajuato Mummya city named Guanajuato northwest of Mexico
City (near Léon). They are accidental modern mummies and were
literally “dug up” between the years 1896 and 1958 when a local
law required relatives to pay a kind of grave tax. You could pay
the tax once (170 pesos) and be done with it; this option may
have appealed to wealthier individuals. But you were also
allowed to pay a yearly fee (20 pesos); this would have appealed
to less wealthy families. However, if the relatives could not
pay this yearly tax for three years, the body (which had, by the
way, become accidentally mummified) was dug up from the cemetery
and (if the fee still wasn’t paid) placed on display in El museo
de las momias. [Of course, what if the person's family had moved
from town--or what if the person was the last person from their
family? Well, it didn't matter; the law was the law!]  Some
freaky pic