The Mystery of ‘Harriet Cole’

They’re wondering, more than 130 years later, how to describe the dazzling, jarring preparation, stripped of skin and pulled away from the bone. Whose body this is, and what would it mean if one of the university’s oldest fixtures never knew that she would spend her afterlife on display?

Source: Atlas Obscura
Published: Mar 18, 2021
Length: 33 minutes (8,253 words)
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