Weird News: Corpse Uncovered in Old Chimney
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The shock discovery of urban deaths is nothing spectacular, but the imagery evoked by this Finnish case is worth mentioning. It's also a reminder of how urban chasms and ruined citadels of economic vigor are swallowing the dead in the way farmland and gothic castles used to. More spectral centers are sure to come down if construction demand ever emerges from the current recession/depression, and they, too, will yield up their mummies. How many unwilling bodies will be revealed when industrial coffins are pried up in potential catacombs like Detroit? And what about the lucky few who will remain shadowed for centuries, Ligottian internments in dead factories, whose idle limbs come a bit closer each year to merging with comatose smokestacks and warehouses?
