Today’s Undisturbed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In May 2008, the remains of a woman were found sitting in front of her TV – 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.
Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old. Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb. But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in to help the authorities establish who owned the flat. A police spokesman said: “So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in. When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time. The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there.”
Neighbours were shocked by the discovery. Jadranka Markic was nine when Hedviga “vanished”. She said: “I still remember her. She was a quiet woman who kept herself to herself but was polite. We all thought that she had just moved out and gone to live with relatives.”
Culled from: Daily Record
Generously submitted by: Peter
Talk about a dream urban exploration discovery! A corpse AND a time capsule! It would literally be a dream come true. Too bad nothing this exciting will ever happen to me. *sniffle*
holy moly!!
Talk about your absentee landlord. God help you if you lived in that building and your heat wasn’t working or your drain backed up.
Seems like this could become more common these days with all the automatic fund transfers that keep the lights on and the rent paid.
A person with a fat bank account could go unnoticed for many years.
How it happened in the 1960s is an interesting mystery, although there’s a part of me that likes the idea of non-busybody neighbors.