Palermo Catacombs: A Little Girl Who Slept for Over a Hundred Years

In Palermo, Sicily, Italy, there is an underground catacomb called the Capuchin Catacombs, which houses about eight thousand mummies, some hanging on the walls, some standing in the corridors, and some lying in coffins.

In the sixteenth century, the monks discovered that those buried here did not decay, but slowly dried out and were preserved, so the locals all wanted to be buried here after death. Men, women, priests, and soldiers, dressed in their finest clothes from life, stood in rows or hung on the walls.

The most famous one is a child named Rosalia. In 1920, she had just turned two when she died of pneumonia. Her father was heartbroken and hired an embalmer named Salafia to preserve her body.

A hundred years have passed, and she lies in a small glass coffin, looking as if she is asleep, with a bow in her golden hair, clear eyelashes, and color still in her cheeks. Tourists call her "Sleeping Beauty."

Someone filmed a video online saying that her eyes slowly open a little during the day and then slowly close again. Researchers at the museum explained that it was due to changes in lighting and the angle of filming, not that she was actually opening her eyes. Later, to protect her, the catacomb replaced her case with a sealed glass cabinet and adjusted the lighting.

The embalmer's formula was not passed on to anyone when he died; it remains a mystery. In 2009, a researcher found notes he had left behind, which read: formalin, glycerin, alcohol, zinc salts, and salicylic acid.

Some of her organs are still remarkably intact to this day.

In the corridors of the catacombs, tourists walk slowly all year round, and when they reach her, they soften their footsteps.

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