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Woman Who Died While Watching TV Sat Unfound for 42 Years
2008-06-19
Hedviga Golik made herself a cup of tea and sat down to watch some television in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia. Sadly, she died in her chair. This was in 1966. She was just found, 42 years later, in her time capsule mausoleum where she's been sitting ever since. She never finished her tea.

What's absurd is that she was in fact reported missing, but somehow no one ever checked her apartment, which leads me to believe no one checked anywhere. I mean, where else do you look for someone when they're missing? I don't understand it. Her neighbors apparently just assumed she moved out of her apartment, and she was finally found when the police broke in to figure out who owned the place.

A police spokesman said: "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."
Posted by:Delphi

#7  I don't understand it. Her neighbors apparently just assumed she moved out of her apartment

Which was spiritually, a correct assumption.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-06-19 22:03  

#6  I, too, had a hard time watching the Munsters.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-06-19 16:56  

#5  Damn those police, there goes another one of our anchor viewers.
Posted by: Neilsen Media Ratings   2008-06-19 16:37  

#4  "This show is boring me to death."
Posted by: Mike   2008-06-19 15:34  

#3  Was the TV still on?

I bet we see this soon on CSI....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-06-19 14:41  

#2  ...and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades.

For instance...Hedviga.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-06-19 14:25  

#1  "And her tea, it was still warm."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-06-19 14:23  

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