Soapman: Corpse Turned Completely Into Soap
Photo: Dave Hunt / Smithsonian Institution
When the corpse above was discovered in 1875 during the digging of a train depot foundation in Philadelphia, it has turned into soap (that’s why it’s called "Soapman" by the Smithsonian Institute). Water had seeped into the casket and brought alkaline soil with it, turning the fats in the man’s body through a type of hydrolysis called saponification.
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