CONCORD, N.H. -- A family heirloom is not going over well with police.

The mummified body of a baby kept by a Concord, N.H., family has drawn attention from investigators.


The current keeper of the baby, Charles Peavey, said the tiny mummy has been passed down in his family for many years. Concord police recently got word of the remains and they took them in for testing. A forensic anthropologist will examine the tiny corpse.

Peavey said the mummy belonged to his great-great uncle, who was born in Ashland in 1850. The family estimated that the mummy is 90 years old.

It was discovered among the uncle's possessions in 1947 in Manchester, N.H.

Police said the testing on the corpse could take a month or more. source

Eww, I don't know what to think of this.... It's a bit sick..... but I guess it's one way to not be forgotten...

...After further thought........ Nup, thats terrible.... Wonder how it died?


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It'd go great on my sandwich.

You really have to wonder how that tradition started to hand it down to kids and such.

That's a good qeustion Kratos. I also wonder what they told the kids when they gave it to them. "Here's your great aunt/uncle. Cherish her/him forever."

quite sure, Kratos and littlegirl, that it was handed down AFTER the kids grew up.

I sure hope so. I think it might be a little tramatizing to get that when I was a kid.

this is just plain creepy....

To me ... doesn't seem any creapier than keeping someone's ashes around but that's just me

I don't know. I think having someone's ashes in the house is disrespectful to the dead. I scatter their ashes around a place where they were happiest.

People just get weirder and weirder. Were these people the Addams family perhaps?

Just don't use any cheap breads, that would be disrespectful!

I didnt see if the baby was a relative, or just something picked up at a flea market or something. If it was a relative, I kind of have to agree with not any creepier than keeping around someones ashes, but if it was a "novelty" that it was disrespectful in a lot of ways...

Some families do things to remember thier dead that others might find odd, morbid..etc..

I had an ex who's family kept a piece of a dead cousin's skull (or so I was told). The cousin shot himself in the head and the family were all overcome with grief over his unexpected suicide.

Hopefully, once the examination of the baby is completed, more info about this story will come out. I'd really like to know why the family kept it and didn't give it a proper burial.

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