Charles "Speedy" Atkins drowned in 1928, was embalmed and then remained unclaimed at a Paducah funeral home for an astonishing 66 years. The preserved body became a local celebrity before finally being buried in Maplelawn Park Cemetery in 1994; his modest marker records the bizarre delay between death and burial.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America