NEW YORK POST
A Peruvian mummy up to 800 years old was discovered inside a cooler bag of a food deliveryman who referred to the ancient male corpse as his “spiritual girlfriend” whom he dubbed “Juanita.”
The Ministry of Culture of Peru released photos Sunday showing the mummified cadaver resting in a fetal position inside a red bag emblazoned with the logo of the popular Uruguayan takeout app Pedidos Ya.
Police made the shocking discovery after the deliveryman was spotted drinking beer at an archaeological site in the city of Puno on Saturday.
The man, identified as 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo, revealed in an interview with the local news outlet Noticias Sin Filtro Puno TV that he had been sharing his room with the centuries-old skeleton, whom he nicknamed “Juanita,” having mistakenly assumed it was female.
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“It sleeps in my bedroom, with me. There’s my bed, the TV set and next to it, there’s Juanita,” Bermejo explained. “I take care of it. It’s like, if you’ll pardon the expression, as if it were my spiritual girlfriend.”
Bermejo said the mummy was given to him by his father and had been in their family for 30 years, but he did not explain where or how his dad had obtained the artifact.
On Saturday, the deliveryman brought the mummified cadaver to the deserted archaeological site in Puno to show it off to his friends over beers. He denied trying to sell “Juanita.”
