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Posted in Death, Oddities by Greg Ross on September 15th, 2007

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In the 1860s, workers discovered the remains of a cat and a rat behind the organ in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral.

There’s no telling how long they’d been there. Their bodies had been desiccated in the dry air of the cathedral.

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