Reverend Robert Whitmer visits the body of ‘Stoneman Willie' (James Murphy), during his funeral service in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 7, 2023. | AFP After more than a century living with a macabre mystery, the US town of Reading, Pennsylvania closed the casket Saturday on its oddest-ever resident — a mummified man who was finally buried. Crowds of people have lined up in recent days to pay their respects, snap photos or gaze with bewildered awe on a scene unlikely to ever be repeated in the United States.

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