On Monday, a tour guide for St Michan’s Church discovered that thieves had broken in and turned the body over. Walter Bibikow via Getty Images An archival photo from 2006 shows mummies preserved in a crypt at St. Michan’s Church in Dublin. St. Michan’s Church, founded in 1095, has crypts on its property that contain the bodies of prominent Dubliners who lived between the 17th and 19th centuries. Bram Stoker, the Irish author of the Gothic horror tale “Dracula,” is believed to have visited the site with his family, according to the St. Michan’s Church website. David Pierpoint, the church vicar, told the Independent that The Crusader’s head still had skin, a nose and ears.

Source: Huffington Post February 27, 2019 18:56 UTC