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Meet Julia Pastrana, born in the 1830s in Mexico, and one of the world's greatest curiosities. Longform by BuzzFeed Behold! The Heartbreaking, Hair-Raising Tale Of Freak Show Star Julia Pastrana Julia Pastrana was born in the 1830s in Mexico, severely deformed and covered in hair, then became an international sensation. After she died in 1860, her mummified remains became an equally public curiosity. Only now is she finally resting in peace. Read it on BuzzFeed More Longform Stories We're Reading Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life — The New York Times Magazine The Boy Whose Brain Could Unlock Autism — Matter Suspended Justice: A Community Questions The Meaning Of Justice — Indiana Daily Student The Manhunt For Christopher Dorner — The Los Angeles Times My Injury File: How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL — Deadspin Forgotten Soldiers: Remembering A Time When The U.S. Lobotomized Veterans — The Wall Street Journal What Kind of Monster Wants to Shoot Up His School? — Gawker Julia Louis-Dreyfus In The Present Tense: How The Actress Made Her Transformational Turn On "Veep" — New York Something Inside Us: How Tennessee Coal Ash Ended Up In Alabama's Black Belt — Oxford American Get more stories on BuzzFeed What's hot on BuzzFeed? This BuzzFeed email was sent to dwyld.kwu.yq4b5l8av2dw7@blogger.com | Unsubscribe Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get BuzzFeed in your inbox BuzzFeed, Inc. 200 Fifth Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010