Top 10 Strangest Things Found INSIDE Statues!
Top 10 Strangest Things Found INSIDE Statues!
We see relics of our past all over the world as statues remind us how different things were before we were born. But we’re even more amazed when we find things inside of them!
10. Letters Inside Jesus
In late 2017, workers at a restoration company, Da Vinci Restauro were working on a wooden sculpture of Jesus when they came across something quite unexpected, in a very unlikely place!! As preservationists were working on the loin cloth, they discovered a panel in the buttocks of the 18th-century statue.
9. Lion Time Capsule
In late 2014, sculptor Robert Shure discovered a time capsule inside the head of a lion statue that sat outside the Old State House in Boston, Massachusetts for over a century. Shure had been tasked with restoring the statue, along with a unicorn sculpture, when he made the incredible find.
8. Statue Within A Statue
This find dates back to 1955, when workers in Bangkok, Thailand dropped a clay Buddha statue they were moving. Whoops! It broke, and it turns out that there was another statue of Buddha made of solid gold inside!
7. Drugs
It’s not unheard of for drug smugglers to hide their goods inside of statues, but it’s pretty unusual for traffickers to move their product by disguising it as a statue. Someone had gotten creative! In Laredo, Texas in 2008, federal agents seized a painted statue of Jesus made from paste with as much as six pounds (2.7 kg) of cocaine mixed in.
6. Confederate Time Capsule
While moving a Confederate statue named “Johnny Reb” in downtown Orlando’s Lake Eola Park in 2017 amid conflicting opinions and public controversy over its alleged overtones of racism, workers discovered a suspected time capsule inside its base.
5. A Mummified Buddhist Monk
A statue of a sitting Buddha made its way from China to the Netherlands where it was purchased by a private buyer. The buyer took it to get restored and it turns out the statue came with a surprise. The 1,000-year-old Buddha statue had a mummified monk inside!
4. Money
If you ask practically anyone what they’d love to find unexpectedly, “money” would probably be a popular answer. Some Australian experts were among the lucky few who could say this happened to them when, in 2016, they discovered an ancient banknote inside a 645-year-old wooden Chinese religious statue that they were preparing for auction.
3. Hundreds Of Love Letters
In Verona, Italy in 2014, shortly before Valentine’s Day, hundreds of love letters and keys were found inside a bronze statue of Juliet from Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. The statue, which was created by sculptor Nereo Constantini shortly before his death in 1969, had been taken down from its location in the courtyard of ‘Juliet’s house’ in her hometown for restoration
2. Human Teeth
In 2014 in the small Mexican parish of San Bartolo Cuau-tlalpan, a restoration team working on a painted wooden statue of Jesus discovered something unexpected!! But not in the same way as the other one. This statue is equipped with real human teeth. The 18th-century statue, called the Christ of Patience, contains eight teeth from an unknown adult.
1. Artifacts
In early 2018, Japanese officials reported the discovery of nearly 200 artifacts inside a religious statue standing at just 30 inches (76.2 cm) tall. The relatively small Buddhist figurine represents a depiction of Monju Bosatsu, a Bodhisattva, or person who is on the path to achieving Buddhahood or who is capable of reaching nirvana but chooses not to, for the sake of helping humanity on Earth. More specifically, Monju Bosatsu represents wisdom.
