Cult Leader's Mummified Demise

Amy Carlson, a cult leader who claimed to be God and asserted she had lived past lives as Cleopatra, Jesus, and Harriet Tubman, died in 2021. She also believed she communicated with a council of alien celebrities, including Robin Williams, Tupac, and Carol Burnett. Although she eventually pleaded, "Take me to the hospital," her cult members refused. Authorities later discovered her mummified body in a makeshift shrine-wrapped in Christmas lights, covered in glitter, missing eyes, and placed in a sleeping bag. The state of decay suggested she had been dead for several weeks.

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