From the nice neighbor, didn’t make much noise file:
THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV – 42 years after she was reported missing.
Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.
Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old.
Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb.
But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in to help the authorities establish who owned the flat.
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“When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.“The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there.”
sadly this will probably be me some day.. LOL
Was her son Norman Bates?
This story shows why it’s important to make sure to get to know the neighbors in these often hectic days.
Then again, it is possible to have neighbors hwo know you too well, observe you too closely, then telephone to follow-up on their (rather odd) suspicions… not that I have any of those, you understand.
Still, at least they’d notice if I’d not left teh house in 42 years.