Sleeping Beauty’s Curse Was a Real Disease — And It’s Still Unsolved
Doctors found a girl who slept for months at a time — and her heart never slowed.
In 1898, a girl named Elise Kreutzer in Austria fell into a deep sleep that lasted 364 days. Her body temperature stayed normal, her breathing light but steady. She was fed intravenously — and once, during her sleep, whispered a full sentence:
“Don’t wake me. He’s not gone yet.”
When she finally opened her eyes, she was nearly unchanged — her hair had grown, but her skin had not aged. Witnesses described her gaze as “ancient.”
She died at 24 — her last words: “The dream is leaking through.”
Doctors called her condition Somnus Vitae — Sleep of Life. The records were sealed by the Vatican in 1901.
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