Lumberjacks stunned by gruesome find: mummified dog ‘Stuckie’ buried in tree for more than 50 years.

Meet “Stuckie,” the mummified dog who has been trapped in a tree for over 50 years

Lumberjacks expect to find a few things when they cut down trees. Bird carcasses and branches caught in them seem like a gift; a mummified dog in the center of a tree, however, is not.

But that’s exactly what a team of loggers from Georgia Kraft Corp. discovered while felling a tree in the 1980s.

Loggers were working in a chestnut oak forest in southern Georgia, where they encountered a very unusual sight.

Stuckie, as the dog is affectionately known, is still glued to his tree more than 50 years later.

After cutting off the top of the tree and loading it onto a truck for transport, a crew member happened to peek inside the hollow truck.

At his side, he found the perfectly mummified remains of a dog, which looked at him with its teeth still exposed in a fight for survival.

Experts who studied the carcass concluded the pup was likely a large dog from the 1960s that had chased something resembling a squirrel through a hole in the roots and into the center of the hollow tree.

However, the higher the dog climbed, the narrower the tree became. Based on the position of the dog’s legs, experts believe that he eventually climbed up and got stuck in the tree. Unable to turn around, the dog died.

However, due to a perfect set of circumstances, even though he was dead, he was not forgotten.

Typically, a dog that dies in the wild decomposes and is eaten by other hunter-gatherers.

However, because the dog had died next to a tree, it was likely that other animals could reach it, and because of the height of the body, it was likely that other animals could smell it as well.

Furthermore, the type of tree the dog had been lodged in was perfectly qualified to undergo the animal mummification process.

Chestnut oaks are covered in tapestries, which are used in taxidermy and tapestries to treat animal skins so they don’t decay. The tapestries on the inner side of the tree leaked down to the dog and prevented it from rotting inside.

The dry environment inside the truck also provided protection from the elements and absorbed moisture from the carcass. The air that was absorbed by the tree through the base created a sort of vacuum effect, which further aided the drying process.

After finding the mummified pup, the loggers decided to take it to a museum to show this rare sight to the world.

The dog, now affectionately named “Stuckie,” resides at the South Forest World museum, still buried in his wooden grave, and is on display for the world to see.