This is that cave now known as (glances at his framed bumper sticker collection) "Mark Twain Cave". The guides there (and, I think, Twain's autobiobraphy and/or "Life on the Mississippi") tell us that a doctor put his dead daughter there in a metal container, immersed in some preservative solution (alchohol?). The boys of the town would dare each other to open the container and pull her out by the hair for a look. The town - no doubt represented by the boys' parents - didn't approve of this and the girl was moved to a more peaceful grave. Bob Rogers Minneapolis, MN