TRUE STORY: I was rebuilding a deck over sandy soil and-having seen this meme before- I mentioned to the homeowner doing the same thing. We chuckled.
A week later I got a call asking if I actually did that. “No, why?”…“because we were planting a tree and dug up human bones.” WTF?!
Yes, indeed, they had. Turns out this was the site of a great battle a couple hundred years ago and all the bodies were just lightly sanded over. It was a big issue when a shopping center was built, and all remains were gathered and reinterred in a gated spit in the parking lot.
When my ex and I were looking at the house we bought, on our first walkthrough, I noticed the space between two rooms didn't add up, and there must be hidden space behind the paneling in one room. Our agent joked that maybe there's a dead body stashed in there.
Fast forward a year, he writes a short novel about a real estate agent who finds a dead body in a house during a walkthrough.
A similar thing happened where I grew up. An old farm sold to become a strip mall, during preliminary stuff they discovered a bunch of shallow graves. Since they were likely native American given the area (depending on which side of a river it could be native Americans or civil war soldiers), they were reburied in a large mound near the back of the lot.
Since it’s next to a pet store, people walk their dogs to piss and shit all over it.
And that about sums up local feelings for natives.
As it’s probably PVC or abs, it can fall apart in a couple of years when exposed to uv. But as it’s covered by the deck, it will probably stay intact for a long time.
By the time I’ve called the police (which would feel utterly horrible), and the police have confirmed it was just plastic, I’d be a rattled mess for a long time. (I’m already mildly mentally ill and this would not help)
If you find something that looks like human remains hidden in a shallow grave, you really shouldn’t go poking around at it and disturbing it. If it is real, the forensic people will be pissed if you’ve been down there giving it a good fondle before they get there.
I’m less worried about the forensic people at my local PD (They don’t have one) and more worried about the very real possibility that no matter what evidence is found, it will get pinned on who found it, because cops in small town Okkahoma are not the same as cops on TV.
EDIT: Also, it’s worth mentioning that anyone who has a dog will be able to determine if that’s a plastic skeleton or not.
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