Anyone ever find human remains?
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Peyton Manning
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Yes I agree. I don't want to hear about anyone's human bone collections!
I'm thinking more along the lines of small bones or parts of a bone. Not something recognizable as human.
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About 30 miles from here there is a nice beach I want to detect. However a few years ago someone drown in the ocean and they never found the body. I don't want to find anything like that. Truthfully the body is probably nowhere near there anymore.... but the thought remains.
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sadly my wife and i did find human bones. We were hunting arrowheads just east of lost hills ca. we came across a fox hole and the dirt out in front of it had very small rib bones in it. we moved the dirt around a little and found a scull and lower jaw . so we stopped and called the sheriff's office. they met us in town and followed us back to the spot. they put up crime scene tape and gathered up everything.it was right near interstate 5 so we were worried about foul play,, it was a very small child or baby. i called the sheriff's office 3 -4 times they finally told me they thought the bones were very very old.... jonsey
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If there is no flesh on the bones, the cops are not interested.
I accidentally found two burials, one ancient, and one historic.
We were digging a small rock shelter on my buddies farm, when I found a small bundle burial, roughly dated 4 - 6k yrs old. It was hard to tell what I found until a human tooth appeared. We photographed it, then reburied it.
The other time I was running a loader in a gravel pit, when I noticed a disturbance in the gravel layers near the surface, as I backed the loader away from the high-wall, a skull rolled down from the unmarked grave.
The boss called the cops, they said no flesh, no worries. We found out later there was a trader that came up missing there in the 1800's, blood on his wagon seat, but no trader.There were bits of shoe sole, and square nails. We figured this could have been him.
I accidentally found two burials, one ancient, and one historic.
We were digging a small rock shelter on my buddies farm, when I found a small bundle burial, roughly dated 4 - 6k yrs old. It was hard to tell what I found until a human tooth appeared. We photographed it, then reburied it.
The other time I was running a loader in a gravel pit, when I noticed a disturbance in the gravel layers near the surface, as I backed the loader away from the high-wall, a skull rolled down from the unmarked grave.
The boss called the cops, they said no flesh, no worries. We found out later there was a trader that came up missing there in the 1800's, blood on his wagon seat, but no trader.There were bits of shoe sole, and square nails. We figured this could have been him.
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I'm sorry but that's absolutely untrue maybe that guy said that but its not the truth no flesh does not mean no worries.
Missing persons cases are open for years all the flesh can be gone in one year no problem... It depends on conditions in the area and that's not up for the public to decide the law simply states its your obligation to call authorities leaving no decision up to the finder on whether or not there's flesh or anything else
Missing persons cases are open for years all the flesh can be gone in one year no problem... It depends on conditions in the area and that's not up for the public to decide the law simply states its your obligation to call authorities leaving no decision up to the finder on whether or not there's flesh or anything else
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Yes. I have told this story on here before. I was detecting a city lot where an old house was torn down. This was in 1977.
The house had originally been a road house on an old wagon trail from the 1860's to after the turn of the century. In 1977 it had weathered to disrepair and was dozed down and hauled off.
About dusk one evening, I was searching on the back of the lot. At the trunk of an old mesquite tree, I got a strong signal that I recognized as large iron or tin, the kind that I normally passed but I decided to dig it. I probed down with a large screwdriver about 12" deep I hit metal. I went to my car and got my folding army shovel. I uncovered the top of a five gallon grease can. the type with bend-down tabs to hold the lid on, I scraped the dirt from around the top about two or three inches down and bent the tabs up with a screw driver. Inside the can was a wide mouth pickle jar wrapped in rags, I was very excited, I just knew that I had finally found someone's buried treasure! I lifted the jar from the can, the last light of day was just disappearing, facing the last light from the setting sun, I held the jar up in the light and in a liquid I could see the remains of a baby.
I slowly set the jar back down in the can, set the lid back on the can and covered it back up with dirt. About two blocks away lived a couple that were good friends of mine. I was pretty shaken up, I went to their house and told them what I had found. Marie called the police for me. After I explained the situation to the police, they decided it would be best for me to meet them there at daylight the next morning.
The next morning after exhuming the entire can, they said that they would inform me of the results. After about two weeks, I still had not heard from them, so I called. I was told the medical examiner said the body was in formaldehyde and been there for least fifty years. It was that of a still birth or a late term miscarriage and had been there far too long to pursue investigation.
I definitely don't wish to ever find anything like this again.
Good Luck & HH
The house had originally been a road house on an old wagon trail from the 1860's to after the turn of the century. In 1977 it had weathered to disrepair and was dozed down and hauled off.
About dusk one evening, I was searching on the back of the lot. At the trunk of an old mesquite tree, I got a strong signal that I recognized as large iron or tin, the kind that I normally passed but I decided to dig it. I probed down with a large screwdriver about 12" deep I hit metal. I went to my car and got my folding army shovel. I uncovered the top of a five gallon grease can. the type with bend-down tabs to hold the lid on, I scraped the dirt from around the top about two or three inches down and bent the tabs up with a screw driver. Inside the can was a wide mouth pickle jar wrapped in rags, I was very excited, I just knew that I had finally found someone's buried treasure! I lifted the jar from the can, the last light of day was just disappearing, facing the last light from the setting sun, I held the jar up in the light and in a liquid I could see the remains of a baby.
I slowly set the jar back down in the can, set the lid back on the can and covered it back up with dirt. About two blocks away lived a couple that were good friends of mine. I was pretty shaken up, I went to their house and told them what I had found. Marie called the police for me. After I explained the situation to the police, they decided it would be best for me to meet them there at daylight the next morning.
The next morning after exhuming the entire can, they said that they would inform me of the results. After about two weeks, I still had not heard from them, so I called. I was told the medical examiner said the body was in formaldehyde and been there for least fifty years. It was that of a still birth or a late term miscarriage and had been there far too long to pursue investigation.
I definitely don't wish to ever find anything like this again.
Good Luck & HH
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Never while detecting but during another past time of mine (fishing) I found an older illegal alien who had passed on leaning against a fence line I was walking to get to the pond.Called my friends Dad who was the resident Sheriff and he handled it from then on.
i've come across six over the years,all washing out of the banks of the tennessee river below wilson dam.all were obvious native american burials that TVA cares nothing about unless YOU touch the bones or artifacts.i'd just say a little prayer and keep on walking.also seen three ancient dog burials in the same area,one placed in a curled up sleeping position and surrounded by a circle of round stones.I could tell that indian loved and missed that dog .when i returned the next day with a camera the river had washed it away .
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Yes we used to find teeth and obvious skull parts when surface hunting arrowheads near our land in Ohio. The area had once had a pioneer cemetery near there and from the condition of the teeth I think they were old French or Indian burials. The teeth were worn flat.
I've found a couple of cremation tags but that's as close as I've come knowingly.
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