Box Of Century-Old Human Bones Discovered In Garage
Authorities in Ohio have released new information about a box of human bones found in a garage last week. A concerned neighbor stumbled across a box of bones in his neighbor's garage after hearing children making noise in an alley outside his home. When he went outside to investigate, he noticed his neighbor's garage door had been left open. When he went to check out the garage, he saw a box with what appeared to be human remains inside and called the police.
The ‘Mount Healthy’ Police Department investigated the grisly discovery and determined that the bones were about 100 years old and belonged to a group known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The group had a lodge in the city, used the bones in initiation rituals.
Mount Healthy Police Chief Vincent Demasi told WLWT that the remains were likely purchased by the group from prisons in the state. He explained that in the 1800 and 1900s, prisons would sell unclaimed cadavers. Back then, per the report, folks could purchase unclaimed human cadavers and the state’s prisons would even sell unclaimed dead bodies if you wanted to buy one. Officials said that when the group sold the lodge, the new owners packed everything up and stored it in the garage.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows still exists today and has more than 40 lodges throughout Ohio. NBC News reported that the group’s site says the fraternal order’s date of founding “is lost in the fogs of antiquity.” NBC said “some historians trace (the Odd Fellows’) roots back to the Medieval Trade Guilds of the 12th and 13th centuries.” Others say 1650, NBC reported, and the Odd Fellows’ website says they had Odd Fellows in England in the 1700s.
They apparently have a mission, too, which is noted on the website and includes aiming
“to improve and elevate every person to a higher, nobler plane; to extend sympathy and aid to those in need, making their burdens lighter, relieving the darkness of despair; to war against vice in every form, and to be a great moral power of influence for the good of humanity,” per the report.
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