Lots of people use skulls and various severed body parts to decorate for Halloween. While most of these remains are manufactured plastic, one thrift store in Flordia found out it had the real deal.
On November 4th, a customer at a thift store in Fort Myers noticed something odd among the Halloween decor. The shopper, who is an anthropologist, realized one of the skulls on the shelf looked a bit too real, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. This prompted the police to come and remove the skull for further investigation.
Deputies say the store owner explained that the item was found inside a storage unit they purchased years ago and had been left alone ever since. The skull is currently with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office for testing.
Though given the circumstances, the shop isn’t suspected of any wrongdoing. This is probably all just a tragic coincidence.
Like the case of Elmer McCurdy, whose corpse was put on display at the Laff in the Dark funhouse located at The Pike in Long Beach, CA. McCurdy’s body had been bought and sold so many times since his passing it’s believed that the funhouse owners had no idea it was a real corpse. That is… until one of the arms broke off and revealed a bone.
While very rare, mistakes like this can, and do, occur.
