100-Year-Old Skeleton in a Coffin Washed Up on the Shores of Chesapeake Bay Amid Low Tide, Experts Unsure About It's Origin

Knewz ^ | November 30, 2024 | Mahalekshmi P

[Tallguy]

Thanks! Now I have a good idea as to how this went down. This article, however, reads like it was written by someone for whom English is a third language.

[SunkenCiv]

Apparently the guy who found this found some bones a few years back, I wonder if it’s a lost, submerged (or eroded) old cemetery?

[COBOL2Java]

Apparently the guy who found this found some bones a few years back, I wonder if it’s a lost, submerged (or eroded) old cemetery?

It could very well be. There's an island in the Chesapeake, Tangier Island, which has been "sinking" with the rising waters. The cemetery there is now mostly underwater.

A Cemetery in the Path of a Rising Sea

[SunkenCiv]

Inadvertent burial at sea. Thanks C.

[Red Badger]

That’ll buff right out....................

[Red Badger]

As well they should....................