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Woman finds Ikea bags stuffed with 80 skeletons
www.thelocal.se ^ | Updated: 01 Aug 2014 11:51 GMT+02:00 | Staff

Posted on 08/04/2014 6:18:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

UPDATED: A woman in southern Sweden is furious after stumbling upon scores of skulls and human bones inside Ikea bags in a church. The man who dug up the bones, however, says it's not as bad as it looks.

The Kläckeberga church is using Ikea bags to store the remains of around 80 people who were once buried under the floorboards.

The macabre collection, which is almost overflowing from a set of large blue Ikea bags, was found by local woman Kicki Karlén.

"There were around 80 skeletons," she told The Local.

"And it made me very angry about how they were just sitting there. Some people at the parish told me the bones had been there since 2009."

The bags are covered by a tarpaulin and have been sitting there since parts of the church were dug up and rebuilt to allow wheelchair access.

"I was on the team called in to dig out the bones five years ago," archaeologist Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay told The Local.

"Our mission was to document and rebury the bones, which may be as much as 500 years old. But the reburial was delayed and I have no idea why. The plan was to rebury them as soon as possible, but that's up to the church. The county board said they couldn't leave church ground, and it became complicated."

He explained that the bones were likely reburied in a secondary deposition many years ago in what he called a "bone house". The collection is mostly skulls and longer bones, he added.

While Papmehl-Dufay denied storing the bones in the Ikea bags himself, he admitted that it sounded like an efficient storage technique.

"It's not standard practice, definitely not for archaeologists, but the Ikea bags aren't actually that bad. They'd be great for stopping the moulding process. But it can't be that good to have them in the basement for so long."

Karlén, meanwhile, took to her blog to lament the situation and to call for answers.

"How would you feel if it was your grandmother or grandfather?" she wrote.

Karlén, an erotic novelist, has since told The Local that she may write a book about the bones.


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To: Red Badger
The Kläckeberga church is using Ikea bags to store the remains of around 80 people who were once buried under the floorboards. The macabre collection, which is almost overflowing from a set of large blue Ikea bags, was found by local woman Kicki Karlén. "There were around 80 skeletons," she told The Local....The bags are covered by a tarpaulin and have been sitting there since parts of the church were dug up and rebuilt to allow wheelchair access.

"I was on the team called in to dig out the bones five years ago," archaeologist Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay told The Local. "Our mission was to document and rebury the bones, which may be as much as 500 years old. But the reburial was delayed and I have no idea why. The plan was to rebury them as soon as possible, but that's up to the church. The county board said they couldn't leave church ground, and it became complicated."

Were they jewel-encrusted?

21 posted on 08/04/2014 6:36:54 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: P.O.E.; driftdiver; Mercat; Calvin Locke

All erotic novels have bones in them.....................


22 posted on 08/04/2014 6:36:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: driftdiver
The Swedes are in the forefront of "green" burial composting, so her crocodile tears are probably for pre-publicity for her upcoming book.

Ashes to ashes and all that, although the those bones are probably of scientific value for various fields of study.

23 posted on 08/04/2014 6:39:12 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

24 posted on 08/04/2014 6:41:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Swedish meatballs


25 posted on 08/04/2014 6:41:32 AM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: Red Badger

The cast from Jason and the Argonauts.


26 posted on 08/04/2014 6:45:27 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Red Badger

That was a strange note at the end, that this person is an erotic novelist, and will write a story about the human remains. What the heck???


27 posted on 08/04/2014 6:45:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Red Badger
Randy Travis - Diggin Up Bones
28 posted on 08/04/2014 6:46:16 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Red Badger

Some assembly required...


29 posted on 08/04/2014 6:47:49 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t see it in the store’s catalog.


30 posted on 08/04/2014 6:48:00 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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You will need photo Unwarrentedconfidence.gif
31 posted on 08/04/2014 6:48:50 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Red Badger

Bags, basements... Why couldn’t they have been stored in closets, where normal people store them?


32 posted on 08/04/2014 6:50:05 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Alex Murphy

So they built the church on an old cemetery?

Either that or this church invented the phrase ‘skeletons in the closet’.


33 posted on 08/04/2014 6:50:31 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s in their special VIP Only catalog!....................


34 posted on 08/04/2014 6:56:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: driftdiver; Alex Murphy

In Europe, it was common to bury people UNDER the church in ages past, like catacombs.


35 posted on 08/04/2014 6:58:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Somebody beat her to it................

36 posted on 08/04/2014 6:59:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Calvin Locke

re: so her crocodile tears are probably for pre-publicity for her upcoming book

Yes, that is what I am guessing as well. The way the story first came out it sounded as if some church lady accidentally found all the bones at her church and was only wanting a respectful burial for the deceased. Somehow, I doubt that this author of porn fiction is a faithful and active member of the church. Unless it is different in Sweden. Maybe there you can write pornographic novels and be a member in good standing.


37 posted on 08/04/2014 7:00:09 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: C210N

Or sheds in the back yard.................


38 posted on 08/04/2014 7:00:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
New Ikea take home tool:


39 posted on 08/04/2014 7:01:40 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Red Badger

the headline giveth and the article taketh away


40 posted on 08/04/2014 7:05:08 AM PDT by babble-on
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