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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

Posted on 11/30/2024 5:27:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv

George Oliver, a citizen of Calvert County in Maryland was out on the shores of the bay, on the look for fossils as the tide was low and favorable. He spotted a coffin in the water amid the low tide on his scout. The witness then proceeded to contact authorities regarding proper retrieval of the find as he could see the coffin but it was submerged. The sheriff's department was contacted, and they called an archaeological society. Officials examined the contents of the coffin once it was retrieved but were careful not to displace any of them.

Reports suggested that Oliver himself removed the skeleton and dug up the coffin as he was worried about the condition of the remains and what would subsequently happen to it upon being left unattended. Details also included that Oliver pieced the coffin back together on his own. The skeleton was at least a century old based on an initial examination of the contents. However, its whereabouts, such as where it came from, was still a mystery. "When I first found it, you could not tell that there were human remains, you just thought that it was full of beach sand," he commented according to NBC News...

NBC Washington also reported that the remains that were discovered, including both the bones and the coffin would be reinterred at a local church cemetery. Whereas, Oliver thought that the contents recovered, especially the coffin, should be on display, as he stated them to be "somebody's craftsmanship." "It's a shame that it had to happen the way it happened," he said. "But I think it's awesome that we found him or her, and now they'll be able to rest."

(Excerpt) Read more at knewz.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: calvertcounty; chesapeakebay; georgeoliver; godsgravesglyphs; maryland
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A Maryland man found a human skeleton believed to be at least 100 years old while combing the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. WRC’s Mark Segraves reports.
Chesapeake Bay beachcomber finds coffin with skeleton remains | 2:50
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Chesapeake Bay beachcomber finds coffin with skeleton remains | 2:50 | NBC News | 10.7M subscribers | 465,011 views | November 21, 2024

1 posted on 11/30/2024 5:27:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 11/30/2024 5:28:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s how ALL those movies start…


3 posted on 11/30/2024 5:31:33 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I really can’t remember the details I read it so long ago, but I remember once reading about a hurricane flooding New Orleans and coffins with bodies were washing up on the shore at Maine. That’s pretty wild.


4 posted on 11/30/2024 5:36:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Okay Kamala! Where the hell is the "billion and a half" bucks?)
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To: SunkenCiv
Experts Unsure About It's Origin

"Experts" at work again. Clickbait. Stupid simple answer to the mystery: Glacial isostatic adjustment.

The poor sap was buried on one of the now sunken islands and he finally floated free.

But they don't want to talk about sinking islands, only 'rising oceans'.

Idgits.

5 posted on 11/30/2024 6:04:22 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Experts Unsure About It’s (sic) Origin”

Dirt.

Next...


6 posted on 11/30/2024 6:31:20 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“That’s pretty wild.”

Not so wild. You can thank the Gulf Stream for that. ;-)

It sweeps out of the Gulf then straight up the East coast past Maine.


7 posted on 11/30/2024 6:34:08 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

or the result of flooding in N. Carolina.


8 posted on 11/30/2024 6:36:52 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: SunkenCiv
Experts Unsure About It's Origin

Just a guess... Davey Jones' Locker!!!

-PJ

9 posted on 11/30/2024 6:39:22 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: aimhigh; FlingWingFlyer

I think that FlingWingFlyer was talking about Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Did N.C. flood in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005?


10 posted on 11/30/2024 6:47:11 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why do I picture the skeleton saying Just call me Red, and Curly Howard going Oh, Red Skeleton!


11 posted on 11/30/2024 7:02:05 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BradyLS; Political Junkie Too; Larry Lucido

:^)


12 posted on 11/30/2024 8:34:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I have been relieved not to see the word “amid” so much lately. You really can’t get amid low tide. It’s during low tide. Professional writers are stupid. They say as well as when they should say and.


13 posted on 11/30/2024 9:54:38 PM PST by webheart
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To: SunkenCiv

Another Democrat voter for the great state of Maryland...


14 posted on 12/01/2024 4:52:28 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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To: logi_cal869
But they don't want to talk about sinking islands, only 'rising oceans'.

Someone needs to contact Democrat representative Hank Johnson. This may be a case of an island capsizing, just as Hank warned Guam could do if too many Marines were stationed on one side.

15 posted on 12/01/2024 5:05:16 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: SunkenCiv

This article is awkwardly written.


16 posted on 12/01/2024 5:54:51 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: aimhigh

The coffin would never have survived the journey to the ocean intact.

It came from the Bay.


17 posted on 12/01/2024 6:17:20 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Tony Oliva still missing boss sends the boys for a peak.


18 posted on 12/01/2024 6:45:45 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: SunkenCiv

This happened less than 10 miles from me.


19 posted on 12/01/2024 4:47:50 PM PST by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: Tallguy
This article is awkwardly written.

A better-written article

20 posted on 12/01/2024 4:49:28 PM PST by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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