Posted on 09/23/2025 6:15:33 AM PDT by Twotone
What began as a routine baggage check at Tampa International Airport ended with U.S. customs officers unwrapping something far darker — a foil-wrapped bundle of bones, including part of a human skull.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the shocking discovery when a passenger declaring just 10 cigars was found carrying a bag containing the human remains, officials said Thursday.
According to CBP Director of Field Operations Carlos C. Martel, agriculture specialists initially flagged the traveler's belongings for prohibited plants, undeclared cigars, and other items. Inside a foil-wrapped duffel bag, officers uncovered bones, including part of a human skull, Martel said.
The passenger told officers the remains were intended for ritual use.
Photos shared by CBP showed what looked like a skull and vertebrae partially wrapped in aluminum foil. Other images showed officers wearing gloves and inspecting luggage on a table, with the seized items laid out in evidence bags.
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We need more skull-worshipping Americans.
Voodoo.
Noop - no soup for you.
Back on the plane, you aren’t welcome.
I 100% love that America has our own Charles Martel protecting us from violent religions!
Letting in the best and the brightest.
It’s almost Halloween doncha know?
Family friend was an anthropologist who amassed a huge number of skeletal remains from burial mounds in Florida.
Her parents were downsizing and leaving their house. They placed several garbage cans full of skulls, bones, etc. out by the curb for the trash man to cart away.
Which he did. They never heard a word of inquiry from anyone.
It could be a number of things. Veneration of relics is common in Orthodox Christianity.
“No further details were released about the passenger, including nationality or possible charges.”
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That’s jacked up
CARRION LUGGAGE PING!.......................
It likely was a “packed lunch” for the voodoo-aspirant.
Diversity IS NOT our strength.
That is likely because there were Haitian neighbors who needed to replenish their voodoo stock.
Evil.
I think the first episode of the Bones TV series has the forensic anthropologist detained at an airport for carrying a bag with a human head in it.
I watched some of the Caught at the Border shows last night...may have been “Contraband Seized at the Border.”
I don’t know if this one TOPPED what I saw on one of the shows but it was a bag full of FROZEN MEAT determined to be from RATS...being taken into the US for a family gathering. They said it came from a certain area of Mexico that I hadn’t heard of before..Of course, it was taken and secured for destruction...taped up in a box for quarantine until destroyed. Not actually anything special but just what some of the poorest of Mexicans high in the hills catch for meals. Sure makes one wonder WHY take it to the US when you can buy MEAT here in the supermarkets!!! MAYBE it was considered special after all.
There are several shows like that and what it reveals about the drugs and where they’re stashed coming into the US from Mexico is unbelievable..mesmerizing to watch as they literally dismantle cars/trucks after Xraying show anomalies. US personnel on those jobs deserve our thanks and praise.
Well thank goodness those human remains were dealt with respect and decency /s
Ha! Good one.
Gotta be Haitian
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