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Posted on 01/09/2026 1:48:23 AM PST by Morgana
More than 100 human skulls and remains belonging to infants have been discovered inside the home of a man accused of desecrating mausoleums and gravesites.
Jonathan Gerlach, 34, faces more than 500 charges relating to the alleged offending, which allegedly began around Halloween in what authorities have described as a 'horror movie come to life.'
The Pennsylvania local allegedly had collected skulls, long bones, mummified feet and decomposing torsos, storing them in his basement and a separate storage locker, Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said.
'Very simply, detectives have recovered an awful lot of bones at this point, and we are still trying to piece together who they are, where they are from, and how many we are looking at,' Rouse said.
'Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life the other night. This is an unbelievable scene.
'Understand, some of these are 200 years old. Some obviously much newer... It's going to be quite some time before we have a final answer.'
Some of the remains were hundreds of years old, Rouse said, while others belonged to infants believed to have been just months old when they died.
At least one of the corpses was found with a pacemaker, authorities added.
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But on the positive side, they say it’s good for your mental health to have hobbies. It reduces stress, anxiety, and gives you a sense of purpose.
He should take up a hobby of building ships inside bottles. The worst thing that could happen is we would have to break the bottle in order to let him out.
Where else are supposed to put ‘em?
Picard: “Didn’t anyone here build ships in bottles when they were boys?”
Worf: “I did not play with toys.”
Data: “I was never a boy”.
Spock: Building a ship is a bottle is not logical.
Touché.
LOL!!!!!
Now add his own skull to the collection. /spit
Any bets that there’s some “gender dysphoria” involved?
A grave robber. He collected a lot since Halloween. I’d say he has too much time on his hands.
“I’d say he has too much time on his hands.”
Soon, he’ll have more.
Federman’s basement?
The perp looks just like I expected him to!
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True, but he won’t have the freedom to carty out his hobby. Hard to hide them bones in a cell. 😁👌
Where in PA?
The problem is not too much time on his hand but too many hands on his time.
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