Posted on 06/13/2026 6:31:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Hernando County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help in locating the person who donated a real human skull to the Jericho Ministries Thrift Store in Brooksville, Florida, last month.
Corporal Michael Terry said that while the Sheriff's Department is looking for answers, it does not suspect criminal activity, telling the Hernando Sun,
Nothing criminal in nature. We just want to ensure the people who donated realized it was a real skull, not a prop. [We're] thinking it might have been passed down by a family member.
Even with that caveat, I don't think the person who donated it is likely to come forward.
The question remains: Who would just happen to have a real human skull lying around their house?
Some speculated that the skull could have been used for educational purposes, but the thrift store employee who found it, Jared Veals, had a different hunch.
He said he knew right away that it was the real deal, telling the Hernando Sun,
I could tell by seeing where the upper mantles [SIC] met. On the front of it, it said ‘Okinawa 1945 Marine Division,' so I think it was a war trophy.
What a disturbing war trophy.
This isn't an unheard-of phenomenon, with an Arizona Goodwill also coming across human remains in their donations a few years back.
notthebee.com
Human skull found in Goodwill donation box
Man, isn't the news just great sometimes? Like this story about a human skull that was dropped off at a Goodwill in Goodyear, Arizona.
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That’s interesting…
I might know where that could have come from, from a barn of a nearby widow who passed away last summer- a long time donor and shopper at Jericho who was married to a Navy vet ; maybe he had served on Okinawa. She mentioned Okinawa in a conversation we had but that was a very long ago chat when she was showing me some Japanese embroidery she had.
and still voting
,,, there’s a market for everything.
Florida had the best thrift shops than any other place I’ve lived. But I’ve never run across human remains. Gross.
You gotta get there early before the good stuff is all gone.............
Years ago, an elderly neighbor cleaned out his basement and gave me a box of things he thought I’d want. Old ammo, a silencer, beer tap handles, and other collectibles, At the bottom of the box was the top of a skull. Shocked was not the word but I asked him the story. He came from a family of cops and somehow one ended up with it from a medical school. A john doe donor used for instruction.
The macabre thing that creeped me out, it had clearly been used as an ashtray. I gave it back.
A bit of skull-duggery there (rimshot).
Hamlet’s?
You hit it right on the head!.........................
Perfect time to toss in the “skull of Julius Caesar” joke.
There are collectors of human bones. A skull is quite valuable.
Clearly the previous owner wasnt using it.
Kinky!
Some kid would spend a years allowance to own that.
Yeah! I got there late once, and all I could score was a human pelvis.
Made a good planter, though!
Regards,
Oh those poor Japanese... /s
“Made a good planter, though!”
LOL! I’ve seen some strange plantersN but that would dop them all.
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