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.
Hernando County.....maybe leftover from the 80s cocaine wars. 😏
I wonder where I left my head... 🤣
“I gave it back.”
How long did it take you to dig up the grave? 😉
My father used to own an occult store. Among his inventory was a box of human bones he kept in the back room. I dont know how many skulls passed through his store, but i imagine it was a lot. They sold pretty quickly.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.
In a similar vein...
Tan me hide when I’ve died, Clyde.
Tan me hide when I’ve died.
So, we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
And that’s it hangin’ on the shed!
I didn’t know him at all. What’s his Facebook page or Twitter handle?...............
LOL!
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