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Let's see... There's Gilligan. The Skipper, too. A millionaire, and his wife. A movie star. The professor and Mary Ann... Yep. Everyone present and accounted for.
Mark W.
Posted on 01/21/2002 2:59:17 AM PST by kattracks
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Mysterious bamboo rafts carrying sun-bleached skeletons have washed up on the shores of Pacific atolls, prompting the Federated States of Micronesia to ask the United States for help finding out where they came from.
Five skeletons, including one of a child, have been found on the 13 giant rafts that first began to appear last September, Pius Chotailug, police chief of the Pacific nation, said on Monday.
"Where they came from we don't know," Chotailug said from Pohnpei, the largest of the Federation's 607 islands which lie between Papua New Guinea and Guam and spreads out over 1,500 miles of the Western Central Pacific.
"We have an archaeologist...who helped with the investigation of the bones and found they've been dead for up to one month or two months."
Chotailug told Reuters an identity card was found in a wallet on one of the rafts.
It belonged to an Indonesian man from Bitung in Sulawesi, 1,100 miles to the southwest, where Muslims and Christians have been fighting for three years, raising the possibility the rafters were refugees from a conflict.
But the Federated States of Micronesia does not have any forensics specialists to establish some facts in the case, and has asked the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to help. So far, the FBI has not replied.
"They've been pretty busy, we know," Chotailug said.
I dunno, the picture I get is of the people hanging out the WTC windows - jump or burn? Seems like it could be a case of a guy trying to protect his family when faced with a choice of a confrontation with peaceful muslims or the unknown sea.
"We have an archaeologist...who helped with the investigation of the bones and found they've been dead for up to one month or two months."
Why are there skeletons and why are they sunbleached if they've only been dead for up to one or two months?
More like the Donner party Meats The Love Boat
That's my impression as well.
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Let's see... There's Gilligan. The Skipper, too. A millionaire, and his wife. A movie star. The professor and Mary Ann... Yep. Everyone present and accounted for.
Mark W.
If the Howells were so rich, what were they doing on board the lowly Minnow?
Mary Ann and the Howell's had full wardrobes too (including an 18th century ball gown!).
If the island was uncharted, how come so many people were able to find it (but whenever they sent out a search party, the US armed forces weren't able to when in fact they've used the island during WW2?)
There was the rich socialite Erica Tiffany Smith, the actor who tried out his "Tonga" act on the castaways in order to prepare himself for the role in a Tonga movie (and how come Tonga knew that there were going to be people on the island to try his act out on?), Kincaid the great white hunter, the Ginger look alike Eva Grubb, the Gilligan look alike Russian spy, The "ghost" who haunted the island but was really another foreign spy, Dr. Balinkoff, the rock group The Mosquitoes, Wrong Way Feldman, Lord Beasley, Wiley the kidnapper, the South American dictator who was put into exile on the island, and a countless number of natives from the other surrounding islands.
Never mind the people who found the island by accident:
The Mr. Howell impersonator, Harold Hecuba the Hollywood producer, a Japanese soldier who thought the war was still on, the two russian astronauts, even a robot.
Only if the skeletons had revolvers in their hands.
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