FL Police Investigate Human Skull Found In Antique Store

One shopper obtained a spooky shock when she reportedly came upon a human cranium in a Florida thrift retailer. Turns out that what she thought was an ornamental merchandise, may really be the stays of a human.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Meyers, Florida, shared the weird story on their official Meta web page on Nov. 4. According to the publish, the patron is an authorized anthropologist. Given her background, police say she “recognized [the skull] to be human.”

According to Newsweek, the anthropologist contacted the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly after, detectives pulled as much as Paradise Vintage Market, situated on North Cleveland Avenue, to additional examine.

“Based upon the observations of detectives on scene, the skull is believed to be that of a human,” the Sheriff’s Office said of their publish.

Detectives questioned the store proprietor concerning the human cranium. They revealed finding the alleged human physique half in bins from a storage unit bought earlier than September 2022.

Managing accomplice of Paradise Vintage, Beth Meyer, informed Newsweek the incident has been “interesting and unusual.” She confirmed that she bought the storage unit, however its gadgets reportedly sat in her visitor bed room for a whole yr. She denies understanding any extra details about the cranium’s origins.

“I actually put the skull on display in my rock shop a year later in September 2023,” Beth mentioned. “I thought it would be interesting to have out for Halloween.”

There isn’t any extra data obtainable concerning the storage unit or its earlier proprietor presently.

Medical Examiner Is Running Tests On Found Human Skull

For now, it seems that native authorities aren’t too pressed about how a human cranium ended up in an vintage retailer. In reality, the Meta publish declared that the case “is not suspicious in nature.”

“This is definitely different,” LCSO Captain Anita Iriarte informed Newsweek on Sunday. “We don’t usually get a call from an antique store that there’s a human skull on the floor.”

Still, the legislation enforcement company plans to work with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office to “facilitate further testing of the skull.” Initial exams have confirmed that the recovered merchandise constitutes actual human stays.

After the native medical expert completes their exams, the cranium will likely be despatched to Gainsville for extra testing. Authorities hope to be taught extra about the place it got here from and the way previous it’s. The anthropologist informed each Meyer and the cops that she believed the human cranium was Native American.

“The anthropologist came into the store, and gave a very informative and educational explanation as to why she thought it was Native American. The medical examiner came in, bagged and tagged the skull, and took it to the lab for testing. If it is Native American, it will be returned to one of the local tribes and we will have a ceremony,” Meyer mentioned.