Canadian couple finds 400 year old skeleton in yard, charged 5 grand to excavate it

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ontario-couple-finds-400-old-skeleton-gets-5-141737421.html


I'd say leave it there and let it rot, but I've seen too many horror movies.

 

[Warhammer]

That s*** is stupid.

 

[KevanG]

$500 to excavate
$4500 to hire a shaman to perform various rituals to prevent the house from going all Poltergeist on them.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

$500 to excavate
$4500 to hire a shaman to perform various rituals to prevent the house from going all Poltergeist on them.

Being scared ****less for the rest of your life, priceless.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Being scared ****less for the rest of your life, priceless.

Well played.

 

[Teelie]

Or decide to live with it.
Turn the house into a true haunted house.
Charge admission.
Profit.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Couldn't they like sell the remains to a museum or something?

 

[redhawk23]

Couldn't they like sell the remains to a museum or something?

Well see that's kind of what I was thinking. I know a lot anthropology professors and students who would welcome the opportunity to excavate the site for free.


Actually this kind of reminds me of an episode of King of the Hill.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Should have pushed that anthropologist back into the pit...

 

[Hobgoblin]

Couldn't they like sell the remains to a museum or something?

Museums wont buy artifacts. They only take donations.

There is also the legal and ethical question of removing a skeleton of a native. Many tribes would protest (at least) or sue (at worst) to have the remains returned to the burial site and not put on display or examined by scientists.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I'm somewhat familiar with the American laws on that, but totally unfamiliar with Canada's.

Can they force you to keep a corpse on your property?

 

[Hobgoblin]

I'm somewhat familiar with the American laws on that, but totally unfamiliar with Canada's.

Can they force you to keep a corpse on your property?

That I dont know. I'm sure it's easier to just leave the remains where they are in the long run, but I dont know what happens if the property owner absolutely wants the bones removed. That could be a thorny issue.