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bat400
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|  Posted 07-03-2007 at 20:23
coldrum submitted this news story -- To an American, it is almost a strange, horror movie stereotype involving:
* An abandoned cabin.
* Kids poking around.
* A cave with an ancient burial.
* It takes place in Kentucky.
"Human remains found in a Southern Kentucky cave may wind up in the ultimate "Cold Case" file. State police answered a call from southwestern Green County last month after two boys found remains from two bodies while exploring a cave concealed beneath an abandoned house.
" 'There's an old cabin that is built actually around the cave and a concrete floor that many years ago was poured around the cave opening,' Lt. Eric Wolford said. Troopers used a makeshift ladder to lower themselves through the opening some 15 feet almost straight down into the cave. The bones were 15 to 20 feet farther back.
"Eudell Stilts, the Green County coroner, called in the state medical examiner, Dr. Emily Craig, to examine remnants of two skulls and other skeletal remains. 'She couldn't put an exact age on the bones, but she said they would probably be thousands of years old,' Stilts said. 'One archaeologist here in the county said that they could be as much as 3,000 years old.'
"George Crothers, director of the University of Kentucky Museum of Anthropology, said he knew of the discovery but his office had not been asked to investigate. 'Obviously we're concerned,' Crothers said. 'We try to work together with Native American tribes and Dr. Craig's office to come to a solution … and hopefully return remains back to the original location.' "
For more, see http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070223/COLUMNISTS04/702230432
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|  Posted 07-03-2007 at 23:21
Wasn't it Aluta who said that boys are the means to finding things offbeat?
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bat400
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| Posted 08-03-2007 at 16:57
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On 2007-03-07 23:21, davidmorgan wrote:
Wasn't it Aluta who said that boys are the means to finding things offbeat?
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Yes, she did. What's more intriguing to me is that someone built their house over the cave (in order to use it?) and the burials appear to have been not at all hidden once you got in there. I suppose the house's owner simply though the two sets of remains were fine in what he may have been using as cellar storage or a heatpump.
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