Mystery surrounds skeleton made up of bones from 5 different people

[UM-Bot]

A skeleton unearthed in a small town in Belgium over 40 years ago has become the center of a long enduring mystery.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382256/mystery-surrounds-skeleton-made-up-of-bones-from-5-different-people

[Jon the frog]

Maybe the cemetery got relocated and bones mixed up in the process.

[Abramelin]

2 hours ago, UM-Bot said:

A skeleton unearthed in a small town in Belgium over 40 years ago has become the center of a long enduring mystery.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382256/mystery-surrounds-skeleton-made-up-of-bones-from-5-different-people

A very, very weird story.

[glorybebe]

Gormogon!

[docyabut2]

Maybe the buried bones together was a ceremony, sending them all to heaven together

[Faisal Bava]

This news is indeed strange. Conducting such experiments during that time was likely a result of superstition.

faisal bava, MTM College Kerala India

[Procyon]

On 11/6/2024 at 11:43 AM, Jon the frog said:

Maybe the cemetery got relocated and bones mixed up in the process.

That would make sense, although given some of the things that Roman mystery cults got up to I wouldn't be surprised if it were some kind of ceremony or related to a form of divination. Did alchemists exist during the Roman era? I've got this image in my head of some Roman alchemist trying to construct Frankenstein's monster using old bones and contemporary body parts.

It could be related to grave robbers. If this had been an important person, maybe people were digging them up and taking their bones as keepsakes, and the gravekeepers were replacing them over time. Things like that happened with bones being looted as "relics" in the early church.