Woman finds Ikea bags stuffed with 80 skeletons

www.thelocal.se ^ | Updated: 01 Aug 2014 11:51 GMT+02:00 | Staff

[Alex Murphy]

The Kläckeberga church is using Ikea bags to store the remains of around 80 people who were once buried under the floorboards. The macabre collection, which is almost overflowing from a set of large blue Ikea bags, was found by local woman Kicki Karlén. "There were around 80 skeletons," she told The Local....The bags are covered by a tarpaulin and have been sitting there since parts of the church were dug up and rebuilt to allow wheelchair access.

"I was on the team called in to dig out the bones five years ago," archaeologist Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay told The Local. "Our mission was to document and rebury the bones, which may be as much as 500 years old. But the reburial was delayed and I have no idea why. The plan was to rebury them as soon as possible, but that's up to the church. The county board said they couldn't leave church ground, and it became complicated."

Were they jewel-encrusted?

[Red Badger]

All erotic novels have bones in them.....................

[Calvin Locke]

The Swedes are in the forefront of "green" burial composting, so her crocodile tears are probably for pre-publicity for her upcoming book.

Ashes to ashes and all that, although the those bones are probably of scientific value for various fields of study.

[Red Badger]

[informavoracious]

Swedish meatballs

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The cast from Jason and the Argonauts.

[Dilbert San Diego]

That was a strange note at the end, that this person is an erotic novelist, and will write a story about the human remains. What the heck???

[csvset]

Randy Travis - Diggin Up Bones

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Some assembly required...

[ConservativeStatement]

I don’t see it in the store’s catalog.

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[C210N]

Bags, basements... Why couldn’t they have been stored in closets, where normal people store them?

[driftdiver]

So they built the church on an old cemetery?

Either that or this church invented the phrase ‘skeletons in the closet’.

[Red Badger]

It’s in their special VIP Only catalog!....................

[Red Badger]

In Europe, it was common to bury people UNDER the church in ages past, like catacombs.

[Red Badger]

Somebody beat her to it................

[Nevadan]

re: so her crocodile tears are probably for pre-publicity for her upcoming book

Yes, that is what I am guessing as well. The way the story first came out it sounded as if some church lady accidentally found all the bones at her church and was only wanting a respectful burial for the deceased. Somehow, I doubt that this author of porn fiction is a faithful and active member of the church. Unless it is different in Sweden. Maybe there you can write pornographic novels and be a member in good standing.

[Red Badger]

Or sheds in the back yard.................

[Slyfox]

New Ikea take home tool:

[babble-on]

the headline giveth and the article taketh away