Posted on 08/04/2014 6:18:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
UPDATED: A woman in southern Sweden is furious after stumbling upon scores of skulls and human bones inside Ikea bags in a church. The man who dug up the bones, however, says it's not as bad as it looks.
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.
"And it made me very angry about how they were just sitting there. Some people at the parish told me the bones had been there since 2009."
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."
He explained that the bones were likely reburied in a secondary deposition many years ago in what he called a "bone house". The collection is mostly skulls and longer bones, he added.
While Papmehl-Dufay denied storing the bones in the Ikea bags himself, he admitted that it sounded like an efficient storage technique.
"It's not standard practice, definitely not for archaeologists, but the Ikea bags aren't actually that bad. They'd be great for stopping the moulding process. But it can't be that good to have them in the basement for so long."
Karlén, meanwhile, took to her blog to lament the situation and to call for answers.
"How would you feel if it was your grandmother or grandfather?" she wrote.
Karlén, an erotic novelist, has since told The Local that she may write a book about the bones.
You’re right, I forgot about their practice of doing that.
GOSH! WHILLIKERS! She’s sooooooooooo upset she’s figuring ways to make money off of her disgust. Maybe a book, but for certain hits to her blog.
I don’t know why they did it. It’s weird..............Now, it’s just royalty that gets to...................
Here’s your golden opportunity to heap scorn on some Protestants.
XTC - Poor Skeleton Steps Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmkod5J0ZU
Not something in a Louis Vuitton?
Or a Dooney & Burke.................
I’m sure her book will be exciting. /s
I was in ikea last week. Those are people who couldn’t find the way out of those showrooms.
Those are the people who returned merchandise...............
Now serving number 27 of 12073................
Shop ‘til you drop. And then some.
dang
Really? Did the reporter not give a thought to his wording? Then again a touch of humor in a serious story............
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No bones about it!................
It's not humerus.
Os-tensibly it is......................
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