Posted on 07/27/2007 1:36:46 PM PDT by decimon
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Analysis of bones and a skull found in a creepy vacated west Charlotte house revealed they are real.
A neighbor walked into the home on Fairmont Street early Thursday, found a casket and the remains in an upstairs closet and called police. Homicide investigators were called in and the bones were sent to the county coroner to be checked out.
Authorities said the home, although empty for several years, is owned by the Knights of Pythias, an international fraternal order not affiliated with any religion. A representative told authorities he knew the bones were in the house, and he said they were used as props during membership events and initiations into the organization. He said he’s been a member since the 1950s and the bones had been in use as long as he could remember.
He told police he had no idea where the bones came from. He said other items in the house were also used during ceremonies.
Examination by the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Officer revealed the remains are a real human skull and a real human right femur bone. Another bone was discovered to be from an animal. The coroner said the bones may have been from the 1950s.
Authorities said they don’t believe any crime took place at the house or that any foul play was involved in obtaining the bones.
The Order of the Knights of Pythias was established in 1864 in Washington, D.C., and was the first fraternal order to be chartered by an act of Congress.
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The Illuminati.
The Pythians.
Damon?
Bush’s fault!
Skull & Bones ya know.......
Reminds me of a wonderful Groucho line from Animal Crackers, in which he played the intrepid African Explorer, Captain Spaulding.
“We hunted Moose, Elk, and Knights of Pythias.”
Dionysius.
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Aside from that last part...
LOL. You had me almost submitting my membership until that last sentence.
Pythians keep bones, caskets, and assorted devil worship gadgets in closets throughout thier lodges.
I think cult would be the proper name. LOL
Apparently Pythias was a guy of some note--he's in the spellcheck, at least.
Ancient Greeks didn't have knights.
Crikey, not *more* Freemason wannabes!
International Order of Oddfellows also keep / kept skeletons in their lodges, something similar to the Roman triumph thing, “sic transit gloria mundi”.
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