From the creepy-as-fuck department comes this little blurb from the Sun Herald (located in deep in the heart of don’t-come-here-we-hate-you) about the government exhuming Civil War era bodies from a fort site in New Mexico. Apparently, some bat-shit crazy Vietnam veteran-turned-historian went ahead and and did him some grave robbing in which he robbed them of the bodies.
The investigation began with a tip about an amateur historian who had displayed the mummified remains of a black soldier, draped in a Civil War-era uniform, in his house.
The government, in all seriousness, laughed the report off before deciding to go investigate:
“The first thing we did was laughed because who would believe such a story,” Hanson said. “But then we quickly decided we better go down and check it out.”
Good call. Upon investigating they found that most of the remains/lootings had been auctioned away by the crazy bastard’s family after he died. However, they did recover some:
Brecheisen’s son told authorities where the mummified remains from his father’s home were, and a person who hasn’t been publicly identified handed them over – including a more-than-century-old skull packaged in a brown paper bag. Alberts said that skull, which still had hair attached, was the one he’d seen years earlier.
