A man from Saint-Michel-l’Observatoire will never see his gardening tools the same way again…
A well buried mystery. According to what our colleagues from BFM DICI report, a man who was gardening quietly in his garden enjoying the sun fell on a bone. Literally. As the media explains, this man who lives in Saint-Michel-l’Observatoire (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) was digging his garden when he came across an unusual object buried in the ground: a human skull. . After the shock and surprise of finding such a thing buried in the soil of his garden, he hastened to notify the national gendarmeriewho reacted quickly in turn by sending a TIC, criminal identification technician, on the spot.
It was later determined that the skull in question had no not of criminal origin. Following the report of this strange find in a garden, the case was entrusted to the regional directorate of cultural affairs which will take over in order to carry out its investigation to try to identify the person to whom this skull belongs. It will also be determine when it dates and the reasons that might have brought it into a private garden. According to the first information and analyzes that have been carried out on the find, it could be a woman’s skull.
Other bones discovered in February 2023
This kind of discovery is not uncommon, as points out The New Tribune which recalls that at the beginning of February 2023, the site of the Nantes town hall led to the discovery of several human bones which led to the intervention of the police. It is not uncommon for bones of various origins to surface when work takes place in very specific places likely to have been burial sites, such as old chapels.