Couple forced to call police after chilling discovery of pet rabbits

A discovery as sinister as it is improbable. On Monday August 15, human remains were discovered in the garden of a house in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The discovery was made by small domestic rabbits, which were scratching the ground of the garden of their masters when the latter realized that they had unearthed a human skull. “We quickly learned that they had found a skull with its jaw still attached.“, says a neighbor in the columns of the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagbladstating that “the teeth had no fillings.“

Contacted by the owners of the house, located in the Snoeckgensheuvel district, south of Amersfoort, the authorities arrived on the scene on Monday evening. The neighborhood was immediately cordoned off to make way for the searches, which lasted most of the night. According to Algemeen Dagbladthe remains of at least three people dating from the end of the 19th century have been taken from underground.

An investigation entrusted to the Dutch forensic institute

The investigation was entrusted to the Dutch forensic institute to determine the identity and the circumstances of the death of the victims. She will also have to shed light on how the bodies ended up buried in what is today a very lively district of the province of Utrecht.

This is the second time this summer that human bones have been unearthed by animals. Last month, several human bones, including a skull, were pulled out of the ground by badgers in the garden of an octogenarian, in the United Kingdom. An investigation is also underway.