My Strangest Find

That is indeed the other side of the coin (no pun intended). In that regard, I'm reminded of a visit I made to East Berlin in the early 1980's. Walking down the street, we passed a group of city workmen taking a lunch break from digging a trench for repair of a water line. To the side of their work area, the men had carefully laid out on the ground a nearly complete human skeleton. Not the kind of thing one can walk by without stopping to ask a few questions!
In the heavy bombing of Berlin in the last days of the war, many civilians were killed each night. By necessity, bodies were buried quickly where they were found, as a temporary measure. The authorities of the Allied occupation in West Berlin arranged for these dead to be located in the post-war years, identified where they could, and exhumed for proper burial. In the Soviet zone that would become East Berlin, the Russians felt no such obligation, however. Streets Department workers in East Berlin would regularly turn up these remains for decades to come.
We asked the workmen if the East German authorities now needed to be notified about their discovery. No; when they were done with their lunch, and threw away the rubbish, the bones would be thrown on the rubbish tip as well. ("Einfach auf's Müll werfen")

Cool. Actually found a metal bridge for a fellow on a swish....looked funny to see hime put them back in his mouth!

Reading this is like watching a great show on the box. THanks, I'll stay tuned to see what happens next.

yea they were out in no mans land,up north between the border of Cali and Oregon .
it would be cool to see if they find a match but wouldn't that person have to have something on record .
the stuff we have found in that area is 1900s up to the 50s .i asked around and it has no chance of being a native american and the area has no reported burial grounds.

Wow. Very interesting.

I'm terrifically curious about how this will turn out.

If the DNA tests can ID the victim -- well, what a story that will be.

I keep thinking about how this would make a good true crime book.

But, really, it's a news story. I can easily see this being featured on some TV news show -- especially if the police do end up solving a missing person case. Case solved by drillman.

I was thinking the bridge looked on the old side. I even did a little looking into some dental history resources (there are more than you would think online!), but after the gold bridgework of the Etruscans, the aesthetic appeal seems to taper off, and there are fewer images to be had.