Shopper discovers human skull in Halloween section of thrift store in US

The authorities are not considering the case to be suspicious in nature.

The shopper, who happened to be an anthropologist, discovered the skull in a Halloween section of a thrift store in Florida.

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The festival of Halloween, which is synonymous with spooky characters and the occult, was celebrated recently across the world. During Halloween, many people decorate their homes with stuff such as fake skulls or ghosts that are meant to scare people.

In a bizarre occurrence, a man who happened to be an anthropologist was out shopping at a thrift store in Florida when he spotted a skull. The shopper noticed the skull in the Halloween section of the thrift store located in North Fort Myers. He recognised the skull to be human and informed the authorities.

The detectives responded to the store on North Cleveland Avenue and recovered the skull, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office informed in a Facebook post.

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The store owner said the skull was located in a storage unit that was purchased years ago. The Lee
County Sheriff’s Office will work in conjunction with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office to facilitate further testing of the skull, the post said. However, it said the case is not suspicious in nature.

According to CBS News, under Florida law, “no person shall knowingly offer to purchase or sell…any human organ or tissue for valuable consideration”. Eyes, cornea, kidney, liver, hearts, lungs, pancreas, bones, and skin fall under this law.

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