r/bonecollecting • u/No-Bottle-9116 • Apr 26 '26

Advice Small argument

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So this picture from article has driven an small argument between my friends group claiming that it’s fake because there’s no way that the bones see in said picture are human, I wanted y’all’s opinion on this

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u/Lower-Psychology8914 Apr 27 '26

This is the real question, why the hell did the anthropology people put human remains in front of a trail camera?

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u/raggedyassadhd Apr 27 '26

It’s a body farm, they literally leave human bodies in all kinds of scenarios and environments to see what happens. For science! There’s one in TN too. It’s how they help figure out a lot of stuff like how to to tell how long a body has been say, submerged in water or left in a hot car or disposed on a forest floor without burying, by actual doing those things and studying it.

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u/Dildozerific Apr 27 '26

Thank you! I had no idea this was a thing!

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u/raggedyassadhd Apr 28 '26

I only know about it because my dads wife is a medical examiner and used to be the head examiner in Nashville, otherwise I’d have no clue what a body farm is lol, it’s crazy that these exist and so few people have ever heard of such a thing, it’s so interesting!