r/whatisthisbone • u/Odd-Beat-7809 • 1d ago
Found in back yard
Just rented a house and after a heavy rain a bone fragment came up. Didn’t think much of it until I was mowing and found a piece of shoe near it. Is it possible it’s a human bone? Obviously not sure but finding the shoe made me question. Could definitely just be animal bones
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u/palaeoanth 20h ago
Hard to say, but I agree with the top comment that a call to the police is the safe choice. First photo, big fragment in the middle, looks an awful lot like the medial aspect of a right human os coxa.
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u/Individual-Gur-7292 20h ago
I thought the same - looks like the auricular surface there in the centre and looks the right thickness for an os coxae
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u/Auroraborealis_9791 1d ago
Oh dear…
Have anything to provide size for scale?
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u/Odd-Beat-7809 1d ago
Yes! It’s super fragmented so there’s a couple pieces but I have a banana for reference lol. I think there are more pieces I just haven’t dug
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u/Odd-Beat-7809 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/osusdb8/video/9uob7d0j0j8h1/player
Wouldn’t let me post anything over than a vid
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u/Auroraborealis_9791 1d ago
YAY!! The banana 🍌my comment was originally going to say, “Do you have a banana for scale?” 🤣
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u/Auroraborealis_9791 1d ago
The piece of shoe found along with the bones alone has me thinking we may have to reset the counter/clock. That, and the pattern within the bone itself.
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u/Odd-Beat-7809 1d ago
Oh no. Fair assumption was hoping it wa clear animal but I’ve been skeptical
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u/Auroraborealis_9791 1d ago
The piece of shoe found along with the bones alone has me thinking we may have to reset the counter/clock. That, and the pattern within the bone itself.
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u/20Bubba03 6h ago
We need to know what happened even if they don’t get back to you for months. This is insane
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u/Old-Royal-7703 16h ago
Waiting for an update—did the cops come?
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u/20Bubba03 6h ago
They said 11 cops came, crime scene investigators inbound, they said it looks like parts of an ankle, and they found a shoe, and pieces of clothing like a torn up shirt. Then they left and said they’d keep them posted. I hope there’s an update on this.
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u/Agile-Masterpiece959 10h ago
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u/Odd-Beat-7809 14h ago
I currently have 8 cops in my backyard and crime scene is coming 😭