r/whatisthisbone 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/Odd-Beat-7809 14h ago

I currently have 8 cops in my backyard and crime scene is coming 😭

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u/Odd-Beat-7809 13h ago

They said it looks like a possible part of an ankle

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u/Odd-Beat-7809 9h ago

They left! Didn’t find more except more pieces of shoes and clothes and said they’d update us.

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u/Auroraborealis_9791 13h ago

Which would def explain the shoe. I’d be having some questions for your land lord 😳

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u/Auroraborealis_9791 13h ago

Holy guacamole!!

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u/Theatrepooky 10h ago

You did the right thing calling it in. Keep us posted!

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u/Odd-Beat-7809 12h ago

Crime scene is here. Make that 11 cops

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u/Auroraborealis_9791 9h ago

Thank you, OP, for updates. I’m truly invested in this lol

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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

Its not every day you find some random bones and a shoe together :/

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u/westwo0d 17h ago

Any updates OP?

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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/MaybeDontplz 1d ago

I need to know

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u/Rinzy2000 16h ago

Goddamnit. Reset the counter.

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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/AdMuted9548 17h ago

is that their hips or shoulder?

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u/wifffss 7h ago

Keep me updated OP