# Humans skulls discovered in China

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686 "2006-04-07T04:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/1 "2006-04-07T04:09:51Z")

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This is the most WTF story I have read all month. I couldn’t find it online so I’ll share some excerpts here. I think it’s from Reuters.

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> The grisly discovery of 121 human skulls, many with their tops sawn off, has puzzles Chinese police and caused a frenzy of speculation.

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Police have confirmed that the skulls are human and are of “recent origin”, as suggested by the fact that some has skin and hair still attached.  
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> A further twist came with a find in a landfill site in the same province of two arms belonging to a child believed to be aged between five and eight. The arms appeared to have been cooked with chilli and ginger.

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> … Beijing News quoted a nameless official as saying that the skulls might be related to a trade in handicrafts… imitation skullcaps were being sold as ashtrays… lined with silver, “the real thing” commanded high prices from private buyers.

WTF??

_shudder_

I’ll post the whole story if I get a mod’s permission.

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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/2 "2006-04-07T05:18:06Z")

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…and the death toll due to smoking keeps on rising.

(sorry)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/3 "2006-04-07T06:43:01Z")

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> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
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> I’ll post the whole story if I get a mod’s permission.

[Link to whole story](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/06/wskulls06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/06/ixworld.html).

Oh, and “ewww.”

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/4 "2006-04-07T07:37:47Z")

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Ah, that’s the one. Thanks for finding it.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/5 "2006-04-07T15:17:43Z")

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Here is what Xin Hua says about it:

[Xin Hua](http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/05/content_4387877.htm)

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/6 "2006-04-07T15:23:58Z")

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> [@Xinhua](#):
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> Investigations showed no signs of medical expertise in the decapitations, Chen said, adding that they found no signs of fatal injuries.

Well, decapitation is usually pretty fatal.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humans-skulls-discovered-in-china/351686/7 "2006-04-07T16:32:19Z")

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Turn around. Turn around.  
There’s a thing there that can be found…