A Maryland man found a human skeleton believed to be at least 100 years old while combing the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. WRC’s Mark Segraves reports.
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#Maryland #Coffin #Beach
So the experts were fine with it as is and probably comeback with proper tools to excavate it. Oliver took it upon himself to remove the remains and coffin himself. We need the side of the experts that came out. What did they say that prompted Oliver to take action.
I have read a lot of articles on the sea level rise and the impact it’s had on farms that have been around the Bay Area since the 1700’s. Many of them that were less than a mile and just above sea level have become small islands due to shore erosion. I have a feeling that the casket came from somewhere near Tilghman Island or Kent Point.
If that is in fact a gunshot wound, it’s possible that’s a civil war soldier.
It should be buried again 100 years old is still fairly recent its not that old for example it could of been the age approximately of an older adults grand parent which could of gotten disinterred in some major flood that took it out to sea.
I have seen water side cemetaries where erosion was encroching on grave sites. Iwould guess this to be the case.
Are there any reporters left? Was this a man or woman? How tall? Will there be further examination?
Could have been a burial at sea from long ago maybe they died crossing the ocean and they put them over board or could be from a tsunami in japan that washed it out to see
Looks as if the shoreline encroached inland exposing a grave site or just this one. Someone was loved enough to have a nice coffin made for them, it could have been dislodged in a flood and floating to that location coming to rest in the left over silt higher on the embankment then the shoreline encroached of the years, so interesting to speculate.
Navy ship that sent one of its sailors over for an at sea burial? Years past?
take a dna sample
This seems like awfully careless reporting..or investgating. How did it get there? Any documentation of an old cemetery in the area? Some graves are washed out by errosion, and im thinking this is what happened…maybe many years ago, only found now. Or it was a coffin on board a ship that sank or was intentionally thrown over or sea burial. The coffin looks old, thin wood, no apparent hardware. Surely some clues are there to yield something about this. Tests on bones and the wood would ar least give clues like presence of old embalming chemicals (arsenic specifically, banned from trade in US in 1910), dendrochronology of wood…dna likely not viable but never know. Very interesting
Hold up. The government left the skeleton there?
No one is explaining the reason these remains would be on a Beach.
Oliver’s 15 minutes of fame!
Maybe it was from a burial at sea.
An attempt to revive with CPR was unsuccessful.
Seems like he wanted to be found. Maybe somebody with money can step up & pay for more investigation/dna testing. If he was killed, maybe a newspaper has a writeup. Seems like a movie/book story.
Record for surfing sailing and treading water and longest voyage after death is what just happened !!!😐
Oliver needs to mark that area of GPS it & go back & dig around
Should of kept one of the bones to see if DNA could be extracted
“Skeletal” remains. And you call yourselves a news organization???
Yeah, yeah, I know. NBC isn’t a legitimate source of news.
Well done, sir. You did well! I agree it should be preserved.
“This is someones craftsmanship it should be displayed” bro its a box built for a dead person, put the skeleton back in the box and bury it. Have some respect for the dead & don’t steal the coffin
.. maybe washed out of its original cemetery in a flood?
I bet it was racist white supremacist.
It was one of the democrat voters in the recent election.
That coffin is shaped just like Dracula’s. We are all in trouble.
Rhyme of the ancient mariner.
Coffins of this age and style traditionally would have a name plate attached to the lid, it may be a good idea to do some metal detection in the area.
Dracula has returned
But in all seriousness, bless this man for caring about remains.
Remember the opening scene of “Empire of the Sun”?
Surprised they can’t determine gender.
Burial at sea?
So lets see Hmm🤔 person dies 100 years ago. Gets buried laid to rest. 100 years later gets dug up moved stored in a draw examined, and then he wants them to find rest? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
You can look at that many ways the craftsmanship went into someone’s grave and final moments on this Earth they were never meant to be seen again
Interesting story. The bones should have gone to the local cemetery. BUT the old coffin should have gone to the museum. Looks like 150 year old workmanship. And still in fairly good shape. Very rare.
I don’t understand why the guy had to remove the remains himself. None of these agencies at least wanted to move the remains to a safe place / facility until they could be processed / relocated / re-buried? Instead leave it for the guy to get them – or anyone else to find them?
This was pretty fascinating. Wonder they can use DNA to figure out who it was?
The EXPERTS left the coffin behind?!?
The official’s left human remains out in the open? Need to fire them. Dumbest move ever. Let me guess democrats.
Calvert county is lazy !!! Anywhere else they’d do DNA and would’ve taken remains to police station then museum and funeral
A section of Davy Jones’ Locker.
Return to sea, post haste 🌊⚰️🌊
They ought to look for old maps and land records of the area and see if any information can be gleaned from that.
I’m sure these communist researchers will claim it was a so called native american killed by a white interloper.
The remains were at rest beforebeingdisturbed….in the clay of the bay.
What did one casket say to the other casket: “Was that you — coffin?”
Yea….. Soething doesnt add up. I am an archaeologist, I dont know what ‘archaeological society’ was contacted but the State Archaeologist should have been contacted. I dont know a State Historic Preservation Office that would have dismissed this at all. That said, if they want to know age of the remains, get a dendrochronologist out to sample the coffin wood it will provide a date to when the wood was felled.
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100 plus years, could it be civil war?
I’m sure the county wanted to give him tax payer funded benefits.
George Oliver ….. Accidental Archaeologist!!! Well done!!! A piece of “history” found in Chesapeake Bay!!! Interesting!!!
Probably some old sailor who’s last wish was to be buried at sea, and it just washed up.
Maybe this is the first EVER trans person they have found? I’m just appalled the cop assumed his gender.
Evidently Maryland has never heard of this
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Yeah that place is full of bodies. We used to hear on the news all the time about someone floating the river down to the bay. Some even a few hundred feet away. Thats the scary part. Or like this guy, finding something like that is kinda kool, but scary too all at the same time. That river and bay takes on a lot of people. Susquahanna that leads to the Chesapeake bay
the local police were poorly trained..did not even call in a M. E. to examine the bones…the flunky Maryland police officer’s excuse of not having the rest of the skull to determine death showed how little training they get…
Can i get a job at a news agency just to check spelling on these video titles. I swear its a contant thing lol
Was the corps a Trans-Binary?
No,the dude would have wanted to stay in his old coffin,no museum.
Climate changers are 😁
In 1863 victims of a ship wreck, the SS Anglo Saxon were buried on a beach, near the scene of the wrecking, over 250 souls. Years later they started weathering out of the beach and it was decided to relocate the remains to a meadow nearby. I visited the site a few years ago and there was a dark streak in the bank cut by the sea. I suspect that might have been from the bodies. The ship was a Royal Mail ship lost in 1863 bound for Montreal. Burial of bodies in the easily dug soil near a beach is a thing.
Finders, Keepers!
I’d be looking on top of that cliff for other graves. I’ve seen this before, where erosion dumped entire graves and mausoleums onto the beach and quickly under the sand and water. Typically older graves that had a nice view of the water at one time.
The coffin probably floated there long ago after a flood. It happens from time to time that hydrostatic pressure in saturated soil can cause them to pop out of the ground and get carried away by floodwaters. A really bad flood can empty entire cemeteries.
The dead person still voted for Harris 🤦🏻♂️
Oliver if you see this you are a legendary human being and that person would be greatful for what you did.
Archaeologists? They did not get involved. Local Sheriff office and morgue, yes.
Billions of people have died on this earth, its not surprising someone finds one once in a while where it shouldn’t be.
DNA
Crazy old coot: this is somebody’s craftsmanship, it should be in a museum.
it’s a mouldy wooden box, designed to be disposed of. What this dude never went to a thrift store and never seen wooden junk for $2.00 all day?
I can’t determine the gender but I am pretty sure how this person died. That makes tons of sense lady.
They can only tell the gender by the pelvic bone. It was not intact, there was only a piece of it.
How sad that this coffin and skeleton were found in a place it shouldn’t be. I will never forget on a family camping trip about 1969 as our parents drove our RV through Tijuana, Mexico, as we headed south, we passed an old cemetery on a slope above the road. The cemetery was very old and the slope was slowly eroding, exposing a few coffins and skeletons to the air. I could see crumbly wooden coffins that were sticking out of the soil and they had spilled out their human remains. It was sad that no one cared.
Misread Chesapeake as cheapskate ☠️
Probably part of the democrats’ “get out the vote” campaign.
This story is only two and a half minutes long and contains very few details. It leaves us with more questions than answers, and yet many, many people in this comments section are making a lot of assumptions based on little information. But then again, this is the internet, and that’s what people do—spout off when they don’t really know anything.
This coffin almost certainly came from a flood event. Severe floods that go through cemeteries can often bring old coffins back to the surface. It probably washed down a river, to the sea, and the tide pushed it back on the beach.
Under the video the caption reads “WRC”s Mark Segraves reports”. Are you kidding me?
A lot of bodies in early American settlements were water logged after burial due to wetland conditions on the east coast. I would say it’s safe to assume with rising sea levels eroding our coastlines that this skeleton very well could be an early colonial American. Especially taking into account the simplicity of the coffin design. It looks like a very crude coffin that would’ve been ideal for an early settler. I’d wager mid to late 1700s early 1800s
Craftsmanship?? I could built that coffin in the 8th grade
Plot twist…the person had a ceremonial burial at sea. His family was on the shore and they floated him out, not realizing the tide just sent him back in. He was at rest, but now he faces an eternity of unrest. Thanks a lot, Oliver.
How did it end up in the water?
God rest his soul!
Says they can’t identify age race or gender but then calls it a he
Doing some basic research here and what I’ve found is that there are a few family cemeteries located along the coast in Calvert County, Maryland, including a few near Drum Point.
Most of the coastline around this section of Maryland has experienced erosion over the years, meaning that the coffin likely came down from one of the nearby cliff faces at some point; either during a storm or of its own accord. Based on the fact the lid is missing, it’s likely been down there for some time – possibly a few decades – with the sand providing protection for the human remains and the walls of the coffin.
There is something missing in this story. The guy found the remains, reported it and the authorities just shrugged and were like, go ahead and dig it up yourself? The detective with the remains was like, ya, whatever. Very poor journalism.
This is not uncommon, Three coffins were found on a job site locally, they had been washed downstream from somewhere up the McKenzie River. Family plots on private land near the river’s edge would fall into the river when heavy rain and high water eroded the banks, and the coffins came to rest miles later. They were in invesitgated and determined the age by buttons still attached to bits of clothing. Our excavator operator was called “Bonedigger” on the radio from then on.
There are hundreds of cemeteries along the Squhanna River.. probably flooded and drifted downstream to the Chesapeake.
A pirate buried in the 1800’s? The shoreline has eroded slowly, eventually revealing the bones?
Are you sure it wasn’t Joe Biden sun bathing?
“Chesapeake Bay beachcomber finds coffin with skeleton [sic] remains” — “skeletal”
How odd that they won’t even carbon date the bones or try to figure out who it was. They just wanted to bury it again.
I think the person died on a ship and was buried at sea, and eventually it washed up to the shoreline.
Perhaps it was on a ship as cargo headed to (or from) Europe for burial when the ship sank miles offshore?
You never know what you might find today
Ohh my dyslexic ahh thought the title said “Cheapskate beachcomber finds coffin with skeleton remains” 💀
What region is this accent from with the way he pronounces Boooones?
Probably Kamala… still mia
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That’s my coffin!!!?
Any DNA testing done?
“they’ll be able to rest”…what? it’s bones. they were at rest several decades ago, possibly 100 years ago.