What she thought was a decorative item, turned out to be the remains of a person. It turns out that the skull she thought was decorative might be human remains. The post states that the shopper was a certified anthropologist. According to Newsweek the anthropologist called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly after, detectives pulled up to Paradise Vintage Market, located on North Cleveland Avenue, to further investigate.
Detectives questioned the shop owner about the human skull. They revealed locating the alleged human body part in boxes from a storage unit purchased before September 2022. Managing partner of Paradise Vintage, Beth Meyer, told Newsweek the incident has been “interesting and unusual.” She confirmed that she purchased the storage unit, but its items reportedly sat in her guest bedroom for an entire year. Beth Meyer denied knowing anything more about the origin of the skull. “I put the skull up for display in my rock store a year later, in September 2023,” Beth stated. “I thought it would be interesting to have out for Halloween.”
There is no additional information available about the storage unit or its previous owner at this time.
For now, it appears that local authorities aren’t too pressed about how a human skull ended up in an antique store. The Meta post stated that the case
was “not suspicious in nature.” “We don’t usually get a call from an antique store that there’s a human skull on the floor.”
Still, the law enforcement agency plans to work with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office to
“facilitate further testing of the skull.”
Initial tests have confirmed that the recovered item constitutes real human remains.
After the local medical examiner completes their tests, the skull will be sent to Gainsville for more testing. Authorities want to know more about the skull’s origin and age. The anthropologist told both Meyer and the cops that she believed the human skull was Native American.“The anthropologist came into the store, and gave a very informative and educational explanation as to why she thought it was Native American. The medical examiner arrived, tagged and bagged the skull and sent it to a lab for testing. If it is Native American, it will be returned to one of the local tribes and we will have a ceremony,” Meyer said.
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