Contractor Finds Human Skeleton Next To Pile Of Porn Magazines

[matcom]

<snip>

It is a house stuck in time.

A calendar hanging on the kitchen wall open to July 1978. Shoes and clothes, long out of style, spilling from plastic bags.

And in one of four upstairs bedrooms: the skeletal remains of what could be a human body, on a grungy orange blanket, surrounded by adult magazines - one a Playboy, vintage 1982.

Earl Harris, a contractor hired by the new owners to empty the two-story, white-shingle house on Mannasota Avenue in Northeast Baltimore, made the gruesome discovery yesterday. Authorities say it is too early to determine whether the bones are indeed human, but Harris said he saw a human skull, hair and scraps of decaying clothes.

Area residents said an elderly couple had lived there many years ago and were regarded as neighborhood recluses. "We used to call it the ol' haunted house," said Diana Whitney, a 19-year resident of the block. Her boyfriend, Richard Szczypiski, said children who played on the street "were too scared to go in it."

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.remains13jun13,0,6524046.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. My guess is he came and went at the same time. n/t

[maveric]

29. BIG TIME "rimshot"!

Badda-Fuckin-Boom!

[plcdude]

2. O the

comings and going on in that house

[johnnie]

3. Knock knock knock

"Ummm..I'm busy!"

Knock knock knock

"I'll be right out!"

Knock knock knock

"I SAID I'LL BE RIGHT OUT!"

[Richardo]

4. No 'boner' jokes please.

:|

[underpants]

12. If he could have boner

he wouldn't have needed the mags

[Orrex]

5. Michael Hutchence?

Oops, sorry! Wrong thread.

[Mark_Pogue]

6. I thought it only blinded you?

Death is even worse!:)

[texas1928]

7. Well now they will be saying.

You do that to much it could kill you. Skip the you will go blind.

[Hugin]

8. Yup, that Miss January 1982 almost did me in too.

Ah, good times... Good times.


Edit: Damn spurious commas!

[Hugin]

9. (if anyone is interested)

Miss January 1982 (Kimberly McArthur) is rated #2 on the "Best Playmates of the 1980's".

Yup.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. well at least he died with the (second) best, so that's something...

How does a house go unentered for 25 years in the middle of a city?

[Hugin]

11. No curb appeal...

:shrug:

[Blue Diadem]

16. It sounds like someone did go in until a few years ago

snip: Renee Faulkner, who has lived next to the house for seven years, said it never appeared that anyone really lived there. She said a woman stopped by a couple of times a week to take out garbage. When the grass and weeds grew too high, she said, city crews would come and mow the lawn. A light could sometimes be seen in the kitchen.

But a few years ago, people stopped coming. The light in the kitchen went out. The yard grew into a tangle of weeds. City work crews came, but instead of trimming the grass they boarded up the door and windows. The upstairs windows were covered with newspapers, allowing stray cats a way inside.

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Strange situation..unless that woman went in and never went upstairs into the bedrooms.

[edbermac]

23. Who was #1?

:shrug:

[Hugin]

24. My sources tell me...

1

Miss March 1983

Alana Soares

[edbermac]

25. Ohhhhh, she was one of my faves!

You source has impeccable taste.

[underpants]

13. Oh.....yeah

:wow:

Petra Verkaik

[ghostsofgiants]

14. It's like a glimpse into my own future.

[Elidor]

30. Lol! Thank god I'm not the only one who had that thought!

I can think of worse ways to go. This guy achieved immortality.

[liontamer]

15. the calendar was on 78 but the porn was 82?

Only in baltimore.

[Orrex]

26. Maybe it was porn from the future

The seventies were a magical time, to be sure.

[DS1]

17. If the contractor believes in doing the right thing, he'll put those magazines

in a black garbage bag and leave them in the woods for the next generation to find.

oh what am I talking about? The porn fairy was killed off by the Internet years ago

[Hugin]

18. If he believes in retirement...

He'll put them up on eBay.

:)

[gr8dane_daddy]

19. I'd freak too if I found a stiff at work too.

[Orsino]

20. Do we still have to spell it out, people?

Porn kills.

[kwassa]

21. Wages of Sin

[edbermac]

22. Don't worry, it's only my Mother...

She wouldn't even harm a fly!

[montanto]

27. that would be me

[rug]

28. I thought it would only make you blind.

:scared: