With a human skull in the garden?

[Slippersandacuppa]

Because I've never been in this situation before.

We've been tidying up the garden and have piles of rubble all over the place. One of our rickety old fences borders a graveyard (very old belonging to ancient church) and I'm assuming the skull sort of drifted under our fence and has been near the top of the soil for a while. I hope.

I've googled but can't seem to find much info. I'll be contacting the parish council on Monday but wondered if it warrants a call to 101 (or whatever it is) to register it just in case it's not a graveyard wanderer

Anyone had a similar experience?!

I grew up near a place with a screaming skull. Father knew the people who owned the house, and therefore the skull. The story was that if the skull was removed from the house then it would scream. It sat in the hall way from what I remember.

What a surprise Slippers. You must have got quite a shock when you found it!

Do you feel the same about your garden? I mean are you spooked at all?

I think in honour of Shakespeare, you ought to do a tribute and post it on YouTube. 'Alas poor Yorrick, I knew him, Horratio'.

DM has a half medical skeleton(minus skull) in her museum, DSister and I used to play with it as children in the 70's, do new regs mean we need to do something with it now? Really very fond.
As a side note bleach brings up skulls beauifully, just added a badgers skull to a sheeps in the folly to scare visiting teenagers
Yes 101 and be prepared for your children to never forgive you when you can't keep it.

You can't put the skull in the dishwasher - that would Finish him off!

My Dad has a real skeleton, was once used for teaching purposes. He (Fred) comes out at Halloween. My Dad likes to take him for a drive in the car.. He is part of the family!

I don't mind the idea at all. I'd much rather be given a nice clean up and then popped on a shelf or in a nice aquarium and be involved in family life a bit.
I'm planning on donating myself, then maybe a cremation when I'm handed back. But if someone wants me for their fish tank I'd make an exception and just have the spare bits mulched. I've quite a nice skull, I think I'd bring a bit of style to proceedings.

I'd be happy for my skull to be dug up and taken for Show And Tell! And I think a dishwasher shower would be quite exciting after decades underground.

Hopefully your skull belonged to someone with a good sense of humour

DinosaursRoar I find nothing weird about holding the ex-container of a brain though. It's a biological object.

You'd HATE the catacombs in Paris......

dinosaurs you are very cross, but i just don't believe in the woo! I woul dfreshen you up a treat under th etap if the dishwasher is so offensive and set you next to the sheep and baby bird. And gaze at you with pride, if that makes you any less cross.

I wouldn't dig you up, but if you'd made the llght of day then surely you'd rather sit on a shelf than wallow in a manky puddle for passing dogs to sniff? I promise to dust more often.

This has inadvertently turned into one if the funniest threads on mn for some time! Ds2 would be devastated if we dug up a skull and he couldn't keep it, he worries me sometimes!

Nope, haven't called the police yet. I'm assuming he/she won't mind waiting until tomorrow. Plus, I've had some wine and can't trust myself to talk all serious-like.

DH is desperate to give it a good scrub. I've said no.

I haven't even dishwashed my toilet seats - I wouldn't know how to get skull out of the filters.

KingJoffrey I wI'll gladly share my skull friend with you

And the funny thing is that we are as close to Shakespeare's home town as can be.

Will keep you posted.

Oh! I've just remembered that we found something that looked like a femur in the back garden! It's part of the boys' garden ornament And I have many friends who are too scared to stay the night. Wooooooooooo

Don't have an aquarium.

The rabbits might like him. Or the snails - but they already have a rainbow and a unicorn so I think the rabbits win.

Gosh. I'm sort of placemarking because this is fascinating but I'd love to know how this turns out, slippers.

I recently came across a church which had been converted into a house about 20-odd years ago, but they'd left the churchyard with all the gravestones in the garden. I'm not at all woo, but it struck me as a bit freaky. We did wonder if the bodies had been moved but the stones left or not.

Perhaps you could sell it to the Strafford upon Avon theatre. I'm sure they need props and do props need understudies?

This thread is fabulous!

*Stratford

What if it is actually the person who inspired

I might be wrong Elephant but I think that there is a long list of people who have it in their wills to be donated to the Globe or the Royal Shakespeare company.

We found a human pelvis and assorted metacarpals, phalanges and cuneiforms when dad put the pond in. I must have been 8 or 9. Mum is a physio and was really hacked off that she didn't get a complete foot

('Twasn't a dramatic pause. The wine caused premature poking of the button)

Yorick???

You are probably right Pipbin. I obviously lost my head momentarily.

High fives Blue Hydrangea!

No digging in a large part of our garden as it houses a proper graveyard
Have to say that they are very quiet
neighbours
But joking aside I do feel a responsibility that the graves are looked after

Skull fans would have loved the window display in the Hatton Gallery at newcastle University, a couple of years ago.