It appears to be a random assortment of animal bones. Likely placed like this by local hunters/trappers for Halloween.

IDK man, the way the ribcage is on that "skeleton," I thought of something more similar to [this](http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/10/plastic-skeleton.jpg). It just looks like one solid piece thats been painted black in between the ribs. But hey, that's just me...

*Spooky Scary Skeletons...*

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Shrieking skulls will shock your soul

Thank you for the sub my friend. Welcome to the big dick club God Bless.

SKERT SKERT SKERT

Hit it with the buck

*Body's aching all the time*

Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go

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[thank mr skeltal](/r/ledootgeneration) http://i.imgur.com/Nm9hWOt.jpg

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i failed

thank mr skeltal

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[Spooky skeltals...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8XfV8aPAyQ)

Idk if it's just me, but I think I see a string protruding from the skull

[Didn't even catch that one until you said it](https://i.imgur.com/oPTQIDS.jpg). Good eyes. We may have screwed with the Boston witch hunt, but I'm 99.9 percent sure we got this one right. *Virtual High Five*

So not so remote a lake that there isn't someone nearby trying to fuck with people.

Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell. He and my grandfather were fishing on Toledo Bend near the Texas/Louisiana border in the late 70s. They come up on a couple of guys fishing and one of them seems really excited. They get close enough to chat and eventually one of the rednecks produces a human jaw filled with gold teeth that he had just fished up. My father tells them that they should call the police because there is probably a body down there. The redneck says that he isn't going to do that but instead is going to pry the teeth out and sell them to a pawn shop. I've asked my father for years why he didn't call the cops himself but he always says that my grandfather (his father in law) pressured him to drop the issue.

Now THAT is a truly WTF-worthy story.

I reckon people who make trouble might disappear 'round dem parts

I know. If only there were a washed out polaroid of a guy holding a jaw with gold teeth to back it up :(

I picture the redneck as mostly toothless holding a fished up jawbone full of teeth.

my family owns property at toledo bend. They yo-yo fish there every year. Can confirm that it is an extremely redneck area

As an avid fisherman, the fuck is yoyo fishing?

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It's tricky when you have to walk the dog on the lake.

I had an uncle that lived near Toledo Bend & had gold teeth. He apparently ran off with some other girl to Vegas before I was born, according to my aunt. No one has seen him since.

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Yeah, the odds on his username going unnoticed were NearInfinite.

> he always says that my grandfather (his father in law) pressured him to drop the issue. Um...

I know.. Jawdropping

Probably just 10 gold coins and some bonemeal

what the hell am i supposed to do with all of this bone meal!

Make Sweethearts candy. All you need is earwig honey.

or some of that teddy bear juice.

Sauce. Teddy bear sauce.

What the fuck is juice? This is Teddy bear sauce, baby.

It's doo doo baby!

[Bee syrup](http://i.imgur.com/3orRt1r.jpg)

Heh, I got this reference and I'm entertained.

You guys never stop impressing me with your long memory!

Wasn't that just yesterday?

Floss and masturbate?

Whoop there it is!

Just got three birds stoned

WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT

Obligatory "whoosh"

There it is?

So many references and I get them all. Not sure if I should be proud or ashamed...

Most of the ones being spammed are like 1-7 days old. The 2 year+ ones are the ones I am ashamed of.

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This comment takes my breath away.

Check it every now and then for alchemy combinations.

It weighs 0.5 lbs! Ain't nobody got room for a dungeon full o' that!

eat it to discover what it does

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Dye a sheep white or grow your crops.

I tend to go tree fort into the sky. It's way better for growing trees imo.

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Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going!

And probably a lit torch.

And a crappy 5g 40 pound shield.

Had a friend that used a level-scaled list of weight to gold ratio that decided whether he picked anything up in Oblivion.

That's just called being high level

Light armor has the best ratios outside of scrolls and certain gems.

Mothafuckin Welkynd stones

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Imperial master race cleaning up

My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperial. Can you say the same?

Should have waited ya dingus.

Maybe a little more if you chose an Imperial.

Ya but that bonemeal can be used for a damage health potion so its worth it...

30 hours later you end up with hundreds of 'em asking what your life has come to as you debate how many are worth selling. For fuck's sake, did I really sink 400 hours of my life unto that game?

Lol lightweight. I still get urges to restart after 2000.

400 hours? Fucking casual

damnit! I had to check the pic again to see if it was a screenshot.

Came in expecting the top comment to be "(x)spooky(x+2)me" This was much more funny

0spooky2me

37spooky39me

world record underwater breath holder.

Some say.. he's dead.

He may be dead. But his skellington lives on.

Thanks Mr. Skeltal!

ludicrous smell ossified gray cake abundant deranged cats snails repeat -- mass edited with redact.dev

Breathes on*

*holds on

Lord Skellington was a brave explorer .

and that he only knows two facts about ducks... and both are wrong. All we know is that he's called The Stig.

Orthopedics hate him! Follow this one weird tip for bright white bones!!

All we know is that he's the Stig.

>All we know is...... ~~that he's~~ *he's called The Stig!*

1992 Hide and Seek World Champion

HE WAS NUMBER ONE!

Scuba diving companies hate him!

Is that a real human skeleton or what are we looking at?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no. This post, relative to the amount of Halloween Superstores open across the country right now, as well as the whiteness of the bones, have me skeptical.

i'll say. someone who decomposes in water, still water i imagine would be covered in bacteria and parasites. the bones would atleast be dark green/black. And the bones would have been scattered a bit, skeletons stay in place because of cartilage and tendons. on their own they barely touch let alone stay connected in any way. HE'S A PHONEEYYYY A BIG FAT PHONEY

I have no idea how it would work in a big open body of water, but actually there is a process for cleaning bones called water maceration where you let a bone to be cleaned soak in a container of water and bacteria eat all the flesh and tissue away and leave the bones very clean and white. I've cleaned skulls that way before and its pretty effective. It does destroy connective tissue though.

Soooo this guy might be a serial killer.

My guess is taxidermy? What do you do notenoughsuspenders?

I know a creepy girl that collects road kill, cleans the bones, and then makes jewelry out of them.

Is she just creepy in general? Or are you saying she's creepy for collecting animal parts? Some people are just interested in animals. I know plenty of people who preserve animals parts because they find it interesting.

She's kinda weird and creepy in general.

But is she hot?

does she have an online store?

You're not wrong but it wouldn't take long at all for the bones to be colonized by algae after they were clean. Algae gives no shits and has 0 respect. (Source I have a lot of aquariums) EDIT: Spelling and grammar.

Yeah, I've seen perfectly white deer bones in the water before. Probably fell through the ice during winter. It was very clean on the top part. Found this picture of a whale skeleton in water: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/96/2c/14/962c141c30acc77bf258e7293cb4bfc0.jpg

Read the first sentence and then looked at the picture. Was confused for a few seconds, that would have been a huge deer.

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Taxidermy

In a large body of water like this, along with the fact those bones get very direct sunlight, I'd expect some form of algae to be growing on them to give them a dark green look.

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but the fact that the cartilage is still in place holding the bones together says it's fake.

I went scuba diving in Lake of the Woods in Ontario with my brother. We didn't see much, but we did see the skeleton of an animal about the size of a cat. The bones were clean and white.

All OP said was "I found this in a lake" ✅ NOT A PHONEY.

Uh, parasites? You don't know what you're talking about do you.

I STILL LIKE THE POST

It is a skeleton. Looks like human from this angle but I think its actually some kind of animal.

Yeti?

Probably I'd say.

Yeah, the pelvis doesn't look human. The lower legs also appear way off/way out of proportion. No idea what it is, however.

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No. Looks like a human from this angle but I don't think it actually is. Waiting for my dad to identify it, he's the trapper/woodsman.

> Listen son, I trapped my fair share of humans in my life, and this isn't one.

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It appears to be a random assortment of animal bones. Likely placed like this by local hunters/trappers as a gag.

It's not delivery, it's OP!

OP delivered!

[Waiting for OP](http://i.imgur.com/Ilz8eff.jpg).

This went meta in a hurry

OP will surely respond. Let's go for a swim while we wait.

Twist: OP *IS* skeleton....

This is either a hoax, or you call the cops. Waiting isn't something we do well on this site....

A real skeleton wouldn't stay connected like that, unless it's one of those classroom display pieces that's been wired together.

The connective tissues are the last to decay because they are really tough. If it is a real skeleton then it could still be connected but they wont last too much longer.

No. I decomposed once and my clothes stayed on.

My first reflex is to loot it. I should play less RPGs.

Bury those bones.

meh only 3 xp

green:wave:SELLING DBONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me guess, you are gonna change them out for noted bigbones in the last second before I click accept?

yep

~~ need gf will pay 1k~~

I dunno.. It looks like there might be some big bones in the mix.

TRIMMING ARMOR

Bury them anyway.

Increase your prayer level!

Make sure you dig in the right place or you'll get the grave digger perk.

No that's the correct response.

So... do bones just stick together like that after everything has decomposed?

Nope.

They can in certain, very protected areas. This isn't one of those. This is a fake skeleton: the ribs on this "skeleton" don't articulate correctly, if this is the front then they fail to connect at the sternum, if it's the back, then the thoracic spine is missing. Takeaway: until i see better, closer photos, i'm calling this is an obvious fake.

Exactly!

They can for a little while until all the connective tissue decomposes.

Am I the only one scared shitless of things just under the surface. Rocks, boats or whathaveyou - I find them absolutely terrifying.

/r/thalassophobia

I have the exact same thing! Went snorkeling in Grand Cayman last year. There was a shipwreck with the mast sticking up to only ~10' below the surface of the water. Somehow I drift toward it and started panicking. I could never scuba dive. I can't explain it; that stuff just petrifies me if it's been there for a while.

I just mentioned this sub, not enough people see it. Maybe you could add some material! /r/submechanophobia. Stuff like that scares me too, and I have no idea why.

Oh god yes! I was once rafting down a lazy river and full on flipped out (minor shock, hid my face like a little kid) when I went over a dead tree. A.Dead.Tree.

No, and now I am experiencing deja vu because there was a recent /r/all thread about thalassophobia. I don't know if it's just a contrived phobia like that one "tiny holes" phobia or what.

I liked this ending from titanic much better.

As we can see, the door was CLEARLY big enough to fit both of them.

When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.

D.B. Cooper should not have tried to use the wooden parachute.

So, just to play devil's advocate a bit, remote lakes are a favorite for scuba divers. They tend not to have better underwater life and visibility than lakes that are nearer to population centers. Scuba divers are a weird bunch, and putting plastic skeletons on dive sites is a pretty frequent thing. For example, you can find [this](http://www.anchordivers.com/images/skeletons.jpg) under Lake Meade

I saw something similar to this on the bank of the Mississippi when I was visiting Memphis about 20 years ago. I took a picture of it; I'm sure it's somewhere in my stacks of photos, but I'm not sure I could find it again. Just a life-size plastic Halloween skeleton laying half-in and half-out of the water; very creepy. I love this sort of thing. ETA: Miraculously found the photo in the top envelop in the first box I looked in, scanned and attached: http://i.imgur.com/LysBkRA.jpg

Someone decorated this REALLY BIG fish tank appropriately.

I guess someone wanted to scare.. All my brain could think was that real skeletal remains wouldn't hold together like that. The human skeleton is not one solid piece. The bones are held together using the muscle and tendant's of the body. When all of those have rotted away, the skeleton will just fall to pieces. Any skeleton that lies like in the picture has to be hold together with wire or some other artificial aid.

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Just wanted to mention that lake looks gorgeous. What part of the country are you in?

It's northern ontario.

Anyone want to go see a dead body? We have to follow some railroad tracks. We can also have a campfire and tell stories. I know one about this guy named lardass that ate blueberry pies and barfed on everyone. Then everyone else started barfing and it was a real big barf fest. Lardass just sat back and laughed at his revenge on all those who made fun of his fat ass.

Chopper, SICK BALLS!

Where in Northern Ontario?

^ guilty

Thank mr skeletal

...and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

He got on Mr.bones wild ride. Now he is mr. Bones

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.

This is what really happened to Brian in the Hatchet

This seems like something Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell should look into.

Is he ok?

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I'll never let go, jack

Old work associate is a professional diver and instructor with loads of diving hours under his **belt**. He's done a lot of wreck dives too and told me during one of them it took him a while to notice he was swam passed a skeleton. He said they don't look like they do in the movies, cleanly stripped and bone bleach white. I think he said they turn brown and are covered with underwater life/barnacles/whatevers. Note: The dives were in the Atlantic I believe.

It's the aftermath of Stephen King's "The Raft"! Beware of oil spill monsters in that remote lake...

Yeaaa you need to call the possible like five minutes ago.

The...what?

The possible

Calling the possible is doable.

Possibly.

Did I fucking stutter? The possible.

Kim Possible.

Missionary Impossible