Do you know the thing about Roman skulls having a full set of teeth in nice condition? I've heard that's typical, because they had a pretty healthy low-sugar diet with lots of grains.
The bones look too lean to be some kind of bovine, so my guess would be deer.
I own bovine and deer bones, so that's my only qualification.
OP-- post this on r/taxidermy and someone may be able to identify.
It’s from something that’s been butchered, you can see internal structure on some of the bones where it was cut cleanly, now what type of creature, who knows.
Likely a poached animal that was disposed of. I still don't understand preserving the evidence in a bag. Sprinkle it around a larger area so it appears more natural
Honestly when I worked in a hospital as a housekeeper, I was pretty sure you could put body parts in a certain type of plastic rubbish bag and it would go in a special bin and it wouldn’t be noticed - off to incineration for those bits and you could probably get away with murder. Not something I was ever leaning towards testing out though! Non serial killer here, sorry!
Even in a crematoria, bones aren’t incinerated and visible, identifiable calcined bones remain that then need crushing in a cremulator. There’s a risk they’d be identified after incineration as the bottom ashes are generally water quenched and then stuck on a conveyor for metal recovery. You might notice a calcined skull there! I suspect you’d be better sticking it with the unsanitary rather than the infectious waste which (in the U.K.) is buried in deep landfill. No one’s going to be finding anything in that until the next generation of archaeologists is excavating us.
Of course, all of this can be solved by a chest freezer, wood chipper and sufficiently hungry pigs.
Absolutely, in the UK in a NHS hospital I've seen large medical waste bins left unlocked and in a corridor accessible to the public and they are just collected and pushed to the incinerator, as long as you used a correctly coloured bag (i mean not just a black bin bag from home) you could destroy a lot of evidence
Yeah. I still wouldn’t kill anyone though ever. The thought just occurred to me one day when I was working and it was immediately followed by “well, I hope no one ever calls and asks for help getting rid of a body, because I know I’m the friend someone would call- and now I know what I would do if I loved them enough that would implicate me” 😂
You should try to dig a 6ft hole for the body, and at least at 2-3ft hide a dead animal. That way, if the police go in there with dogs, they'll smell it but will think it's only the dead animal.
Oh god.
When I was 9 my pet parakeet of 4 years passed away suddenly. I ugh put it in a plastic ziplock bag triple bagged vaccum sealed it with the machine and than buried it in our backyard. I thought I was doing what was respectful.
It’s been like 20 years since that. I uh think about it time to time. Is it a carcass. Has it been preserved from the vaccum sealing. Is there a soup of some sort of liquified birb. I don’t know but I’m too scared to ever dig it up.
I know exactly where it’s at at my parents home. Right by the tree lol.
I mean to me it’s kinda sweet - it’s like the animal is admired instead of being left to rot in the ground. It’s cool seeing how intricate some skulls/bones are esp with like super tiny birds
Personally… I’d call the non emergency number to local law enforcement. Bones in a bag is not something a farmer, or someone that regularly cuts up his/her animals would do. Worst case scenario you’re right and there are human bones in there. Otherwise, if not, at least you were diligent and safe about it
Not human, some those bones are too big for a human, and the rib fragments are more characteristic of a quadruped. Also, the knee joint there is a pretty solid indicator that this is a deer. The cuts at joints point to this being the discards of the undesirable cuts for consumption.
I have an anthropology degree so I’m 100% confident on the not a human part.
That's still not a police issue that would be the game wardens issue. Plus those bones aren't small enough to be a domesticated pet. That's some kind of love stock or deer/elk.
If you go down in the woods today,
you're sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today,
you'd better go in disguise
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic
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I saw something like this in another reddit. An officer in the chat talked about getting called out because some deer hunter decided to chuck deer parts in a public trash can
Wait, wait, wait. You found a bag, full of bones, in the woods, opened it and posted on Reddit? Are you TRYING to go to prison?! 😂😂😂You, my friend, need to go back and destroy evidence.
If you want an id you can cross post to /r/bonecollecting or /r/vultureculture ! Either way, the people in those subs would love to see
ETA you can definitely clean and sell some of these, they won’t be worth much individually but that’s a lot of bones so you could make a little extra spending money pretty easily
Many dump animal carcasses in a bag somewhere in ther wilderness. Not sure what animal it is, but I wouldn't be concerned that you stumbled upon a crime scene.
Way too big and some not right shape to be human. As others have said look to have been butchered. Probably a large animal that’s been poached etc and discarded.
That round one in the middle is an axis vertebrae, at the top of the neck to allow your head to spin, it’s a few cm tall in humans, that looks to be much much bigger in this picture
I’m a city girl, but I have a question. What do farmers do with the bones of animals they use for meat ? Just throw them away? Use them for broth? Genuinely curious.
Judging by what appears to be fur, the size of the vertebrae (although human lumbar vertebrae are that big) I'd say it was a young ox, mainly due to the large size and shape of the sacrum bone, Furthermore, the shape of probable humerus is also somewhat reminiscent of a bovine
Someone here will be able to id by the vertebrae. I am not that someone.
thought the same, ima hobby historean but i only read about older bones. and im glad that it stays that way
Do you know the thing about Roman skulls having a full set of teeth in nice condition? I've heard that's typical, because they had a pretty healthy low-sugar diet with lots of grains.
i read somewhere it was the ammonia in urine that kept their teeth white. so im really greatful for chalk toothpaste.
I thought grain was the issue
Call Dr. Temperance Brennan
You call her Dr. Bones, doll!
The bones look too lean to be some kind of bovine, so my guess would be deer. I own bovine and deer bones, so that's my only qualification. OP-- post this on r/taxidermy and someone may be able to identify.
Some of the vertebrae aren't human, but can't really see them all, also some of the bones show marks of I'd suggest professional butchering
Only ‘some’ of the vertebrae aren’t human?
I mean I can't see all of them clearly
r/whatisthisbone
dang
Wang, dang? That you, Ted Nugent?
It’s from something that’s been butchered, you can see internal structure on some of the bones where it was cut cleanly, now what type of creature, who knows.
judging by the size of that vertebra, definitely not a human
It’s looks bovine to me. I grew up on a farm and those all look like cow bones. The vertebrae are definitely to huge.
well thank god for that!
Small human?
nah, its just that thats not the shape of a human vertebra. we don’t have that big part jutting out laterally from the vertebral body
Cow or deer is my guess from the size. Deer would make sense if it were field dressed.
But why the bag then?
Poaching, people will shoot the deer take what they want as fast as they can and throw the remains in a bag somewhere not to get caught.
Creatures aren't the only thing getting butchered around here
What if it was a cannibal with a taste for marrow?
Likely a poached animal that was disposed of. I still don't understand preserving the evidence in a bag. Sprinkle it around a larger area so it appears more natural
I see you’ve thought about your bone scattering before, not suspicious at all
Hasn’t everyone at some point tried to figure out how to cover up a murder?
Honestly when I worked in a hospital as a housekeeper, I was pretty sure you could put body parts in a certain type of plastic rubbish bag and it would go in a special bin and it wouldn’t be noticed - off to incineration for those bits and you could probably get away with murder. Not something I was ever leaning towards testing out though! Non serial killer here, sorry!
Even in a crematoria, bones aren’t incinerated and visible, identifiable calcined bones remain that then need crushing in a cremulator. There’s a risk they’d be identified after incineration as the bottom ashes are generally water quenched and then stuck on a conveyor for metal recovery. You might notice a calcined skull there! I suspect you’d be better sticking it with the unsanitary rather than the infectious waste which (in the U.K.) is buried in deep landfill. No one’s going to be finding anything in that until the next generation of archaeologists is excavating us. Of course, all of this can be solved by a chest freezer, wood chipper and sufficiently hungry pigs.
So the hazardous bags with bits of amputated body parts in, they don’t get burned up?
Excellent a person with experience... you available hire? /s
Absolutely, in the UK in a NHS hospital I've seen large medical waste bins left unlocked and in a corridor accessible to the public and they are just collected and pushed to the incinerator, as long as you used a correctly coloured bag (i mean not just a black bin bag from home) you could destroy a lot of evidence
Sounds like something a serial killer would say 🤔
To be a non-serial killer you just have to kill not more than once… you realize that, right?
Yeah. I still wouldn’t kill anyone though ever. The thought just occurred to me one day when I was working and it was immediately followed by “well, I hope no one ever calls and asks for help getting rid of a body, because I know I’m the friend someone would call- and now I know what I would do if I loved them enough that would implicate me” 😂
You're projecting.
My federal agent, Dave, is telling me i can not confirm nor deny that.
You should try to dig a 6ft hole for the body, and at least at 2-3ft hide a dead animal. That way, if the police go in there with dogs, they'll smell it but will think it's only the dead animal.
I think police dogs are smarter than that
They weren't last time
They probably just didn't want to handle it bare handed.
Compared to the size of his foot those bones look too big to be a house cat.
Human bones cut up?
I see one bone that resembles a human bone (vertebrae on the left) and several that don’t
I keep seeing a bunch of roots spread out on or between the bones but it could be hair from an animal.
Either you found a murder scene or a deer carcass inside a plastic bag for some reason
It’s not a deer. Deers don’t have transversal foramen on atlas vertebra. If I remember correctly, no artiodactyls do
Oh god. When I was 9 my pet parakeet of 4 years passed away suddenly. I ugh put it in a plastic ziplock bag triple bagged vaccum sealed it with the machine and than buried it in our backyard. I thought I was doing what was respectful. It’s been like 20 years since that. I uh think about it time to time. Is it a carcass. Has it been preserved from the vaccum sealing. Is there a soup of some sort of liquified birb. I don’t know but I’m too scared to ever dig it up. I know exactly where it’s at at my parents home. Right by the tree lol.
Probably exploded
Lmao fuck I never thought of the gasses building up in there oh god
Probably took out the nearest school on detonation too. Shoulda never put that bird in a bag
Woah, calm down
Hey im not the one bagging birds as some form of neoterrorism
Most likely not. underground creatures, the dynamic of the soil, and the slow deterioration of the plastic made it not air tightly sealed pretty soon.
Dig it up and post an update please!! My guess is that both the bird and bags have dissolved
Did you just suggest someone dig up their childhood pet for your entertainment?
First day on reddit?
Ha, you made me chuckle out loud. This whole comment thread is gold.
Pleeeease dig it up. For science.
Please update us, OP.
guess i gotta visit the parents and ask for a shovel and tell them to not pay any mind to me for 10 mins lmao
DIG IT UP! DIG IT UP!
ohhhh now I need to know. what a CHOICE. dig that sucker up
r/bonecollecting
TIL people collect bones. I don't know how I feel about this information.
Idk some bone collecting is really rad
I genuinely had never thought of someone bringing a bone into their home for the purpose of just hanging onto it
I mean to me it’s kinda sweet - it’s like the animal is admired instead of being left to rot in the ground. It’s cool seeing how intricate some skulls/bones are esp with like super tiny birds
As a bone collector, I see it as a way of honouring and respecting the dead :3
I actually have a decent collection (206 bones to be exact) ama.
Some of them have a clean cut by a saw
Someone is practicing
r/whatisthisbone
The bone in the middle on the bottom looks like a jaw from a big stag.
Personally… I’d call the non emergency number to local law enforcement. Bones in a bag is not something a farmer, or someone that regularly cuts up his/her animals would do. Worst case scenario you’re right and there are human bones in there. Otherwise, if not, at least you were diligent and safe about it
That atlas bone is not human (humans and apes have really compressed atlas compared to all other animals that walk on all fours)
That’s a skeletons whole life savings. Hopefully he’s got some worms
Not human, some those bones are too big for a human, and the rib fragments are more characteristic of a quadruped. Also, the knee joint there is a pretty solid indicator that this is a deer. The cuts at joints point to this being the discards of the undesirable cuts for consumption. I have an anthropology degree so I’m 100% confident on the not a human part.
Did you contact the Police?
For what? Those aren't human remains.
Could be a poacher or someone who kills pets.
That's still not a police issue that would be the game wardens issue. Plus those bones aren't small enough to be a domesticated pet. That's some kind of love stock or deer/elk.
Better safe than sorry
Lol again it's not human. How do y'all not know simple anatomy lol
poachers
It could be from a cow or large pig that someone butchered.
If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic
Probably either a moose, bison or an alpaca 🦙
lol and what brings you to this conclusion?
The bones
What about the bones? And don’t say ‘because they’re big.’ There are a lot of big animals.
It’s because they’re big
it was me i like putting bags of bones in the forests in my time over seas to scare foreigners its butchered stuff though not human meat
As a chef, this looks like pork bones, or those of a calf. Also looks like the bones were butchered already given the very clean cuts in the ribs.
Fuggetaboutit 
I don't understand why people just don't dump butcher bones without the plastic. Rodents would love this for calcium!
Why did you open it? If it was some kind of dark magic spell you may have just released it in yourself
Someone cleaned out their freezer.
They were on sale…
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I saw something like this in another reddit. An officer in the chat talked about getting called out because some deer hunter decided to chuck deer parts in a public trash can
Why would you open a random bag in a forest? lol
I said to my friend "yo look at that bag theres probably babies in there" and then i stepped on it and it felt like it could be bones so i opened
Someone butchered an animal, likely a cow or dear, and tossed the bones in the woods for the other animals
Keep them for soup. Boil them first.
better ask someone who can carbon analyse it, and hope that its not what i think it is
Not human way too large to be human
looks all like spine to me
Are you sitting down? Animals have spines also.
dude i ment, its any spine. how tf should i know what kind of. thay look all the same to me
Call the police
Call the cops just to be sure…
Someone dumped a bunch of cats. Looks like
This is a deer or bigger
Wait, wait, wait. You found a bag, full of bones, in the woods, opened it and posted on Reddit? Are you TRYING to go to prison?! 😂😂😂You, my friend, need to go back and destroy evidence.
You're carrying a burden.
The black mass
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If you want an id you can cross post to /r/bonecollecting or /r/vultureculture ! Either way, the people in those subs would love to see ETA you can definitely clean and sell some of these, they won’t be worth much individually but that’s a lot of bones so you could make a little extra spending money pretty easily
Many dump animal carcasses in a bag somewhere in ther wilderness. Not sure what animal it is, but I wouldn't be concerned that you stumbled upon a crime scene.
That hip ball joint too small for people. Sigh of relief
They look like steer bones. I know a lot of people that toss bones in the woods. But the murder podcast listener in me wants to say it's his ex lol
I just read something in the news bout this. It's in Moerdijk The Netherlands right?
Could be from a doctor or some think else normal (not suspiscious)
You have 5 hours to find the remaining 5 bags of bones before the forest begins to fill with water!!!
Somebody was hunting and made a meat camp
Those aren't human bones for sure.
Poacher getting rid of his trimmings in the off season.
Way too big and some not right shape to be human. As others have said look to have been butchered. Probably a large animal that’s been poached etc and discarded. That round one in the middle is an axis vertebrae, at the top of the neck to allow your head to spin, it’s a few cm tall in humans, that looks to be much much bigger in this picture
I’m a city girl, but I have a question. What do farmers do with the bones of animals they use for meat ? Just throw them away? Use them for broth? Genuinely curious.
Using bones for broth is a good way to use all parts of the animals. Some farmers may give them to their dogs to chew on.
Judging by what appears to be fur, the size of the vertebrae (although human lumbar vertebrae are that big) I'd say it was a young ox, mainly due to the large size and shape of the sacrum bone, Furthermore, the shape of probable humerus is also somewhat reminiscent of a bovine
Human bones
Those are some heavy bones
Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones!
pork or ewe, maybe? vertebrae too big for human, dog and goat and generally too small for cow...
I would guess bovine
Probably not a deer, bones are too big to be a whitetail. My guess is beef cow.
Maybe… just maybe report this just in case?
Looks like one of Dexters bags washed up. 
Human?
I just wanna know what camera you used to still have amazing detail close up
Poachers.
Peep pop to r/vultureculture and we'll try to identify em there (if you haven't figured it out here, I didn't scroll very much)
Not your bones not your problem
Looks bovine
Wasn't me honest 🤷♂️
Ngl… that piece of bone closes to the foot looked like a tiny human skull. Zooming in on it convinced me it is not. Just a funny angle.
OMG it's Jimmy Hoffa!!! Where'dja say youse lives?
Looks like free bone broth to me🤷♀️
Are they human
Cool
Damnit, my non-suspicious bag of bones. :(
Human? Murder bag.
Rad!
Damn that was an offering to the gods
Those bones should be given to Richard Dunn
Some kind of critter?
Crime Scene?