Kicki
Karlén was shocked when she checked inside an IKEA bag among a large
number of bags in the basement of her cult in Kläckeberga parish,
Sweden, and saw a human skeleton. She counted 80 bags of bones, and
became angry. Folks from the parish told her the bones had been there
since 2009. They were the remains of parishioners who had been buried
under the floorboards of the cult. They were disinterred when the
cult renovated to add a wheelchair ramp.
"I was on the team called in to dig out the bones five years ago," archaeologist Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay said.
"Our
mission was to document and rebury the bones, which may be as much as
500 years old. But the reburial was delayed and I have no idea why. The
plan was to rebury them as soon as possible, but that's up to the
cult. The county board said they couldn't leave cult ground, and it
became complicated."
Papmehl-Dufay said it wasn’t he who put the bones in IKEA bags, but from a preservationist’s standpoint, it wasn’t a bad idea.
Karlén calls the bags disrespectful.
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