Digging Up Bones At Kentucky Horse Park
Preparations for the 2010 World Equestrian Games unearthed something from the past at the Kentucky Horse Park yesterday morning: human bones!
As excavators were digging for the new outdoor arena, they unexpectedly came across a human skull and a leg bone. They immediately called authorities, who determined that the bones came from two different people. They found a few more bones as well as nails and metal handles that are most likely from a wooden coffin. They believe this was probably a family burial plot of some sort; no foul play involved.
Definitely not the kind of thing you want to come across doing excavation. And it’s going to hold up construction progress on the arena for at least a few days as authorities examine the area. This is kinda funny, and I’m sure it’s only going to be a minor hiccup in the long run for the World Equestrian Games.
Hey, this could make a super cool plot for one of those crime shows like CSI – or Bones! I bet they’ve never used a location like the Kentucky Horse Park before. They could get some great footage, that’s for sure.
Premeiring in fall 2010: CSI Lexington!
Something similar happened next to our farm. It wasn’t our property, but it borders it. When they went to excavate to put in a new house, they found a femur. It turned out it was from a man that had been missing for a few years. The person who murdered him moved to New Jersey, and basically he got away with murder. That kind of had me freaked out for awhile. I rode my horse past there all the time while the murder was still living there.
I’m glad the one at the Kentucky Horse Park wasn’t foul play.
Deanna,
Creepy! I can’t imagine something like that happening in your own backyard. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
The Horse Park used to be the Walnut Hall standardbred farm. I remember visiting it many years ago in the late-1960s, years before it became the KHP. Who knows what it was before it was Walnut Hall.
I’m sure Dr. Emily Craig, KY’s forensic anthropologist, will get to the bottom of things.
That’s interesting and creepy at the same time. Hope the disturbed bones don’t create a poltergeist. That movie freaked me out.
when they were building Markopoulo, the 2004 Olympic site near Athens, they unearthed an ancient brothel. (the joke was that the Olympic judges would be right at home…)
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Wow…definitely sounds like a story for Booth and Brennan to solve.
(I love Bones!) Nice blog, if you get a chance check mine out as well. I also run horse magazine Bit & Bridle (www.bitandbridlemag.com).
Have a merry Christmas!
Mandee
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