“Hidden Horrors and Unbelievable Treasures: What Lies Behind Your Walls?”
The Chapel Held Bones
In 1999, renovations on the Holden Chapel at Harvard University led to the discovery of human bones in the walls. “My first thought was, ‘Oooohh, an old Harvard murder,'” said Professor Carole A.S. Mandryk.
Joking aside, Mandryk said there was probably nothing sinister about the bones, even though they were jammed inside the walls of the chapel’s basement. “Some of the bones have metal pieces sticking out of them, as if someone was trying to construct a skeleton,” Mandryk said. That’s nothing too concerning, it was just a strange place to find human bones!
A Revolutionary Find
We’ve seen some outlandish findings thus far, but this one might take the cake. “In 2008 a head was found in the attic of a house” that belonged to an old man who had owned it for years. The head appeared to be that of the French king Henry IV.
That’s an incredible discovery, but was it really the monarch’s mummified head? “A team of 19 scientists revealed in British medical journal BMJ that nine months of tests on the skull led them to believe it was that of Henry IV,” CBS News reported.
Old Blueprints Could Be Important
As you’ve probably figured out by now, construction work can lead to a lot of entertaining and valuable findings. Some discoveries aren’t worth as much as others, but that doesn’t make them any less critical.
