{"id":24710,"date":"2013-07-18T08:42:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T04:42:51","slug":"man-arrested-for-stealing-56-skulls-from-cemeteries-and-setting-up-a-skeleton-museum-at-his-home-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=24710","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stealing 56 skulls from cemeteries and setting up a skeleton museum at his home in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austrian-police-have-charged-a-man-with-disturbing-the-peace-of-the-dead-after-finding-56-skulls-and-other-human-skeletal-remains-in-his-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24708\" alt=\"Austrian police have charged a man with 'disturbing the peace of the dead' after finding 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains in his home\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austrian-police-have-charged-a-man-with-disturbing-the-peace-of-the-dead-after-finding-56-skulls-and-other-human-skeletal-remains-in-his-home.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austrian-police-have-charged-a-man-with-disturbing-the-peace-of-the-dead-after-finding-56-skulls-and-other-human-skeletal-remains-in-his-home.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austrian-police-have-charged-a-man-with-disturbing-the-peace-of-the-dead-after-finding-56-skulls-and-other-human-skeletal-remains-in-his-home-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austrian-police-have-charged-a-man-with-disturbing-the-peace-of-the-dead-after-finding-56-skulls-and-other-human-skeletal-remains-in-his-home-390x300.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A man has been arrested after police found 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains which had been stolen from graves in a museum at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Police conducted a search of the house in Austria&#8217;s Burgenland province after the unidentified 47-year-old tried to sell three of the skulls and two thigh bones at a flea market.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives discovered the man had created a museum in his home which contained the skulls and 55 other bones.<\/p>\n<p>State broadcaster ORF said Tuesday that the bones were taken from graves of a church cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Guardian, a police spokesman said he had never encountered such a case in his 37 years in the force.<\/p>\n<p>He said he did not know why the man had collected the bones or why he had tried to sell some of them.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged by police with &#8216;disturbing the peace of the dead&#8217; following the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bones had now been returned to the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after police found 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[1823],"class_list":["post-24710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-austria","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}