Even though it was raining, I wanted to be first finder of a recently placed box so I stopped at the listed cemetery. Nearing the location I thought the box was located, my new white sneakers soon took on the color of the dirt surrounding the numerous new residents and water filled my footprints. Thinking I remembered the clue was that it was under a stone, I lifted a solid concrete block and https://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/viewphoto.html?gPhotoId=143703 is what I saw. Oh #&*%. Boney white hand bones. Well, moving right along further down the fence line, I finally spotted the box and then had to then grab a pointy stick to encourage the resident live coiled snake on top of the box to relinquish his position. And no, I was not the first finder.

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

Warrior Woman
thinks she'll skip cemetery boxes for a while

Boney white hand bones.

I would have peed myself...at minimum.

Yikes.

Too bad the tv show Bones is over. That would have made a great opener. But is Labyrinth Lady reading this? I think we have material for a sequel to The Letterbox Murders.

but did you poke them with a stick???

I pulled a maggot covered pouch out from under a cemetery monument once. I poked *that* with a stick.

Of all the things you could have seen, you should be glad it was just the hand!!

Click Agree if you're patiently waiting for Ele to record finds

just dying of curiosity

hope they didn't pay for that burial

Discount for casket with no lid?

Scratch & dent sale?

I would have peed myself...at minimum

Again with the peeing!

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Jimminy Crickets! Am I missing the joke or is that a real human hand? And I'm with others. First pee, then out of cemeteries for a long while.

Early on and new to letter boxing, I put my hand in the hollow of a tree and nearly dropped on the spot as a snake obviously thinking he was set for his winter's nap came rapidly slithering out. Learned a good lesson that day!

Truly we had a similar experience inside an ancient church, in Ireland. My husband looked under a SPOR and it was someone's skull. We don't know why the poor character's bones were buried so shallowly.

That's the way to show some gumption forget about the rain you go be first finder. Let me be the first person to give you a hand for your efforts oh wait...💀