In Dudley, England, a woman called police after seeing a human skull in her garden. This skull was the first of the human remains that were regularly brought to his garden by badgers.
Eighty-eight-year-old Ann Mathers first called her daughter after she discovered the skull, described as “hysterical”, BBC News reports. Police initially treated the garden as a crime scene and cordoned off. However, a description of the incident emerged shortly after.
“He’s got thigh bones, skulls, lower jaw, jawbones, whatever else you can think of, they’re all in the garden,” Mathers’ daughter Lorraine Lloyd said in an interview with the BBC. something.”
The truth of the matter was this: These remains were dug up by badgers from a nearby cemetery and carried to Mathers’ garden via a public path.
While this may sound very interesting, “grave-thief badgers” are surprisingly common. In Berwick, badgers regularly plague graves. A petition to relocate groups of badgers from the area states, “The problem is that badgers in cemeteries are digging burial sites and causing the destruction of families.” The petition also draws attention to the following words: “Yes, it is in the nature of badgers to dig and eat, but it is not natural to dig bones and destroy their final resting place.”
The petition also continues, “No one wants the badgers to be harmed,” and calls for “the right to humanely remove them from cemeteries.”
For now, the city council has decided to send regular patrols to the area to prevent these terrifying creatures of nature from damaging the tombs. A more radical solution is said to be on the way.
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