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Park Forest Man Keeps Human Bones in Box for 26 Years

by Gary Kopycinski on July 11, 2008

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This one is just too strange to pass up.

According to a report in the Southtown Star, a Park Forest man has kept “a disorganized heap of crusty human bones” in a box for 26 years.

According to the report, John Ray claims he bought the box of human remains in 1982:

It was the year Ray said he bought the…