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What is it about these geocaching families in Nova Scotia finding bones? New article in the Chronicle Herald about a family out geocaching who found all those cattle bones! http://www.herald.ca/Front/494819.html

Our theory (not corroborated by police or other experts) is it was a graveyard long (the church is over 200 years old!) before the fence was there. Perhaps the fence was put up without including a few graves either because it was surveyed incorrectly or the graves were unmarked and unknown. The bones were only feet from the fence and in the middle of a bank which has eroded significantly. Given the age of the bones (even the boys could tell they were old) and the location, it would be logical that they came from the graveyard. They probably have always been there but just recently came to the surface. That's my 2 cents!

No bodies...just old bones. That's the conclusion of the police...see the blurb in the Herald... http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/491590.html Human bones likely from graveyard Some human bones found in Dartmouth on Saturday are quite old and likely came from the centuries-old graveyard near where they were spotted, Halifax Regional Police said Tuesday. Some children playing an outdoor searching game while at a birthday party near Woodlawn Cemetery found the bones and contacted police, who cordoned off the area as a crime scene and called the medical examiner’s office to investigate. That investigation revealed that the bones are quite old, police spokesman Const. Jeff Carr said Tuesday. "We suspect that they’re from the graveyard. It’s not a criminal investigation."

LOL ...no children were traumatized in the looking for a cache. It was old bones from the cemetery beside where they were looking. Until we hear otherwise that is what we are assuming. The Herald was correct but the Daily news had the story all wrong (no one was in the cemetery, the bone were located outside the fence etc.). The boys loved it so much they did another cache and although most wanted to do more their parents took them home. One boy did stay and we did two more caches later that day. I have promised them (they made me!) that we can go back and actually find the original cache. It was a great birthday and a positive story all around. We love geocaching. Kathleen Mom of the birthday boy with a great story to tell his kids someday.