Bones on Bayshore? Patch Digs For an Answer to This Mystery

While much of the town was preoccupied with the All British Autojumble, among other events, this weekend word started to leak out about an interesting discovery nearby on Bayshore Boulevard.

“They are doing the construction down by the Spa they found human bones,” read the message I found in my inbox from a devoted Patch supporter late Friday afternoon.

Hmmmm.

Another person mentioned something of the same nature later in the evening, and a follow up email from my original source implied the bones were possibly archeological in nature.

“Just talked to the city it was a human arm bone that they found and (they) think it is Indian or Spanish settlers. Interesting.”

Needless to say that piqued my curiosity, so I decided to dig a little further into the matter.

A message to the public works department sent a string of emails through City Hall, with responses ranging from “I’m not aware of anything” by PW director Ray Boler to this reply from capital projects manager Bill Baker:

“There was a bone a couple of weeks ago that turned out to be an animal bone. There is no other bone known to either the city or the contractor.”

The plot thickens… 

Determined to get to the bottom of the Bayshore bone matter, I knew I had to trek out to the scene and find out what the contractors knew. 

On Monday afternoon, while removing stone outside the Spa, site supervisor Ryan from Steve’s Excavating ended the mystery.

“We found a deer bone a while back, but that was about a month ago,” Ryan admitted.

When pressed if he had heard about a possible human bone being discovered on the site on Friday, the good-natured Ryan scoffed.

"Nah, the city asked me something about that today, but I haven't seen anything like that, and I've been here all weekend."

“I’ve found a lot of old bricks, and that front part of a deer leg, but no human bones, nothing like that,” he added. 

So there you have it. Mystery solved. Or is it? 

What’s that? How did the bone get there in the first place, and how did the rumor get started that it was a human bone? Excellent questions, perhaps deserving of further investigation over this upcoming Halloween holiday...

Tell us, Harborites, what do you think the real story is behind the mysterious Bayshore Boulevard bone? Let us know in the comments below.