Woman Finds Human Skull Inside Unattended Purse At Bus Stop

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NANAIMO, British Columbia -- A bus passenger checking an unattended purse for identification found a human skull inside, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

A woman spotted the purse on a bench at a bus stop a few blocks from the downtown area in this Vancouver Island town and immediately brought it to police, shaken by the discovery, Constable Jack Eubank said Monday.

"She was headed to the ferry, just carrying on normal business, and then found this thing," Eubank said.

After the woman brought it to police Nov. 30, the skull was sent to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby for analysis by a forensic anthropologist. Another couple of weeks of testing is needed to answer such questions as gender and approximate time of death, Eubank said.

The skull is not a new specimen and could have been found and kept by someone, he added.

"In my experience on the West Coast, there's a number of ancient aboriginal burial sites around, and every now and then they get disturbed," he said. "I've seen it many times."

Eubank described the handbag as dark brown with wavy black horizontal lines, somewhat like a tiger skin pattern.

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I left him on the bus!
:D