There’s no one home in this House of Bones

The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies.

When archaeologists discovered the remains of a prehistoric “house” in Hamin Mangha, China, stuffed to capacity with human bones, belonging to at least 97 different skeletons, they knew they were dealing with a site where something terrible had happened a long time ago. They speculate it was either some kind of natural disaster or an outbreak of plague. What happened was that people in this village were dying faster than they could be buried, so the living just started stacking them in this house like cordwood. They never got around to burying them, either. The house does show evidence of a fire, though, so perhaps the villagers tried to cremate their dead all at once? If this is true, it didn’t work. The bones remained.

How long does it take for bad juju to dissipate? Were these men of Science able to remain fully unaffected, viewing this site of horror with a clinical, cool detachment? And if so, did this academic approach shield them from the aforementioned juju? Because make no mistakes, peeps, there was bad juju aplenty around that place. Even if it was only the creation of the human psyche. How can one ponder a prehistoric site wherein dead people were wedged like human sardines packed in a tin and NOT get the heebie-jeebies?

By TheCheezman

WAYNE MILLER is the owner and creative director of EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS, specializing in theatrical performances and haunted attractions. He has written, produced, and directed (and occasionally acted in) over two dozen plays, most of them in the Horror and True Crime genres. He obtained a doctorate in Occult Studies from Miskatonic University and is an active paranormal investigator. Is frequently told he resembles Anton Lavey. And Ming the Merciless. Denn die totden reiten schnell!

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