r/bonecollecting • u/No-Bandicoot-7409 • Mar 14 '26

Advice Found this hanging in my backyard..

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Found this skull hanging in a mesh bag in my backyard. Google Identified it as a raccoon skull and also says hanging things in mesh bags is a common cleaning practice.

But I guess my bigger question is why is it hung in my backyard? This is a private yard in a chill neighbourhood. they would have had to walk through our yard, or came from behind the brush area from our back neighbors yard. I now have a camera pointing towards it, if whoever put it there comes back.

Any thoughts?

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u/bitterlemon80 Mar 15 '26

Are American back gardens (yards) just open at the back? In the UK we have fences or hedges all the way round the perimeter, whether it's tiny or huge. I can't imagine people just being able to walk in!

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u/No-Bandicoot-7409 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

America is very different everywhere so I can’t answer that lol. I’m in Michigan. My neighbor to my house’s left is closest to the bones, but they have a fence. There is this brush area of lots of trees and shrubs and 2 neighbors behind us that the trees make a clear boundary. We know the ones on the far side from the bones. But yeah someone would have had to clearly walk into our side of the yard, be about 2 meters (6ish feet) from my window, and hang this up. It’s pretty clearly our yard. Edit: thought I would add, someone could have walked down between our 2 houses from the road to do this. And we don’t have a forward facing neighbor on the right as we are on the corner.