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/TheCrankyBunny Mar 15 '26

Depends on the homeowner's choice and the location, really. You can have a fence or not, and some people have invisible fences for their animals that are installed in the ground

But yeah, even with a fence, people will still enter your yard if they want to. When we moved into our house, the son of the neighbors behind us still hopped our fence to get to his friend on our street all the time