The Hernando County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help in locating the person who donated a real human skull to the Jericho Ministries Thrift Store in Brooksville, Florida, last month.

Corporal Michael Terry said that while the Sheriff's Department is looking for answers, it does not suspect criminal activity, telling the Hernando Sun,

Nothing criminal in nature. We just want to ensure the people who donated realized it was a real skull, not a prop. [We're] thinking it might have been passed down by a family member.

Even with that caveat, I don't think the person who donated it is likely to come forward.

The question remains: Who would just happen to have a real human skull lying around their house?

Some speculated that the skull could have been used for educational purposes, but the thrift store employee who found it, Jared Veals, had a different hunch.

He said he knew right away that it was the real deal, telling the Hernando Sun,

I could tell by seeing where the upper mantles [SIC] met. On the front of it, it said ‘Okinawa 1945 Marine Division,' so I think it was a war trophy.

What a disturbing war trophy.

This isn't an unheard-of phenomenon, with an Arizona Goodwill also coming across human remains in their donations a few years back.

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