thesensitivechild
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Could someone have robbed a grave?
@ In the Details - I'm sorry but you are mistaken, my posting is for Alpine, New Jersey, if you look at the home addresses you will see they clearly say New Jersey. The Map provided shows very distinctly the Hudson River splitting the NJ and NY.
I worked for 18 years in Bergen County, New Jersey before our office moved and have customers in that area so am very much aware of the demographics.
[QUOT="Inthedetails, post: 15208419, member: 117884"]Across the river (and not too far upriver) from NYC, where Santeria is definitely practiced in public parks.
As I also stated in my previous post if you go a few towns away Santeria is very much practiced. As is evident in the Botanica stores, where you can buy all sorts of supplies for the practice.
Sorry, but when I clicked on the link, it was clearly California. Not sure what happened with the link for me, but that's what I saw - tried it twice. (I live nearby too so I don't really need the info anyway - will be helpful to others though.)
jmo
Edited to add: I seem to have upset you with my link-glitch reporting, and for that I am sorry.
Thanks, LL.no you were right
the original link shows California
Sorry, but when I clicked on the link, it was clearly California. Not sure what happened with the link for me, but that's what I saw - tried it twice. (I live nearby too so I don't really need the info anyway - will be helpful to others though.)
jmo
Edited to add: I seem to have upset you with my link-glitch reporting, and for that I am sorry.
There's a good chance it will turn out to be far less nefarious then it seems. A few years back they were doing an excavation at a London house where Ben Franklin lived when he was a Diplomat in the UK and in the basement they found human bones. People freaked out and started to wonder if one of America's founding fathers was a serial killer. But after an investigation they found out why there were bones in Franklin's basement and as it turns out there was nothing nefarious about it. Franklin had allowed his basement to be used by medical students for illegal autopsies. The British government had banned performing autopsies because they considered them sacrilegious and Franklin realizing the benefits of autopsies allowed them to be performed in his basement.
Yes, I have encountered items left in parks - though never covered blood, but perhaps blood was included with some dead birds I've seen - I honestly don't remember.While it's true that Santeria uses bones, fetuses, etc in their practice, more common are things like dead animals, feathers, sea shells, coconuts, animal blood, etc in casting spells. I used to work in Loss Prevention on the West Side of Chicago, where Santeria was relatively common. One day I came to work only to find a bunch of 5-gallon buckets filled with blood and organs. We couldn't tell if they were human organs (some were large), so the Homicide Unit got involved and the Medical Examiner as well. They organs were discovered to all be from dogs, and the blood was from goats and chickens. The practitioner lived several blocks away from the store, and one of our employees had recently dated the man and then broke up with him - which he clearly did not respond to well. This kind of thing happened a few times after that involving totally different people, but it was strange; these folks had odd things wind up happening to them... Anyway, years later and I'm police in the Florida Keys; my partner and I get a call about coconuts, dead seagulls and chickens, seashells, etc all arranged on a resident's porch - which was covered in blood. My partner who was White but who had grown up in a Cuban community (where Santeria is common) said to me, "oh no - we can't touch that otherwise we'll be cursed". I agreed! Both of us had seen this before - an again, as unbelievable as it may sound, those on the receiving end of a Santeria curse or anyone who touches the cursed objects seems to be quite negatively affected. So, we called the waste management team out there - they did not touch anything, instead using various devices to pick up the coconuts, birds, etc to discard them! They said to me, "yeah, we're not stupid - we're not touching that stuff and getting cursed"!
Hmm...that religion looks like it's practiced by people from the Congo. Is there a Congonese population around the park location? Not that I know of, but perhaps others have more accurate info than I have.I’d consider Palo Mayombe sects, much more underground than Santeria. But then they would have more than likely been in a ceremonial pot.
I'm guessing that someone came across a set of human bones and personal items from a transient who passed of natural causes, and then they decided (for some reason) the best thing to do was to gather the bones and hang them on the door of a local business. Perhaps that person was also a transient?
The person who put the bag of bones on the door was someone who happened upon the bones elsewhere in the park and put them on the door. That person has been in touch with LE and directed LE to the place where the bones and other items were found.I may be wrong, and my knowledge of Santeria is limited, but I think it it was a "curse", the bag of bones would be placed on the roof of the building rather than hung on a door.