Are these bodies?

[Pnut]

I was looking at the Bahamas to see if my relative’s house had been rebuilt since Dorian and stumbled upon this several months ago. Is it just me, or are these bodies that are being buried at a house site? I can’t not see them, but it also seems pretty wacky to be that.
I can see how they could possibly be hurricane victims from 2019, but a shallow mass grave under what will eventually be a stilt house on sand doesn’t seem extra legitimate.
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26°35'51.0"N 78°37'05.6"W

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In case the link doesn’t work, the coords are 26.5975020, -78.618233

 

[LoveyG]

Strange. Could it be from a previous structure?

 

[Auntie Cipation]

To me the dark areas look like shadow. Whatever is there is being built out of the soil -- could that be how they build the stilts or pillars for the foundation of a new building?

 

[Laughing]

Does your relative still live in the area, or visit?

Seems best to have someone you/they know check.

Could the relative have sold the property?

 

[Pnut]

Strange. Could it be from a previous structure?

Quite possibly. Dorian scraped the houses off in many places near the coast. My relative’s house was concrete block and is mostly just gone. There are people nearby with boats. Can’t tell much about what they are doing.

 

[DeDee]

The markings resemble supports for a house on stilts that succumbed to the Hurricane and the support markings are all that remains.

What an interesting thing to find when searching for something else.

 

[Pnut]

To me the dark areas look like shadow. Whatever is there is being built out of the soil -- could that be how they build the stilts or pillars for the foundation of a new building?

When they build on wood or concrete pilings, they are about 10ft tall, about 10 feet apart. Typically you can park a car between the pilings. Wood pilings are about 6” square. Concrete pilings are either cast in round cardboard tubes about 18” across, or built up from concrete blocks to the first floor, 8-10’ up, close to the water. When they don’t build on pilings, it’s a concrete slab on the ground. I don’t know a lot about construction, just familiar with tropical construction. My own house was on pilings, but only 3 feet tall, because we weren’t very near water.

 

[Pnut]

Does your relative still live in the area, or visit?

Seems best to have someone you/they know check.

Could the relative have sold the property?

She does not. She’s old, and she was too terrified by the storm and aftermath to ever go back, she says.
I know some fishermen who might check it out next time they go over. Good idea.

 

[Pnut]

The markings resemble supports for a house on stilts that succumbed to the Hurricane and the support markings are all that remains.

What an interesting thing to find when searching for something else.

I thought the vivid clear blue of the canal was cool, and just followed it. Canals where I live are black. Maybe if there are dead people under this house one day, somebody can get a house on a beautiful canal for cheap.

 

[Pnut]

The markings resemble supports for a house on stilts that succumbed to the Hurricane and the support markings are all that remains.

What an interesting thing to find when searching for something else.

.24 miles northeast there is a house on stilts, an example of how pilings are spaced. You can see the pilings on the northeast side of the house. I tried to insert a pic but it’s not working at the moment.

 

[Nate_Bro]

If you go back a year it looks to be part of a structure.

 

[Pnut]

If you go back a year it looks to be part of a structure. View attachment 392186

What is the date for that view? I don’t see a way to do that in gmaps on my phone.

 

[DeDee]

I thought the vivid clear blue of the canal was cool, and just followed it. Canals where I live are black. Maybe if there are dead people under this house one day, somebody can get a house on a beautiful canal for cheap.

It is very beautiful and the water is the prettiest color. I took the liberty to look around on the map you so kindly posted. Not many homes were rebuilt along the front so I wondered if that was GoogleMap version 2021 instead of 2022.

What makes your canals black? Canals are black in New Orleans, LA, too, and have alligators living in them. But, they don't smell foul even tho they'd be really nice if they were bleu.

 

[megs1477]

I was curious, so I went through the history of aerials on Google Earth Pro. It looks like the home was built and destroyed between 12/2014 and 4/2016. I can't remember which hurricane went through there, but there were so many in that timeframe. Wilma comes to mind, but I could be wrong. The "bodies" can be seen starting in 01/2017 and definitely look like remnants of a recently built home. (Opinion based on looking at thousands of photos of storm damaged coastal homes in Florida and Louisiana in 2014-16 while working at an engineering firm.)

 

[Pnut]

It is very beautiful and the water is the prettiest color. I took the liberty to look around on the map you so kindly posted. Not many homes were rebuilt along the front so I wondered if that was GoogleMap version 2021 instead of 2022.

What makes your canals black? Canals are black in New Orleans, LA, too, and have alligators living in them. But, they don't smell foul even tho they'd be really nice if they were bleu.

Same as in La, the beautiful black soil, though we don’t have the tannins from cypress that La has, because we mostly don’t have trees. We have a hurricane mass grave also, though most of the bodies that were found were burned on the side of the road. Horrible ordeal.

 

[Pnut]

I was curious, so I went through the history of aerials on Google Earth Pro. It looks like the home was built and destroyed between 12/2014 and 4/2016. I can't remember which hurricane went through there, but there were so many in that timeframe. Wilma comes to mind, but I could be wrong. The "bodies" can be seen starting in 01/2017 and definitely look like remnants of a recently built home. (Opinion based on looking at thousands of photos of storm damaged coastal homes in Florida and Louisiana in 2014-16 while working at an engineering firm.)

Awesome info! Wilma was def 05, because it smashed my house. Joaquin in 15 or Matthew in 16 maybe. Irma was 17, but not until September. Thanks!

 

[UrsulaWrenn]

I was looking at the Bahamas to see if my relative’s house had been rebuilt since Dorian and stumbled upon this several months ago. Is it just me, or are these bodies that are being buried at a house site? I can’t not see them, but it also seems pretty wacky to be that.
I can see how they could possibly be hurricane victims from 2019, but a shallow mass grave under what will eventually be a stilt house on sand doesn’t seem extra legitimate.
Dropped pin

26°35'51.0"N 78°37'05.6"W

maps.app.goo.gl

In case the link doesn’t work, the coords are 26.5975020, -78.618233
View attachment 392160

My guess would be holes in the ground where they removed pipes, septic tanks, cables, and other objects that were buried when the house was built.

 

[megs1477]

Awesome info! Wilma was def 05, because it smashed my house. Joaquin in 15 or Matthew in 16 maybe. Irma was 17, but not until September. Thanks!

2005..2015 After a while the decades blend together! lol
I think there were a couple that may have done the swoop and hit and curved back out into the Atlantic without touching the US.

 

[Pnut]

2005..2015 After a while the decades blend together! lol
I think there were a couple that may have done the swoop and hit and curved back out into the Atlantic without touching the US.

Definitely! Haha If we’re lucky!

 

[Pnut]

My guess would be holes in the ground where they removed pipes, septic tanks, cables, and other objects that were buried when the house was built.

May well be such as that. I rather hope so. Thanks!