It's the year 2024 and we're still dealing with the aftermath of 120+ year old shipwrecks.
Human remains washed ashore in Canada might be from a shipwreck way back in the 1800s.
The exposed remains were found on a cliff in western Prince Edward Island this past weekend, according to the Royal Mounted Canadian Police. The bones were located in West Cape on Saturday in an area where human remains have been discovered before, authorities said.
'Police are investigating, and have not ruled out that the remains could be connected to a historical shipwreck burial,' RMCP said in a statement.
Remains have been found in the area many times over the last several decades, all the way back to the 1950s and 60s. And Canada has routinely blamed it on a nearby burial site for a late 1800s shipwreck.
Local resident Rodney Wood told CBC that his father found remains in the area several times over decades.
'We didn't even know it was a burial site until they first showed up, according to my father,' Wood said. 'He said it was about 1950.'
While visiting the area with a CBC TV crew on Tuesday, Wood spotted another apparent bone exposed on the beach, which was also reported to police.
His family has been finding bones on the beaches of Prince Edward Island for 70 years!
Officials haven't said what ship it is they're referring to, but they maintain that there is a sunken ship graveyard nearby.
And as the land starts to erode, locals expect they'll continue to find more bones from this mystery ship.
Paul Wood, who lives just yards away from where the bones were found this week, told CBC that he expects more human remains will be discovered.
'I just think there's probably more bones to be revealed yet, as erosion occurs,' he said. 'I'm sure there will be more bodies discovered, I guess.'
I guess that's just life on Prince Edward Island now that Anne of Green Gables is gone.
Now they are known for ancient shipwrecks.
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