Legend has it that the blueprints were read backwards so that the courtyard was built in front facing the street instead of inside the structure. Construction of the windowless Greco-Egyptian style “tomb,” began in 1856 and ended with the addition of its two back towers in 1911. The “bonesmen” as they are known took the skull and the crossbones as their symbol from which they received their nickname. Yale senior William Russell founded Yale’s most famous secret society in 1832, Skulls & Bones, at 64 High Street, dedicated to Eulogia, the goddess of eloquence. The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office has not identified the bones and was not immediately available for an interview about whether an ID can be expected.The Specters of the Skull and Bones Secret Society “In reference to the bones found in Ohio, we can not be sure that these had anything to do with the IOOF since they were not in a lodge hall but in a garage that did not belong to this order,” he says.Ī mission statement on the Odd Fellows’ website says the group strives “to provide a framework that promotes personal and social development.” Their activities “aim to improve and elevate every person to a higher, nobler plane to extend sympathy and aid to those in need, making their burdens lighter, relieving the darkness of despair to war against vice in every form, and to be a great moral power and influence for the good of humanity.” Reached for comment about the discovery of the remains, Chuck Lusk, Sovereign Grand Master of the order, pointed to a 2017 Atlas-Obscura article that documented the use of skeletons in initiation ceremonies and the frequency with which bones are discovered in Odd Fellows lodges. “ The ones years ago may have been different.” “The ones I’ve seen have been plastic or paper-mache,” Castle told the Enquirer. Penny Castle, grand secretary for the Grand Lodge of Ohio, told the Enquirer that bones are used in ceremonies to represent mortality and remind people to live their lives to the fullest. ![]() The new homeowners stored the bones and other things left behind by the group in a rented garage. ![]() “When they moved, the Odd Fellows… left many items in the lodge, including the bones,” Demasi says. Mount Healthy Police Chief Vincent Demasi says authorities traced the origin of the bones, which are thought to be about a century old, by speaking with a family who had purchased an Odd Fellows’ lodge nearby when the group left town decades ago. ![]() The next day, police announced the bones had seemingly been “relics” used in “rituals” by a fraternal order known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal order that was founded in the U.S. The coroner collected the remains and police began an investigation. The person entered the garage and found a box “which appeared to contain decomposed human remains,” the statement said, and alerted the authorities. On March 24, a resident of the small city of Mount Healthy, outside Cincinnati, went to investigate a freestanding garage near his home after hearing voices nearby, according to a statement released by the Mount Healthy Police Department. Human remains found in an Ohio garage belonged to a fraternal organization that used them in “rituals,” according to local authorities.
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