Tourist Returns Skull Stolen from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral 60 Years Ago

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1. SS: A tourist who stole a skull from the catacombs of Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral during a guided tour roughly 60 years ago has returned it.

   Franz Zehetner, the cathedral archivist, opened a parcel to find the skull along with an explanatory letter from the sender, a man now in northern Germany. The man wrote that he had taken the skull as an act of “youthful exuberance” and, approaching the end of his life, wished to make peace with himself and return it.

   The catacombs contain the remains of approximately 11,000 people, primarily buried during the 18th century. Mr. Zehetner described the return as “touching,” noting that the man had carefully preserved the skull over the decades instead of disposing of it. The unidentified skull has since been re-interred.

   edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2317drzm04o

2. No source link? 

   Fake spoopy story then

3. How the fuck do you steal a skull without anyone noticing?

4. „Didn’t come in handy”

5. Now germans turn

6. Germany, that explains it.

7. So you tell me i can dispose a skeleton this way?

8. Good on him. Abit fucked up it took him 60 years to return it but still better than not.

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