Inside the Police Reports: Unidentified Bones Discovered Near Bowling Alley

On Sept. 30, Lilburn police were dispatched to Brunswick Zone on Lawrenceville Highway for a very peculiar finding.

A mother, her daughter and her daughter's friends had finished an afternoon of fun at the bowling alley, when they moseyed on outside to head home.

The children started playing in the rear of the business, where the ground drops off a steep slope, and there in the dirt they found two unidentified bones, according to a police report. 

The mother later told police that she advised her daughter to put the bones down, and that the group drove back home.

At the home, the mother said her daughter "was upset about finding the bones and that after viewing pictures of animal bones on the Internet, they thought the bones might be human," according to a police report.

They called police, and officers drove over to the bowling alley and eventually located the two bones near the parking lot. According to the police report, the bones were 10 inches to 11 inches long and one to two inches in diameter.

"It appeared the bones were worn and possibly decaying," the report also stated.

The mom and her daughter returned to the scene to identify the bones as the ones they'd found earlier in the day. The bones were the same.

Police combed the area to see if there were any other bones, and none could be found.

A day later, medical examiners were on the case.

By 1 p.m., officials determined that the bones were not human after all.

Police updated their files, and closed the case.