Human bones discovered in Silver City at an old fraternal lodge

SILVER CITY, Idaho — Call it an odd discovery. A human skeleton was recently found in the old Odd Fellows Lodge in Silver City during a renovation project.

The old mining town sits about an hour and a half south of Nampa in Owyhee County.

Owyhee County Coroner Aaron Tines was called to Silver City on Friday, August 29, to investigate. He told Idaho News 6, "You always treat every case as suspicious."

Workers renovating the former lodge discovered a cabinet on the second floor that they say had been used by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. What they saw inside was something they never expected.

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"At the bottom of the cabinet was a homemade casket or