Do this news blogging stuff for long enough and you’ll notice patterns emerge. For instance, you think that someone receiving a delivery of a human body part in the mail that they were not expecting would be a much rarer story than it is, and yet I kicked off my week with a new story about a woman who was expecting a shipment of medicine but got a box of human fingers instead.

Today, I bring you a similar story. Franz Zehetner, archivist of Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral, tore open a package earlier this year. He didn’t know what to expect inside, but he probably didn’t expect to find one very old human skull. He probably also didn’t expect a note to accompany said old human skull, specifically a handwritten note from a man in northern Germany.

The BBC reports that this North German ma

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