'WWII skeleton' found in New Guinea jungle revealed to be tree branch

Friday 05th September, 03:10 PM JST

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Taka313 at 03:30 PM JST - 5th September

But...it was a WWII vintage branch, so there is that.

Taka
CavemanLawyer at 03:31 PM JST - 5th September

Interesting. I would like a pic plz.

I bet that would get more on e-bay than the corn flake shaped like Illinois did!
rajakumar at 04:40 PM JST - 5th September

I was waiting for news of the identity of these ww2pilot skeleton. We have just been taken for a ride by media/others.
smithinjapan at 09:11 PM JST - 5th September

I feel like I got scammed! hahaha.... glad it wasn't a body, of course, but you'd think they would have checked a little more thoroughly before the announcement.
adaydream at 09:48 PM JST - 5th September

I remember when I was young we'd speculate whether there were Japanese soldiers still on small islands somewhere that still thought the war was being fought. When this story first came out I remember those young speculations. < :-)
neverknow2 at 11:22 PM JST - 5th September

Adaydream - those speculations were true!!
HonestDictator at 01:20 AM JST - 6th September

man that is kinda hilarious. A tree branch huh?
ca1ic0cat at 02:27 AM JST - 6th September

Jeepers, don't Aussies know how to use binoculars? Or maybe the guides were cocking a snook at the lot of them.

Well, I wonder how much this little expedition cost?
sdmsec at 03:50 AM JST - 6th September

This is a cover-up.

Those hikers weren't so dumb as to mistake a limb for skeletal remains. And yes they did use my binoculars. See www.investigate.com/pacific/hikers_discovery.html.

It was really the decomposing body of an extra-terrestrial base jumper. (It's a well-known fact that they love to base jump from their disc-shaped star craft.

Just watch and see if Australia doesn't emerge over the next few years as the next empire.
OgieDoggie at 03:56 AM JST - 6th September

sdmsec...I think you are on to something. But I thought it was Big Foot that was well-known for base jumping from extra-terrestrial dis-shaped star craft?
sdmsec at 04:23 AM JST - 6th September

he he

No contradictions here. Big Foot = extra-terrestrial.
Hughgarse at 04:15 PM JST - 8th September

I read that there was a definable harness as well... Were their eyes painted on were they????