Around 70 piles of cremated human remains were found in a mass grave in a remote desert outside Las Vegas, and authorities have no idea how they got there.
An anonymous source stumbled upon an arrangement of burned flesh and pulverized bone near a dirt road outside the town of Searchlight and alerted CBS 8, providing the local station with a photo of the creepy scene.
The Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has confirmed the ashes to be human remains and is actively investigating the find, the outlet reported.
The “individual, non-commercial scattering of cremated remains” is permissible, but large-scale, “commercial” disposal is subject to strict BLM regulations.
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A few weeks ago, authorities shut down a Las Vegas funeral home for letting bodies sit for months after they were due to be cremated. One corpse had been rotting for almost a year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
In a similarly disturbing case, a Colorado funeral home was busted last Wednesday for hiding around 20 decomposing bodies in a room behind a hidden door. Some of those bodies had been awaiting cremation for 15 years. The families of the deceased had been given fake ashes, authorities said.
Searchlight, where the recent discovery was made, is about an hour south of the city of Las Vegas.
