The bodies of two mummified babies that were wrapped in newspaper dating back to the 1930s were found sealed in a trunk. The discovery was made by two women who were cleaning out the basement of the old Glen-Donald building in MacArthur Park.
“Gloria Gomez, the building’s manager, said she and Yiming Xing, one of the building’s tenants, had found the remains after prying open a 4ft (1.2m) tall unclaimed steamer trunk.
‘I saw something not very pleasant and very unusual. It didn’t have any shape to it. But it seemed like a dried-out body,’ Ms Xing told the Los Angeles Times.
She added: ‘The first thing I thought was the spirits – maybe we disturbed the spirits.’ “
After reading the report, I immediately thought that this could be a ‘back alley abortion’ situation. Something that was common back in that time period. Of course no one can really say for sure what the reasons were for the macabre act, but with forensic analysis we can come pretty close to finding out the gruesome truth. It’s a sad and mysterious story that somehow I find intriguing. I can imagine the rumors already starting in this place. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that someone was heard saying that they “knew the place was haunted”. This is how urban legends of the crying infant start I guess. Honestly who knows. Maybe ghostly cries have been heard in the area and people just associated that with the tenants.
I live about 2-3 miles east of this place. MacArthur Park is a rough part of L.A. Known for the many drive-by shootings, drug deals and high crime, many residents tend to stay away from this area. Although it is surrounded by beautiful Victorian buildings that date back to the early 1900s, I still make it a habit of avoiding some streets in that neighborhood. Too many senseless shootings in L.A.
Full source: BBC News
Two infant skeletons have been found wrapped in newspaper from the 1930s in the basement of a building in Los Angeles, California, police say.
The remains, which are believed to be decades old, were found placed in doctor’s bags inside a trunk in a 1920s building near MacArthur Park.
Two women found the skeletons while cleaning out the Glen-Donald building.
Police have promised an investigation and are awaiting test results from the coroner’s office.
“We’ll try to reconstruct the circumstances based on what the coroner tells us, based on the history of the residence and based on science,” Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
One of the skeletons was wrapped in a 1933 copy of the Los Angeles Times and the other was in a 1935 issue.
Gloria Gomez, the building’s manager, said she and Yiming Xing, one of the building’s tenants, had found the remains after prying open a 4ft (1.2m) tall unclaimed steamer trunk.
“I saw something not very pleasant and very unusual. It didn’t have any shape to it. But it seemed like a dried-out body,” Ms Xing told the Los Angeles Times.
She added: “The first thing I thought was the spirits – maybe we disturbed the spirits.”
Ms Gomez said one set of remains looked like an embryo, while the other appeared to be those of a newborn baby.
The trunk was reportedly labeled “Jean M Barrie” and also contained personal letters and ticket stubs from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
‘Not very pleasant’
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