That’s quite a relief.
Iowa landfill workers found a bizarre human femur over the weekend, which was a shocking discovery.
The thigh bone was in fact fake.
Employees at the dump called police on Saturday after they found the femur. The Clinton County Sheriff’s Office and Clinton Police Department officers responded and took custody of the bone. The landfill was searched by a 30-member team, which then found other remains.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office took over the investigation and a forensic anthrologist confirmed that the item was indeed a human being. “medical replica” of a human femur that was “made to look as real as possible, from casts of actual bones,” the sheriff’s office announced Tuesday.