In the fall of 1987, a mapmaker was surveying the grounds of a boy scout ranch in Eastern

Missouri.

Suddenly, something strange caught his eye.

At first, it looked like a turtle shell, but it was a skull.

A mystery now unfolded.

To solve it, detectives would have to put a face on the grizzly discovery.

The S-bar F boy scout ranch covers 5,400 acres of picturesque countryside in rural Missouri.

The mapmaker had discovered the human skull in a remote area of the ranch.

Tina Orling was his supervisor.

He was a professional mapmaker from Finland, and he saw the skull within the first few days

here.

He did not say anything to me or to anyone else about it because he was afraid.

But three months later, just before he returned to Finland, the mapmaker finally told Tina

about the skull.

Using a detailed map of the ranch and following the mapmaker's directions, Tina and the

scout rangers searched for the skull.

They found what they were looking for in a sparsely wooded clearing.

Along with the skull, searchers found a few strands of hair, a lower jaw, and about 40

bones, including a pelvic bone, a femur, and some ribs.

My initial thought was that it would make possible we'd be in India, grave until we saw

the blue gene material.

Searchers on Earth, the tattered remains of a pair of jeans, pieces of a flowered shirt,

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