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On 13th July 1945, 3 boys playing on a blitzed site in Liverpool discovered a steel cylinder - a shoe was poking out of one end... with a human bone inside.
Police arrived and found a full human skeleton inside the cylinder - in a full suit of clothes.
#WyrdWednesday

The cylinder.

It appeared that the man had crawled into the cylinder and he had a pillow made of a brick wrapped in sacking.

The items discovered on the body included a diary, keys and papers. The diary was from the 1880's.

After investigation by a pathologist - and some research of the papers - the mans' identity was given as Thomas Creegan Williams. He had owned a paint works on Tithebarn St in Liverpool.
Further digging showed he had been declared bankrupt in 1884.

It was concluded that Williams had crawled insjde the cylinder as a sort of hide out from his creditors; and somehow been sealed up inside and suffocated.

Relatives would have assumed he had absconded from his debtors.

I contacted the Uni where his skeleton was examined last year. But there appears to be no records of it.

More info can be found here:

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/skeletoncylinder.html