Halloween skeleton from PublicDomanPictures.net
By Dolly Stolze / 10.20.2017
I recently read an article by John Squires, published in 2014, over at Halloween Love about how Dawn of the Dead unintentionally featured a real dead person. Some of the movie crew rented what they probably thought was a fake skeleton from a costume shop when they filmed in Pittsburgh in 1978. But in 1982 it was discovered that these human remains were real. Since this story combines my two loves, bones and zombies, I had to read the original reporting on this story.
In October of 1982, a cop walked into the Scott Township, PA location of Costume World to find a Halloween costume. This is where he saw a human skeleton displayed in a glass coffin – something really common for Halloween-centered businesses this time of year. But this cop thought these bones looked a bit too authentic and reported his suspicions to the coroner of Allegheny County. The coroner went to the shop the next day, agreed that the bones looked real, and confiscated the skeleton.