Construction Crew Uncovers Hidden Bones | Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo | #shorts

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Buried secrets don't always stay that way.

[00:00:02]>> It's the summer of 1989.

[00:00:05]A construction crew is renovating the basement of a 150-year-old building in downtown Augusta. When one worker drives his shovel into the dirt floor, it hits something hard.

[00:00:18]He reaches down and he pulls out a gigantic bone.

[00:00:24]>> When officers arrive, they take one look at the bone and ask the crew to keep digging. And as they do, more bones surface. Parts of a leg, a fragment of a pelvis.

[00:00:36]>> To help identify the remains, police call in forensic anthropologist Dr. Russell Moors.

[00:00:43]>> Dr. Moors realizes a very chilling detail.

[00:00:47]>> This building used to be part of the Medical College of Georgia. So the bones, they're the remains of cadaavvers used in early medical education.

[00:00:58]>> Back then, dissecting human bodies was illegal, leaving medical schools desperate for a secret supply.

[00:01:06]>> They pulled $700 together and purchased an enslaved man by the name of Grandison Harris. Officially, Harris was hired as a janitor, but in reality, he was a resurrectionist, which is to say that he was forced to rob graves, providing cadaavvers for the medical school.