Digging up the story: Reporter uncovers 3rd skeleton at BHI

As journalists, we try not to be part of the story. Sometimes, though, you just can’t avoid it. That’s what happened to WWAY’s Hailey Winslow today when she went to Bald Head Island to watch state archeologists examine the site where two human skeletons were found last week.

She was climbing over a sand mound, when she accidentally put her hand on some teeth. It turned out to be a third human skeleton.

Archeologists believe the area used to be a burial site in the 19th century.

“It looks like these individuals were buried three or four feet below the original surface,” archeologist Richard Lawrence said. “They could date to the 1800s, but, again, it’s just speculation right now. We know that there were Confederate soldiers who died on the island during the Civil War, so perhaps it’s associated with that.”

Construction workers were using sand from the area to renovate the golf course when they discovered the first two bodies.

Based on the research they do in the coming weeks, the scientists will decide what to do with the bones and the golf course.