adminWhen a Chronicle news crew visited the area yesterday, villagers were still trying to come to grips with the discovery of the human skeleton on a main road that they had been using for years.
Villagers also believe the area was once a graveyard.
A villager, Mr Freddie Tshiswino, who noticed what looked like a plastic pipe protruding out of the road discovered the skeleton. It was buried in front of his homestead.
He decided to remove the object by digging around it and was stunned to find out it was a human skull.
“I had seen an object protruding out of the road but thought nothing of it. Something at the back of my mind told me to investigate more and I decided to do so.
“Mfanami ngathi ngiqhwaya qhwaya ngifuna ukukhupha okuyinto khonokho, ngamangala ngibona ukhakhayi lomuntu!” he said.
Mr Tshiswino said he called the police who dug up the human skull and what looked like a shoulder bone was found.
He said on further investigation they discovered a pot that was buried above the remains and four more along the road.
“I think there are more people that are buried on the road. We suspect that it was a graveyard, we shall see more when we exhume tomorrow,” said Mr Tshiswino.
He said children had attempted to remove the skull, but failed.
His wife who only identified herself as MaMoyo said there was a time when people reported they saw mysterious fires in the area.
She said a number of villagers had seen a tall “white man” walking along the road at night.
“In 1999 there were people who said they saw fires entering our house and a tall white man walking alone on the road at night. They said our house was haunted but we have never seen anything strange,” said MaMoyo.
She said the road was a no go area especially at night.
Mr Tshiswino said the sightings might have been a spirit trying to tell the living that their remains were at the spot.
He said he had not seen anything, but sensed that there was something amiss after a bus plying the route burst a tyre just a few metres away from the spot 10 years ago.
“When I discovered the remains here I remembered that there was a bus that burst a tyre some metres from the sight. Maybe it was part of the signs the spirits were trying to show us that there was something amiss here,” he said.
A villager from the same area, Miss Blessing Noko, said when she learnt that there was a skeleton that was found in the middle of the road she was dumbfounded.
She said the discovery had sparked speculation in the area with some people saying the bones belonged to a family whose members were killed during the war of liberation while others said the place was a family graveyard.
“We bury our loved ones at our homesteads, and this area might have been someone’s homestead. The problem is that we do not know who these people were,” Miss Noko said.
The police, villagers and the chief of the area will today in the early hours of the morning dig around the area to completely exhume the remains and search for more bodies.
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