{"id":93781,"date":"2026-04-24T02:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/hiker-comes-across-a-human-skull-near-twentynine-palms-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:53:15","slug":"hiker-comes-across-a-human-skull-near-twentynine-palms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/hiker-comes-across-a-human-skull-near-twentynine-palms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker comes across a human skull near Twentynine Palms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>A hiker in San Bernardino County found the remains Wednesday morning, which were later identified as a human skull, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The searcher was near Twentynine Palms around 7:30 in the morning when he noticed the unidentified remains. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/12348531\/\">according to<\/a> San Bernardino County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Following the discovery, the passenger made an emergency call, and deputies from the Sheriff&#8217;s Morongo Basin Station confirmed the discovery and requested assistance from homicide detectives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sheriff&#8217;s Department, the department dispatched detectives from its Special Investigations Division, along with investigators from the Coroner&#8217;s Division and other crime scene experts.<\/p>\n<p>The skull was recovered during a search by the law enforcement group. Officials said it was exposed for a prolonged but undefined period.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s Department said it would conduct a forensic investigation. The DNA collected at the scene is also being tested. The department did not respond to calls seeking more information.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s Department is asking anyone with information to call (909) 890-4904.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hiker in San Bernardino County found the remains Wednesday morning, which were later identified as a human skull, officials said. The searcher was near Twentynine Palms around 7:30 in the morning when he noticed the unidentified remains. according to San Bernardino County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. Following the discovery, the passenger made an emergency call, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[21045,1750,25017,16493,25015],"class_list":{"0":"post-93781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-hiker","9":"tag-human","10":"tag-palms","11":"tag-skull","12":"tag-twentynine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93785,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781\/revisions\/93785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}