Mystery inside a Kenosha tattoo parlor: Owners find BONES inside crawl space!

KENOSHA (WITI) --  A mystery inside a Kenosha tattoo parlor. Workers were curious about a crawl space that had been packed in with dirt. On Monday night, August 11th, they dug their way to a pile of bones!

Upon finding the bones, the staff at Parker and Barrow wondered who they could belong to, and how long they've been there.

Now, police say there's nothing more to investigate -- saying calls like this are actually somewhat commonplace.

Since the tattoo shop opened in March, the crew at Parker and Barrow was curious about the crawl space downstairs. So on Monday evening, they started digging.

"We closed early, thought it might be a little fun to poke around in there, play national treasure," co-owner Ailish Lavey said.

First, they found pieces of shale and petrified wood. Then, Orion South says he found what looked like a bone.

"Orion found something. He`s like 'I`m telling you, it`s a vertebrae.' I`m like `shut up dude,'" co-owner Nik Vujovic said.
"Kind of stopped, then we started digging. Just gonna dig out some stuff and then all of sudden, we found a whole bunch of bones -- like bone, after bone, after bone," Souths aid.

Staff members say the bones got bigger and bigger.

Thinking they may have found human remains, the owners called Kenosha police.

On Tuesday afternoon, officers watched while the Medical Examiner's Office collected the bones. This, as the owners wondered whether the remains date back to the prohibition era -- which is the tattoo parlor's theme.

"That just fits into the whole thing even more. Whether people want to come here because they think it`s haunted or not, I don`t know. Me personally, I think it`s pretty cool," Vujovic said.

Tattoo parlor staff member say the discovery of bones downstairs doesn't disturb them. Rather, it makes them even more curious.

"I would love to know the history. It doesn`t really scare me so much as I`m just intrigued, I`m just like 'why are they down there?'" Lavey said.

Kenosha police say they've since learned the remains are actually animal bones. A Kenosha police sergeant says they get calls like this once or twice a month in an area near the site of an old rendering plant.

While police figured that's what happened here -- the discovery of bones is always something you take seriously.