MEXICO: A man diving in a US river came across two skeletons in what appeared to be a scene from an underwater tea party.
One of the ghoulish figures was wearing sunglasses and both were sitting facing each other… in deck chairs.
The man who discovered the scene, 40 feet underwater in the Colorado river near the Arizona and California border, reported it to La Paz County Sheriff’s Office on Monday.
Authorities launched a hunt for what was believed could be real bodies.
However, it was soon realised the skeletons were fake and set up as a promotion for a film weekend.
On further investigation, the figures were found to be kept in place on their chairs by being tied to big rocks.
One was holding a sign with the words ”Bernie” and ”dream in the river” with a date of 16 Aug 2014, which is possibly when the skeletons were placed there.
“I don’t think they were trying to set up anything to scare anyone. I think they were going to try to be funny,” Lt. Curtis Bagby said.
The sign could be a reference to the movie Weekend at Bernie’s, in which the two main characters drag around their dead boss for days, losing and recovering his body several times.
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