AdvertisementInvestigators later searched the Ephrata home and storage unit of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, and reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos and other skeletal items. Some of them were pieced together, some were just skulls on a shelf,” Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said. Grave markers at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. It’s considered the country’s largest abandoned burial ground, according to Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, which helps maintain the 160-acre landmark in Yeadon that’s home to an estimated 150,000 grave sites. Gerlach told investigators he took about 30 sets of human remains and showed them the graves he stole from, police said.

Source: Huffington Post January 09, 2026 16:08 UTC