Body found in cranberry bog

March 28, 2009 08:44 PM Email| Comments (9)| Text size – +

By Padraig Shea, Globe Correspondent

Workers at an East Falmouth cranberry bog made a startling discovery when they drained the bog to work on a sprinkler system this afternoon: the remains of what appeared to be a human body, said Falmouth Police spokesman Nathaniel Aronson.

The discovery was made at 2 p.m. at the Backus River bog, which sits between the Falmouth Country Club and Old Meetinghouse Road.

The body was unidentifiable immediately, and the state medical examiner removed the remains to Boston for testing.

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9 comments so far...

hmmmmm ? theres going to be some funny tasting cranberry juice!

Posted by ghostrider March 29, 09 02:40 AM

Gross. I won't be drinking Cape Codders for a while.

Posted by Bryan March 29, 09 12:41 PM

does anyone else feel like having a glass of cranberry juice besides me??
i am totally grossed out and will never drink juice again.

Posted by just me March 29, 09 02:16 PM

We're talking about a person's life here and all you can think about is the cranberry juice? I hope the family of the person who passed on doesn't read your insensitive and self-centered comments.

Posted by LC March 29, 09 10:36 PM

darwin was right!

Posted by bw March 29, 09 10:38 PM

Probably there were no berries growing at the time, it being winter and all, duh....

Posted by shurrawurra March 30, 09 01:59 AM

the thing everyone needs to remember is who knows how long its been there we could have already had contaminated cranberry products

Posted by heather March 30, 09 09:57 AM

it's more like cranbody bog now

Posted by Karen March 30, 09 11:40 AM

For everyone that has lived in East Falmouth for years, i'm sure we all have a pretty good idea who the body is, and how it got there.... Have we finally found the body of the missing first wife??? Or perhaps the daughers boyfriend that disappeared.... HUMMMM....?!?!?!?!?

Posted by Jean March 30, 09 07:14 PM