You know those skeletons that schools use to teach kids about anatomy? For 50 years, teachers and staff at one school had no idea that theirs used to belong to a real person.
Nicknamed Arthur, the skeleton had been at Haydock School near St Helens, Merseyside, for a generation. Only after a lab technician decided to test it did the school realise it was the remains of a man.
The school said the remains probably belonged to man from Asia who died in the 1900s aged between 17 and 30 and had curvature of the spine.
And legally, when you discover a dead body, even a 100-year-old one, you are obligated to give it a proper funeral.
Greenacre Woodland Burials provided the land for the burial for free, Haydock Funeral Services ran the ceremony for no charge, and children from year 9 attended the service as mourners.
Ann Ashburner, the school's head of art, told the Daily Mail: "He was a human being and it is our duty as a Christian school to do our best for him because all lives are sacred and you have to be respectful when he has served us for so long."
She added: "You would do the same for any stranger so we owe it to him to lay him to rest properly."
