Earlier this month, authorities stumbled upon a scene out of a modern-day Faulkner story, when they found a fully clothed skeleton resting among the many possessions inside a hoarder's Brooklyn home, the New York Postreports.
When the elderly woman, Rita Wolfensohn, suffered a fall in September, her sister-in-law, Josette Buchman, popped over to grab some belongings to take to the hospital. That's when Buchman came across the skeleton lying on a mattress on the second floor of Wolfensohn's Midwood home—fully intact and still wearing socks, jeans, and a T-shirt.
"It's like some reverse Psycho scene," a law enforcement source said after the sinister discovery.
But unlike Norman Bates, authorities believe that Wolfensohn—who is also legally blind—may have been living with the corpse unknowingly for a couple decades. It's not clear yet who the remains belong to, but investigators believe it might be her son, Louis, a former tax driver who relatives say they haven't seen in 20 years.
Police believe that, whoever the guy is, he most likely died of natural causes.
Photo via Flickr user Chris Brown