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Ingrid Rojas Contreras goes on to explore her family’s history as curanderos — South American shamans like her grandfather, whose bones the family decides to disinter in accordance with his spectral request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

To fully identify graves, remains, and identities, researchers must also gather records, collect oral histories, and possibly disinter bodies — and it's not clear yet if communities will want to take the final painful step.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2022

Banaji also said the agency doesn't plan to disinter the remains and try to identify them because it lacks sufficient documentation.

From Fox News ● Aug. 2, 2021

Banaji also said the agency doesn’t plan to disinter the remains and try to identify them because it lacks sufficient documentation.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

As though he could disinter it by force.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Back at Sayyida Nafisa cemetery, Iman remains distraught as she disinters her relatives.

From BBC ● May 26, 2023

What is also apparent is that Glam! disinters a past that has never been buried.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2013

What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived?

From Time Magazine Archive

Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is often asked how it is possible for an investigator accurately to determine the date of any picture from the far-distant past which he disinters from the records.

From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)

Some reports claimed remains housed there had been disinterred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

On July 15, 2019, the agency disinterred the remains and sent them to its laboratory for analysis, where they were accounted for as Hill’s, it said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Several graves were being disinterred during my visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2023

The leader of the Falange was disinterred in a private ceremony in presence of his family, away from public scrutiny.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

After the war, American teams began disinterring those remains and trying to identify them.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022

The celebration is believed to have its roots in the Uru Chipaya custom of disinterring the bodies of loved ones at the one-year anniversary of their death.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2021

Meikle said the sheriff identified the body as that of Dickens the day after Frankie Kerrigan surfaced, before disinterring the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2018

“Good soil in this tomb,” Fourth Wife You remarks, disinterring her husband.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018

In the years between the First World War and the disinterring of Luigi Boccherini’s bones, music’s family had expanded prolifically.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall