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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

In 1960, Clemson was allowed by a judge to disinter some of the remains to facilitate the “orderly and proper development of the campus.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 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

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

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

Exhuming human bones is melancholy work, but sadder still is the mission of one who disinters the ashes of a woman’s love, hope, and faith.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

Some reports claimed remains housed there had been disinterred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Allen was among 388 service members whose remains went unidentified before a 2015 program in which bodies were disinterred for DNA analysis.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 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

Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

Protocols for disinterring, sampling and reburying human remains were established in consultation with local religious leaders and community stakeholders.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

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

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