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Federal and local officials are investigating after over 100 piles of cremated human remains were reported on federal lands near a small town in Nevada.

The Bureau of Land Management confirmed to USA TODAY that cremated human remains were found outside Searchlight, Nevada. The agency said it is coordinating an investigation with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department into the cremains.

The investigation comes after a local news station, 8 News Now, reported on dozens of piles that appeared to be cremated human remains on a dirt road in the desert. The remains appeared weathered and pieces of zip ties and a broken urn were also found at the site, the outlet reported.

The BLM manages one in 10 acres of land in the United States, especially in the West, according to its website. The agency said in a 2011 memorandum that commercial entities are prohibited from disposing of cremated remains on BLM managed land, but "inquiries from individuals and families to scatter cremated remains should be handled on a case-by-case basis."

"Cremated remains are not considered a hazardous substance," the memorandum said. "However, the quantity of material associated with commercial distribution of cremated remains could preclude other land uses and may require designation and regulation of land as a functioning cemetery. This could require disposal of parcels of public land under appropriate authorities because the BLM does not manage functioning cemeteries."

The scattering of cremated remains by individuals is subject to applicable state law, the agency said. Nevada state law indicates cremated remains can be scattered at sea, over a public waterway, by air, or "in an area of a dedicated cemetery from which there is no means of location or recovery and which is used exclusively for this purpose."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/28/cremated-human-remains-found-outside-las-vegas/85847397007/

Is there a native burial ritual like this?

Zip ties?

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

Zip ties?

Sounds like serial killer evidence to me

Seems like a serial killer. Probably saw how the Long Island Killer got caught and instead cremated the victims.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

Is there a native burial ritual like this?

That's not as simple as it sounds, you're talking about dozens to hundreds of different tribes with unique cultures.

Like, there are indigenous practices that involve cremation and the spreading of ashes, but public disposal of ashes like that is literally illegal on the land of the Navajo Nation, ashes can only be buried in a durable urn.

It's a cultural thing, don't ask them about it because they VERY MUCH don't want to fucking talk to you regarding the subject.

Zikten posted...

Sounds like serial killer evidence to me

Or mafia, possibly? Didn't they use the Nevada desert as a dumping ground when they owned Vegas?

ArchNemo posted...

Or mafia, possibly? Didn't they use the Nevada desert as a dumping ground when they owned Vegas?

Highly doubt the Mafia would kill and dispose of the remains in the same spot that many times.

ArmieBuff posted...

Spooky

the town is haunted now. i wouldn't want to set foot there.

The fact there was also at least one broken urn makes me think it is not some killer, why would they go through the hassle of putting the remains in one

I almost think it might be dumb teens who stole remains from a cementary or something

A woman got away with murders by cremating and spreading the ashes on the highway. You don't just dump it all in one place.