{"id":258259,"date":"2026-04-08T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:02:07","slug":"california-easter-egg-hunt-uncovers-buried-human-skull-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258259\/","title":{"rendered":"California easter egg hunt uncovers buried human skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Easter egg hunt in Long Beach turned grim when a family discovered a human skull at a park. <\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 An Easter egg hunt in Long Beach, California, led to the discovery of a partially buried human skull on Sunday, reports say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local news station <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/investigators-confirm-human-skull-found-during-easter-egg-hunt-at-l-a-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ABC7<\/a>&#8216;s helicopter captured footage of colorful eggs surrounding what appears to be a skull embedded in the dirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family egg hunt took place at a park on Easter Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty tragic, it&#8217;s a day you want to spend with family. You don&#8217;t expect something like this. You expect to have a wholesome time,&#8221; said Mark Zaldana.<\/p>\n<p>He was at the park and spotted the family moments after they found the skull, saying they were &#8220;freaking out a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/me.lacounty.gov\/2026\/press-releases\/statement-re-human-remains-found-in-long-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Los Angeles Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office<\/a> confirmed they &#8220;recovered a skeletonized human skull and mandible and brought the recovered remains to the Forensic Science Center for further examination&#8221; from the park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are investigating the cause of death and the identity of the skull.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christopher and Crista Cain live nearby and say they&#8217;re shocked by the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re devastated. We love this neighborhood and to think this could happen to a little child,&#8221; Crista Cain said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No other information about the skull is available at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CNN Newsource contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easter egg hunt in Long Beach turned grim when a family discovered a human skull at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-258259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}