OAKLEY, Ohio (WKRC) \u2014 Something smelled fishy in Oakley this week \u2014 and it should have. Tucked away in a box next to a sidewalk was something you might normally see in the ocean or the aquarium.<\/p>\n
“I mean, this is Oakley. Nothing over the top really happens here,” said Marcus Calhoun, an Oakley resident.<\/p>\n
At least that’s what Calhoun thought. He got home from work Tuesday and started scrolling through social media.<\/p>\n
“I caught my eye on a [Citizen app] notification, like, ‘Dead shark found.’ I’m like, ‘OK, that’s not true,” said Calhoun.<\/p>\n
He saw an Instagram post saying the same thing. Calhoun decided to run an errand to a nearby market.<\/p>\n
“I’m about a block away. This really, really strong stench, like dead-fish smell, and it just permeates throughout the entire location,” said Calhoun<\/p>\n
Calhoun and his 3-year-old daughter set out to investigate what was going on. They made their way down a sidewalk in Oakley, and when they reached the corner of Minot and Millsbrae avenues, they looked around the corner and saw police officers.<\/p>\n
“And I see just a half a shark kind of plop out of the box, and, at that point in time, like, OK, quick diversion. We’re going to go down and try to get a closer look,” said Calhoun.<\/p>\n
Calhoun said the box the shark head was found in was not labeled, nor did it give any indication of where it may have come from.<\/p>\n
“Just a plain cardboard box, and it just plopped out. It fit the shark pretty well, so I don’t know. It was really strange,” said Calhoun. “The officers were … pretty much in the same state of shock that I was, so we’re kind of joking around.”<\/p>\n
The unique find has plenty of people talking on Facebook. One person says she also saw the shark head out of the box and later being bagged up.<\/p>\n
Others are speculating this sea creature’s remains could have been sneaked out of a nearby high school.<\/p>\n
“What’s going on? Where did it come from? What happened?” said Calhoun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLEY, Ohio (WKRC) \u2014 Something smelled fishy in Oakley this week \u2014 and it should have. Tucked away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-616384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}