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TIL that, in 1943, four boys in Worcestershire found a skeleton inside a tree trunk, with its hand some distance away. In 1944, graffiti was found nearby saying "Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm", along with other messages. Neither the skeleton nor the writer of the graffiti has ever been identified.

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