Police investigate possible skull at Waste Management transfer station

After hearing a police dispatch last night for someone finding a possible “human skull” at the Waste Management transfer station on West Marginal Way, we followed up with police today. Here’s all the info they provided:

On 03/15/2026 at about 7:30 p.m., officers responded to a Waste Transfer station in West Seattle, where a security guard reported finding what appeared to be a human skull. Unable to determine its authenticity, it was photographed in place and entered into evidence. Homicide was contacted as well as the King County Medical Examiner, and a report was written.

The initial dispatch said the possible skull was found “amongst recycling.”

ARPigeonPoint March 16, 2026 (11:04 pm)

Good lord.

Eric1 March 17, 2026 (8:36 am)

I am guessing a realistic Halloween leftover or someone who had an actual skeleton from an olden days anatomy class. It takes a lot of work to get clean skeletal parts and the skull is difficult to prepare so it probably isn’t from anything nefarious. Not something a criminal would take the time to do and the average person would call the police to where they found an actual skull rather than trying to recycle it.