CHEHALIS — When a metal casket was discovered half-buried in the mud of a creek near Onalaska, the Lewis County sheriff’s search and rescue team recovered it for the coroner.
A crew of 10 loosened the casket with shovels Saturday as an all-terrain vehicle tried to pull it out of the muck.
When they were finally able to pry off the lid, they found only a board and plastic bucket inside.
Coroner Warren McLeod told The Chronicle that the casket was likely used as a backyard bar by a family that lived upstream.
He said he had been told the only people who had been in the casket were Captain Morgan, Jim Beam and Johnnie Walker.
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