Skeleton identified as the 'ghost of Manzanar', a Japanese WWII prisoner and artist

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A skeleton found by hikers near California's second-highest peak is identified as a Japanese-American artist who had left an internment camp to paint in the mountains in World War II.

Earlier in the day, the men had discovered a pile of bones beneath Shepherd Pass, where a herd of migrating deer had plummeted to their death two years earlier on a steep, icy slope.

Mr Hofer and Brandon Follin moved the rocks and found an intact skeleton with a belt around its waist and leather shoes on the feet.Mr Hofer posted about his finding on a Facebook forum, saying inaccurately that the skull appeared to be fractured and the shoes were the type worn by rock climbers.When contacted by the AP, the Sheriff's office said there were no signs of a crime.

Officials did not say that by the time they had retrieved the bones by helicopter, they already had a hunch it might be Matsumura.While his story was little-known, it got renewed attention when the documentary film The Manzanar Fishing Club came out in 2012.

 

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