DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Authorities and relatives are at a loss to explain how the cremated remains of a Georgia woman mysteriously washed up on a Florida Beach.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that a box containing the ashes of an Atlanta-area woman was found by a man walking the beach. They were in a bag that identified the ashes as those of Ngacloan Hua, who died in DeKalb County, Georgia, last April.
Police contacted a funeral home identified on the bag and were able to reunite the cremains with Hua’s sister, who told police the box containing the ashes disappeared as the family found a quiet place to pray in Georgia.
MYSTERY How do missing cremains of Ga. woman end up washed ashore in Destin? Family has no clue but glad #OCSO returning their loved one. ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/JKKqbAAFHw
— OkaloosaSheriff (@OCSOALERTS) July 12, 2017
The sister had no idea how the ashes ended up along the Florida coast.
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