article_snippet: And residents of Gravesend, next to the mouth of the famous waterway, feared they had stumbled upon another gruesome find this morning when skeleton lying in mud turned up on the muddy banks.
article_snippet: Photographer Rob Powell, who was at the town's pier taking pictures of a ship for  website OnTheThames.net, said: 'I had to double take at first as it's not the kind of thing you usually see by the riverside. '
article_snippet: The objects became the talk of the town after Mr Powell posted a photo on Twitter.
article_snippet: Gravesend town centre manager Graham Long tweeted: 'We've not seen anything like that before - how bizarre and intruiging.'
article_snippet: And the town's RNLI spokesman Alan Carr said the find looked 'very sinister'.
article_snippet: As well as a reported 50 corpses a year
article_snippet: In 2013, river-users thought river-users has spotted an alligator living in the river - but river-users turned out to be a lost prop from the film set of James Bond film Live and
article_snippet: Flotsam often washes up at Gravesend, a town situated at the mouth of the famous river, in Kent .
highlights_snippet: Residents of Gravesend find gruesome-looking discovery on riverbank .
  