Frig! It wasn't a mass grave after all: Archaeologists failed to find any human remains on the site where executed Spanish poet García Lorca was believed to be buried.
According to Spanish newspaper El País, researchers were relying on the account of a waiter who first came forth in 1956 to show an American visitor the gravesite (and who along the way somewhere picked up the nickname "The Communist"). A competing theory from the testimony of a jailer who witnessed his execution places his remains about 1400 feet away from where they've been digging now.
As one archaeologist on the project told the paper, "Basing ourselves on oral history and one informant is a mistake." No kidding.
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