Skeletons Having Tea Party Found On Riverbed

A snorkeller raised the alarm after finding what he thought were human remains - only for authorities to discover fake skeletons posed in an underwater tea party scene.

Police sent a diver with a video camera to the bottom of the Colorado River near La Paz, Arizona, after the alarm was raised.

The footage soon revealed it was not a crime scene.

Instead, the video shows two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs.

One of them was apparently wearing aviator shades and a bib.

The other holds a partially legible sign, which when river sediment is wiped away seems to include the word "Bernie" and the phrase "Dream in the River".

The sign also includes a possible clue about the prankster - the date, 16 August, 2014.