A Pennsylvania man accused of stealing more than 100 skeletons from cemeteries allegedly admitted to selling some of the remains online. Jonathan Gerlach, 34, was arrested last week and is facing nearly 500 charges, including 26 counts of burglary and 100 counts of abuse of a corpse, for a series of grave robberies between Nov. 7 and Jan. 6. Authorities said the thefts primarily occurred at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in the Philadelphia area, though remains were also removed from a cemetery in Plains Township, Luzerne County. Throughout the two-month stretch, authorities responded to Mount Moriah multiple times in regards to a string of burglarized graves and mausoleums. Police arrested Gerlach on Jan. 6 after detectives conducting surveillance of the property witnessed him “exiting the cemetery holding a burlap bag, crow bar and other assorted items,” according to the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. Numerous bones and skulls were found in the back of his vehicle, and a subsequent search also turned up “over 100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains” from his home in Ephrata and a storage unit in the city, prosecutors said. Some of those included mummified hands and feet and decomposing torsos. “Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life in that home. It is truly, in the most literal sense of the word, horrific,” DA Tanner Rouse said at a press conference last Thursday. “Understand, some of these are 200 years old. Some obviously much newer; there’s one with a pacemaker still attached to the body.” “The remains were in various states,” Rouse added. “Some were hanging … some were pieced together, some were skulls on a shelf.” In an interview with detectives, Gerlach allegedly admitted that he sold some of the remains online but that most were in his basement, according to a search warrant obtained by CBS affiliate WHP. A tipster later told police that Gerlach “disappeared for a few days in November,” and said he’d been “in Chicago selling a human skull.” While investigating Gerlach’s online activity, detectives found he was a member of a “Human Bones and Skull Selling Group” on Facebook, where he was reportedly pictured holding a skull. On Instagram, he followed accounts related to taxidermy, skeleton collecting and the sale of bones and other “oddities,” authorities said. Gerlach is being held at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility after failing to post $1 million bail. He’s scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 20. The Mount Moriah Cemetery is planning significant security upgrades in response to Gerlach’s crimes. ...read more read less