Pokémon Go Player Discovers Dead Body

Pokémon Go – the augmented reality mobile game that everyone apart from me seems to be playing – has ushered some players to explore parts of their locale rarely visited, just to find yet another of those pocket monsters. In one case, unfortunately, that led a 19-year-old woman discovering a dead body floating in a river.

On Friday morning (8th July), Shayla Wiggins of Riverton, Wyoming, was roaming her town while playing Pokémon Go on her mobile phone.

“The Pokémons are all over Riverton,” Wiggins told County 10 (via KTVQ). “I was trying to get a Pokémon from a natural water resource.”

In order to search for her Pokémon, Wiggins scaled a fence to get closer to Wind River.

“I was walking towards the bridge along the shore when I saw something in the water,” Wiggins explained. “I had to take a second look and I realized it was a body.”

“It was pretty shocking,” she added. “I didn’t really know what to do at first. But I called 911 right away and they came really quickly. I was pretty scared and cried for a while.”

Wiggins found the body of an average-sized male, about three feet from the river bank. The local police force has not released any details regarding the identity of the body and is still investigating the incident.