Never Seen One Before?
Kids and shovels are a match made in heaven. Wait, no—the opposite of heaven. If you give a kid a shovel, they’ll tear up your front and back yards in the hopes of long-lost pirate treasure, even though you live in the middle of Ohio.
When the OP asked their friend’s kid what they were looking for, the kid merely responded, “Dead bodies. What? You ain’t ever seen a dead body?” It’s not that people haven’t seen dead bodies, kid—it’s that nobody actively searches for rotting corpses in their yards. And if they do, that’s usually a reason to give 911 a call.