Did Days of Our Lives Just Solve Its Longest-Running Mystery?

Days just dropped a nasty little surprise in the DiMera crypt, and it might be the clue that blows a long-running mystery wide open. Viewers are already piecing it together and wondering if the show has been dangling the answer right under our noses the whole time.

The bones under the DiMera crypt

Recent episodes uncovered a stash of bones beneath the floor of the DiMera family crypt. A few unlucky characters got stuck in there, tensions spiked, and now everyone is asking the same question: whose remains are sitting under Salem royalty?

Officially, the show has not named the body. Unofficially, the loudest and most logical theory points to one person: Stefano DiMera.

Why the Stefano theory has legs

Look, this is Days. People return from the dead here like it is a commute. But even by this show’s standards, Stefano has been gone for years in a way that feels... different. Every time he has 'come back,' it has leaned on science experiments, elaborate cons, or someone pretending to be him. The actual man has not walked into a room in ages.

As Rafe put it earlier this summer, if Stefano were still alive at this point, he would be 'older than Methuselah.'

And here is the part that keeps nagging: Stefano’s body was never found. He never got a proper burial. For a guy whose legacy is literally the Phoenix, that loose end has always felt like a setup. Bones turning up hidden under the family crypt floor is exactly the kind of gothic soap flourish that fits the DiMera playbook.

What this could be setting up

If those are indeed Stefano’s remains, it does more than solve a mystery. It tees up the next DiMera chapter: not resurrecting the old Phoenix, but crowning a new one. The show could be clearing the board for someone ruthless enough to claim the throne and carry the family’s darker traditions forward.

Honestly, the more interesting question might not be whose bones they are, but who put them there and why. That answer could shift the power map in Salem fast.

Where things stand right now

• The bones were found hidden beneath the floor of the DiMera crypt while multiple characters were trapped inside.
• No on-screen confirmation of the identity yet.
• The most convincing theory: Stefano DiMera, whose physical body was never recovered and who was never formally laid to rest.
• Stefano’s past 'returns' relied on science, schemes, or impersonators, not the real man.
• Rafe joked this summer that if Stefano were alive now, he would be 'older than Methuselah.'
• If the bones are Stefano’s, it paves the way to anoint a new Phoenix and reset the DiMera power struggle.
• The key twist might be the cover-up: who hid the remains in the crypt and what they were trying to protect.

Bottom line: the show is acting like it is laying a trail to a reveal that could rearrange the DiMera family tree. Whether the bones belong to Stefano or someone else, the secret buried in that crypt feels like it is about to break the surface.