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NEW HAVEN Talk about an eerie Halloween
story. Hurricane turned Superstorm Sandy toppled a majestic old oak on
the Upper Green and intertwined in the dirt and roots was a human skeleton.
Police were called, as was the state medical examiner.
But there was no horror story to be told.
The
very old bones likely are centuries old dating back to when the Green
was used as a cemetery during colonial times until the Grove Street
cemetery was chartered in 1797. There remain an estimated 5,000 people
buried under the Green.
The tree toppled sometime during the
evening on Monday during high winds from the hurricane. On Tuesday, a
passerby noticed something unusual. It looked like human bones. She
contacted police.
By Tuesday afternoon, police were there in number and had contacted the medical examiner.
Finding human bones isnt that uncommon in the city but it often does draw a crowd.
Happy Halloween!
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