Skeleton Found Beneath New Haven Tree Toppled By Hurricane Sandy Winds (PHOTOS)
Posted: 10/31/2012 12:52 pm EDT

Finding bones from a centuries-old skeleton beneath a historic tree sounds like a segment out of a scary movie, but the scene became all too real when a Connecticut woman made the frightening discovery the day before Halloween.

On Tuesday, Katie Carbo, a bystander, alerted police about a skeleton found beneath a historic oak tree that toppled over from Hurricane Sandy's intense winds, the New Haven Independent reports. Carbo spotted the skull in the roots of the fallen oak. The skull was positioned upside down with its mouth open, still connected to the spine and rib cage. Investigators headed to the scene at the New Haven Green, a 16-acre park that had once been used as a burial ground.



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..."What we haven't yet determined is what will happen with the remains," Hartman said. "This archaeological event that is going on will last for probably about a week, they're estimating."

New Haven police said that the bones belonged to a probable victim of yellow fever or smallpox, who likely was buried between 1799 and 1821, when the headstones were removed to New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery, but the bodies were never relocated. Later, the New Haven Independent, citing an initial investigation by an anthropologist and a state investigator, reported bones at the scene actually may be from two or more centuries-old skeletons - not just one.

The Lincoln Oak was planted at the town green by Admiral Andrew Hall Foote's Grand Army of the Republic post, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday in 1909, according to the New Haven police.

Robert S. Greenberg, a local historian, said that the town green is the burial ground for as many as 5,000 to 10,000 bodies...

i hope they killed it before it hurt anyone.

Bats, dude, its dead, it's skin done rotted off it's body a long time ago.

orly
i found this live cam in conneticut.

NOOOOOO! Its the children of the hydra! Run!!!

batou wrote:
I think it was tazered just in case.