Just in time for Halloween, strange old skeletal remains were found under a tree upended by Hurricane Sandy.
The back of a skull, mouth open, and attached spine and rib cage was found by homeless woman Katie Carbo, who reported her find to the police, according to New Haven Independent's Thomas MacMIllan and Melissa Bailey.
“I feel like it was just someone’s earthly shell," Carbo said of her discovery. "Their soul is long gone from here.”
The remains could belong to a smallpox victim, interred in a mass burial site, New Haven historian Robert Greenberg told the Independent.
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