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The On June 29, 2006, an excavation was underway in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

This was not an archaeological investigation or a law enforcement dig looking for evidence or remains.

No, it was simply a construction crew excavating old, leaking underground gas tanks,

had a former gas station, now Mack's convenience store,

located on the east side of the city, near Central Avenue and 108 Street in the Sutherland area of Saskatoon.

Calhawian was the excavation team leader. His team dug a large pit around the gas tanks they were seeking to extract,

but in digging, the heavy machinery

broke through the wooden cribbing of a long-abandoned well. Blackish water and sludge mixed with

leached gasoline spilled out, and a round object popped from the hole in the side of the well

and rolled into the muddy pit. It was a human skull. The excavation team shut down operations and called the police.

Homicide Detective Russ Friesen responded to the scene. At first glance, it appeared they might

be looking at a First Nations burial ground, but that didn't look quite right. Detective Friesen

called in an expert, namely Dr. Ernie Walker, forensic archaeologist and professor of anthropology and archaeology at

University of Saskatchewan. They spent three days digging. Dr. Walker later described the dig in

great detail at a press conference. The well, the excavation crew had dug into, was deep and filled with a toxic

mess of gasoline, groundwater, and other pollutants. Inside the hole in the

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