This is a CBC podcast.

They called it a school, but what kind of school has a graveyard?

I'll tell you. The Penelicut tribes as it has found more than 160 unmarked graves in an area near the

former Cooper Island residential school. This podcast is about that kind of school.

The kind of school that was meant to kill the Indian in the child.

But more than anything, it's about children who went there, three who survived and one who didn't. We're just talking and all of a sudden he says, you know what, I can't wait to get out of this hellhole

when I get out of here I'm gonna tell everything and that was the last time we heard from him

and it's about a community that's haunted by its legacy. The spirit of the children were afraid they were being

disturbed and so they were reaching out. Children torn from their families, their language, and their culture.

And that has everything to do with why children are missing and murdered.

Why children didn't go home?

Because they were raised by psychopaths.

And sent to live in a place so terrible, it came to be known as Canada's Alcatraz.

I have never seen such abject fear as what I saw in that child and I have never seen

such abject evil as what was in that man. He was staring at me like he would, like he was hellfire himself.

I'm Duncan McHugh and this is Cooper Island. In this eight part series will take you on a journey to uncover truths that have been hidden for too long

We managed to find the autopsy report.

Jesus you think that would be like buried so deeply.

They don't want no one finding that shit.

We'll learn from the survivors what life was really like

at an institution designed to erase identity.

The next morning, the poor guy could hardly walk, but nobody said nothing

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