In the early 1990s, two boys were playing on a gravel hill near an old abandoned mine

outside of Griswalt, Connecticut.

Kids do the oddest things to stave off boredom, so playing on a hill covered in small rocks

doesn't really surprise me, and my guess is that they were having a blast.

That is until one of them dislarged two larger rocks, but when the rocks tumbled free and

rolled down the hill, both boys noticed something odd about them.

They were nearly identical in shape, and that shape was eerily familiar.

They headed down the hill one last time to take a closer look, and that's when they

realized what they'd found.

Scalls

At first the local police were brought in to investigate the possibility of an unknown

serial killer.

That many bodies all in one place was never a good sign, but it became obvious very quickly

that the real experts they needed were, in fact, archaeologists.

They were right.

In the end, 29 graves were discovered in what turned out to be the remnants of a forgotten

cemetery.

Time and the elements had slowly eroded away the graveyard, and the contents had been

swallowed by the gravel.

Many skeletons were still in their caskets, though, and it was inside one of them marked

with brass tacks in the form of the initials of the occupant that something unusual was

discovered.

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