Toppled Tree Exposes Skeletal Remains, Cement Box In New Haven, Connec

November 1, 2012

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The winds that toppled trees, knocked out power and carved a path of devastation through Connecticut Monday night, also led to a strange discovery on the New Haven Green.

A giant oak tree that stood in the downtown park since 1909 lost its footing in the powerful storm and tipped to the ground revealing human remains and what city officials believe to be some type of time capsule, tangled in its roots.
“You think it’s the hurricane? I think it’s a dead man trying to tell a tale,” a passerby, Curtis T told the [url="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/skeleton_found_in_upended_tree_on_green/"]New Haven Independent.[/url]