Skeleton found under tree uprooted by Sandy Experts say remains
likely several hundred years old A spooky find on Halloween eve
in Connecticut, where a skeleton was discovered under a tree
uprooted by Superstorm Sandy. A homeless woman made the
discovery Tuesday in an area called the Upper Green in New
Haven, the New Haven Independent reported. Visible among the
roots of the giant oak tree, planted in 1909 on the 100th
anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, is the back of an
upside-down skull with its mouth still open. The skull is
attached to a spine and rib cage. The Green long ago served as a
burial ground, and historian Robert Greenberg told the newspaper
the bones could belong to one of many smallpox victims interred
there in the 1700s. Investigators with the state Medical
Examiner's Office are now carefully removing the skeleton for
proper burial, Hartford TV station WFSB reported. "We're not
going to let bodily remains end up in the public works chipper,"
New Haven police spokesman Officer Dave Hartma