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https://denver.cbslocal.com/2022/03/28/human-arm-bone-botanic-gardens-remains/?fbclid=IwAR16uxCUVokmIGbZap4OVOVNKf_BlgTHezFw_hEP5MEsJJVftgmbBUWEJSISnip:
Officials tell CBS4 it is a regular occurrence to find human remains during these types of projects when crews replace liners in the concrete pools.
umm...wut?
Blue Owl
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dchill
(38,324 posts)wnylib
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TygrBright
(20,733 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,445 posts)Sorry.
magicarpet
(13,945 posts).... did the arm by chance have a green thumb ?
Tanuki
(14,894 posts)"...It isnt the first time crews have found human remains in the area. CBS4 reported on a similar occurrence back in 2008.
The Denver Botanic Gardens sits on the site of a former cemetery form the 1800s. The whole area from Cheesman Park, adjacent to us, to Congress Park was a cemetery. So, when the Botanic Gardens was made in the 1950s, most of those bodies and graves were exhumed, but there are some remains, explained Bird."...(more)
marybourg
(12,540 posts)haele
(12,582 posts)And poorer folk would be buried at the outer edges away from the main entrances with perhaps just a wooden marker or generic marker where the pauper graves or pit would be.
You sometimes come across old burial sites in housing developments built over old ranches or farms that had been there since the late 19th/early 20th century. The owners wouldn't bury the hands and migrants near the housing (that was for family) they'd get a local priest and bury them out in some back 40 - them go hire a replacement the next week.
This practice made for lots of whispered stories of murder being hid out in some of the large strawberry and grape fields when I was stationed out Port Hueneme/Pt. Magu back in the late 70's/early 80's - "don't go out on Channel Islands Road late at night, you might be killed by people taking care of a little problem...."
The movie Polergeist was based off a news story depicting something similar.
Haele
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)I have both mine.
denbot
(9,894 posts)Left or right?
Docreed2003
(16,818 posts)hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)until the late 1800s. Of course, the wealthy grave sections were effectively relocated. The rest, not so much.
Cheeseman Park today is adjacent to a large dog-owning community neighborhood that tends to meet in the late afternoon & early evening, despite off-leash dogs being illegal. As one who has attended such gatherings in the past, I can tell you that there are eery areas of Cheeseman for which you can feel a dramatic temperature inversion from one section to another--especially in the wintertime. Of course, the scientific explanation for that is the effect of disrupted soil layers over the decades which traps/releases heat at varying rates. But it is still eery as hell.
For those interested in the history:
https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/cheesman-parks-past-life-cemetery
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Thats all we need