Posted on 04/26/2018 3:53:51 AM PDT by BBell
NEW YORK -- Hart Island, a massive burial ground near the Bronx borough of New York City, is eroding, unearthing human bones along the shoreline, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports. Advocates said the city hasn't done anything – until now.
"Skeletal remains are literally just coming out of the earth," Melinda Hunt of the Hart Island Project told WCBS.
On Monday, 174 exposed bones were recovered from the Hart Island cemetery. It's a giant potter's field on an island where the East River meets the Long Island Sound.
More than a million unclaimed New Yorkers with no family or no money are buried there, including many infants.
But years of storms have eroded the island's shores, unearthing graves.
"Entire skeletons are sort of falling out of the hill onto the beach, and then they're washed away with the tide," Hunt said.
Hunt has been monitoring the situation since the 1990s, demanding that the city's Department of Corrections, which runs the island, do something.
"They know that it's happening because I learned about it from the correction officers, who referred to this area as 'bones beach,'" she said.
Hart Island is only open to visitors by appointment months in advance. Last week, Hunt and a photographer captured pictures from a boat, showing bones scattered among the rocks.
Suddenly this week, officials fast-tracked the process.
Video from WCBS-TV's helicopter shows red flags marking spots where archaeologists have found human remains. Once identified, the remains will be reburied by Rikers Island prisoners.
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Hat tip to the reporter/reporterette for not blaming this on glowBull warming. Finally, a weather-related article which does not require the Goebbels icon.
Jimmy Hoffa?
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Human bones, especially skulls, are worth big money to sickos.
Hence the satanist and cult types who would love access to this Island.
I can think of 270 reasons why. But that number decreases as you age.
I don’t know if this is ping worthy but one day archaeologists will have a field day. They have been burying bodies since the civil war .
Really. I got a couple of skulls. Maybe I need to see what I can get!
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