“I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words.”
Local historian Catherine Corless believes that the remains of the 796 children from infant to age 9 for whom no record of burial exists are at this site that belonged to the Sisters Of Bon Secours home, annalex.
There are published plats showing the septic tank, it exists. There are corroborated accounts of boys breaking into this tank through a concrete slab in 1975, and seeing skeletal remains inside. This is why local residents began maintaining the site, out of respect for the dead.
These are facts, not conjecture. The site has been checked with ground penetrating radar just this week. There are reportedly two anomalies, one 15 meters by 15 meters, and one larger.