Griswold

That's exactly right.

Griswold, Connecticut.

Yeah, so...

So we started telling these stories of vampires.

Um, so there's that, and then there's, you know, old cemeteries and places where people buried bodies that, you know, are no longer designated as those places, and we just, like, build on top of them, and you just don't know that they're there.

So we're in Connecticut, in Griswold, Connecticut in 1990, like I said, and there's some kids digging, and they find a cemetery.

So they're going through this cemetery, and they, and they open the coffins.

I don't think the kids did this.

[intro music] Pushkin.

In the town of Griswold, Connecticut, some children are playing on an old gravel mine.

It's spring 1990.

Years of excavation have carved this place into a series of steep gray banks.

Staring down into the coffin, Bellantoni realizes that he isn't looking at an ordinary burial anymore, but a crude skull and crossbones fashioned from human remains.

He's never seen anything like it.

I'm Tim Harford, and you're listening to Cautionary Tales.[gentle music] 1883, 20 miles from Griswold, another community was facing a mystery of its own.

It began with a woman named Mary Eliza Brown.

So hundreds of years later, there were...

No. Yeah, more than 100 years later, there were some kids playing near a gravel pit, 1990, in Griswold, Connecticut.

They started pulling human bones out of the ground.

At first, police didn't know what

We're working in Clinton, Connecticut, which is also on the shoreline.

And then we have a project way out east in Griswold, Connecticut.

So, and it's interesting because now other developers are coming to us to say, hey, how'd you do that? What can you teach us about Connecticut? And we've brought some, won some RFPs with some big partners that It's their first Connecticut project.

And yeah, taking more and more calls from people who want to learn about the financing picture out there.