Philadelphia as Giant Cemetery

Apparently the ground underneath Philly is loaded with bodies. The Philadelphia School District was using a ground-penetrating radar to scan the abandoned Franklin playground in Kensington - which was a cemetery up until the late 1940s, and which they hoped in the future would be the site of a new Frances E. Willard School - when they discovered that as many as 330 human graves were never removed. They probably won't be able to build the school there now. This is where we would normally make a Poltergeist reference (that's a shot from the movie, above), but school district boss Paul Vallas already did it for us: "I know 'Poltergeist' was just a movie, but I'm not taking any chances." (The Daily News isn't helping; they entitled their article on this "Future of new school a matter of grave concern." Argh! Did you have to, Daily News? Did you really have to?)

Meanwhile, electricians digging beneath the historic Breintrail Building at 1230 Arch St. discovered a human skull, apparently from an adult, beneath the foundation. The Medical Examiner's Office is still looking over the skull, so there's not much info about it yet, but the building was built in 1908, so the skull could be more than a century old. Creepy.

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