It wasn't a Halloween prank, but certainly a ghoulish discovery when two men, cleaning out the house of a man who recently died, stumbled across a pair of human skulls.
The Associated Press noted that the skulls of an adult male and female were found Thursday by a worker at the Stamford refuse transfer station who alerted authorities.
The Hartford Courant reported that David Odice and his partner Charlie Inzucchi of Junkluggers, said that the skulls actually came from the house they cleaned out earlier in the day.
"We were just doing what we do," Odice said Friday. "We were cleaning out a hoarder situation and we came across some skulls."
The two men just assumed they were fake, threw them into the recyclables and went to do another job.
When they returned to the transfer station later and noticed police on the scene, the men explained that the skulls came from the home of a deceased Fairfield man named DiVitto. Several books and videos on witchcraft and Satan were also found.
“What we are hearing from sources and stuff is that this guy, who has passed away, was into the occult,” said Stamford police Lt. Diedrich Hohn. “That’s what we’re investigating now.”
Law enforcement is continuing to look into whether the skulls came from a grave robbery, if they were purchased online, or if they are evidence of a homicide.