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00:00 (soft music)
00:03 - Some people feel it, some people don't.
00:06 I think I feel it.
00:07 I feel very uncomfortable when I get near it.
00:11 - I've shopped there.
00:14 I did my Christmas shopping there this season
00:16 because they have all the stores I like there.
00:19 So apparently I don't feel like I'm gonna get struck down
00:22 by lightning if I walk out there.
00:24 (soft music)
00:27 - The ground was bubbling with acid
00:38 and it had white streaks through it
00:40 from where the arsenic was.
00:42 So it was definitely a stigmata there
00:44 that created an issue that needed to be addressed.
00:48 So we were just sort of walking around
00:51 and one of my people said, "Look at this.
00:54 "There was a burial."
00:55 And then there was another one five feet away
00:57 and another and another.
00:59 It was a huge site.
01:01 - He put the backhoe bucket in
01:04 and immediately exposed several skeletons.
01:08 They were buried so closely together.
01:11 - We found burials of adult women with fetuses
01:17 or with infants.
01:18 Two adults buried together side by side
01:22 and their limbs were intermingled.
01:24 - I'm actually pretty proud
01:27 with how we as a company dealt with this.
01:31 So is my conscious tormented by that?
01:33 No, quite the opposite.
01:35 - People need jobs, people need places to eat
01:39 and places to live, but people also need to respect
01:43 the burials, graveyards of other people.
01:50 It's a place I don't wanna ever set foot on again.
01:53 Not because my people are there,
01:56 but because of what has transpired.
01:59 (wind howling)
02:02 (birds chirping)
02:05 (rooster crowing)