Győr Homebuilders Accused of Multi-Unit Grave Desecration

A 3,000-unit apartment complex being built in the western city of Győr is the subject of some chilling accusations involving a nearby graveyard used between the 16th and 19th centuries. According to a story in tabloid daily Blikk, a young boy living next to the construction site was playing in the freshly-turned dirt and found several skulls and other assorted human bones. While the boy's mother and others at first thought that the remains had been buried on the site of the future housing bloc, it later emerged that they had come from a nearby graveyard that officials had allowed to be dug up for a road project, potentially stirring four centuries' worth of angry Magyar undead.

"We usually fill up construction sites with pebbles from mines, but in this case it was more practical to get the earth from the nearby construction," said Gábor Szakács, technical director of Globál Kft, the company which is building the apartment complex. "[Experts] examined the cemetery and found it worthless."

Despite Globál Kft's reassurances, Csaba Ábrahám, acting manager of the transportation company that apparently disentombed the bodies, admitted to the paper that a "mistake" had been made. And while the remains have been collected and taken away, we might suggest that the complex's new residents keep this tacked to the fridge, just to be on the safe side.