Dirt and bones

Everyone who's seen Poltergeist knows that when you mess around with graves in the course of an improvement project, you're begging for trouble.

So we're still concerned about the potential fallout from last month's macabre episode at Arts in the Heart, in which city workers ingeniously used grave dirt and human remains to fill potholes.

Sure, laugh now. It's always funny until somebody gets sucked into their laptop screen while using wi-fi at the Common.

We're creeped out enough that this tale earns the No. 4 spot on our Halloween list of weird stuff from The Chronicle.

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