He Thought It Was An Electrical Box
Seeing strange things buried or half-buried in the soil is not new to Bob and his team, having been exposed to many properties in the New Jersey and New York areas. It’s part of the work, anyway, so finding such things didn’t really cause alarm.
When he asked Matthew about the rusty box, the latter said that he had thought it was an electrical box all these years, which is why he didn’t really bother to poke into it. But, boy, was he totally, totally wrong. When they opened it, everything changed.