GANGSTER GRAVEYARD IS HAUNDTED!
Spirits prowl killing field where Mafia dumped Godfather Gotti’s victims
THE owner of the New York killing field where late mob Godfather John Gotti buried three butchered and bullet-riddled bodies claims his property is haunted by the spirits of the slain wiseguys!
Known as the Mafia’s Graveyard, the area straddles the Queens-Brooklyn border, and authorities believe more than 20 gangland victims are buried there, GLOBE has learned.
Lawmen have already identified the remains of three members of the Bonanno crime family — mobsters who were whacked in a brutal execution depicted in the 1997 movie Donnie Brasco.
They’re now using hightech forensics to examine the area and expect to unearth other big-time racketeers as they wrap up decades-old cold cases.
The property’s horrified owner, a real estate investor
named Charles, tells GLOBE he bought the empty lot and two adjoining homes at a “reasonable” price about five years ago — only to discover it’s being haunted by the restless spirits of buried mafiosos!
According to Charles, a friend who stayed in one of the homes reported seeing ghostly shadows roaming the property!
“This ground is haunted because of all the people that were killed and buried in these grounds,” Charles, 86, tells GLOBE. “That’s why I don’t like coming around here at night.
“No one really knows how many bodies are buried around here.”
The desolate neighborhood near Kennedy Airport is known as The Hole because it’s about ten feet below sea level.
FBI agents and NYPD Cold Case Squad members armed with excavators, picks and shovels began digging there after receiving a tip that the area was a cadaver dumping ground for Gotti, who was an up-and-coming Gambino crime boss in the 1980s.
Lawmen unearthed the corpses of two Bonanno family mobsters blown away in a May 1981 hit — Philip “Philly Lucky” Giaccone and Dominick “Big Trin” Trinchera. Killed alongside them, cops say, was Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato.
The trio had been invited to a sit-down at a Brooklyn social club co-owned by Gambino thugs Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano and Frank DeCicco. Once inside the three were riddled with bullets — and wrapped in canvas drop cloths for disposal.
Within weeks Indelicato resurfaced after a rainstorm washed some mud away and kids playing in the lot noticed his heavily tattooed arm sticking out of the earth.
The body of murdered mob wannabe Thomas DeSimone — the basis for Joe Pesci’s character in the 1990 film Goodfellas, who played a key role in the $5.8 million Lufthansa Airlines heist at Kennedy Airport — is also thought to be buried in the area.
“There are plenty of bodies buried in these lots,” says a 45-year-old local resident afraid to give his name to GLOBE.
“When people find a bone in their backyard, they don’t pick up the phone to call the cops because they’re scared. They don’t want to get involved. They just put it in a bag and throw it away. They don’t want to be questioned by the cops or get mixed up in Mafia murder.”