A Weird Trip To The Skull & Bones Tomb

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was contacted by an individual who had gone to New Haven, CT and taken some pictures of "The Tomb," the clubhouse for the infamous Yale fraternity Skull and Bones. But these are not your typical pictures of The Tomb, as you may find doing a Google image search. I'll let the photographer explain himself. I quote here from an e mail he sent me:

"I took a picture of the front door and a little side alley
was fenced off. I even got a passer-by to photograph me in
front of " The Tomb." But what I really wanted was to get
some views of the tomb you can't get just walking by. I had
a brainstorm and went into an adjacent building. I thought that maybe there was a way I could get onto the roof of this adjacent building and get aerial shots of The Tomb. It was interesting - as I climbed the stairs in this building, all of the windows on the Tomb side of the stairwell were fogged over. I tried to open a few, hoping I could lean out and get some clear shots, but that did not work. I was just about to give up when I noticed an open window on the opposite side of the stairwell. I could not believe my luck! This window opened up onto a lower roof of this building. Crawling through the window and onto that roof, I saw a ladder that went up to the tip-top of this building. Climbing up there, I was astonished to see that I had a perfect aerial view of the roof of The Tomb. Here was a totally new view of The Tomb that few people had seen before. The enclosed pictures are rather interesting. "

I agree, these ARE interesting photos. We can see the roof of The Tomb, complete with skylights and all. In one shot you can see a bit of what looks like a courtyard in the back of the building. This may be the same courtyard where the "Bones Ritual" video (that made its way all over the net a few years back) was filmed. It's also strange that in one of Ron Rosenbaum's old articles, he mentions using an "adjacent building" to get a bird's eye view of The Tomb when they were spying on some Skull and Bones goings on. Here's the rest of those pictures my contributor sent me. The last picture is of a little alleyway on the right hand side of the front of The Tomb. The other pictures are shots of the roof of The Tomb.