After they'd dug up hoarded munitions and found dead bodies and archeological stuff that hadn't originated in our neighborhood, people definitively got less friendly,. And many moved away.  This led to arguments among service people and "the news" too.

  Sometimes reporters who'd been covering their "beats" for a lifetime were "in the middle" of it.  Some shifted their literary work.  Some struggled with not writing anymore.  But lots of people got even more fierce about what are you saying.  

  "It's not political." 

  "Well, it's not religious." 

  "Is it a military thing?" 

  "Historical?" 

  "Maybe it's uncategorical." 

  "Yeah.  Maybe that."  A policeman's hair had turned white at something that had happened.  Parents, teachers, and neighbors went through a group process of sorting information and categorizing the nature of the crime.