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They need to preserve those headstones as much as possible. Build a memorial wall with their names on it, and mark it off, as a scared area, or garden.

Sad... They should have made sure they had records before moving things

Placing headstones around the side of a old cemetery is quite common in parts of Europe. Only about a 20 minute walk from where I live there's an old church in Bermondsey, London. They've placed a public garden at the side of the church and the headstones are placed around the fence/wall, but respectfully upright and although very faded you can still read some of them. In this church the headstones were piled disrespectfully on top of one another! Did anybody else notice some of the headstones in German? Goshenhoppen, sounds like an old German name and they probably date back to a time when German was more widely spoken in Pennsylvania than English. Fascinating, keep em coming Chris and Jay. 🤗

There are already so many abandoned cemeteries in the US it's crazy. Side step adventures in GA finds them all the time. Along with abandoned town sites. I grew up in Southern Maryland There really isn't. Much of that kind of thing going on. These places are beyond ghost towns. People don't even remember them. It's like that up north as well. Great videos !

Such a sad story and I can tell you about a historical cemetery in Hackett Arkansas that's been around since the town was founded.

In just a few short couple hundred years, our headstones will be gone as well.

Wow very interesting but pretty sad too. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Chris and Jay for taking us along. As always another great but sad video. Have a great Easter weekend.

Oh love the birds great video and hi to your friend.

The church bell mournfully ringing at 3:00 is a nice touch...

Hello everyone, thank you, chris and Jay.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks, Chris. You and Jay are great together

Interesting timing of the church bells tolling. Some lovely pieces of marble were used in the making of these old tombstones. Glad to see them gathered up & not just laying all over. If it was hit by the 55 flood then they probably cleaned up as best they could. I’d still feel comforted visiting my loved one there 🙏🏻🌷

It's a blessing their loved ones have passed on now.

Not a cemetery…that is a graveyard. Graveyards are connected to churches (so there is a churchyard and a graveyard). Cemeteries are secular, public burial sites

Absolutely well done and very eye-opening. When I began Mortuary College in the 80's, our introduction began with "everything in life is temporary". How true. In America, it is not uncommon or legally unethical for a smaller cemetery to be rezoned and repurposed. But rarely before the first 150+ years. If your needs are "forever", consider a cemetery where someone famous is buried. We're going to repose near the Proctors and Gambles in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

@1:50 And now I'm standing on the grave Of a soldier that died in 1799 And the day he died, it was a birthday And I noticed it was mine And my head didn't know just who I was And I went spinning back in time And I am high upon the altar High upon the altar, high.... Song- Cathedral by Crosby, Stills & Nash

Just a suggestion: Always begin your video telling your viewers where you are at......not in the middle of it.

Thank you another great video. Happy Easter Chris

Sad for the families not to really know where their loved ones r buried. Thanks for sharing this story.! Like the collaborations!

No idea why this came up in my recommended but it was really interesting. This happens a lot in the UK with older headstones, because there's no one left to object and no one is being buried in that place any more (the vast majority are cremated nowadays). Our local church, which dates back to the 1300s (rebuilt in 1744), moved all of the headstones and now it's a park where people gather, enjoy the trees and the flowers and walk their dogs. It's much more part of the general community now. Most people in the town don't go to the church (there are at least six other churches that I know of) so it's good to have this connection to our cultural history. The headstones aren't just placed anywhere - it's respectful, but it's no longer a graveyard.

I see alot of German grave stones. Geboren (born) Gestorben (died) Ruhen in Frieden (resting in peace) etc etc Very sad.

Interesting note regarding the desert town of Sanderson, TX. In the 1960s a freak flood took place, and dozens of tombstones and graves in the town cemetery were dislodged. Records were sparse. Many had to be reinterred in a mass grave, with the grave markers stacked in one area.

Shame that it has been wiped out but thanks for sharing this place, Chris!

Good stuff...Thanks for sharing!!!!

We have 2 Town Greens in CT that have graves beneath them, the gravestones/tombstones, were brought to other cemeteries and are leaning against the stonewalls. One Town Green is in New Haven, CT and the other is in Guilford, CT. I tell people about them! 🙂

Curiouser and curiouser....hmm in sensing a pattern.

Must be a German settlement. I see a lot of headstones written in German

To me, the Philly situation is worse. The tombstones represent the person. You know family was involved in the creation of the tombstone, supplying the information which perhaps included an epitaph and an image of some kind. At least here you know where they are in general, if not the exact spot, and the tombstone can still be seen. Sometimes, a tombstone is the only record you can find of a person's dates of birth and death or even their existence such as in the case of a baby or child. From a genealogist's point of view, that can be more important than the precise location of the body.

At 2m 57s i thought the Rocky training music was starting

I too, am being cremated, funerals are way too expensive, I said to the wife, who is going to visit my stupid grave in 50 years…NO ONE! Funerals are ridiculous ! Happy Trails!

Some of them are double stacked. Good luck moving them.

It's sad there are no records, I hope someone at least records the information from the stones so that people will know at least what graveyard their ancestors are in if not the exact place of burial. Where I live, when old stones fall over or crack, cemetery workers take them and throw them into a ravine.

So disrespectful. But I guess doing that is better than throwing them away.

Allentown Pennsylvania was an early settlement long before the United States existed! There are grave markers up there that have people being born, live their full lives and died before 1776! I just found that mind-blowing in America, what were their lives like?!

I assume you are in PA, don’t forget the Moravian cemetery in Bethlehem.

2:55 That became eerie real quick.

There was a cemetery in Ontario where the headstones were laid flat. A road was built over it.

Such a sad situation.

If my family was in that cemetery, and I could find their stone, I would just take it and mark a new spot and call it good.

They should do ground penetrating radar, and at least mark where the graves are. Like some have said, they also need to preserve the grave stones too

at this point they could just set them up in rows, we have an old Cemetery where they gathered up all the stones and dumped them on a pile in order to mow - the parish priest was fixing them up and just putting them wherever because there are no good records of where they were originally

You also have to relize that when alot of people get creamated have decided to be berried next to their familys

A hodgepodge of tombstones at 1:30 that’s an incredible feat of human ingenuity, to keep some kinda continuity.😂 strangest ever

At least this one they had the decency to save them and not just destroy the tombstones.

So much for perpetual care.

Turn the place into a memorial park. There's nothing but bones, if even that, left. Someplace where the descendants can still go to remember. I'm not one for wasting earth for graves, just too many of them. When I'm gone cremate me or throw me out to sea, don't waste a single inch of Mother Earth for my remains. My soul has gone elsewhere. With all that being said, great video!!

It would be extremely valuable to itemise each headstone and write down each detail for future family research as if the records were lost then the headstones are the only records left.

If those who buried their loved ones in that cemetery could come back today and see what happened, they would be some unhappy folks. No one seems to care anymore. 😢

But at least the venue has the "Most Blessed Church" going for it. 😅

In San Diego they decided to move a cemetery so they could put a park there. Some bodies are still buried there and dumped alot of headstones over a hillside. Then when moved to Mt Hope cemetery headstones and things got broken were placed along a fence.

I ain't mad about it. They're trying to keep it nice.

At least the loved ones of these people can come and get their tombstones or at least visit.

I am a Navy veteran and I wish to be buried at sea!

That's an interesting cemetery but sad

A murder of Crows in the morning trees.

What's the Language on headstones called?

Thats so very sad. I would have never thought this would happen to a sacred place like a cemetery. I do love the church bells chiming. Great teamwork. Thanks Chris, and Jay.

What a Strange desecration ! Betcha some shady developer was hoping to SELL the land ...w/o disclosing they were buying a Cemetery. .

This is so sad😢

Where are you??? What cemetary is this???

Such a shame

Ireland had tons of cemeteries. Some were beautiful and others were in shambles.

damn shame

So disrespectful to these people and their families.

Very sad.

Where is this? I missed the name of the town.

Where is this?

Uh being cremated doesn’t guarantee you aren’t going to be disrespected. Some people I know had a relatives ashes stored in an army box and the kids got to playing rough and they knocked the ashes down. The ashes were vacuumed up and put back as good as they could

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It’s so wrong they don’t keep records no respect for the dead 🙁

I’m sorry did I miss it, but where is this cemetery located?

Unfortunately, the Greek Orthodox does not believe in cremation.

So sad 😞

Didn't this happen in States also to make way for motorway, can't remember where it happened, this happened years back near end of my grandparents rd, they lived up a country lane, oh my god it turned into a whole archeologist site, finding ruins of a church and burial ground like talking about Vikings here and its now heritage place/site

This is so horrible!!!

Dang man what years was Isaac Newton alive because maybe these people could have met him

It’s very unfortunate. I am sure that anyone buried in the 1700s and 1800s that there remains are now soil, so a fence of headstones is probably okay as an indication of an area where their bodies once were. Maybe a wall can be made and the stones mounted on the wall, or their names and dates cut out from the stones and mounted on the wall. It could be a bench height wall that people could come to and sit at who want to pay respects?

Disgraceful shame on those who did that

I'm on Team Cremate too👍🏻

Sad.

Proof that when we die, we are ultimately forgotten.

People should volunteer to repair them, and just place them!

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So sad

I've told my wife that I want to be buried in an authentic Batman suit, the best one she can find. So in 500 years when someone stumbles across my grave and digs me up they'll say; "wow, he really did exist!"

A noble attempt at human remembrance. But Genesis 3:19 (KJ) reads "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return".

I realise Americans experience great difficulty speaking and writing the English language. As a European, having learnt English as a foreign language, I will gladly help you out. Who's Idea Was This => Whose Idea Was This

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I don’t want to be buried. Nobody is going to be alive to care after a generation or two. I’ll be forgotten and that’s ok with me. To think that a headstone should stand infinitely is think is unrealistic. Here in Hawaii they didn’t use headstones and there is no paperwork either. Back to the earth. No need to headstones to stand for centuries. My family are buried in beautiful cemeteries and I’m grateful for them but I have no desire to be buried like this. I am also agnostic and believe when I die I’m dead. I have no need for religion in my life. This is how I feel. No disrespect to others

You didn't say where it's at?

Did you ever say what city and state this is in? How many of us ever visit the graves of our great, great, great . . . . . . . . . ? - j q t -

So messed up.. the city I lived in did something similar. I have a video of it

That is so disrespectful to the dead

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As I'm watching this, I can't help to think about Kensington. Isn't that in Philly,too.…. another very sad situation. Shame on the governmental entities.

*graveyard (not cemetery)

DISGUSTING!!!!!

So u could be walking on graves?