I'm so glad the two of you don't get tired of of investigating & telling about the lives of people. I enjoy your channel so much. Thank you

I had some physical setbacks that slowed my adventurous spirit. I've always loved walking through old cemeteries, pondering the lives lived before. Thank you brother.

The condition of the graveyard is deplorable! But the fact that your trying to find the graves, I commend you.

Kinda sad town and counties don't keep them maintained. And it disturbs me when people say "it's just an old cemetery" because it's loaded with history 😁 Thank you for the amazing tour!

You both seem so kind and gentle, and that is why I subscribed. :)

I love old cemeteries, it saddens me to see them in this shape, unfortunately, WV has many that look just like this one. Thanks for sharing

I grew up in chapmanviille and worked in Logan I never heard this story 👍 WV was and still is a tough place my great grandfather was shot and killed in the 30's over an argument with a butcher

Many Cemeteries for families or groups in this area are in very poor condition. The cyclical nature of the Coal business and the rapid mechanization of the mines resulted in a mass migration of the younger generations starting in the 1950's. When these people left there was no one left to tend the graveyards. Logan, WV peaked in population in about 1950 at 6,000 or so. Now less than 1,000.

You mean this killer was a Sunday school teacher and Boy Scout leader????? WOW! What a story! Thank you for investigating this man and sharing it with your audience. I loved your research.and video.

Love hearing your stories! I live in Marion County Kentucky and am not physically able to go searching through the cemeteries like I used to. I have always loved looking at the names and dates and wonder at the stories they could tell. Makes me wish I had listened closer to the stories my grandmother told. Keep up the good work!!

I came across you about two weeks ago. Thank you for climbing those hills and being out in the cold to present your findings. I know that has to be fun investigating your stories. I know it is for me when I’m tracking down my ancestors. In fact my ancestors came from Carter county Kentucky and around 1910 they settled in Oregon . Love history.

Another awesome video. Thanks for taking us along! You two are good people!

We have gold mining here. To see the operations are pretty interesting. And the pits are huge. Both occupations are rough jobs. The neglect of any cemetery is an atrocity. Some urban explorers have stumbled upon completely forgotten cemeteries that have been extremely overgrown that they were hidden. At the times these souls were laid to rest. No one imagined these areas would be forgotten and lost to time. Many have markers that were completely illegible. I believe our taxes should be allotted to maintaining our cemeteries as with mowing and upkeep of court houses and schools. Those crypts broken and empty are heartbreaking. I would like to believe the remains were relocated rather than robbed. Many just don't have the respect nor compassion for the dead as they should.

i have not heard of this case! thank you! i feel so bad for the little child!

Really nice people there in WV, and your laughter is contagious.

Loved this video. I caretake a small museum in Wirt County wv. At the historical Rathbone well oil n gas museum. During the Civil War there were thousands of people here. Not now. Might be an interesting story to publish. Welcome anytime. It's quite the story of greed honor and misfortune

My best friend in the 1970’s was born and reared in Holden, WV. There were beautiful homes there. A hospital, coal company store, private doctor’s offices. Still a nice area. Well-maintained over the years.

There’s also another axe murdering story which occurred in Bruno, WV and in Man, WV. These people don’t play and they all own several axes.

I thoroughly enjoyed your work here. Thanks!

damn County judges when handing out community service sentences should have the offenders clean up these abandoned cemeteries! such a damn shame seeing them look this bad.

What a shame! It's bad enough that its so grown over for the common individuals laid to rest there but for the Veterans. Shameful...

It's so sad the disrespect people show for the dead.

I have a weird life too. I like your videos. You guys are fun and informative. I'm from Colorado and just moved to Virginia this month. Love learning all this stuff. Thanks for all you do.

I just found your channel and I love it! That cemetery broke my heart! I know there are volunteers who go out and try as best as they can to clean up old cemeteries it's too bad you cant reach out to them. Thank you! Very interesting!

What's the chance that since he was buried in an undisclosed grave that he might not even have a marker? What's the chance that since he was buried in an undisclosed grave that he might not even have a marker? I thank you immensely for your investigation of these pieces of history & bringing them to us. Otherwise we likely would never know of. I'm the genealogist of our family. I've been able to trace back to my mother's great-great-grandparents who traveled from the Shenandoah Valley, VA to Warren Co, IN. Amazingly the cemetery they are burried in is in Attica, Fountain Co, IN. It is very close to the home I grew up in. Sadly the graves have been vandalized so badly markers are stacked in random piles & from what I've learned the office has no map of who is buried where. It absolutely infuriates me. & completely boggles my mind as to how **anyone** can be so disgustingly disrespectful. Grrrr!!! 😡😡😡

i love all of yours and Heathers investigating, and sharing with us, so intresting!

Thanks for even more history! Loving your channel.

Those are the oldest poorest condiondishioned grave's I've ever seen,this is so sad🥺

Another awesome video, those mountain cemeteries are tough as heck, to walk, shame this one's not taken care of!!!!!!!

WOW, brush, twigs and you name it. Thanks for your hard work and sharing it with us.

I am glad I found your channel I am enjoying it. Thank you for sharing you both do a great job. ✌️

I'm an empath, too. It's a mixed blessing. I love hearing stories of people that have passed on on

Too bad they couldn’t use prisoners to clean up the old cemeteries.

Just found your channel a couple days ago and am really enjoying it

It's really a shame the county doesn't have some individuals doing community service to clean up and restore that cemetery.

I am so happy I found your channel. My families are from West Virginia and love your videos

Thank you very much Leo and Heather, for all your hard work and dedication, and perseverance. This is a very sad story. Is there a record somewhere, testimony as to what his relationship with his wife and in-laws was like? It does not excuse what he did, but he may well have just snapped at that moment. I just feel sorry for that poor little boy, seeing what he saw. The cemetery was very interesting, especially the above ground crypts. A shame about the condition they are in, I truly hope that the proper authorities removed the remains and reburied them properly somewhere else. This would be a great cemetery to visit on Halloween 🎃 Please let us know if you find out anything else about the victims, and Matt. Great video, thank you very much again Leo and Heather. 😊

So sad to see the cemetery in that condition. Sad story but very interesting history. Thanks for sharing will be following closely.

Obviously those above-ground graves were broken into, either by thieves that were looking to steal off of the bodies, or just vandals. That would be a good place for jail inmates to clear off.

That was a pretty in interesting cemetery ,you can learn so much from them, i worked in one myself when i was younger, back then in the 1800's most people were buried in pine boxes , each plot is marked with a number. We would call the backhoe contractor in to dig the grave next to mom and dad nothing should be there, a lot of times as there digging you see parts of pine box coming up, we stop double check it make sure no other graves are suppose to be there its for the family a reserved plot, some cemetery's are so old there record keeping was not that accurate, some people could not read back then and you had a lot of unmarked graves people just couldn't even afford a marker.

I love your videos, I grew up in Lebanon ky and my mom and dad are both from ky. Ive done some research on my dad's family in london ky. Very interesting. My gr gr grandparents came over from Switzerland and was part of the swiss colony in east bernstat ky. Interesting info I came across. 😊

This is a sad story & the state of the cemetery is one of the worse I’ve seen. 😢 You know those families never seen that coming. *The idea of those Veterans alone…breaks my heart!

It's such a travesty that these cemeteries aren't cared for

Thanks! I was born in Holden in '57 in the old Island Creek Coal Company hospital that used to be on the hill near the Bungalow. Mom and dad are buried in Chapmanville at Highland Memory Gardens. My wife and I will be in the plots beside them. This was a wonderful video! I really appreciate it and enjoyed hearing your voices, they Take Me Home Country Roads!

hi from the UK I really enjoyed your video and looking forward to seeing more of them .just subbed

My God. That was the day my mother was born in Logan. My Dad is older and I'm going to ask him if he remembers this , his mother would have been working at the hospital back then.

Greetings from Pittsburgh! I just got wind of your channel and you guys possess the same interests as me. I have driven through most of West Virginia during my own excursions; until I really did my own research, I was ignorantly unaware of the mysterious wonder/history your state has to offer. I once drove through a town called Jane Lew! Thank you for all your efforts and work. 👍

Those grave up on them there hills are the oldest, I miss doing things like this now that my husband is deceased 🥺 good to see you and your wif do this 🙂

Another great video, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful hobby, I found a gold mine when I found your channel. Thank you for all the work you do ❤

I’m a new fan - I like your channel . I grew up in Ohio and had relatives from Weston, WV . Scots/Irish as they call it . Anyways - thanks for the great material . Keep it up !

Very interesting content, brilliantly put together. Subbed instantly. Greetings and best wishes from the UK 🙏🇬🇧👍

Yikes what a horrible man. his poor family. These abandoned cemeteries make me so sad. I cannot imagine burying a loved one & having no marker. I'm sure they are unmarked because their families were too poor to afford one. I know this is silly but I worry if a 100 years after I'm buried will the cemetery look like this. I enjoyed this video. I like all the videos on your channel.

Place of death was Ethel, WV. Not Holden. Ethel is a Coal Camp locate on the other side of Logan from Holden. Ethel sits on Dingess Run (Creek).

Thanks for another great history lesson.

Sometimes the mystery of where most remains to stay a mystery must be eternally wrapped in memory.

This is crazy because just over a century earlier, and just 9 minutes down Holden Rd., another axe murder took place: that of poor elderly Mrs. Anne Lawson by her two slaves, who had gotten drunk!

I really like yall's stories, facts, an videos. Thank you for sharing 🦋 Very interesting Thank you Lana 🍌 Banana

This is a great channel. You guys are fantastic. Don’t change a thing.

I can’t say that I’m very surprised to see the state that this cemetery is in. The vast majority of people don’t care about these old places, even if they have family members buried there, they are often several generations removed and don’t even know who they were and feel no obligation for the cemetery’s care & upkeep. The 30 and below crowd seem to have very little respect or interest in taking care of anything, much less a cemetery. They might have to take their head out of their phone for a little while and they can’t be having that. A few exceptions to that rule, but getting fewer and fewer all the time.

That is a sad story. I wonder what happened to the little boy? It makes me sad to see graveyard’s in such poor shape. Who owns the land that the graveyard is on? Would they know who’s buried there and where the graves are? Here in Wisconsin there is always someone who has a record of who is buried in cemetery’s or graveyards. Sometimes it takes a bit of work to find out who has the records but that is how I found my maternal great grandparents graves. Take care.

I like to hear old stories that’s why I subscribed.

I love your videos they are very good videos keep up your great work

Interesting & sad idk how I stumbled onto this, glad I did thou. 💞

How sad he thought killing was the answer that made his son grow up without parents or his grandparents he knew and loved may they rest in peace.

No one is taking care of that cemetery anymore, what a shame!

I'm in agreement with the judge too. We should still use this method of execution because there are some bad eggs out here.

Good example of how the devil works. Arguing over a stupid car that they hardly used which ends up killing loved ones. A Sunday school teacher at that. My goodness what a story . Thank you for sharing. Sadly, the devil does this too many times. Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all. John 3:16. Revelation 21:4. SM Lockridge.

WV had one ominous-looking penitentiary. Moundsville has a pretty blue bridge crossing the Ohio river. A nice simple, clean design. Though I believe would be much better in a medium green.

Now that's an old cemetery it's awesome.

Just found your channel today! Love it. Wish you would do more in Lawrence and Johnson counties in Kentucky. Love what you do!

Wonder if you could find out anything about the son, where he went, when is wound up living. Might help some

Worthwhile endeavor Lady stay healthy safe travels God's grace to you.

Thank you for showing & explaining a little about coal mine. We don't see them here in Wisconsin.

Interesting video, I enjoy visiting old cemeteries.

I would like to see y'all go over to Christian county and Hart county Kentucky and do some stories on their graveyards

Almost every State have a Bureau of Cemetery and Furneral organization where a citizen can report issues with a cemetary... with those sink holes and the nature of kids being as they are, it might be an idea to report this area... not sure if they can do more than just out up signs and have news conferences but it might help. Sometimes area churches will take on these areas for at least the grounds clean up.

ASMR and murder. My favorite combo!

Wow how old is the cemetery? Like when or what year was the first person buried in that cemetery that would be very interesting to know... It's like I wonder what it look like back in the day like was it well notably noticed of burials? Or is everybody just buried far apart from each other?

Man, that would be bad if someone climbing that hill fell and landed on those pikes sticking up out of the ground at the bottom where that crypt was used a a storage locker.

Fantastic story. I have never heard it before. I could see you writing a true crime book of Logan co. I would certainly buy it!

I'm wondering if the smashed crypts were once occupied, but that people relocated remains and they simply festered, collapsed. The first that looked like a small Chapel was especially saddening. I 'love walking thru cemeteries and graveyards myself. There are a few in my area overgrown, unkempt, but accessible with stories to tell. In fact the one can be seen on a FB Page, I grew Up In Plainfield, NJ(my own hometown). A fellow went about the Evergreen Cemetery locating several people who had interesting stories. Let me know if you're up this way, I may need a week to show you about!!

I'm from Northern Kentucky, but my father and his family is from Harlan County, Kentucky. They buried their family on they called Hensley Hill. I don't know if it's still there, haven't been there since I was 7 years old, I'm 63 now. Maybe you can find out. Thank you, I like your videos on old Kentucky history. Great job

I grew up playing in cemeteries. I know that may sound awful but we grew up with our cousins as close as siblings and decoration day in the south was a big thing for us. The church didn't have no play ground, so we visited unknown graves, picked wildflowers for those that didn't get any decoration , cleaned headstones and made up stories about those we didn't know. I wouldn't take nothing for those days. Appalachian Alabamian.

That is the saddest cemetery i have ever seen. So sad.

New subscriber, ❤️ your channel. Be careful you might fall in one of those grave indentations. Very interesting vid.

love this channel. And your accent

👍 another great video

Thank you and Heather for all your research and persevering the history so sad to kill your whole family or a car or anything else for that matter and so sad and disrespectful to throw trash into someone's grave 😢 it is very old cemetery and in ruff shape that you for trying be safe tell Heather hello

There are some beautiful monuments in that cemetery. It's so sad it's in disrepair. I was taught to respect the graves. So many people showing their disrespect by throwing garbage.

Some of those holes look so deep that it makes me wonder whether someone had dug up those graves.

There used to be a mortuary in Holden. If it still exists they may have records of them and where they are buried.

The teamwork you both have is incredible! Mathew was never tried for his wife or his mother in law but they tried him for his father in laws death? Go figure lol

Wow all the collapsed graves! Must not have been put in vault first. In Michigan the coffin is put in concrete vault to avoid that. There’s an old civil war era cemetery near me that’s not collapsed like that. Wonder if they had vaults then? Doesn’t the county have plot maps or something, or even what areas were being used at that time 1940’s😊

I'm new to your station I don't even know your name or your lady friend's name but I really do like your videos so I subscribed looking forward to the future videos this is Terry and Wichita Kansas 74 years old and I love walking through old cemeteries take care of my friends

That cemetery shocked me, it looked like all of the above burial plot had been broken into.

I know exactly where this is, I use to go by the cemetery all the time going to 5&6 Holden church with my dad, When I was young this was a beautiful cemetery but it's been probably at least 50 years since someone was laid to rest there.

A ways up the road from there is 22 mine road, there is a place on the highway where u can park and put your car in neutral and your car will roll up Hill! Have done it personally supposed to be associated with the Mamie Thurman ghost

I winder what kind of a life that poor 4 year old who witnessed the murders had. Hopefully he was able to overcome that. The cemetery looks nearly beyond repair at this point. Seems to me if there's archeological research money for supposedly ancient Indian burial grounds out there there SHOULD be some for current day burial grounds as well. History is important regardless of WHEN it happened.

Thank You 💕💋💐

Just found ya, like your style,ty for your time given