OMG..I THINK WE FOUND A GRAVE IN OUR BACKYARD! "UPDATE PAGE 11"

[19hhbelgian]

I think that's pretty cool! I LOVE the unknown... Our farm house was built in the early 1800's. We have lived here for going on 3 years, but still no ghosts

I'd want to learn everything I could about the grave you found, if I was you - keep us posted!!

 

[LilbitChicken]

OH WOW!

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

I would feel honored to take care of such property!

I don't believe in ghosts, because although I want to very much badly, I have never seen one.

I would take care of the area, and honor it, not be made afraid by it.

You may be the only person alive to know they are there, and we only live on through the memories of others.

Blessed Be.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Great advice, Mrs. Glassman.

 

[KattyKillFish]

i don't think it's creepy, i think it's cool! you've got a huge load of real american history on your property, and the arrowheads are cool too. we find them EVERYWHERE on my grandpa's land. we once found a 5 inch spearhead made from obsidian. that was cool.


anyhow, the house we live in is fairly old too. at least 100 years, far before Alaska was even a state. our house stands where a graveyard used to be! they relocated all the graves to a cemetaty not far from here, a stone's throw away!

that is way cool!

 

[Stumpy]

My uncle has a few civil war era gravestones in his yard. When we were renting an old house, we discovered gravestones under it, but I think they were just placed there after having been removed from a graveyard; perhaps having been replaced.

 

[Creativedogma]

Not creepy.......I think its cool that you have a part of history on your land.

It could inspire you to write a book or a cool article for a local newspaper. Death is a part of the natural life cycle....it happens to all of us. I have experienced profound loss in my life & have a different view of it than most. Our American culture teaches us way too much fear.

Ooops...I think I just fell off my soap box...sorry

 

[Rosalind]

Our house is 300 years old, and many people have died in it. Nevertheless, I am eternally grateful that their graves and headstones are still in good condition at the town cemetary. No one buried in my backyard other than some deceased pets. Prior to the British colonists stealing it, it was just a good spot for deer hunting for the local Wampanoag, Nahaton, Cutshamakin & Nipmuc tribes. They were smart enough to live well away from the mosquito-infested swamps...

 

[soonerdog]

My wife thinks I'm crazy! She says she doesn't believe the rock is a grave marker. I believe it might be. My family has an old family cemetery that we maintain and some of the grave rocks in that old cemetery are the same kind of rock markers as this one in my yard. They are made of old field stone. Often times, scribbling on a rock was the only way to identify a grave long ago. My wife thinks the rock is scarred with marks made by a plow during farming many years ago. I don't! I can make out a 7 clear as day! There is NO name. It looks like on the left side of the stone there might have been a number 1 that is partially broken off. Then the clear number 7, and possibly another faint 7 to the right of the first. I think the stone would date 177?. My wife says that I'm imagining much! My nine year old son had cleared trails in the woods and was planning to camp outside some this summer. Since finding the rock, we haven't heard another word about camping outside! Lol.
I will take pictures of the rock later. Right now, I am working on an emergency situation with a water heater.

 

[gaberdeen]

I used to live on the grounds of an old TB sanitorium. Out in the middle of the woods was an old cemetary where they wood bury the patients that died of tb out there. Really spooky. Then years later I used to go hunting up in Newbrunswick Canada. There was a lone grave out in the deep woods. Sometimes the guide would not pick you up till well after dark. Boy my mind could play tricks on me when I was by that grave late at night.