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

[Cuban Longtails]

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Oh, I see it!

 

[AHappychick]

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agreed i have seen really old head stones and I am not thinking that that is one, but you never know, makes a great story either way

 

[MysticScorpio82]

Ok it took me coming back and looking again, but I DO see 177. It is towards the bottom, the purple marking goes into the numbers (for those who are curious). In the middle I keep thinking I see a B. Not positive, could be my eyes playing tricks on me >.<

Reminds me of those magic eye books they used to have when I was a kid! Lol!

 

[giasmom]

I don't see squat. Guess my imagination is not as good as ya'lls.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

It took awhile but I see it now. It looks like 1770 or 1710,...I don't think its a gravestone either, but it could be a property marker, used for a survey of the property. The reason why I say this is the family and I went to Natural Bridge,VA and there was a marker stone that was dated like that under the bridge,.. I believe it was either George Washington or Thomas Jefferson who was surveyers during this time and this was the way they showed the land had been surveyed. You could contact your local historical society,..I bet they could hook you up with someone who would know what it is. That is cool that you actually noticed that, most people wouldn't have.

 

[nerfy]

I see it very clear, for those who can't go to the pics that were posted, and do a left click on the pic and "drag" to the right with your mouse. it may make it stand out better for you. It is in the lower half of the rock. It also looks like an "M" was carved also right above the 1.

 

[EweSheep]

Does not look like a grave marker to me. Its more like a property corner piece or a place where the house was built.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Cool thread. I love to watch the ghost shows. My favorites are " a haunting" and Pheranormal State" (however its spelled). I have only been haunted once. When I was 6 my parents split up temporarily and me, my sister that is 11 months older than me, my brother and my mom lived in this old house that was build in civil war times. There was several old houses on this street. My Aunt, Uncle, Older sister and cousin lived in the house that was across the street from this house a couple years previous. Anyway I had many dreams about an old women wearing a long skirt and long sleeved white shirt. She was always carrying dog tags in her hands and looking so sad. In my dreams I was always frightened of her and she was always trying to grab me by the arm because there was something she wanted to tell me. I dont remember if she ever told me anything or if she did what it was. I was just totally freaked out by her. I dont remember actually seeing her while I was awake but I felt her presence all over the house all the time and knew she was there. For some reason the bathroom was scariest place for me and I didn't want to be in there at ALL by myself. The house also had a Slave closet, type trap door passageway hidden within the walls. You had to know it was there to know it was there. One side came into the kitchen and the other side came out in our large bedroom. It was VERY erie and cold always. NEVER played in there, didn't want any part of it. The house was a very tall A Frame house that had a HUGE attic but I never saw it, or went up there. We only lived there for 6 months. The house is still there. Another weird thing is when I got older, my older sister told me that the house they lived in across the street was heavily haunted by a Soldier. He did stuff that everybody in the house saw. It was so regular that they talked to the ghost and told him to knock it off sometimes. They looked in the attic of that house and found dog tags and pictures of him. I think he may have had something to do with the lady from the house we lived in.
Thats my ghost story.

Oh yeah, another thing. I like ghost stories, and it's all very intriguing to me, but I would NOT want to live in a haunted house or be haunted.

 

[4hooves&featheredfriends]

The house we live in was built in 1842, as a parsonage to the stone church across the village common. The Hitchcock family owned most of the property in this area - the Hitchcock family for which the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic is named.

About a year after we moved in I was ripping out some vinca vine on the backside of the house. The first object I found was a beveled piece of marble, that was the corner of a larger piece. Didn't think much about it...until I dug further down the wall and found a large piece of slate.

The slate had a flax border and a bunch of bound flax inscribed into the peak of the slate. I was freaked out but brushed it off and found an inscription "AB" in the center of the stone.

I took the stone to the historical society and after some research discovered that AB was inscribed into the stone of a set of twins that died at birth. The thickness of the stone and type of inscriptions indicates that the stone was from the mid- to late 1800's.

Never dug in that area again. I theorize that the marble was the corner of the casket lid. Supposedly, my neighbor did find that a Hitchcock had lost a set of twins.

Edgar, our residence ghost sometimes lets us know that he is here. Last week, as I sat in bed I heard a couple of taps in the corner and then a shade that had been pulled down for several hours, rolled up! No cats or dogs present. Hmmmm....interesting.

 

[HennysMom]

Looks like a property marker to me as well - the shape is correct for property marker vs. grave stone, which would be higher and flatter, more pronounced markings.

cool find though