headstone

[bottle34nut]

anyone ever find one of these lying around?

 

[bottle34nut]

another pic

 

[GuntherHess]

anyone ever find one of these lying around?

Ya , normally next to graves. Not a good thing to get caught with in most places.

 

[capsoda]

I found some in a ravine that had washed from a church cemetery up hill. I took them back and helped the pastor locate all the graves in the cemetery. He had a plat map of the cemetery so it was pretty simple.

 

[Whisperingwinds]

Thats kind of wierdly cool.....Did anything do bump in the night while you had it?
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[OsiaBoyce]

Jeezus there's a lot of them behind this big white building I go to on Sundays though I've never thought about lugging one home. I've seen them in the deep,deep woods and left them there. Know why? Cause there's a grave there. Once I found a pile of bricks in the woods.One brick had a womans name on it. My dumbass thought it was the brick makers name. Wrong. Had to walk a mile to take a brick back,one brick. I've also been to peoples houses and seen Confederate Veterans markers in them [Malteese Cross w/ a Confederate flag in them]. And they were proud of their find. Then I had to tell them how stupid they were.You can get one a most graveyards. Listen to Ricky take it back to the spot from wence.

 

[cobaltbot]

Done my heart good to see you two boys agreeing and all[]

Somehow I got stuck with takin care of our church cemetary. Weird but I kinda like it - lots of history in there. Six Civil War vets, etc. Rarely a new stone is ordered that incorporated more of the family and one could have been legitamitly discarded, but highly unlikely. I agree, unless you know otherwize that it's excess or lost, take it back. You could use divining rods to see if theres a grave there.

 

[cobaltbot]

Heres a freaky one..... a couple a year's ago I was out exploring Loch Raven Reservoir near Baltimore and came across a small cemetary out in the woods with only a handful of stones like this broken one in the pic. Probably the remains of a family graveyard. Laying in front of this stone was this very pristine and high quality little girl's dress. Not sure if it was a tribute to a relative or a stranger long passed. Hopefully it was something good and not evil......... ( insert chills here)...........
lets go with the tribute thing......strange though!

 

[bottle34nut]

i would love to return it but the town in which i found it in bought the property to build a new school and just bulldozed over the entire area. there were other headstones broken into pieces and i think the excavation stopped for a while when bones were found. i drove by recently and the building of the school is back on schedule. welcome to new jersey. we dont care about history. its all about the money. this state sucks, they just dont care.
greg
ps i wish i had taken more pictures. i now carry a camera at all times. not that it matters.

 

[bottle34nut]

i felt horrible taking it but realized it would have probably been lost forever (burried) if i didnt. i dont know what happened to the other headstones.
greg