Highmountain
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Guess the moderator didn't care for the way the topic was going.
Morning Oro: I'll hope you'll disregard promises of the past. I appreciate you sharing your experience. I don't know the answer, but it's another side of things.
I've never detected a graveyard, though I do enjoy going to old ones and reading the headstones, generally just wandering around in them. I like it pretty well and back in the 1970s was putting together a catalog of them with the intention of submitting it to a publisher as a proposal for publication. Someone beat me to the punch and a book called, Cemetaries in Texas or some similar title was in print before I ever submitted a manuscript.
But during that time I went to the graveyard in Round Rock, Texas where Sam Bass is buried. The old parts of the cemetary were in a state of advanced neglect and because of the limestone bedrock many of the graves were above-ground. One of the graves had someone name Charlie Somebody from the 1880s in it and the rocks composing the walls of the vault had crumbled away leaving a dark hole going inside about 7-8 inches in diameter.
A guy named Bruce Jean was a running buddy at the time and went with me to a number of the cemetaries, including several times to that one. Bruce was intrigued by the hole opening into Charlie's grave, went back to the vehicle for a flashlight so's to get a better look. There was a boot with a skeletal leg visible through the hole.
Bruce came over and told me, dragged me back over to look through the hole with the flashlight, and I did, saw the boot with the lower leg, and my interest was satisfied. But after I handed him back the flashlight Bruce reached through the hole, evidently to feel around. I suppose it made him nervous because within thirty-second he withdrew his arm and came to join me walking away.
I saw him a couple of days later and he was covered head-to-foot with an angry, painful rash similar to poison ivy he said started on the lower arm he'd stuck through the hole in the vault-wall. The rash stayed with him a couple of weeks and everyone who knew him came to call it, "Charlie's Revenge".
I'm not inclined one way or the other to have an opinion about the metaphysical side of human carcasses, but it's a coincidence I sort of wish happened more often. I think if the corpses would learn metaphysical karate we'd see a lot less of that sort of thing.
I don't report things to the authorities for the most part and don't consider it my role in life to do so. It's another of those areas where I'm not in agreement with a lot of other people, and I'm not bothered by the fact [though frequently they are].
I do appreciate your post and sharing your experience.
Gracias,
Jack
Morning Oro: I'll hope you'll disregard promises of the past. I appreciate you sharing your experience. I don't know the answer, but it's another side of things.
I've never detected a graveyard, though I do enjoy going to old ones and reading the headstones, generally just wandering around in them. I like it pretty well and back in the 1970s was putting together a catalog of them with the intention of submitting it to a publisher as a proposal for publication. Someone beat me to the punch and a book called, Cemetaries in Texas or some similar title was in print before I ever submitted a manuscript.
But during that time I went to the graveyard in Round Rock, Texas where Sam Bass is buried. The old parts of the cemetary were in a state of advanced neglect and because of the limestone bedrock many of the graves were above-ground. One of the graves had someone name Charlie Somebody from the 1880s in it and the rocks composing the walls of the vault had crumbled away leaving a dark hole going inside about 7-8 inches in diameter.
A guy named Bruce Jean was a running buddy at the time and went with me to a number of the cemetaries, including several times to that one. Bruce was intrigued by the hole opening into Charlie's grave, went back to the vehicle for a flashlight so's to get a better look. There was a boot with a skeletal leg visible through the hole.
Bruce came over and told me, dragged me back over to look through the hole with the flashlight, and I did, saw the boot with the lower leg, and my interest was satisfied. But after I handed him back the flashlight Bruce reached through the hole, evidently to feel around. I suppose it made him nervous because within thirty-second he withdrew his arm and came to join me walking away.
I saw him a couple of days later and he was covered head-to-foot with an angry, painful rash similar to poison ivy he said started on the lower arm he'd stuck through the hole in the vault-wall. The rash stayed with him a couple of weeks and everyone who knew him came to call it, "Charlie's Revenge".
I'm not inclined one way or the other to have an opinion about the metaphysical side of human carcasses, but it's a coincidence I sort of wish happened more often. I think if the corpses would learn metaphysical karate we'd see a lot less of that sort of thing.
I don't report things to the authorities for the most part and don't consider it my role in life to do so. It's another of those areas where I'm not in agreement with a lot of other people, and I'm not bothered by the fact [though frequently they are].
I do appreciate your post and sharing your experience.
Gracias,
Jack
I think I am "safe" anyway thanks to the statute of limitations, but would sure not ever go detecting in any cemetary, as I know for a fact that you cannot trust that the actual graves are correctly marked by the headstones. This is a VERY touchy subject for a lot of folks, so I should not be surprised if the whole thread gets eliminated. It has been interesting, to say the least!
