Open graves are always very heartbreaking to see and I usually never show them in detail on the videos. I made the judgement to show this one this time largely because there were no remains visible and also to show the disrespect that has been shown to this site, a tomb being used for trash… PayPal Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831 Subscribe to the new Vlog: ru-vid.com/show-UC56vh2L-M0czmoTRLhSMaxg Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures My flashlights: olight.idevaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=282
So sad. Was there a coffin inside of the tomb? Do you think that area could have been a church with a cemetery instead of a house with a cemetery? Developers piss me off!!! I understand they got to do what they got to do but they DO NOT have to destroy a cemetery. 😠😠😠😠 I hope they are ALL haunted
your videos got me inspired to go hiking today- at a civil war battlefield (Alatoona) . only did 1/2 mile due to I left too late lol too hot. I like to take my kids to historic places and teach them real history, not what is talked about in the books.
There is a cemetery that goes back to the late 1700s to early 1800s, that belongs to my family, in Tennessee. And houses are built around it; it is in such a bad condition, I tried to get the city and county to do something and they said they don't do that as there are cemeteries all over. My family owned that land from 1783 until 1912. heartbreaking.
Hi Robert and Robert. This was heartbreaking. I commend you both for the effort you put into documenting these historical cemeteries, wish we could save them all. Where I live there are roadside burials all over the place: been there for hundreds of years and now are being vandalized and bulldozed. Saddest part for me is they are my ancestors, most of them. I'd like to share a poem I came across that fits these old cemeteries. In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill: The graveyard draws the living still, But nevermore the dead. "The ones who living come today To read the stones and go away Tomorrow dead will come to stay." So sure of death the marbles rhyme, Yet can't help marking all the time How no one dead will seem to come. What is it men are shrinking from? It would be easy to be clever And tell the stones: Men hate to die And have stopped dying now forever. I think they would believe the lie.
@Dan Cline It's nothing new. There are just more people, now. Kids have always been disrespectful. Not all kids, for sure, but some have always been around. They, in turn, raise disrespectful kids...and on it goes. It's not a new phenomenon.
Developers have come to our small town in New Hampshire. The town is trying to buy the land before the developers. I’m from Florida the developers push homes up against the Everglades , that felt so sad. People were angry to find gators, snakes and all in there yards. What you do here is wonderful, you also share amazing history. I’m moving to Georgia, family there. You show what a beautiful place Georgia is. Thank you
Sad to say almost all of us will be lost to time. The people that knew the deceased and had a connection to them that were buried there are gone also and are being or have been lost to time themselves. Not to be negative. These people can be discovered again with the numerous ancestry services readily available.
@@EmilyTienne the vast majority of our ancestors that we never knew and will never know going back for millenia or even before the time of written language and written history are or were in graves lost to time that turned to ash or were in graves washed away by the elements and time never to be known again.
@@EmilyTienne if you meant discovering the graves through ancestry services I didn't mean that. I only meant discovering who they were and when they existed.
Why would people who went to the trouble of building crypts/false crypts leave the deceased unnamed. Is it possible that the pieces with names have been carried off or have become covered with earth due to time. I also find this cemetery particularly disturbing. The depravity of whomever did this is chilling.
Those home lots look like they have the movie Poltergeist written all over them. You can’t tell me that with all that excavating that they did, that they didn’t run across some remains! So sad to see that trash.
I sure don’t get how people do this to a cemetery. No respect for people that’s for sure. I wonder how they would like someone doing that to their relatives or friends. Terrible thing to do! Thx for sharing .
This is so sad. It’s all about money and not about respect. I don’t see how these developers have a clear conscience knowing that they’ve desecrated old graves and graveyards!
Developers are id and agenda driven, and lack conscience, though will insist otherwise, as jargon dripping with cliches spews from their mouths. Business is business, everyone has to have a place to live/shop/debauch themselves and so many more triflings and rationalizations- I've heard them for so long. Always when I see the animation of evil in development I hear a song in my head by The Housemartins called "Build"; it's appropriately melancholic for the occasion of this graveyard experience. As always, I am thankful that y'all care enough about humanity, your community, our shared American Southern heritage, and general decency to do this research/work and record it for all who may see it. ..
@@bleirdo_dude imagine if everyone on this planet, apparently like yourself didn't fear the repercussions of their bad deeds during this short time we call life. I worked with this one dipshit who ignorantly confessed that his fear that God does exist kept him from raping woman. So if someone wants to briefly mention god in a comment, why don't you just leave it alone? He didn't get ridiculous with it. But to your defense, your reply wasn't mean, so I thank you for that.
I'm so grateful to you both for caring about our deceased loved ones, no matter who they belonged to. Thank you and bless you young men. As the old song goes, take paradise and put up a parking lot. SMH
What a terrible thing. I see all those old bricks from the graves eventually ending up at one of those new houses as a flower bed border. In the spring when the new residents see pretty flowers blooming in the woods, they will get dug up and moved to a new house. I hope people are happy when those disturbed spirits move in with them. So sad....
I hope whoever buys a home in the area will take this old cemetery on as a community project. What a beautiful way to remember and honor the pioneers. So enjoy your videos
why? you have no idea what religion these people were, or even if they had a religion. your faux-christianity is presumptuous, running around the woods with white crosses: what a foolio
@@Marcel_Audubon do u have to call him a foolio? He was just trying to help. That’s what’s wrong with everyone now a days ur quick to pick on someone. Chill
@@lallen6477 Incorrect. What's wrong with everyone nowadays is that they think white wooden crosses are the solution for everything. It's nutcase stuff.
@@Marcel_Audubon Almost all people knew that a Cross represents the GRAVE of a dead person, NOT the dead person's religion. It's been used for hundreds of years. A white cross is highly visible. A plain wooden cross would not be as easily seen. Why do YOU oppose the white wooden cross? This Cemetery is old enough that no one was seeing to it's care. The person was only trying to make the gravesite visible to other people. So that no more damage was done.
Robert, just to let you know from my comments over time, I have a lot of respect and admiration for what you do. The first part of this video I made a humorous remark that a few people took as racist and disrespectful. It is a sad state that just about anything we say can be seen as racist. Being raised in the deep south, I've always believed that southern people are the least racist people you will ever encounter. Please keep doing what you do, you are providing a valuable service to mankind and we need more people doing what you do. I will not apologize for my humor. That's one thing that keeps us normal. The ability to laugh at ourselves.
If they had a problem, then they were snowflakes who need to stop letting the world offend their fragile egos and maybe needing to grow up a little. I miss my Dad's generation...they enjoyed a good joke and lived life without the victim mentality.
I agree with you whole heartedly Terry. Being from NC I have friends of every color. Because we are friends we can say things to each other, that snowflakes would view as offensive. BTW love the site. My Dad's family is from Georgia, I have two greatgrandfathers, buried in non-perpetual care cemeteries. We have to make a clean-up part of our family visits, are they will be considered abandoned as well. One off 257 between Dublin and Cochran and the other near Eastman known as the Robbins cemetery.
There are several open vaults in my local churchyard in England. This is due to the geology of the area rather than vandalism. One can’t see anything because the brick vaults are so deep and filled with earth.
Have you guys actually encountered exposed remains? What do you end up doing? I used to document headstones from before WWII and back and we found a tomb at a cemetery that had a wall knocked in. The folks in that tomb were the victims of grave robbing and we saw remains. People had destroyed the interior. We called the police and they sent someone out and they made us leave. It's since been repaired through public funding.
This is so very sad. The families of the people buried there would have never thought that there would come a day when there was no family left to care for the cemetery. Glad you two Gentlemen do the best you can to acknowledge the dead and fix what graves you can. Thanks, Robertsx2
I can see it in your faces that this is affecting you deeply.. it is heartbreaking, sorry for posting so many times, but it affects me and I don't even live there.. when you said their identity is lost forever did it for me .
All in the name of progress. So very sad that people get so greedy for money that they neglect history and humanity that they don't respect old cemeteries. They figure people have forgotten them an so it's fair game. Just like Native American Indians who have had their sacred burial grounds ruined by American progress. So very sad. Thank you Robert and Robert.
So sad that fewer and fewer people have respect for those that have gone before us, and all in the name of "progress." Thank you Robert for documenting the graves!
The housing development should have never happened. A local historical source needs to be called to do research. This is a travesty ! Thank you Robert and Robert for all you do to bring this cemetery to public attention.
The love of money is the root of all evil & developers take that evil to a whole new level. I am fairly positive that houses will be built over graves there & that is unconscionable. Respect has become even more endangered than common sense. So heart breaking...
In a local cemetery there is a small marker stone in a family plot with the name of a WW1 soldier engraved. This young man of 21 years died November 4, 1918. Every time I see that marker I can't help but say to myself "You poor soul! If you lived for one more week the war would have been over." I doubt he is buried in the family plot but more likely somewhere in France. The family made an effort to make sure he would not be forgotten. Here I am, 103 years after he died in service to his country, remembering his sacrifice. I am 67 years old and after my generation passes no one will care about what happened to this young man. Our young today couldn't care less about our history.
I have to say I honestly outside RU-vid you guys are such amazing humans to go out of your way to uncover these poor people at one time had walked this earth as we do . I truly love you guys, it would be so amazing to meet you all some day to say it to your face, keep up the awesome work guys, you found your nich ... ❤️🙏❤️
I have been subscribed for a long time n have been on many trips with you. This is the saddest place ever. That poor turtle, the graves n everything is just so so sad. You are both wonderful people. The world sure needs more people just like you. Thank you
I cant imagine building a house over a cemetery. The person buying the lot/house, not knowing, go to plant something and find a shoe with a foot in it. I would be super mad if I weren't told what the land once was before buying.
That is so sad. People that does that to grave sites is cold hearted. Being respectful seems to be going by the wayside the older I get. When these people was buried there I bet people in that day would never think of destroying a person final resting place. It breaks my heart..
My parents raised us that cemeteries were a place of respect. I instilled that in my children. But, values of our prior generations seem to have gone by the wayside. Not politically correct, biased, any label people come up with to justify their lack of manners.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory Don't they have to tell the people that buy the new house that their house is built over a cemetery? That nuts... Who in their right mind would buy a house built over or or even potentially that near a cemetery
@@LarWolkan I know I wouldn't. That's exactly why someone should mark the graves, VERY PROMINENTLY! That way, the people considering buying a house would know exactly what they are buying.
I guess they would call it 'Progress.' Too many people today don't care about the past -- and if they care at all, they want to rewrite it, or obliterate it. So sad.
Everyone that new these buried people have long been buried themselves - Hence the condition of this poor cemetery. I sure wish people would help take care of these old cemeteries. All I know is I badly want to be buried with my kids, but being dead and gone means I won't have any say so on the matter.
Families used to take care of the family plots. On Sunday they would pack a picnic lunch and clean the stones and plant flowers. When televisions came into the living rooms in America, they stopped. It’s always the responsibility of the family to keep the stones clean. Three weeks ago we travel to West Virginia and I cleaned my family monuments and stones. It was so rewarding as I know I will never be back. It was love and respect I wanted to give back to them.
@@IrishAnnie it's nice to hear that you have a old traditional heart, I to have that kind of respectful heart. I'm fortunate to still live within a half-hour drive from any of the cemeteries where I have loved ones, so memorial day weekend is when I spit polish their stones and ad flowers.
There are people who do just that. They spend their own time, buy their own supplies, and go around cleaning and restoring graveyards full of perfect strangers. There are RU-vid videos of their progress. Tough times like these though kinda puts a pause on that. But there are humans who care enough to try.
You guys have a caring heart. Showing people the old cemetery that is list. We used to have once a year lunch and work on the grounds. You would meet cousins you lost contact with. Our two Robert’s have earned their angel wings. I love the respect and the education you get. We lose so much respect for the dead. They have to come from somewhere so sad I love watching you guys many blessings ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This cemetery has to be one of the saddest I have seen . I'm glad you were able to show the inside of that crypt because to see how they were constructed is amazing . The work that was involved to build that is mind boggling . I was wondering if there were signs of a house nearby and am so glad it wasn't removed by the developers. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well ❤
Just so sad. I noticed the subdivision don't have 1 tree left standing. They do that alot here in MI too. then turn around and plant tiny little trees that'll take forever to grow up. stupid, just stupid
Thank you for showing these old historical cemeteries and at last trying to clean them up. It’s so very very sad that people cannot at least honor someone’s final resting places.
There was a cemetery in Jonesboro Ga. That I passed all the time. Decent size, could be seen from the road. About a year went by before I had been by because I moved. There was a brand new subdivision built. You know darn well, they did not move that cemetery!!!
This area was probably used for partying at one time. Things get out of hand and graves get destroyed. The beer cans in the false crypt were maybe left by people sitting inside of it.
So sad to see how some cemeteries get hidden and overlooked. Such a shame about that trash in the crypt. Love your interesting videos, love from the UK. Xxx
I'd bet a million dollars the housing developer will not disclose to a future home buyer that the house they are planning on buying is right next to a cemetery.
its so sad that ppl don't respect the past. the ppl that are developing that land should mark off that area and build homes in there, oh what am i saying ppl like them are greedy and rather have a dollar than to care about some old stone. this makes me angry and heartbroken at the same time. just a side note i just found out my great grandmothers grave is out in a field with no stone or anything, my cousin is coming up from GA to take me to where my great great uncle took my cousin to find it. She died back in the 1930's my grandma was about 3 at the time. Seeing this makes me scared that the land my great grandmother is buried on could be lost to development.
Thank you both for taking time to show this sad and broken place. Perhaps you could some how alert the media to Lot 25? Lord knows the politicians certainly don't care.
This is so heartbreaking to me. Before my Dad passed away, he took me and showed me where all of our relatives were buried all the way back to the Revolutionary War when they came to this area from Chester County Pennsylvania. I can't imagine not having that. This is so disturbing.
There is a small hill in Greenfield, WI right next to an expressway on-ramp surrounded by major roads on three sides and an apartment complex on another. I drove past the little hill all my life and never thought a thing about it - until one day I was walking home from a friend's house, and decided to cut the corner and go over the hill. To my surprise there were tombstones here and there lying flat. Some facing up, others facing down - only one was still standing. I just zoomed-in on Google maps and it is still there. Most people who live right next to it don't even know it's there...
In the 60's, while I was 8th grade, I lived with my dad between Jonesboro and Riverdale, Georgia. In the woods next to our place was an abandoned cemetery. About 10 years ago, I was visiting this area. Everything was demolished and apartments built over abandoned cemetery. No way would I want to live in those apartments.
We have that problem here too. New homes being built, now we got mountain lions and bears wondering the neighbourhoods getting killed bcuz don't want the people getting hurt. You sod have tried to relocate Mr. Turtle.
Thank you for doing the documenting of these lost graves they are somebody's relative , who knows maybe they'll get word of your work and give answers.
I get so angry about how this cemetery is so destroyed and houses are coming right in. People please find these lost cemeteries and clean them .please give respect to those that came before. 💔😥 Thank you Robert and Robert 2
It's so sad how disrespectful people can be although I believe it was probably the development people that destroyed most of the graves there's probably several bodies scattered everywhere and if it were up to me I would make it known that there are bodies scattered weather homes built
Amazing what you 2 can discover out of the woods. Homesite from brick piles. Disgraceful how people can disrespected those graves. I wouldn't want to live there.
such a sad thing ------but thanks to you guys they will be remembered even though they have no names. great job for the forgotten ones you have don. God Bless!!!!
Praises to God, NOT ONE, person has been lost to Him!! He knows each by name. He knows the dates of their births and the dates of their deaths and exactly where their graves are. I am so thankful for this glorious knowledge!! Death, where is thy victory? Grave where is thy sting?
Other Robert really gives it his all when out with you on adventure's... I really commend him on how active he is !! Bet he could run circles around most younger people these days !!!
I was watching your video and stumbled on the part where barbwire was stuck inside an old tree. I have seen this before in my families old family cemetery. Some families just didn’t have the money to build a traditional cemetery fence,if the cemetery was in the middle of a old field where livestock lived, often the only thing the family worried about keeping out of the cemetery was the livestock so sometimes that’s all they put up. The human visitors knew how to climb over it without hurting themselves. The fancy vaults suggests that atleast some of the generations who lived on the land had money as that’s a must more expensive burial.Certain events lead some families from rich to dirt poor sometimes in a matter of just a few years. Like rich plantation owners,some lost everything in the years that followed.The Great Depression striped other families of everything too. My family cemetery is over 200 years old,they built the 1st 1 room cabin in 1795 so the 1st death was sometime after that.
There's not any respect left in the world today, we none know how time and people will take a toll on our family cemeteries..we just had to gate our family cemetery off, we had trail riders riding there ATVs right up the middle of our family's burial place, it's so disrespectful how people have became!😢Glad you guys are taking the time to make and show people these videos, you guys are special kind of people!💛 people
Way do they disrespect this place and many Other's, you're correct it's udderly heartbreaking 💔.. I would report it.. Maybe someone on RU-vid that lives close can help in reporting it to the State.
That's so sad, and there's no way I'd want to live in a house on plot 25. Here in the UK, my son has been doing gardening at a block of apartments that was built over the site of an old cemetery. He says he wouldn't live there under any circumstances there are too many black shadows even though, over here, sites that are due for development must have the graves mapped, and be excavated and treated with respect and the remains re-buried in consecrated ground. If there should happen to be family who are still alive notices are put in local papers about what's going to happen so they have a chance to object. The gravestones are often used in landscaping on the new development which is the part I particularly dislike and would find very creepy, but at least they're not destroyed.
So sad that this cemetery has been desecrated. I wonder just how much the property owners could have done to make it "not" look like a cemetery to sell the property.
The big broken pieces, starting around 4:38- I wonder if that's one of those mausoleums you can walk inside of it. But I don't see a door, or any stained glass windows. So maybe not. But there's a lot of stone there. I love the fact that you found the chimney piles.
