We Visited An Indian Burial Ground And You Won't Believe What We Found. 

People would freak the hell out if someone decided to dig up grandma and grandpa to take their wedding rings and other valuables and possessions..this is grave robbery, plain and simple!

Sacred ground should be Sacred. People have no respect.

And a man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said, “We do not like to see you so sad, ask of us whatever you wish and you shall have it.” The man said, “I want to have good sight.” The vulture replied, “You shall have mine.” The man said, “I want to be strong.” The jaguar said, “You shall be strong like me.” Then the man said “I long to know the secrets of the earth.” The serpent replied, “I will show them to you.” And so it went with all the animals. And when man had all the gifts that they could give, he left. Then the owl said to the other animals “now the man knows much and is able to do many things, suddenly I am afraid.” The deer said, “The man has all that he needs; now the sadness will stop.” But the owl replied, “No I saw a hole in the man, deep like a hunger he will never fill, it is. What makes him sad and makes him want.” “He will go on taking until one day the world will say, “I am no more and I have nothing left to give.”

I agree with you 100% The damage those people are doing is just disgusting and sad. I don't understand how people can be so cruel and uncaring about someone's sacred grounds. The law in that area really needs to get on the ball and put a stop to it. Thanks for sharing Roy

Huge difference between relic hunting and grave robbing.

Give a copy to the county so they can see what is happening, the whole place should be fenced in

Grave robbing has been happening for a long time, especially in Egypt. American Indians are disregarded and disrespected again, when will it end.

Send this video to the Seminole Indian Tribe Headquarters

That is very bad juju to be digging up Indian burial grounds.....😖 whoever dug those will some major bad karma.

If you can't respect the dead then you can't respect anything in life. It makes me sick too!

I hope the diggers gets a real pissed off INDIAN GHOST following them home. I wouldn't touch that stuff for respect, and I'm just not that stupid. Their gonna be sorry, so disrespectful, I'm sure that how those people live their lives, just taking from people. How do they know just where to dig?

Oh gosh.This was sickeningly eye opening.I feel the same way that you do.Just gut wrenching.Thank you for bringing this to the publics attention.

It really pisses me off as part of my heritage is Indian. Even though I am a Dakota I I despise the people that did this to this tribes Sacred Ground. Thanks Aquachigger for posting this.

Hello, if your reading this have a great day!

I have lived in that area in my younger years, that area was well know for megladon teeth. many a times you would see people carry buckets of shark teeth from that area. I have never seen any one carry anything native american from that site. In fact if you did find some thing from a burial there, you would have been forced to leave it. But no one ever found anything there American Indian wise that i know of. But if you really want to know what was in those holes, go up and down main street Venice and look at all the stuff for sale in the shops. BTW, the Indian Burial Ground so to speak, was made that by the city to try to stop people from digging for teeth and shells. The main fact is,they didn't cover their holes like a treasure hunter is suppose to. That is not a site for an Indian Burial Ground, nor is it a site for a village. If it was or is, where is the proof? I have asked that many a time as a child, young adult and now as an adult an no one has come up with proof that it was either. I am not defending these people who have no morals and will dig at a known burial site, but most of us Floridians know it is not what the city wants you to believe it is. no one has come forward with any artifacts of American Indian burial or village from that part/area of the coast line. And just to make matters a little more interesting, how do so many people still dig in that area every day and not get in trouble? If you are gonna be upset over vandalizing a burial site, make sure it is a real one, because if that was a real one, there would be a lot of people in jail for it. go visit one of our local museums, you will see artifacts, pictures, times and so on. All known burial sites in Florida are protected, quit believing the lie people. Quit being pigs, cover your holes back up, carry out your trash, leave nothing but footprints, and if you do find something native, check with the locals in the area before you remove it. You might be removing a part of my history.

A sign that reads "CAUTION: LANDMINES" is much scarier than one asking people not to dig.

its sick how some people are greedy. I hope they are haunted by all the people they dug around.

Thanks for your videos. God Bless you!!!

Beau, I lived in Venice from 1989 to 2005. I dove the coast for fossils and megalodon teeth. (Peace River too.) The place you're walking is not a burial ground. That area is all dredge material from the intracoastral waterway which almost makes it an "island' at Caspersen Beach. The dredge ground you're walking on in the video is fossil formations dating back to the Miocene from the bottom of the intracostal waterway dredged back in the 50's. The holes you see are from people digging and sifting for fossil shark teeth. Until the early 2000's, fossil digging back there was never an issue and I dug all over there for 10 years or more and only found fossil shark teeth. There was never a trace of any indian remains found by myself, nor any of the many of my friend fossil collectors who also explored there. The reason that it's referred as an 'Indian Burial Ground' is because of the folks not filling in their holes and Sarasota County police patrolling in that area on 4 wheelers would have problems not seeing the holes in time to avoid a spill. They patrolled that area not due to the fossil collectors, but because of the area also being a hangout for gay men to do all kinds of things in broad daylight. I remember walking through some brush and witnessing an example quite unexpectedly and moving quickly along. I write on a site and I mention dredge collecting in the catagory 'The Fossil Years' on 1780farmhouse.com. I first dug one of several waterway dredge fields back in 1984, I knew all of the places there. That is not an indian burial ground. That's the excuse used to keep fossil collectors out due to the holes. The black hardened sand you held was chipped coming through the dredge pipe. The tribe in the Venice area were Calusa, about 2000 years ago. Offshore, I have found megalodon teeth formed into spearpoints and their pottery.

I find all of your video's educational and enjoyable as I'm sure others do as well. In this vid you raised awareness to whats going on and where. Thank you!

That is just heartbreaking. Unfortunately, it happens a lot. My son majored in geo-science in college and his area of concentration was archaeology. He became involved in a project to identify and classify bits and pieces of materials found in mounds that were once privately owned. Most of the bits were small pieces of bone that had once been in burial mounds. The project was winding up when he graduated and the remains were turned over to a group of Native Americans to re-bury them. The state of Kentucky now owns the land and oversees and maintains the area The Native Americans held a private ceremony and my son was thrilled to receive an invitation. Unfortunately, he was unable to attend. A lot of people see dollar signs when they find out about mounds, caves, overhangs and such and have no respect whatsoever for an important part of history and the final resting places of our first settlers. Disgusting!.

The people that live in the area should take a stand, demand that it be stopped... Not just shake there heads and walk away... Thanks Beau For sharing...

*Yet another sign of the rapid breakdown of any semblance of respectful, polite society*

Digging in a burial mound you will be cursed

Some of the old Native Americans were buried with their stuffe like pipes or ornaments. Such old stuff are on big demands. Some of the graves are very very old and an artificat which could be thousands of years old has big price. These graves were not just digged for some small catch they were digged for something really big. ONE LUCKY find means life time earning. So that is why the people who dugged them did not care. The USA government showed have enclosed this area long time ago.

i grew up on and still own and live on about 5000 acres in Texas adjacent to Ft Hood..we have a beautiful creek running through the middle and there was obviously A LOT of indian activity here a century ago. It is 5000 acres so is pretty big but there are 2 separate mounds about 100 yards from the creek that i have found pottery pieces around without digging. One time i was exploring through the creek and noticed a small hole in the stone creek wall..i reached in and found a small rock that had been hand painted..it was in the wall and away from the elements so there is no telling how long it had been there..the land has been in my family since the 50s so would have to be longer than that. Anyway i would never dig at the mounds and as long as i am here it wont happen.

Thanks for putting this out! I appreciate your effort

Thank You Aquachigger For Documenting this.

I think you need to forward a copy to the BIA, to the major news services, and to the state and local law enforcement offices. If you raise a very public stink, it is much easier to get something done. So, so, sad.

I grew up in this area. It's not really an Indian burial ground behind casperson beach. The diggers are looking for fossils, and some amazing finds have been recovered there. The sign that was removed, sited a law that disturbing and digging and removing anything from a Florida State Park is a punishable offense. The law includes language referring to disturbing burial grounds but that beach didn't have a burial mound. In the 1980's a young boy was injured while digging a deep trench there, while searching for fossils and it caved in on him. That's when the signs went up. You were walking on loose sand brought in from a beach renourishing project half a century ago. That's why there is no significant tree growth around you there. Best fossils are out an 1/8 th of a mile off that beach.

Good on you mate for posting this. Totally with you 100%👍

its more educational than you thought at first.thanx

I'm from London, England and if we were to do something like that it would almost certainly mean prison time, sometimes the past should stay where it is and be respected and taken care of, such a shame, I luv your videos please keep them coming 😊

It make me sick to see all the indian burial destruction.

Always enjoy your presentation. This one I hope caughts the right peoples eye. Thanks for the great videos!!!!

I'm glad you put this video up . you just show the world how Indian burial and tribes are being disrespected . this is very sad and hurts my heart how people are so mean and iqnorat . I wish I could use the real words I rather want to use but I have respect for you and your channel. thank you for sharing.😄

as part native american ( cherokee ) it really pisses me off when i see stuff like this !

we have the same problems here but the state is on top of it and catch a lot of people

Several of us accidently found an old burial ground in Montana. Yes there were beads, arrowheads, spear heads, and a few bones scattered around. My so called friends had a field day. Not me.....I would not take from the dead. Never found out "why", but one of the guys took his items and put them back, his only reason was...… "because"

Bo, another informative video. I am not in to metal detecting, but love your videos. Yet another informative piece on a subject ( grave robbing in Fla ) that I was not aware of.

That's a dam shame there should be rangers on site you would think

Oh wow.. this is just sad :(

My friend and I used to go camping. Unbeknown to us we were camping on top of an Indian Burial Mound. I have had night terrors all of my life, but felt a spiritual sense of peace whenever I slept there.

I am Native. Thank you for posting this Nation wide problem. The desecration of our Ancestors resting place sickens me. Wado, for your post. I and my wife enjoy going with you in spirit. Safe hunting Brother.

Trail cam time that's all I got to say

I hope those sickos get caught. The locals are saying this is happening in the morning then law enforcement should have a box of Dunkin Dounuts with them and set up surveillance. Shouldn't be hard to catch them.

Sad... People have just lowered themselves to another level. Thank. you for still putting this on, people like to know or have to know what's going on.

There is a place here in MO, my county, that when a new highway was built, maybe in the late 30 or early 40, the road builders found graves on the side of a cliff and dug them. I don't know if they found anything but one of the men who built the road told me this and my uncle owned the farm in later years. That really upset me when I heard this.

Yes that is sick, beautiful area though. Mabe instead of no digging signs. Put up Beware of Graboid Signs. The holes proves they are there.

This does make me sick...how who they feel if this was their ancestors...

Your. Hunting edict is amazing!!! You inspire me!!! ...... Your the best hunter on you tube !!!!!!

I appreciate you taking the time to talk about these practices and why they are not okay (even if that wasn't the original intent). Like you said, this is what gives relic hunters a bad name and its unfortunate. There's a good and bad way to go about things and this is obviously the latter. Your hunting practices are always very respectful and I appreciate that you keep land disturbance to a minimum. You are a role model for others wishing to partake in the hobby. It's good to see this problem being acknowledged. I wish you the best of luck on your hunts and I enjoy the videos!

As the old saying goes .... "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention". That kind of disgusting, disrespectful and unconscious conduct gets my blood boiling and as with you, I get too flabbergasted by seeing the evidence of those heartless acts, to even speak. The word for that day would be .... Shameful! I saw this when you originally posted it, but it had the same effect on me this time. : ( Beau, Thank You for exposing this again. How can they not care enough to protect that area? (Putting a tall barrier around it would make it harder for the looters). The Tribal Leaders need to get their heads together with the local city and state politicians, in order to make any kind of progress to protect this Indian burial sight and the tortoises, which were a common symbol of many tribes. As we all know, the Casinos are big money makers. Surely there is enough money to invest a small portion for signs, bordering and enforcing the protection of the resting place of the Great Indigenous Peoples that came before. It could be a place to bring school children on field trips and tourists to visit, free or for a small, set fee to cover the costs incurred. With all my Heart, I want this video to be seen, acknowledged and Action taken by the aforementioned people and anyone else that cares to make a Huge difference and be an Inspiring Example of Respect and Responsibility.

I'm not native American but it makes me sick seeing this and wish that I could do something but I know that I can't

Thanks for spreading the word and for your vigilance.

Sad, just sad. Thank you for raising awareness.

People are unbelievable man. That makes me so upset

I don't know how you where able to walk through all that. I would have been crying my eyes out(I have Cherokee and Apache blood but I'm mostly white.) If you ever go back there please do me a favor, pray for just a second for me, for them. I look up to you in the same way I look up to John Denver. You both have inspired me to explore my local wooded areas and to connect with nature more. I recently started researching pagan religion, and realized what it actually is. So, I wanted to know how you're views on it? In you're spare time I think it would be a good subject to read up on, so you can tell if you've run across a pagan or satanic ritual while you're exploring in the woods.( you never know what you'll find in the woods) I suggest this because I want you to be safe. from Danielle Harrison age:16 Sylvania, GA

Really sad, Chigg. Glad you are showing how sick some people are. You are showing proper respect.

I hope this gets a million views sir.

Absolutely disgusting for these people to go there and rob graves for bones or small trinkets that belonged to some Indian families. Props to the tortoises though, because at least they don't rob graves..... Absolutely sickening...

Beau you should do shark tooth diving off the coast of Venice

Thanks for sharing this. I hope it makes a difference. What's wrong with people? desecrate someone's resting place for a bead or bone or something. That was a person. I was literally brought to tears. So sad that people are this low and disrespectful. But aquachigger, I agree I think you should have shared this bc maybe someone will see it and do something about it. Just sad.

the disrespect people have😔 I am not Native at all, but I have so much respect for those people. they have/had such a different way of living and doing things and i just love their traditions like 🥺

😢sad ☀️

Isn't the whole continent looted like crazy, as a huge understatement?

thanks for showing this, its sad to see how much people have damaged and stole from there.

Gads, that's nuts. Good you are reporting on this.

will putting all the petty native, Indian, lazy and other BS aside I'm sorry that those things happened over there it's just people don't know their the limits and they feel they have a right to disturbed whatever they come across. I have property here in the California desert and not too far away is a cemetery with graves that have been there since the 1880s up to the the 1940s we've personally caught people digging at night in the relatively modern cemetery and had to hold him until the police came and it just breaks my heart to see that but anyway I love your channel and all your videos so keep up the good work.

That is so sad. I'm like you, it makes me mad.

Thank you for posting. This is very sad.

It's weird I just started watching your videos, and I live in Venice. My grandpa works for the county and I can remember him talking about this incident back when it happened

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I'm sorry but archaeologist have ruined me ever helping them with anything when they started going after the coin collecting community by trying to ban it. I'm sorry for what is happening there and many other places but we do more for saving history than they ever do by just letting historical items and places set and rot.

Good God, this makes my heart bleed.. I am a rescue archaeologist, or used to be before I retired, and know first hand the damage these people do. Not only are the artifacts lost to posterity, but any information that could have been gleaned from the destroyed archaeology in the occupation layers, and the context in which the artifacts are found is also lost. And that's not even too begin on the extreme lack of respect and greediness these people exhibit. Thanks for bringing to our notice. Education and methods of policing these areas are sorely needed..

It was a educational video, and makes such important point

this guy called other people idots because digging he does the same

not saying one thing or another but according to your logic archaeologist are sick

Digging up Egypt for years

I knew an older lady that played with the local indian children. As a young guy I was always hunting stuff and was pretty sure I had found a Native American Grave Yard. I told her where I thought it was. She said to me that she knew some of the people buried there and made me promise to never dig there. Or anyplace that was sacred. To this day I honor that promise and always will. I so enjoyed the summer days when she would tell me the history and her life as a child in our area. Eventually I learned to drive and noticed Girls. Not in that order but the two things drew me away from chats with this living history book I knew. What a shame. But I will take with gratitude what I got. And always keep that promise. Rest well Miss McCormick I will never tell where it is.

Bless you for your humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, that's SERIOUSLY messed up! I hope they catch these people!

horrible, how could people be so disrespectful. so glad u made me aware.

Have u got an update on this sacred place. Has it started being monitored. I hope so. Love you're videos.

Thanks for pointing this out. Native grounds - and all burial grounds are sacred and should never be disturbed.

Thank you for bringing this to light. Creators blessings to you on the four winds.

Good on you Beau!

this was very educational ,,, on what not to do ,, thanks for showing

I went on a dig in a pre-Columbian village which is NOT a burial ground. We were allowed in before the graders and diggers came to build a sub division. It was simply full of artifacts, art, tools and information that will be lost forever. I almost love the fact that now, 30 years later the place is getting swallowed up by sink holes. More than likely the value of lost artifacts and art would exceed the value of the sub-division.

Hi there, Chigg!! love your videos, love your adventures a lot. It's really cool watching you explore and find things and explain. Have you ever been to a place called the Caddo? it's in Arkansas. It's a nice river, I bet lots of people lose things. know we have. anyway, I just thought I might ask, like I said, I love your videos, I like going on little adventures like this myself, so it's really cool to see what other people find. I've found a few places if you ever wanna check them out give me a shout, have some cool stories too. might make some videos for ya if you wanna see em lol. thanks a bunch :)

I am from India .......watched the whole vid ......please respect the Native Indian Burials ........om namoh shivay

Thanks for the video. I hope you will share it with the State legislators and others that can do something about it. Doc

Thank you so much for making this video have things improved ?

From Miami Florida really wanna visit that Indian burial ground looks cool

We're with you 'chig.

It is so sad to see this. And it was so touching to see your passion about it. And by the way, you r very handsome. wow!

I am very proud of my heritage and come from a country that was torn apart by history but we still stand strong. The Indian Nations were bullied and broken by the same thing, Money, Power, and Greed. Grazie.

Heart breaking. Thanks for bringing it to light. Maybe someone will do the right thing. Doubt itll be the government, but who knows. Keep up the good work.

So sad people would do this. Thank you for showing this video.

I don't know if I should "like" or "dislike" this video.