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    Brandon Cemetery, Brandon (Rankin County), Mississippi. Grave-robbers?

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    1. purplewon2000 84 months ago | reply

      Someone must've been dying to either get in or out of here.

    2. niknack 81 months ago | reply

      VERY creepy!

    3. Penny Sanford Porcelains 63 months ago | reply

      Natalie, we have a grave in similar condition to this in an abandoned cemetery that we keep up on our farm. It seems the fashion was to build the above ground box, but the body is still buried six feet under. I don't know why, but I would be curious why this became fashionable at a certain period of history. I've seen other above-ground-empty crypts in other old cemeteries.

      Vandals probably caused the damage in your picture. In the old cemetery we take care of, the wood casket below eventually decayed as did the body, causing a "cave in" at the grave, and the stone crypt or box on top collapsed and broke when the ground underneath it decayed and caved in.

      Still spooky, if you ask me.

      Fondly,
      Penny
      www.pennysanford.typepad.com

    4. Sgathaich 6 months ago | reply

      Penny is correct; these never held bodies.

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