I don't know if anyone remembers that I posted back in August or September about finding something very unusual at a local cemetery. I wondered about planting a box at the cemetery because I was concerned that someone might take what I found and I didn't feel right about it. Anyone remember? I had kind of decided to do a postal about it.

Well, first I contacted the local historian about it. I met with him at the cemetery. We discussed it. I had already taken photos of it and sent them to him. He contacted an expert from Delaware. It took him some time to get back to me. Finally, in December I contacted him again to see if he had any answers. I was not happy with his answer, and I won't be doing a postal. Its beyond my comfort level. Have you guessed? It was voodoo.

It was a small coffin with 2 female dolls in it. The first time I was there, that was all I saw. I thought it was a memorial coffin - placed there to remember a treasured family. That I would have done a postal about! The second time there I realized that there was a male doll outside of the coffin, about 10 inches away. The historian and I put them together and left them there - hidden more then when I found them. He actually found the sister of the woman who placed them there 25+ years ago.

So that is my story! Top that!
bluebirdlover

All's I can say is OH WOW!

The story is pretty cool, but I don't think I'd like to have been the one to find them. But I wouldn't mind a postal! I'd love in on that ring.

Yikes - Does it mean something good or bad? I can't believe it was there for 25+ years.

I think voodoo can go either way, I believe it's a religion.

yes, he said it was either way - good or bad. He also said that it is broken when someone finds it like I did. he couldn't believe that no one had found it before me. He has a regular crew there to mow and boy scouts there to to clean up days.

bluebirdlover

Weird but it would make a good postal of what not to find while searching for a hiding spot.

GG

That would creep me out.

I did find an old rusted ax hanging on the fence in this tiny backwoods cemetery. Let's just say I stamped and returned to my car rather quickly.

And I have found a life size fully articulated skeleton half buried while boxing - thankfully plastic.

I found a copperhead snake while cemetery boxing...scared the #$&*! out of me!

My favorite was the dead hamster found while placing a letterbox in a cemetery. Letterboxes were Planted and even a gathering all for the hamster. It was in Connecticut. Of course

Amanda from Seattle

So that is my story! Top that!

It kind of makes me want to leave "something special" for people to find in a cemetery. Something to make their visit unexpectedly memorable. You think it would be too tacky if I hung a fake skeleton from a tree?

-- Ryan

You think it would be too tacky if I hung a fake skeleton from a tree?

What might also might be tacky is if you went back two days later to check on your box and found a second fake skeleton hanging beside it. WTHeck!

old rusted ax hanging on the fence in this tiny backwoods cemetery. Let's just say I stamped and returned to my car rather quickly.

Note that she did indeed stamp before leaving....

of course, she had come this far!

old rusted ax hanging on the fence in this tiny backwoods cemetery. Let's just say I stamped and returned to my car rather quickly.

Note that she did indeed stamp before leaving....

Well if anyone creepy came along, she already had a nearby weapon.

during a cemetery road-rally type event, one of the contestants found a headstone with the deceased's name and the lines "husband, father, failure"

It is funny but also very sad.

It wasn't really unusual, but it sure was cool.
My family and I walked through this small family cemetary in the North Carolina area.
We figured that they had somewhere around four generations of this family burried there one of which was born in 1776 or 1777. Plus three addtional footstones found without headstones.