FILM IT : From Run Down to Kept Up : Tour of Baltimore’s Creepiest Cemeteries (Tragic Child Graves)

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[@DanBellFilmIt]

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[@maggiemcmac8273]

Dan, FYI, perpetual care in cemeteries did not start until around 1930's or so. Western Cemetery may still be under the auspices of Beechfield United Methodist in Baltimore which probably simply cannot afford the maintenance. New Cathedral has the same problem but they just suck it up and provide maintenance for all. Re the leaning stones in New Cathedral: prior to the use of burial vaults, once the coffin collapsed, the earth would fall in usually destabilizing the gravestone. This is why so many end up face down. LOVE your content.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

i never knew that about leaning stones. new cathedral and western are like two different worlds. thanks so much for watching.

[@justinjohnson6699]

He's a drama queen. I grew up in this city and he's always over dramatic

[@martynstembridge7714]

Wonderful ... I LOVE quiet, chilled videos like this. Any time you want to take us to a rainy cemetery Dan, go for it!

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

The big piles of dirt are from more recently dug graves. When a casket goes in, that dirt is displaced and has to go somewhere. All cemeteries have a dirt pile somewhere in the woods nearby or it gets hauled off somewhere else.

[@Rayven_cat]

Yep had the dirt piles by my childhood town's cemetery. They make great sledding jumps.

[@John-ox7ho]

The overgrown and neglected cemeteries can be interesting and moody, especially on a gray, rainy day. Please, do more videos like this! P.S. I hope you didn't scratch up your car.❤

[@katsiduzynski488]

What a sad story about the child actor, it's good he came back to his hometown, although tragically not for long... His poor family - esp his mother to have passed so soon afterward ... so glad they both got their remembrance headstones. There are some decent folks out there, willing to help others to not be forgotten ...

[@sebastienbolduc5654]

I enjoy you going to cemeteries. You should consider doing it more often. You can use apps such as Find a Grave and Ancestry to get more details about the deceased backgrounds, such as Mr and Mrs Rolls Royce gravesite. The dirt mounds are the leftover dirt from multiple burials. They will use it to fill older graves when or if they collapsed.

[@cannz9134]

The Rolls Royce hood ornament is called "the spirit of ecstasy". First designed in 1911

[@KristineS73]

I love a good drive thru the cemetery. Its one of my favorites to do on a day you feel like being out but wanna save money lol!! Thanks Dan❤

[@InnocentPotato-pd7wi]

Western Marylander here! Thanks for showing these cemeteries in Baltimore! Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore! He died there too! He was from Richmond, Virginia!

[@freakishuproar1168]

A lot of those statues have held up better than I'd have thought, given Maryland's climate and their age. Beneath the moss and erosion they're still really expressive and quite startling to see up close.

[@annakatie7347]

Those statues are so beautiful. Incredible that there is so much detail still after so many years.

[@rozlincoln3568]

You’re my favorite KZbinr Dan

[@Jim_Norcross]

My hometown has a really old, huge, cemetery like these that is extraordinarily well maintained. It includes memorials from The Civil War and both World Wars, incredible statuary, and insane views (its on a rolling hillside). I love going to it.

[@danschneider9921]

The less upkept parts remind me somewhat of Riverside cemetery in Denver. I was a Police officer there for a couple of years in the early 2000s, I saw and responded to many shenanigans there. And a couple of semi odd happenings.

[@LadyLakeMusic]

Pat and Ralph must have been a fun couple! Imagine creating that area as their final resting place! Was very touched by the children’s story. How sad. But sweet that folks visit. Super interesting Dan.

[@jessicad83]

Bored? Dan to the rescue ❤❤❤❤

[@greeleyman]

Loved your off-road adventure Dan! I visited an old cemetery in Central City Colorado about 10 years ago that seemed to have been abandoned- long grass and small Aspen trees growing amongst the plots. Thank you for sharing this one with us!

[@ncole90]

Dan, you're so back. This is the type of stuff we all subscribed for back in the day! I first found you in 2016 on YT. Keep these style adventures coming!

[@waterlesssnake]

Cool! I've always hoped you'd go to Western Cemetery. I have a great great grandfather who was in the Civil War buried there along with his wife and probably other relatives. Could never make it out there. Thanks Dan!

[@InnocentPotato-pd7wi]

Western Marylander here! I hope you get out here to visit these graves! Are they buried in Rose Hill Cemetery? Lots of older graves are in that cemetery!

[@Holkhastur]

Love this! Classic Relaxing Interesting Dan Bell video. Thanks man for your work been a fan since the meat factory videos! Cheers from sweden

[@Merlijnvv]

at19:00 Back in the day there was high infant mortality. One great great grandmother of mine had 11 children. Eight of them died very young, mostly before 3 y.o. Two died when they were about 22 and 32 I believe. The oldest died at 50 in the year 1871. She died in 1874. She survived all of her 11 children. Another couple, also direct ancestors of mine, lost six children within 15 years, in the 1850s and 1860s,

[@BLACKTHUMB01]

Thanks for visiting Norman Chaney.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

❤❤❤Thank you!!!

[@JohnShinn1960]

Ralph and Pat were some mighty swell folk. I just know it. Swoon!! 👍😍

[@SheSaidHeroin]

The baccarat table and grill were such thoughtful and interesting details and so beautifully made!

[@mmusic5873]

Thanks for the video Dan. This was like a trip down memory lane. I lived in Baltimore in the early 2000's and this was one of my favorite places to visit. My group of friends would sometimes sneak in after dark to walk around and enjoy the scenery. So beautiful!

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

This must be a real trip I’d love to walk around there for hours..

[@loriloo1039]

If someone installs a grill in a cemetery, Dan’s going to find it!

[@katsiduzynski488]

Yeah that granite baccarat table and companion grill. Jeepers!!! Must have been the hobbies the Stevenses loved dearly. Wow!!!

[@Nantosuelta]

@@katsiduzynski488 its actually kind of awesome. I want to be cremated, but if I was buried, I'd love to do something like that. Maybe hop scotch

[@HillbillyFamlife]

Love your videos, you have a soothing voice and always give back stories on everything you share with us! Thanks for another amazing video Dan!

[@dartmouthma6892]

It’s always so nice to hear from you, Dan and the tour is very appreciated and interesting ❤❤❤❤

[@anthonymiller8979]

At one time that little dead-end road at 23:59 did go all the way through. Those leaning stones were the oldest, original part of the cemetery, possibly pre=dating "New Cathedral" itself. Many have birth dates into the late 1700s, early 1800s, some even earlier as I recall. I have not been there since 1976 but was a stone cutter and letterer for a monument company back then.

[@nanahouran4712]

Dan, This is amazing. I LOVE this type of content. Please please so some more! I'm what my family fondly calls a Grave walker. Lol I explore and walk cemeteries as much as possible. Always love to see a new place.

[@evilladollyz7602]

Really enjoyed that. You need to do more cemeteries.❤

[@cathpeterson1944]

awe your furbaby is so adorable 🐶 wow thats a huge cemetery, beautiful old headstones and monuments

[@jasonwomack4064]

I found two numbers for the cemetery. 85 and 100 acres. I'm guessing 85 is the "occupied" portion.

[@No_Use_For_A_Name]

I have never seen a neglected cemetery. Its not even that this is more neglected than others, its that this is the only neglected cemetery Ive seen. Theres like a 200 odd yesr old cemetery on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, its only a tiny little place, and every stone reads from the early 1800s. Its noyt really near anything significant, so there isnt going to be lots of people going past visiting their great great greta great grandparents. But it is well kept. Baltimore seems like an absolute shythole from what Ive seen from Dan.

[@maryhirsch2909]

Such a nice morning surprise. Thank you Dan. I enjoy you as much as I did years ago. please stay safe.

[@WinstonofLansdowne]

I have several ancestors buried in Western. Haven't been there for years, it's not a safe neighborhood. I am surprised to see it in that condition.

[@tiddlywinks3776]

Absolutely loved this Dan.. especially with those two little kiddies headstones. So sad! Much love xx

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

lol, "someones been sleeping in here" In S. America, homeless ppl sleep in the cemetery and tombs like that all the time. They don't get bothered that way! Thanks Dan!

[@Rogo1972]

I guess squatting in a cemetery is just as good a place if not better than an abandoned building. No living neighbors there to complain 😀

[@lispyDribbler]

12:03 Left over dirt from graves. It all dosen't fit back in the hole once you put a coffin in it.

[@JenniferEdwardsEnomoto-rd4hl]

This is such a great video. Cemeteries are so fascinating and filled with history. I could explore a whole day in huge ones like these. Thank you Dan.

[@soniadawson6876]

Unfortunately, Mt.Carmel cemetery on O'Donnell St. is worse than this cemetery. My Grandmother is buried there and she was unfortunately only 16 when she died 😞

[@DanBellFilmIt]

Mt Auburn and Mt Carmel have to be the two worst cemeteries in the city. Mt Carmel’s active section is mostly gun murders. you can look up the names and they all have a newspaper article. It’s crazy. They’ve cleaned up mt carmel a bit in the last few years but it’s still a dump.

[@ginalivengood2937]

So many cool and beautiful things in this video. The odd looking tree trunk near the end, says it is a Japanese cedar on my "picture this" app. This video is interesting to keep going back to.

[@koffinkat666]

Imagine 95% of all the human graves in the world aren't even visible anymore....

[@pamelamorrisonn]

Why?

[@koffinkat666]

@@pamelamorrisonn 100 Billion people have lived and died so far in this world.....Most graves and bones are buried and unmarked

[@nunyabiness1097]

That Stevens grave site, is the most Awesome & Fun grave site ever, the family & friends can still hang out with "Pat & Ralph"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shortliner68]

I've never been in Western Cemetery but am familiar with it. I lived just a few blocks from the cemetery on Poplar Grove St. when I was born. I *think* some older family members and friends of the family are buried there since they all lived in West Baltimore. Shame to see it run down like that. I loved living in that neighborhood as a young child in the early 1950s.

[@brendakrieger7000]

Always love seeing cemeteries🪦

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

You may view it as sad, but we all die. It's not all the time that people 100 years later come by to remember two children that died. It's actually kind of heart warming in a way that strangers would think to do that. Most of us will die in anonymity, we wont have anyone coming by to remember us in 100 years. Those two children do, and there's something to be said for that.

[@somethinginnocuousindahouse]

I love listening to all your stories

[@jdssurf]

Good vid brother, love the history lessons, makes for a nice lonely relaxing moment in the evening to watch. Those statues looked like they could start talking, thanks for no jump scares.

[@bobbythedesertwalker594]

Such a peaceful place for a picnic 😎

[@feloniousbutterfly]

Chubby was one of my fav of Our Gang

[@ohjoy6]

a.k.a. "Chubsy-Ubsy" ❤

[@Ido013]

Went to Olšany Cemetery in Prague and it was really huge had several different sections and that's where Franz Kafka was buried.. the place was so packed but still mostly well maintained.

[@MarkS-ir6db]

$4,500 for 2 headstones for the Norman Chaney "our gang" actor and his mother? Loved this video!

[@robcassel1745]

Dan, That's Mio-Car-die-tis

[@Time-and-Tide]

"Neglected graves are a shameful thing." -- Martha Corinne Walton (Season 5, episode 11 "The Waltons")

[@NeighborhoodOfBlue]

If I still lived in Baltimore and had to live in my car, I'd sleep during the day in an abandoned cemetery. I'm imagining that's what's going on in those cars.

[@Fragrantbeard]

The obscenity of tying this land up in this state as opposed to simply rewilding it. Dan, this was wonderful. Immersive audio - the one awkward cut startled me because the warm ambient noise is so soothing along with your voice and the gray morning.

[@chrislongbeard]

13:26 I'd rather see a graveyard than a row of abandoned buildings. How about a video on the Laurel Cemetery up the street

[@kat55ify]

Thank you, Dan! Great video ❤

[@JWB223]

Dan: "What a lovely field of death"

[@fader_dragon]

Pat and Ralph still wanna get the party going.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Respect.

[@trashywilma]

Find A Grave says the O’Donovan children died of scarlet fever. Thanks for sacrificing your car’s paint job for this tour.

[@shootinputin6332]

Great video, Dan. You had me laughing driving through the overgrowth, since I'm so OCD about not marking my paint, I would never do that. It's sad that they let those graves degrade like that, especially the leaning ones. But I assume their loved ones are long gone and the money has dried up - the forgotten.

[@1mustardtiger]

Dear children, not dead children. LOL

[@DanBellFilmIt]

😂😂😂😂whoops

[@JazzyBabe56]

I just love it when you start laughing at some absurdity in your vids....it makes me laugh and puts my in a happy state of mind....I love your vids! ♥

[@explorerthedennis]

This is right up my alley

[@MorganTN]

The dirt piles are the excess from buying someone. The vaults take quite a bit of space in the holes so they have to dump the excess dirt somewhere.

[@rachelk7555]

Even in death money gets you a nice environment.

[@oncenterline]

Pat is either dead, OR they're just waiting to carve her "death date" into her headstone. Wait what? lol

[@cannz9134]

I thought the same. She's just kicked back infront of the telly until is time to be entombed

[@tracig419]

Yeah most likely she's alive and pre -ordered the grave to be buried there next to her spouse

[@SheSaidHeroin]

Meaning that she’s still alive. They are gonna carve the date when she dies.

[@Taterfried]

People routinely purchase plots together and one ends up passing before the other.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

she was born in 1935 so she’d be 90 years old. next time i’m over there i’ll knock to see if she’s in there.

[@niagee]

Those paths in the cemetery were probably made for carriages, not cars

[@natalie9836]

You should do readings at the these cemeteries. We miss your old videos where you’d do readings

[@alwayssme]

it's such a shame that the cemetary on frederick road is in such sad shape,,,, perpetual care is usually paid when someone is buried! so why is it so bad?

[@jessicad83]

That cemetery road was NOT built for trucks 😮 your paintjob!!!

[@jessicad83]

@@DanBellFilmIt but it is thicc like you tho 😘

[@HillbillyFamlife]

Lol​@@DanBellFilmIt I love your truck!

[@caitlincarroll7372]

The flowers in the tree may be a Fair Folk offering. Also most cemeteries didn’t do lawn upkeep it was supposed to be done by families but we have such an aversion to death families just gave up and that’s sad.

[@lolasanchez2232]

🎉 and it is a rainy Saturday here thanks Dan! ❤

[@ginalivengood2937]

Awesomeness!!!

[@FrenchToastMashedPotatoes]

I love these videos! I like to drive around and just check things out where I live too.

[@neuromonics2135]

Really enjoyed the cemetery tours! Would love to see you explore more cemeteries in the area. And I feel you on the landscaping. I got poison ivy covering both of my entire arms. Had big nasty bubbles all over, swelled up so bad I looked like a mutant lol F that job!

[@tikinkss]

Your channel is brilliant.

[@susanlineberry6360]

I would of handed the boss the bill for the emergency room. I also love to go to od cemeteries. We have one here in Spartanburg that has a children's cemetery and a vagrant cemetery, both in a wooded area, it is kind of creepy. There is another cemetery here in Greer, SC a small cemetery right in the middle of a neighborhood. The stones were all broken apart and on the ground. I remember I went there with my camera, with fresh batteries, and the batteries totally depleted. The second time I went all of the stones that were broken apart gone. It is sad.

[@Itbmurr1]

Poison oak…you can get it by breathing it in. My friend did the same thing as you.

[@michaelbuehler3897]

The weather really adds to the mood of the video.

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

Never have I seen a graveyard like this…it’s supposed to be sacrosanct yet it’s being purposefully neglected..hope someone with power to help change this will watch.

[@ashleyswshr]

Dan that headstone said “ our dear children “ not “ our dead children “ lol that made me laugh…close enough.

[@Steve104813]

That was pretty cool!

[@jessicad83]

I wonder if they only mow where people still pay the fees 🤔

[@pamelamorrisonn]

Ya probably..

[@richarddouglas1712]

Money talks even after your dead 😂

[@bjornemccomb8262]

Dan always sees some shady shit no matter where he is, freakin creepy.

[@rickdrais9737]

Beautiful resolution

[@jamesdec1774]

The grass grew quick down there we just got ours high enough to cut once up here in Massachusetts. People in them cars they're probably in their living out of their car either that or laying some pipe

[@wernersadventures8330]

Good morning my Friend

[@JohnShinn1960]

Hey, I know you. 👍😉

[@DanBellFilmIt]

WERNER! Hello buddy!

[@unrequitedlife7164]

I really enjoyed this subject... great departure from the norm. (I also love the norm)

[@dot2562]

their coming for you barbara

[@rivaridge7211]

Stop it Johnny!

[@Spacemutiny]

Is everything in Baltimore just falling apart? Does anyone care?

[@Trainy2]

I have never seen an active cemetery look so neglected. So strange how they only seem to be taking care of certain portions of it. Like when the graves get too old they don't care anymore.

[@justinbeard2024]

i had no idea the first cemetery was so large, wow!

[@JenL-jz6bc]

Dan, i’m very impressed with the interior of your truck. It is immaculate.😉

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

Years ago, I got poison oak on my legs and had to get laser surgery to remove all the scars. It was not fun!

[@Merlijnvv]

at 15:30 it looks like Pat is still alive. She will join Ralph later. Till death do us unite...

[@planetwisconsin9901]

I know exactly how many people are buried in those cemeteries. All of them!