Who's Idea Was This?!

[@MobileInstinct]

Jays new video is wild! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3_HoZV-a8adftksi=lhdqC7Xjswp_PS2g

[@Spooky_Dook]

Been here for awhile now & he [jay] is pretty fantastic. ThnXx for introducing him to us. ☺.

[@scottrider641]

Thanks for the link Jay has some great content

[@MrPvtrandall]

I decided a long time ago that I wanted to be cremated and my ashes thrown in the wind.

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

They need to preserve those headstones as much as possible. Build a memorial wall with their names on it, and mark it off, as a scared area, or garden.

[@Not_You_2]

Yeah until the strip mall is built.

[@tr1ppyh1ppy]

@@Not_You_2in the country ??

[@BrianMurfitt]

Placing headstones around the side of a old cemetery is quite common in parts of Europe. Only about a 20 minute walk from where I live there's an old church in Bermondsey, London. They've placed a public garden at the side of the church and the headstones are placed around the fence/wall, but respectfully upright and although very faded you can still read some of them. In this church the headstones were piled disrespectfully on top of one another! Did anybody else notice some of the headstones in German? Goshenhoppen, sounds like an old German name and they probably date back to a time when German was more widely spoken in Pennsylvania than English. Fascinating, keep em coming Chris and Jay. 🤗

[@k.m.5819]

Sad... They should have made sure they had records before moving things

[@patriciajacobs7957]

Thank you Chris and Jay for taking us along. As always another great but sad video. Have a great Easter weekend.

[@jamey48]

There are already so many abandoned cemeteries in the US it's crazy. Side step adventures in GA finds them all the time. Along with abandoned town sites. I grew up in Southern Maryland There really isn't. Much of that kind of thing going on. These places are beyond ghost towns. People don't even remember them. It's like that up north as well. Great videos !

[@samholdsworth420]

Life is ephemeral... No one's going to remember you or me in 100 years we will be forgotten just like these people

[@l.m.4014]

Yes.....'Side step Adventures' in GA finds them all the time > Love that channel.

[@muserediscovered3750]

The church bell mournfully ringing at 3:00 is a nice touch...

[@kimmydelrey]

Wow very interesting but pretty sad too. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamesholt7612]

Such a sad story and I can tell you about a historical cemetery in Hackett Arkansas that's been around since the town was founded.

[@BrianMurfitt]

James, why don't you get the boys Christmas and Jay to make a video about it, invite them down there and you can give a commentary/narration about the Hackett cemetery too?!

[@scottrider641]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks, Chris. You and Jay are great together

[@RobsNeighbor]

Hello everyone, thank you, chris and Jay.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Oh love the birds great video and hi to your friend.

[@jburnett8152]

It's a blessing their loved ones have passed on now.

[@samanthab1923]

Interesting timing of the church bells tolling. Some lovely pieces of marble were used in the making of these old tombstones. Glad to see them gathered up & not just laying all over. If it was hit by the 55 flood then they probably cleaned up as best they could. I’d still feel comforted visiting my loved one there 🙏🏻🌷

[@mattrost2574]

Absolutely well done and very eye-opening. When I began Mortuary College in the 80's, our introduction began with "everything in life is temporary". How true. In America, it is not uncommon or legally unethical for a smaller cemetery to be rezoned and repurposed. But rarely before the first 150+ years. If your needs are "forever", consider a cemetery where someone famous is buried. We're going to repose near the Proctors and Gambles in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

[@Mypandaloves]

Sad for the families not to really know where their loved ones r buried. Thanks for sharing this story.! Like the collaborations!

[@theamerican7080]

In just a few short couple hundred years, our headstones will be gone as well.

[@MobileInstinct]

You're probably right. Even cremains will eventually be lost to time.

[@odnetnin4720]

I can’t imagine being so selfish to hoard my dead body on a finite amount of land on an infinite timeline. What’s then point? Carry a picture around to remember me if I’m that important. If not, stop, go live you’re life. A granite monolith over my rotten body? Nah, I’d rather not.

[@odnetnin4720]

After a few minutes of thought…..I can see a grave site for a child. Maybe I’d want that if I lost one of mine as a child. A place to say hello. We had a scare with cancer a couple years ago now. Lots of things went through my head. Lots of what ifs. I had a plan if I lost my son. Im thankful it’s worked out.

[@theamerican7080]

I'm all for preserving history and even family history, but sooner or later nobody will even know who they're visiting.

[@vickisawyer7405]

@@odnetnin4720 I'm with you on that! Ashes to ashes and all that.

[@michelemiller1700]

Thank you another great video. Happy Easter Chris

[@vinylvishrecords]

@1:50 And now I'm standing on the grave Of a soldier that died in 1799 And the day he died, it was a birthday And I noticed it was mine And my head didn't know just who I was And I went spinning back in time And I am high upon the altar High upon the altar, high.... Song- Cathedral by Crosby, Stills & Nash

[@hamlufet]

Shame that it has been wiped out but thanks for sharing this place, Chris!

[@danielhughes441]

Not a cemetery…that is a graveyard. Graveyards are connected to churches (so there is a churchyard and a graveyard). Cemeteries are secular, public burial sites

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Learn something new every day!

[@sammyday3341]

Interesting note regarding the desert town of Sanderson, TX. In the 1960s a freak flood took place, and dozens of tombstones and graves in the town cemetery were dislodged. Records were sparse. Many had to be reinterred in a mass grave, with the grave markers stacked in one area.

[@kaymad143]

We have 2 Town Greens in CT that have graves beneath them, the gravestones/tombstones, were brought to other cemeteries and are leaning against the stonewalls. One Town Green is in New Haven, CT and the other is in Guilford, CT. I tell people about them! 🙂

[@Stopcryinguwuss]

Some of them are double stacked. Good luck moving them.

[@stacymirba1433]

2:55 That became eerie real quick.

[@aWitness33]

Curiouser and curiouser....hmm in sensing a pattern.

[@sueelliott3206]

Such a sad situation.

[@goochI034]

At 2m 57s i thought the Rocky training music was starting

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

Allentown Pennsylvania was an early settlement long before the United States existed! There are grave markers up there that have people being born, live their full lives and died before 1776! I just found that mind-blowing in America, what were their lives like?!

[@donaldcorrell2518]

I assume you are in PA, don’t forget the Moravian cemetery in Bethlehem.

[@journeywithjay]

Yes this was in bally, pa

[@felixs3477]

I see alot of German grave stones. Geboren (born) Gestorben (died) Ruhen in Frieden (resting in peace) etc etc Very sad.

[@jared1870]

It's sad there are no records, I hope someone at least records the information from the stones so that people will know at least what graveyard their ancestors are in if not the exact place of burial. Where I live, when old stones fall over or crack, cemetery workers take them and throw them into a ravine.

[@NaomisAdventures]

That's an interesting cemetery but sad

[@ritafirestone761]

In San Diego they decided to move a cemetery so they could put a park there. Some bodies are still buried there and dumped alot of headstones over a hillside. Then when moved to Mt Hope cemetery headstones and things got broken were placed along a fence.

[@ION400]

Cheeseman Park in Denver. Broken up body parts for more profit for a corrupt mortician in the 1800s. Now a park on top but remains underfoot..

[@houreugh]

A hodgepodge of tombstones at 1:30 that’s an incredible feat of human ingenuity, to keep some kinda continuity.😂 strangest ever

[@pattycake-gu6de]

It would be extremely valuable to itemise each headstone and write down each detail for future family research as if the records were lost then the headstones are the only records left.

[@BBQNBLUES]

What a Strange desecration ! Betcha some shady developer was hoping to SELL the land ...w/o disclosing they were buying a Cemetery. .

[@smashleybreaks]

If my family was in that cemetery, and I could find their stone, I would just take it and mark a new spot and call it good.

[@samanthab1923]

Right? You know they are buried there. Just visit, say a prayer & lay some flowers 🙏🏻🌷

[@m1t2a1]

There was a cemetery in Ontario where the headstones were laid flat. A road was built over it.

[@debbeb4499]

To me, the Philly situation is worse. The tombstones represent the person. You know family was involved in the creation of the tombstone, supplying the information which perhaps included an epitaph and an image of some kind. At least here you know where they are in general, if not the exact spot, and the tombstone can still be seen. Sometimes, a tombstone is the only record you can find of a person's dates of birth and death or even their existence such as in the case of a baby or child. From a genealogist's point of view, that can be more important than the precise location of the body.

[@MobileInstinct]

All good points. Those families paid money for those stones in Philly, I'd be furious to see my family stone on the river bank

[@jamey48]

I agree. I think that they should pour cement as a base then use them as a fence. But this time use morter to keep them in place. Keeping family's together.

[@F80mthree]

@@MobileInstinctI’d be sick to my stomach if I saw my families graves and tombstones treated like that…

[@CCcastro336]

Wow that’s so sad. 😢 test in peace to them all 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@foots-qt4pk]

So much for perpetual care.

[@curtb.9450]

You also have to relize that when alot of people get creamated have decided to be berried next to their familys

[@gwenhagey-shirk5175]

at this point they could just set them up in rows, we have an old Cemetery where they gathered up all the stones and dumped them on a pile in order to mow - the parish priest was fixing them up and just putting them wherever because there are no good records of where they were originally

[@Liz-cmc313]

So disrespectful. But I guess doing that is better than throwing them away.

[@LauraVee63]

Just a suggestion: Always begin your video telling your viewers where you are at......not in the middle of it.

[@shiliela_rhymes_with_delilah]

At least this one they had the decency to save them and not just destroy the tombstones.

[@DesignsbyDonBrown]

They should do ground penetrating radar, and at least mark where the graves are. Like some have said, they also need to preserve the grave stones too

[@henryjohnson3851]

Not sure where this cemetery is but I know of a very similar situation with grave markers all stacked up .Baptistown NJ tragic, awful. Who would do such a thing?

[@sandysue202]

If those who buried their loved ones in that cemetery could come back today and see what happened, they would be some unhappy folks. No one seems to care anymore. 😢

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

No idea why this came up in my recommended but it was really interesting. This happens a lot in the UK with older headstones, because there's no one left to object and no one is being buried in that place any more (the vast majority are cremated nowadays). Our local church, which dates back to the 1300s (rebuilt in 1744), moved all of the headstones and now it's a park where people gather, enjoy the trees and the flowers and walk their dogs. It's much more part of the general community now. Most people in the town don't go to the church (there are at least six other churches that I know of) so it's good to have this connection to our cultural history. The headstones aren't just placed anywhere - it's respectful, but it's no longer a graveyard.

[@reneerollins4433]

At least the loved ones of these people can come and get their tombstones or at least visit.

[@theone2be33]

I ain't mad about it. They're trying to keep it nice.

[@suzannezethner8180]

Horrific 😮😢

[@MaarkiMarko]

Thats so very sad. I would have never thought this would happen to a sacred place like a cemetery. I do love the church bells chiming. Great teamwork. Thanks Chris, and Jay.

[@lynnscruggs8105]

This is so sad😢

[@vickisawyer7405]

Turn the place into a memorial park. There's nothing but bones, if even that, left. Someplace where the descendants can still go to remember. I'm not one for wasting earth for graves, just too many of them. When I'm gone cremate me or throw me out to sea, don't waste a single inch of Mother Earth for my remains. My soul has gone elsewhere. With all that being said, great video!!

[@Corinthians-kjv]

Where will you spend eternity?

[@vickisawyer7405]

@@Corinthians-kjv I believe in heaven.

[@Ganiscol]

But at least the venue has the "Most Blessed Church" going for it. 😅

[@Fcreceptor]

Ireland had tons of cemeteries. Some were beautiful and others were in shambles.

[@JamesPollMaine59]

Very sad.

[@apocyldoomer]

I too, am being cremated, funerals are way too expensive, I said to the wife, who is going to visit my stupid grave in 50 years…NO ONE! Funerals are ridiculous ! Happy Trails!

[@brinta2868]

I realise Americans experience great difficulty speaking and writing the English language. As a European, having learnt English as a foreign language, I will gladly help you out. Who's Idea Was This => Whose Idea Was This

[@jamesdaniels3699]

A murder of Crows in the morning trees.

[@MiscellaneousMichelle]

🙏🏾

[@Traderjoe]

It’s very unfortunate. I am sure that anyone buried in the 1700s and 1800s that there remains are now soil, so a fence of headstones is probably okay as an indication of an area where their bodies once were. Maybe a wall can be made and the stones mounted on the wall, or their names and dates cut out from the stones and mounted on the wall. It could be a bench height wall that people could come to and sit at who want to pay respects?

[@pam8962]

So sad 😞

[@kentuckylady2990]

Such a shame

[@billgoeckel6344]

Must be a German settlement. I see a lot of headstones written in German

[@fredderf3152]

I am a Navy veteran and I wish to be buried at sea!

[@draitheo]

What's the Language on headstones called?

[@lynnscruggs8105]

This is so horrible!!!

[@deirdrerosesharples7453]

Didn't this happen in States also to make way for motorway, can't remember where it happened, this happened years back near end of my grandparents rd, they lived up a country lane, oh my god it turned into a whole archeologist site, finding ruins of a church and burial ground like talking about Vikings here and its now heritage place/site

[@thatscool1550]

damn shame

[@jumbo2944]

Where is this? I missed the name of the town.

[@samanthab1923]

Bally PA

[@lashainereynolds1775]

So disrespectful to these people and their families.

[@empressvogt]

Sad.

[@Guvie]

Where are you??? What cemetary is this???

[@Gamble661]

I've told my wife that I want to be buried in an authentic Batman suit, the best one she can find. So in 500 years when someone stumbles across my grave and digs me up they'll say; "wow, he really did exist!"

[@4kentheroad776]

I’m sorry did I miss it, but where is this cemetery located?

[@samanthab1923]

Bally PA

[@4kentheroad776]

@@samanthab1923 thank you!

[@samanthab1923]

@@4kentheroad776 No problem 👋

[@jolenehendrickson8915]

So sad

[@AngelaWorrell-m6y]

As I'm watching this, I can't help to think about Kensington. Isn't that in Philly,too.…. another very sad situation. Shame on the governmental entities.

[@joannmetz4413]

Uh being cremated doesn’t guarantee you aren’t going to be disrespected. Some people I know had a relatives ashes stored in an army box and the kids got to playing rough and they knocked the ashes down. The ashes were vacuumed up and put back as good as they could

[@skfan5559]

I'm on Team Cremate too👍🏻

[@clarencejones7916]

Disgraceful shame on those who did that

[@iconatlarge]

Where is this?

[@HorrorQueen67]

Unfortunately, the Greek Orthodox does not believe in cremation.

[@mauiskater]

I don’t want to be buried. Nobody is going to be alive to care after a generation or two. I’ll be forgotten and that’s ok with me. To think that a headstone should stand infinitely is think is unrealistic. Here in Hawaii they didn’t use headstones and there is no paperwork either. Back to the earth. No need to headstones to stand for centuries. My family are buried in beautiful cemeteries and I’m grateful for them but I have no desire to be buried like this. I am also agnostic and believe when I die I’m dead. I have no need for religion in my life. This is how I feel. No disrespect to others

[@vickisawyer7405]

I feel the same way about burials. I spent years in AK fishing so I always though a burial at sea would be cool, give back to the waters. But I guess you have to have a lot of money or be very important for that to happen. So just cremate me and throw me off a pier.🐟🐟

[@staubach1979rt]

Proof that when we die, we are ultimately forgotten.

[@Corinthians-kjv]

Nope! Where will you spend eternity?

[@staubach1979rt]

@@Corinthians-kjv The same place before I was conceived. Nowhere.

[@davefarrelly9170]

It’s so wrong they don’t keep records no respect for the dead 🙁

[@danieljay952]

Dang man what years was Isaac Newton alive because maybe these people could have met him

[@Papag53]

🖤💀👀

[@jamesbrooksbank9721]

You didn't say where it's at?

[@peachygal4153]

If they all died by mid 1800's all of their loved ones are long gone. You are talking about at least3rd great grandchildren for people my age and I am in my 70's. You have 64 3rd great grandparents. That pretty much distant relations. That is why family did not care to spend the money. They are long gone too.

[@deirdrerosesharples7453]

😢

[@J.M.Chadwick6]

A noble attempt at human remembrance. But Genesis 3:19 (KJ) reads "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return".

[@beverlydixon5921]

That is so disrespectful to the dead

[@Zachary3D]

They are dead...

[@deepism]

@@Zachary3D And?

[@dabaum6278]

@@Zachary3D👍🏻👍🏻 ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Home with Jesus. Amen!

[@mistyadams-ok8cr]

@@Zachary3D na there alive lmao. course there dead.

[@Ganiscol]

The dead dont care. This is only for the living.

[@MrsOx-jz9fg]

So messed up.. the city I lived in did something similar. I have a video of it

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

Talk about a disgrace. What? Why?

[@-FALKOR]

🇺🇸🇺🇦❤🤍💙💛🌹🇮🇱🤍💙

[@quill444]

Did you ever say what city and state this is in? How many of us ever visit the graves of our great, great, great . . . . . . . . . ? - j q t -

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

*graveyard (not cemetery)