Roots of the Afterlife

Exploring an old cemetery in Pittsburgh.
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[@tsivard1]

Those are Woodmen grave stones/markers. In 1890 Joseph Cullen Root founded Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit organization, the purpose of which was to make life insurance affordable to everyone. From 1890 until 1900 the policy included a tombstone. For adults the stones were made to look like tree stumps and came in a variety of styles and heights.

[@smackattack97]

Great wiki read, underrated comment, ty!!

[@artcflowers]

Except that those stump markers did not bear the shield or the tools of the Woodsmen. The log/stump was popular and copied, so, not all are Woodsmen markers.

[@Bill-cv1xu]

I'd feel honored after 50 years of death to have a living tree utilizing my old bones

[@sandysue202]

Those Woodmen of the World gravestones are found in most every American cemetery. I just today, watching another channel, learned the story behind them. I have seen so many of them over the years in so many different cemeteries. They are very unique. That grave with the big trees growing up is kinda sad. No family must have been around to pull them out when those trees started growing there. Or, they thought it was just meant to be. Maybe the woman buried there loved trees, and it seemed appropriate? It's very interesting.

[@halfcrazyoldchristianredne895]

Grave yards are so fascinating. Thank you Chris

[@gracepethel9824]

I LOVE a grave yard! For me it's like therapeutic seriously

[@TammyMullins-jv8wm]

Ashie to ashes dust to dust ❤

[@brendakrieger7000]

Wow, thats incredible 🪦🌳🌲

[@karenh4058]

Cool video. Reminds me that I’d like to see you collab with Lamont again sometime, when your paths cross again.

[@jimmyfandago3211]

Hi Chris, fantastic content as usual and just to let you know as I'm from the UK, we have just spent a weekend in Wiltshire. It was brilliant to see your sticker on the post at the footpath leading to West Kennet Long Barrow. Love what you do and would love to travel stateside to see these amazing places in your videos.

[@marcberm]

3:55 "dead stumps" Not trying to laugh at the dead but that's #$#&ing funny.😂🤣

[@dougmarlow9466]

With her death.....life truly rose ❤

[@jadeshepherd2398]

Interesting grave there Chris

[@jaygee999]

Ironically, those trees are called "Tree Of Heaven" -- They are an invasive specie -- another "gift" from the chineeze !

[@PHBRNTGGR2]

WoW!!!😮

[@JohnShinn1960]

I hope I can put up big wood like that in the afterlife. 🤠👍

[@donchonealyotheoneal5456]

There's a good example of why we shouldn't bury our dead and Mark where they are in the modern age because now all of the bodies are preserved with terrible chemicals and buried in caskets made of terrible materials to be putting in the ground forever a tree is not going to grow over a new Grave at least not if it Taps into the body or I should say the liquid that is left over from the body decaying and the bones because they're all contaminated that's all we're doing after embalming somebody and putting them in the ground is contaminating that ground for probably a hundred and some odd years I understand why it was done in the early 20th century because there wasn't a lot of refrigeration and the little there was was necessary for preserving bodies in the morgue for identification and possibly because they were murdered and it used to take quite a while for the family together in order to marry them and they wanted to see their relative before they put them in the ground but now it's different and we need to stop that practice it's ridiculous we can get buried in a mycelium casket and feed the Earth like every other animal on this planet

[@ralphpatrick3071]

Touch a tree and literally connect with your passed love one. I like the trees!

[@hordakalpha]

Such a serene looking place. Maybe we could think of all of the trees growing out of those graves as new life coming from old life. The natural order and in a way life never ending.

[@artcflowers]

Exactly. Not unkempt but intentional. Circles of life. Giving it back to Ma Nature.

[@donaldduncan7095]

Nature stole my idea, instead of headstones plant a tree with a small flat plaque at the base . Then it would be more like a "PARK" then a graveyard. Humans should be buried in a biodegradable carton and not entombed in a casket & vault. (Memorial tree parks, a nicer place to visit). "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree."🌳>> ( Especially if the tree is me.)😉🌳🪦

[@tttg7952]

I think that's a great idea, in a way part of the person that's buried lives on in the tree.

[@richarddube3290]

I found it amusing that you were saying that cemetery was full of trees and dead stumps while looking at a headstone of somebody with the last name of Stump.

[@juliebraden6911]

Yay, you got the joke

[@screwthecabal6453]

You've got it all wrong. It's not unfortunate to have the trees growing from her coffin. YOU DON'T KNOW! She may have wanted beautiful trees growing in her place to make a statement. A very deep statement. It's more beautiful than her grave being neglected. Afterall, trees have feelings just as every thing around us. Everything vibrates with energy. As soon as you realize that the better you would understand.

[@tttg7952]

I agree.

[@Radio_Jingles_55]

I like the idea of being buried in the ground and becoming part of the tree.

[@DuckwoodDave]

Tillie's body made some good fertilizer for those trees! Hopefully she was a person who loved trees!

[@lisablake5328]

It looks like a green burial if I didnt know better. I am going green when my time comes.Thank you Chris

[@debbietaylor8091]

That’s there afterlife. They grew to trees so the birds would have a place to rest😊

[@jonimorton333]

It’s beautiful to see the trees growing and striving from graves. I don’t see it as unfortunate at all. Love the video thanks for sharing

[@gracepethel9824]

I'm with you, I think it's incredible 😃

[@estenmaxwell2945]

It’s unfortunate for the person who’s grave got pushed flat on it’s face by a tree 🌲 💀

[@jacquie5292]

If the tree headstones didn't say" Woodsmen of the World" on them, then the headstones were made and ordered through Sears or Montgomery Ward.

[@juliebraden6911]

Thanks a lot for sending me down a rabbit hole lol. I'm into cemeteries anyway but when you add in the old Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs, I just can't resist. Turns out you could order lots of different styles, many look like ordinary headstones. Shipping must have been a killer if you weren't already dead. I'll be looking for these in my future graveyard rounds.

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

No kidding? You could order even a headstone through the Sears catalog?

[@Ganiscol]

Voegtly or Vögtli is a common last name in Switzerland, they might be originating from there.

[@leninmi7579]

Bragging rights into the afterlife dude! ✊ I love your content. ❤

[@jamesholt7612]

Awesome video Chris. Very well edited and put together.

[@jburnett8152]

Thank you Chris.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Yes very interesting graves with trees growing inside them and the roots going all over the place. Thanks for sharing.

[@MichelleJune67]

This is sad yet beautiful..at 1st you think how disturbing but then you think how wonderful it is that death becomes life again..

[@scott6588]

It's rare for a trees root system to be more than 2 feet deep. Spread out sure but not deep. With caskets required to be 6 feet under, the roots do nothing to the caskets. This type of sumac wouldn't go more than 10 inches deep. Also with grave robbing being much more common back then, and trying to keep animals from digging up newly deceased bodies, the body was always buried out of reach. Cool story though.

[@dianemac3768]

Almost AMAZING ..... what an interesting place. A lot of time could be spent here for sure. Thanks for showing us

[@janwarriner6554]

Those are Woodsman monuments that look like tree stumps.

[@StephenAndrew777]

Pretty awesome

[@chrisblack8390]

Very cool cemetery! Love the trees coming out of the stones. Thanks

[@oges74]

The cemetery trust I work for here in Australia has an old victorian era cemetery it is responsible for. It was opened in 1868 and ceased burials in 1974, was neglected for a number of years and plants went wild and trees self seeded etc. We are slowly getting it back to looking decent, but never be how it once was, removing some of the problem trees will atleast help prevent further damage to the graves

[@jamessancimino]

Well I gather someone planted those trees as seedlings, not long after the person was buried there, and the seedlings did what they naturally do. Grow! It has been over 120 years ya know.. soooo..

[@kurtcraig3421]

the tree will extract the carbon from the "bodies" into it's structure, so inaffect you can become part of a tree........ you'll get a better view that's for sure.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

LOTS of really fascinating graves there. Tillie AND her infant daughter buried there. They’ll always have shade, though they’ll always have tree roots too. I wouldn’t mind that, if I was being buried, which I’m not. I’m donating my body to my local UAB University.

[@tripresidue]

Those graves look designed for planting flowers in. Perhaps someone planted the trees. Also I saw something strange at 2:39. 😮

[@tat-2-71]

Chris has other people with him a lot of the time. I think in the editing process he just accidentally caught whoever is with him legs. 🤷‍♂️

[@JCJeffrey]

@@tat-2-71I don’t know, there was nothing there then a person facing opposite directions of him, he would of had to be in frame.

[@Sarah_270]

of course they must have planted saplings. It's no coincidence, three growing trees on a particular grave.

[@shirleyn546]

Tree says ‘move aside old bones, I’m coming through’

[@kategrossi8717]

Please, please, please come to Forest/Venango counties.. so much history here... oil history, native american history, timber history and so many lost and forgotten cemetery's that are extremely interesting.

[@journeywithjay]

That is something you definitely don't see every day.

[@barryjacobs8524]

Where there is death there is always life. That’s amazing. 😊

[@Chaotic-Demise77]

That might've been what she wanted and had it written in her final Testament.

[@nikkigardiner9426]

Thank you, Chris! ❤

[@Punisher516]

Hi I'm Exploration ace im a KZbinr I like to explore abandoned places and I'm a new subscriber I love your video awesome 👍

[@frogfan583]

Were you alone? Someone commented they heard a woman's voice as you walked along. I went back and watched this over and over and sure enough a woman is talking. I think she is saying hamburger. Late 1800 hundreds, they called meat hamburgers. Is she suggesting you have a hamburger? History "Charlie Nagreen was 15 when he reportedly sold pork sandwiches at the 1885 Seymour Fair, made, so customers could eat while walking. The sandwich was called hamburgers they were made for people walking around. "

[@andreajohnson1796]

Never seen anything like that before, but I definitely think their bodies grew with the tree and their souls are at peace also the cemetery needs to be mowed so much overgrown trees and grass

[@Liz-cmc313]

I have never seen anything like it. I guess the families didn't mind or don't know. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@melodymacken9788]

So the trees have grown through the coffin and the body. RIP. Unforgettable.

[@mickeycrilly1839]

How lovely this is my ideal grave a big tree with my body entwined within its roots, as a tree lover yes please I wonder if you can arrange this kind of burial?? In the U.K. time to start digging excuses for the pun

[@karenweaver134]

We’re the trees planted on purpose by family members and just got bigger then they thought? Or maybe they were volunteers? Ether way! How beautiful!! More people looking at her grave then expected! ❤️

[@JulesUS8386]

I’d like to think she loved nature. Trees all have different types of roots. Some one single tap root straight down, some have very shallow roots that spread out just below the grass roots. While others are a mix of root types. So to speak of them being entangle within her remains may not be accurate. Unless you dove in and looked. However, she may have had this as her wish to be at one with nature in the afterlife.

[@mapi576]

Tillie it seems, died in child birth or soon thereafter, RIP. However, after a while, reincarnated and intertwined from their grave as full grown trees ...

[@wondergranny2299]

That body's been dead so long it's been turned back to dirt-bones and all- for a long time now.

[@scottl8137]

Id be worried about some sort of bad juju after cutting down one those trees whos roots seem to be getting all up in their business. Be like cutting up the actual body in a way

[@shannonconley2730]

Shame of the people anyone and everyone that allowed to let it get that bad there! But then again, a really long time graves didnt exist, infact you could be walking on a dead person, animal or any life form!

[@suzannetisdall7609]

It takes a proper gentleman to properly refer to a woman as Ms Kelly or other birth names of women. That’s a sign of being brought proper by the adults in a persons life.

[@kissthesky40]

Msybe I’m wrong but it looks like msybe the trees were planted on purpose.

[@ashleyfroud5015]

Telly was 36 years old, not 18. ... I say this in a good netured way.

[@rosseganjr9402]

fantastic video of this old cemetery! they diffantly need some beavers!

[@robertpresha9504]

That is the craziest thing I have ever seen.That could be the root of all evil 😆.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

It's surviving on Bone meal fertilizer.

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

I hope the groundskeeper got fired!🥴🍻

[@GraveVisitations]

Those woodmen of the world grave monuments are really nice. I guess that womans grave with big tree growing up through it is literally allowing the body to be naturally recycled. Nice find

[@dreamseer7]

I wish you'd take a little time, just a minute or so to look at more of those headstones. Read them, let us see them. They all tell a story. Thanks for sharing. I think the trees are beautiful. My plan is to be cremated and be in the roots of a new tree being planted. Wish the owners could right some of these stone.

[@joycetheobald1717]

There are some historical cemeteries in Louisiana that have trees growing in them containing teeth and bones!

[@midnightrunner684]

Chalmette Battlefield, where Andrew Jackson defeated the British. The Cemetery next to the battlefield has trees that have headstones grown into them

[@Bruiser89]

Wow!

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

Some of those people are very knotty.

[@avstraffelse]

The roots only really go down 2 feet on most trees. They grow outward not down. So the roots are not disturbing the bodies

[@margaretbuckley9309]

THANKS FOR THAT INFO 👍

[@jeffhensley9988]

Beautiful cemetery. Here's the question: How many of those buried here gave their lives to the Lord? There's coming a day (very soon) when the Rapture will happen and those there in that (and all) cemetery, will be raised (Raptured) up in a glorified body and will meet Jesus in the Clouds. Then we who are alive (and Saved) will join them. 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 51-58 kjv 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Which brings us to this,... THE BIGGEST DECISION YOU WILL EVER MAKE! Our Blessed Hope, our Savior Jesus Christ. Do you know him? Do "you", ("whoever" is reading this), know Jesus? Even more, are you "Saved"? If Jesus were to return today, "now", would you be ready? Are you ready? That is the one question that you, and everyone, better know the answer to, because that is the most important decision you will ever make. Jesus is the "ONLY WAY TO SALVATION". There is no other way, "none". This "life" that you are living now, is a "limited" existence. The life after this is "ETERNAL", which brings us to another question: "Where do you want to spend eternity?" Well, you have only "two" choices: either "HEAVEN" or "HELL"! Not everyone will go to Heaven and likewise not everyone will go to Hell. It's your choice! It's always been your choice. Have you ever wondered why we all don't go to Heaven? Well, it's because of just one thing. But that "one" thing "separates" us all from God, and that one thing, is "SIN"! We are all born into sin, everyone is, and the Bible says that the wages (penalty) of sin is "Death". You see, because of our sins, when we all die, we are all "eternally separated" from God. But you know what? God Loves you so much that he made a way for you, for all of us. The Bible also teaches us that even though the penalty (wages) for our sins is death, we can gain SALVATION (a GIFT FROM GOD) through his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. God made a way! He sacrificed his only son, for "you"! That's how much he Loves you. ROMANS 6:23 kjv For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Here's the GOOD NEWS, (THE GOSPEL) Jesus took your sins and paid your sin debt in full. He took all your sins, past, present and future, to the Cross, shed his Blood and literally DIED for your sins, was buried and then God raised him from the dead three days later. Anyone who believes in the finished work of Jesus Christ will be Saved. That's THE GOSPEL (which means GOOD NEWS). 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4 kjv 15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. He paid the price so you don't have to. Jesus is the ONLY ONE who could. He is the ONLY WAY. JOHN 14:6 kjv 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. God gives you, all of us, this "GIFT", because he Loves you. How much does God Love you? Well, let me ask you this: "Could you sacrifice your only child?" That is exactly what our Heavenly Father did. He gave (sacrificed) his only begotten son, Jesus, for "you", for the "WHOLE WORLD"! JOHN 3:16-18 kjv 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Please, don't let Gods "sacrifice" (for you) be in vain. Jesus "died" for you. Please "Live" (eternally) for him.

[@JOSEPHMATTHEWHOLLAND]

That's amazing God Bless every individual there and your self my guy ❤🌹🇺🇲🙏 from Western Kentucky

[@dianecurry3552]

Cremation is the way to go , so nothing can happen to remains being TOTALLY DISRESPECTED !

[@JCJeffrey]

Ghost? 2:39 unknown female voice 5:12

[@frogfan583]

Seems maybe he was not alone. Why would they be talking while he is filming? I went back and watched this over and over and sure enough a woman is talking. I think she is saying hamburger. Late 1800 hundreds, they called meat hamburgers. Is she suggesting you have a hamburger? History "Charlie Nagreen was 15 when he reportedly sold pork sandwiches at the 1885 Seymour Fair, made, so customers could eat while walking. The sandwich was called hamburgers they were made for people walking around. "

[@PFBM86]

Either it's the same woman who's been in multiple of his videos but only ever appears on screen for brief glimpses... or it's a ghost. One of those two.

[@Michael666CA]

It's his wife, He has her with him and he even allows her to talk l0l

[@screwthecabal6453]

Those markers are so way cool I've never seen anything like that thank you.

[@Queeni_3e]

Someone must maintain it or that grass would be like a overgrown hayfield. Looks like it hasn’t been mowed for a few weeks.

[@billl1127]

During the next major windstorm, Tillies tree may topple over, exposing the roots and Tillies bones as well. I'd hate to be the one to walk up on that.

[@TheAlexis4444]

That looks amazing, yes, but there are NO human remains there, as they have turned into soil and these plants have absorbed all the nourishments from those. And, I am sure the family planted those plants there ON her grave, to make a contribution to the world. Lots of people do, they plant flower trees or herbal plants on them, even on pets' graves.

[@kmgreves]

there is a youtube channel where the guy digs up graves and after 15o years there won't be much left ,, and those trees make a great place ,,, with shade, I would be very happy if my remains could be used as nutrients for plants

[@deadmetal8692]

I've always said, when I'm gone, just dig a hole n' toss in my mortal remains and plant a tree. That through my death new life shall bloom.

[@jontooke846]

I love Pittsburgh if I lived in America that is where I would go. If not it would be somewhere in FL

[@winterburden]

Omfg, I can't believe you said 'dead Stumps.' 😂

[@blitztim6416]

I'm digging those houses in the background. Not the type of homes you see much where I live.

[@Jesusiscoming24]

All those graves are going to open and bodies come back to life 😲

[@noeraldinkabam]

People plant a bush on a grave. 100 years later this is what you get. It’s the way it normally works. The earth feeds us we feed the earth.

[@Sarah_270]

It's very simple, the relatives must have planted saplings. Why don't people get this?

[@gregoryclayton8287]

A thought, may-be the dead have reincarnated back as these trees? if reincarnation really exist.

[@davidjoe3368]

It may sound morbid, but there is a little bit of those people in those trees. A living thing passes away, and it becomes something else!

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Sorry this cemetery is in such poor condition. Those headstones with the large planter in front of them are neat. I have not seen those in Midwest cemeteries. Nor have I seen the tree stump stones, which are cool. Appreciate the explanation of those left by another commenter on this video.

[@WVgrl59]

You can see that the grave is not going to contain those trees were very much longer it's already got a space in the surrounding planter. I'm sure that they met those to grow flowers because these trees are not old enough to have been planted when the person died.

[@wayside70]

Well thats the oddest cemetary around. Nothing like that in nj.

[@brianbloom1799]

Its real sad that that was allowed, those trees should have been cut 20 years ago, Shameful

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Thanks for sharing 🌼🌻🇮🇳🌼🌻

[@Graveyardsfromthepast]

Great video!

[@mikewilliamson6797]

I bet it was overgrown and forgotten about for many years and then cleared in the later years

[@daviddisandro821]

really bizzare. i would like to grow a tree with my remains. after all i no longer need them

[@JohnShinn1960]

3:53 "Overgrown trees and dead stumps" 😉👍

[@Tee-cl6dc]

Its so sad to see a unkempt cemetery 😢 Yeah we gotta pay for those illegals I guess 😢