The Disturbing Case of the Coffin Baby

[@John-wg6xw]

Yours and Serenity Sue's videos are just so peaceful and wonderfully atmospheric and quiet.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks John

[@John-wg6xw]

@@GraveVisitations Thank you Sir and God Bless.

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@John-wg6xw Dude! I said basically the same thing on one of his videos yesterday, and now I see your comment! Although, I'd also add the word "respectful" to what you said above.

[@annamariehewitt3173]

When you realize how quickly people forget the dead...You will stop living your life trying to impress them...Great Video Sir....

[@faiththrower7951]

Totally agreed

[@maureencheshire832]

Agreed his voice is relaxin Comes over as very sensitive-probably why we hear spirits sometimes ton

[@michaeltreadwell777]

A beautiful resting place and that bird song is lovely. Thanks for taking us to these fascinating places. Take care 🙂

[@GraveVisitations]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ShirarleeWeaver]

Looks very peaceful and hearing the birds thank you for showing us round this beautiful cemetery

[@Anotherpuppychild]

What an interesting cemetery. Thank you.

[@IrishAnnie]

John and Margaret Smith…7 children dying so young. So sad.

[@cathys7087]

Love the layout of this place! Looks like it needs some care but still so beautiful. Thanks GV!

[@nadiabrook7871]

What a BEAUTIFUL cemetery with lots of history too!! I wouldn't mind being buried there!! A place can be a wildlife haven without being TOTALLY overgrown!! I can imagine this cemetery is a home to many wild critters!! 🦔🐿🐦💕 Thanks for showing us around, Cathal!! XXXX 💕💞❤👏👍🤗

[@janetslicer3637]

Very interesting Cathal. A lot of different type of people from infants to the elderly. I wonder if the deceased were automatically interred against the walls or were they moved? I know you said there is a large area in the center where the poor or paupers were placed without any headstones. But there are a number not against the wall that are laid to rest with nice headstones. Very interesting that two different religions are buried together. Another KZbinr said that was normally not the case. I think more people got on well than fought way back then. But you never know. Can you imagine stealing a baby's body? How low can people go? What a shame. ♥️ 🇮🇪 🙏 ☘️

[@JeanCrosby]

Hello GV. I love your videos. Lots of history. I wish people would stop robbing graves. It is Beyond disrespectful to the families and the departed. Jean Crosby Nashville TN USA

[@Lizablue0608]

Here in the states we’re still a little too young to have such a historic past. Hopefully one day we’ll be as respectful as this. So many gorgeous and fascinating places to reflect our own destinies there. TY! ♥️🌹🥀

[@mysticmimaw]

Such a beautiful cemetery and that crypt is lovely. Thanks GV!!😊

[@writerdirect]

i was just thinking the same thing; although broader; that belfast is beautiful

[@pamelawooten3251]

I just love the old cemeteries/graveyards and the history. Thanks for sharing GV.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks Pamela 👍

[@joelhurley2678]

Pretty Cemetery Cathal.Thank you!😊

[@cathymcglasson6947]

This cemetery does have a beautiful layout

[@margaretconnery7422]

I can't think of anything creepier than going into a graveyard at night and starting to dig a dead body up,My goosebumps have goosebumps thinking about it. Very nice cemetery GV and again interesting history. 😊 xx

[@Marksillerymusic]

Another brilliant video from the north of Ireland.. you must have worked nonstop up there. Fair play as you have had some amazing footage. Fantastic work GV and thanks for sharing

[@GraveVisitations]

Non stop walking lol thanks for watching

[@Ali-Pie777-1]

Good afternoon,listening from Toronto,Canada🇨🇦

[@GraveVisitations]

Hello there!

[@TalairanPerigord]

From Edmonton here!

[@MosaicRose99]

Hello from California. Really enjoying these videos and your lovely accent as you walk though these incredible cemeteries.

[@GraveVisitations]

Glad you enjoyed

[@brownie88ify]

The place is nice but could be a lot nicer, sure needs some cleaning up, very overgrown. I find those plaque like things on the wall interesting, at least they won't fall over right ! Thanks for this.

[@DeborahIsaacs-nx4dw]

Lovely cemetary. I love the stone wall and how they have stone markers on the wall. Very peaceful, it seems.The work it must of taken to put those gravestones on that wall. Enjoyed the video and RIP to the precious paupers.❤😊❤😊

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks for watching Deborah

[@valerieforonda60]

What an amazing cemetery. It is truly beautiful. Thank you for all you do. God bless and keep you always

[@sonyawatton]

I am loving your “Grave visitations” to Northern Ireland, my old home. I live now in Queensland Australia. I do enjoy the history you and Serenity Sue provide. Take care, God Bless.

[@k.t.rabbit9552]

I had to go back and pause the video at 1:59 to take a closer look at the left-hand stone, which documents quite a heart-breaking family story. In the space of 15 years, John and Margaret Smith lost 6 children, ranging in age from 8 days to 13 years, and another one 12 years later. Some of them passed within days of the birth of others! So much heartbreak for those poor parents.

[@Lorriann63]

Beautiful! I love those Gothic-styled mausoleums. Very, very many lovely stones in that cemetery. I keep hoping you come across the name Ellison around Belfast as my great-grandfather came from there. No matter because I love going through old cemeteries. Thank you, GV!

[@IrishAnnie]

Thank you for this beautiful walk today! ❤️

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

Their use of the walls really makes the walls more a part of the cemetery than the walls in other cemeteries.

[@TheSilentForgotten]

I love GV's accent also...it is very smooth.....I listen to his videos instead of music while I'm working on the laptop....lol😄😉Great work GV!!!!

[@GraveVisitations]

I bet you fall asleep lol

[@TheSilentForgotten]

@@GraveVisitations Sometimes 😆

[@monicapushkin3274]

Smooth like Guinness !! 😊😊

[@TalairanPerigord]

Well, that's *part* of the story of grave-robbing. Children, such as the infant taken from this cemetery, would have been sold to the anatomists by the foot, whereas adult corpses were paid for by a flat rate (which varied, depending on where the disinterment occurred and what time period). The men who did this were called "sack 'em up men" or resurrectionists. The metal device mentioned on the stone was called a mortsafe--there are still several to be seen in situ in Greyfriar's Churchyard in Edinburgh. Finally, yes, the Anatomy Act of 1832 put an end to graverobbing by making the remains of paupers available to anatomists, but what remains unsaid here is that the families of the poor (often dying in hospitals or workhouses) were required to pay a fee for the release of the bodies. It was often a fee they couldn't afford, and the mental agonies of the grieving families, thinking of the mutilation of their loved ones, was very great. It was commonly believed at the time that persons who did not go whole into their graves could not be resurrected at Judgment Day.

[@maryleeswope3353]

Interesting picture of a Mortsafe to.protect the deceased. 🎉🎉

[@Jkk55]

Body snatching was common in those days it's horrific when you think about it 🤔 thank you GV so interesting 👏👏👏

[@sylviaburns2995]

The smell!!! 🤢🤮

[@TalairanPerigord]

It *was* horrific, yes, but without the efforts of the resurrection men and the anatomists, we would not have nearly the medical knowledge that we do. Due to the information they obtained, surgeons learned how the human body works, how diseases are cured--they raised surgery from a mere matter of amputation to being able to cut into the human torso without killing the patient.

[@deloradeabel8487]

This cemetery is in good shape for it’s age!TY

[@johndillinger8424]

Mostly to the work of the Glenravel Society, local volunteers who adopted the Graveyard.

[@mikeh2373]

Pretty funny I grew up on Clifton Street = just different area and country 👍 Appreciate all you guys do.

[@GraveVisitations]

Cool coincidence 😁

[@adrianarosa217]

Um cemiterio lindo pra passear e contemplar as artes tumulares e a cripta muito lindo PARABÉNS👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹

[@kathywebber8621]

Loved the cannons on the headstone. Blessings, Kathy.

[@belindawilson1350]

Hi GV that was an interesting one with the two religions in one place. However that may just be based on the history I remember.I really cannot remember when that all began. My brain has been a tad damaged by the repeated removal of brain tumours. Four times so now I am not the brightest crayon in the box. So sad about the baby. Beautiful place. Thank you so much❤

[@donnicholas7552]

Interesting cemetery!

[@dianneboyd7471]

Such a shame that no one wants to care for that beautiful resting place of people who was once loved and cared for. History of people should always be preserved, without history, it only gets repeated. The families buried here is so lovely, so at peace, but would be more beautiful to clean it up.

[@svarner8206]

Magnificent cemetery and some unique memorials. In doing genealogical research, I found a newspaper article regarding a distant cousin, a child, who was removed from her grave and who was found lying beside the open grave outside of her coffin. I do not think it was body snatchers; I think someone was perhaps checking to make sure she had not been buried alive which was a concern back then. There was no medical school in the vicinity. She was reburied and now has concrete over her grave, as do several other graves in that cemetery! How horrible for the families whose loved ones were snatched!

[@GraveVisitations]

Check out my Marjorie mccall video similar story

[@TalairanPerigord]

They often didn't know. It is interesting to speculate how many graves from the late 1700s/early 1800s are empty.

[@johnbastien3872]

Those engraved slates ever hold up well. For the period that's size could only be done with fly with flat slates. Really nice place. Someone should have put a whiskey bottle inside that mausoleum. How long was a couple of tumblers. Irish whiskey boys has that special little nip dip. Great content today.

[@leeannemccaskie1867]

Beautiful cemetary i love the vibe it gives too its welcoming

[@mehamrdio6173]

Thanks!

[@GraveVisitations]

Thank you

[@cathys7087]

5:48 I looked up the Northern Whig: It’s a bar and restaurant established in 1819, still open to this day! Very cool!

[@cherylschantz9893]

Wow! How interesting!

[@johndillinger8424]

It started off as a newspaper in Belfast, yes a pub now.

[@purplehaze5977]

And people donate their bodys now for science

[@monicamorar8047]

❤ grazie 🌹

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Beautiful cemetery, the monuments are awesome! The grounds need a little attention. Great video, thank you very much GV. Have a great day 😊

[@lynnhowe7557]

Love your channel and beautiful accent xxxxx😊

[@GraveVisitations]

Thank you

[@tomsdotter3228]

What a gorgeous, interesting cemetery. Thank you, GV!

[@MrsOx-jz9fg]

GV... I'd love if you and Sue went to the cemetery in Palermo. I've tried to watch a channel who went but honestly he walks way to fast and don't look at the bones etc. .. don't you two wanna go to Italy 😅😅😅

[@julianash4663]

Beautiful graveyard there the trees well kept and the sounds of nature as well makes it peaceful

[@tinasavage674]

At least these days you can leave your body to medical science, no more body snatchers gv thank goodness 😊 lovely cemetery thanks 😊

[@frontiermt]

hey buddy from Montana USA 🇺🇸 😊

[@GraveVisitations]

Howdy 👋

[@sylviaburns2995]

In Colorado here.

[@irishlilly65]

Beautiful.

[@annelielubbe4213]

It is terrible that they can't leave a body alone after death.❤❤

[@franceswynne1165]

hello there im a new subscriber lovve your videos love the irish x from england

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks for subbing! 👍

[@colettefleck9238]

Thanks so much for bringing so many old cemeterys to life. I am from Belfast originally but, never new about this, Clifton Street grave yard. So so interesting thanks for all your hard work.

[@GraveVisitations]

Part 2 coming soon from clifton street cemetery 👍

[@65charliemopic]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks for watching

[@ShelArmstrong]

Hi GV England are not playing football to good nice to be with you again sorry about that hope you are ok and sue.love watching your videos I can hear the birds singing lovely place and so so peaceful ❤️👍👍 take care

[@GraveVisitations]

Ya I'm watching it myself they don't seem to be doing well 😱

[@coral.AussieNana717]

Hello there. Love your videos. I’m watching from Australia 🇦🇺

[@GraveVisitations]

Hello there! 👋

[@bettyfourman5438]

Very interesting .. with the walls and monuments mounted to them. I have never seen this before. I like it. Vines have overtaken many monuments. Thank you for this and for your lovely voice and accent. I enjoy hearing you speak.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks Betty glad you enjoyed it

[@TheVideoGamesHistorian]

So sad they lost so many children .

[@maureenalder8905]

Enjoyed that walkabout...So much history..Look forward to pt2..Nice seeing you earlier GV in the 'Live' ❤

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks Maureen ❤️

[@TruittCo]

Great video as always. 😊 My great-great grandfather was named George Washington Weiss and was a tall ship Captain down in Texas.

[@GraveVisitations]

Very cool!

[@LauraKnotek]

Those gravestones on the wall remind me of those found in Scotland.

[@elizabethkujawinski3240]

Oh wow, I love this video I feel I'm walking along side of you as if your leading a group As you give description of these that pasted away tuck in this cemetery. I'm wondering why they stopped the maintenance is it lack of funds. So terrible that it's not upkept. I repeat myself reason why I don't want to be buried cause no one will care. My wishes to be cremated and scatter my ashes free to the winds near my parents is all I ask. So I can wander the night and be among some interesting and happy spirits. Thank you again for this journey with you and love you as your giving a description of many long ago.

[@CraigBarron-os9it]

What a beautiful resting place indeed. Nicely preserved graves. It's great they have it locked up to protect them all. History needs to be protected and preserved for future generations

[@Sandra-dm8rd]

Good day , GV.

[@GraveVisitations]

Hi Sandra

[@ChurchyardsandCemeteries]

Hi mate I've just found my link and put it here to my channel I couldn't find it earlier, thanks again GV

[@deadlykitten.5908]

The birdsong is lovely

[@joshr7924]

Grave robbers were paid a good sum for each delivery for study purposes or other. The newest….. paid the most

[@tinasummers4578]

Thank u GV this was very informative good to know ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

The birds sound wonderful, and remind me of those bird calls used in the recordings of Richard Tauber in the 1930s!(although those were artificially produced).

[@ShelArmstrong]

Take care god bless 🌹👍

[@johndean5251]

Beautiful

[@paulas27]

Burke and Hare were not body snatchers, they were murderers and were actually quite insulted to be classified as body snatchers. It’s also interesting to know that stealing the body of itself was not a crime - it was if you had the clothes they were buried in that could get you prosecuted!

[@deadlykitten.5908]

@@paulas27 Absolutely correct. That’s why they stripped them of their shrouds.

[@pinkvolo]

Oh my!

[@minerran]

Yes sir, I hit thumbs up as ordered! LOL

[@annfahy2589]

Oh a new one,looks lovely there

[@johndillinger8424]

I've been in Clifton street a few times, the great and good of Belfast are buried there. You missed, in this video anyway the graves of Henry Joy McCracken and his Sister and some other notable United Irishmen. Few Mill owners buried there too. I recommend a tour of Carnmoney Parish Church of Ireland in Newtownabbey just north of Belfast. Quite a historic graveyard.

[@glenn5903]

Love his accent!😊

[@copious_amounts-unknown8897]

3 cannons = 3rd infiltry , I do believe.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks for the information

[@TalairanPerigord]

Wouldn't three guns be Third Artillery?

[@joanneoakshott5486]

💙❤️

[@TeasLouise]

Makes you wonder what on earth was going on before the turn of the century with the children? Losing every single one at young ages? Indigenous Americans records don't mention multiple deaths like this- I see it repeatedly in Euro and US cemeteries.

[@laurah.7696]

Wow they died so young back then. Beautiful place!

[@patricialong61]

Seems most of the cemetery are over grown,I can't understand why people let them run down so bad.this would be a beautiful place to be laid to rest if cleaned up .love watching ur channel.

[@GraveVisitations]

I think some of these cemeteries let it grow for nature etc

[@brendacanter9768]

❤

[@adrianarosa217]

Tem parte 2? 👏👏👏

[@GraveVisitations]

Yes 👍

[@adrianarosa217]

@@GraveVisitations 👏👏👏😍

[@writerdirect]

were doing a euro avant garde dracula movie; somwhat serious; a little off center; i should write you and sue into it ; that while the dracula action is going on; youre doing your graveyard tours

[@joshr7924]

The Sinclair family doors look like bullet holes

[@dustyrustymusty7081]

People must have been pretty desperate to make money that way.

[@patricialong61]

Here in the u.s. the state I live in and surrounding area,we have thief steal flowers and vases etc off our loved ones graves they don't lock up cemeteries in this area so we can't put real nice stuff on our loved ones graves.law does nothing about it.

[@vowxhing]

😱🥺

[@rovvt1284]

Sarasota Tim in LV

[@donnabassett3100]

What does people do to the people do with the dead people when they steal

[@denisegalletta3832]

In the 1800s, the bodies would be used to study anatomy, medicine, and surgical procedures.

[@LaurenFerrell885]

I just don't get it with the vandalism so stupid 😔

[@scottjohnson6173]

I have one question why does nobody take care of the graveyard? It’s all overgrown does no one ever take care of it keep it neat and orderly just left and nobody who really cares I never understood that about European graveyard. They don’t take care of them unlike the ones here in the United States while it still is the United States we take care of a graveyard kick care of the dead make sure everything is just so, but not there, which I never understood, but?

[@GraveVisitations]

Not all are like this I'm not from that area so I wouldn't know but I'm sure they are in the process of cleaning

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

WOW! It wasn't only Americans who named their kids after George Washington! Not trying to brag, but he was my 8th generational second cousin. I tell people that if I were just his second cousin (without that 8th generational part), I would be dust now (maybe a little more than dust, but extremely worse for wear).

[@GraveVisitations]

Interesting information 👍

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

@@GraveVisitations Inspired by your very interesting channel!

[@joelhurley2678]

My great-grandmother was named Mary Spencer Williamson and she was from Edinburgh Scotland. George Washington was a Spencer and is my cousin also. My chin looks exactly like George Washington. So nice to meet you distant cousin.

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

@@joelhurley2678 Nice to meet you, as well! I have a similar head shape as Washington. My 9th great-grandfather was Col. John Washington, the Washington who decided to stay here after the merchant ship he half-owned got stuck in the Potomac River.

[@Corgis175]

Vintage.

[@I_am_BiG_Al]

Looks like a nice place for a shiny new mosque

[@MackWilliams-oz2cz]

Being a child of the 1950s and 60s, when I saw the unicorn sculpture, I thought of "The Irish Rovers!"

[@ranger6447]

Good video, sound is horrible.

[@GraveVisitations]

What sound?