We Found a Secluded Forest Graveyard, Isolated for over a Century

[@dryheat85255]

One of the best things about your videos is the amount of respect you show for the places and people who came before you. You set a great example for others.

[@cosmicshy637]

Definitely. Respect matters.

[@vongroven115]

You guys are class acts; the respect you show to these departed soul and their descendants is truly admirable.

[@calvinh.8882]

Cool video. It is awesome out there. I found a really old family graveyard in the woods in Florida, and I don't think anyone had been there in decades. It was covered in underbrush and some of the trees that had grown and covered it over were massive! So I took a chainsaw and some other tools out there and cleaned it all up, and I used the trees I cut done to make a fence like thing around it, It was so grown over that it took me 4 visits, a few hours each time to finish it. there were only 16 graves that I could find/see, and all the stones were just large rocks someone had hand-carved the names and dates into. and they were so decayed that you couldn't make out much of anything, but one did have a date of what I think was 1734. It could have been 1764 or 1784 or 94. For some reason, I just couldn't leave it all overgrown like that. I had to move 6 hours away from there, but I've always had this hope that others came across it and help keep it to where it could be seen.

[@kayesdigginit1519]

That is very very sad that, until you stepped up, nobody even seemed to remember they were there 😞 So many families though aren't even told, as time passes, about their family graveyards and heritage for that matter anymore 😢

[@beckysmith7350]

Calvin H. Thank you for cleaning up the area. My favorite place to go is to a cemetary when I'm feeling down. It's so peaceful 🙏❤

[@charlesjohnson5429]

@@kayesdigginit1519 its so sad. We are to the point of not even having a culture or knowing anything about our heritage at all. Sad day and age we live in

[@johncash2616]

Calvin H. Where at in FL.

[@calvinh.8882]

@@johncash2616, It was in Citrus County, in a Small town called Hernando. It's on private property.

[@debbiebissel50]

Thank You for RESPECTING history,the land and people's privacy.

[@macgyver2417]

Gone but hopefully never forgotten. Thanks

[@garycraig9361]

I tell you what my friend some may not think it's a big deal but I appreciate that you don't advertise the locations nor even the names of the deceased on the markers, it just shows class and respect, I also find it remarkable folks continue visiting the graves of their loved ones after all the years.

[@katiekoehlmoos6472]

I love old graveyards. What an incredible place. It was really amazing to hear Eddie reading those haunting epitaphs with your beautiful, original musical score and the gorgeous Vermont woods as the backdrops. I shall not forget this video. It was an experience. Truly beautifully put together. Love you intrepid spirits and your videos.

[@kathytrumble5283]

I do too.

[@hickory572]

Thank you for being respectful of the dead by not giving up there names but also reading the head stones. It is sad that they where displaced. But not forgotten because of good people like you and Eddie. Does make one wonder how a rock that size made it on top of a log.

[@marthatripp5244]

Great to see Eddie. Thanks for doing another beautifully made video.

[@Pwrcritter]

Yes im digging the kinder, gentler Eddie, lol.

[@eddcurry1245]

I love how you respect places and the land. You also are an excellent film maker, story teller; and it’s always a joy to watch your videos.

[@Disneyprincess00]

Love ur videos. I feel like I’m walking right beside you.

[@joebrown1382]

Wow Brad this video really tugged on me. The reading of the stones was a bit emotional. Even without detecting this is one of my favorites. Not easy to find thanks for the effort.

[@LanceHall]

DUDE! These headstones you keep finding can you PLEASE upload the data to Find-A-Grave. Genealogists like me go to great lengths to find and document graves. You may be finding totally undocumented graves. PLEASE document them if they are NOT yet already on Find-A-Grave. Thank you.

[@TINMAN]

Agreed,

[@haltroller3911]

I’ve got graves all in the woods by me, some marked by stones from the woods!

[@janeprather8594]

Absolutely beautiful. You are always so respectful of your area and their descendants. The music is so appropriate for each video and the videography is outstanding. Love your work!

[@livefreehobbies4326]

My 10 year old son and I started metal detecting last year. Your videos got us through the winter boredom and all amped up for the spring. I can't express how much we enjoy your videos as well as your appreciation for history and nature. If I lived anywhere near Vermont I would love to go on one of these trips with you. You seem like one cool guy. Keep doing what you do!

[@grangranzulaski1084]

Such a wonderful adventure!! At 77 I miss our backpacking adventures into the cascade lakes in Oregon. Lots of fun fishing and walks were had. Going with you into the woods is so refreshing.

[@granddad-mv5ef]

This is very likely my favorite GMMD episode,for more than one reason. Thank you Brad and Ed.

[@johnmullins929]

Excellent. Nice way to honour the memory of a community that has fallen by the wayside for progress. They're just memories now and memories are fleeting.

[@donnachic]

Fleeting memories indeed.. unless someone like Brad comes along and encourages us to remember..

[@richardwintle1020]

Came back to watch again. This is one of my favourite GMMD videos - the music, editing, story, humourous moments (all that Sasquatch banter!), the reverence for the final location. Beautifully done. This part of southern Ontario is full of pioneer-era (mainly mid- to late-1800's) cemeteries, but we don't have the beautiful mountain scenery of Vermont. I do love the poignant epitaphs on many of the stones though - very similar in style and tone to the ones you read out here.

[@andrewpennell37]

This video in my opinion was one of your best. It's not always about finding physical things from the past. The quiet sarinity of that resting place speaks volumes about that community and the people that lived there... and you shared that with us. Wonderful job Brad!

[@WW2HistoryHunter]

Thank you again for sharing great material. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter.

[@redgarcia1427]

Glad to see some people were raised to show respect! Thank you! All your videos I've watched you've been very respectful to the area!! ✌🐢

[@sanjose6018]

Somebody's raising some wonderful young people... that's for sure

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Enjoyed the video Brad! Good to see Eddie too. And LOL. Just last week I tried the Belvita soft baked Banana bread biscuits. They are amazing. However, mine were not from 2017. :)

[@davidtomasetti8520]

That was a really good one Brad! even without the detectors.

[@davidphilippi4429]

Very nicely done. Thank you for showing reverence and respect.

[@ddttdd38]

I just want to say that I am so glad I found your channel. I really enjoy all of your videos and I share them with my friends. I love the videography, the soundtrack, and your skill at finding artifacts. I also love the beautiful surroundings that you hunt in and your appreciation for them. You, sir, are a top notch metal detectorist! Thank you for your videos!

[@GMMD]

Thanks so much!

[@Steve-Pitt]

You know it's Friday for sure when this pops into your feed!

[@dddirtfishers9817]

I get excited every time.

[@dogmosatchmo]

All I need in the morning is coffee, and Green Mountain videos. Highly impressive that you make the music as well. Highly impressive. Giant fan, who has watched ALL of your videos. Most, multiple times.

[@pettyeddie2000]

Good morning Brad and good morning to you too Eddie. Nice to see you back. The wilderness photos were awesome but then came the actual cemetery. How amazing and beautiful those head stones were. I really enjoyed seeing them. Great work as always Brad. See you next Friday !

[@pigoff123]

Brad I am so happy with how well you protect the places you go. Another awesome video. Thank you.

[@JayFramed]

430 am in California but always have to watch these vids !

[@christinah9100]

This is by far my favorite of your videos! Absolutely beautiful!

[@chopper1168]

I live in vermont and know where you guys are and it is a beautiful place. So happy you keep your locations secret so they stay pristine.

[@jeffblais6807]

Nice adventure. Thanks guy's. Glad you and Eddie are able to join forces again. Keep that Vermont humor going. Peace

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Brad & Eddieeeeee, you guys make me roll up, you two are great together making video's, I wish you could get together more but hey I'll take what I can get lol. Wow joking aside, what a beautiful video and such a lovely kept graveyard. Graveyards much closer to towns and cities are looked after less. I loved the epitaphs and how they were read, very poetic. Thank you both for such an amazing video. xx

[@laurenoreilly4140]

I’ve never cried watching any of your videos so far. This one made me cry. You show so much respect for these people. I love the way you presented this, the music, the reading of the stones, the history. I love everything about this. Thanks for sharing this❤️🙏

[@SCCL1000]

How very touching for you to have found this remote though not forgotten sanctuary in the woods. Loveliness abounds in this video.

[@donlong3930]

I enjoyed your cemetery video. Thank you for respecting the dead. You guys are awesome.

[@Rehsmj2012]

Absolutely beautiful there. One can find peace and serenity there. Thanks for sharing.

[@pinstripingbybear.]

@ 6:19 do you know why Blackberries are there in cleanings like that ? There is a few reasons.. one of them is they need open sunlight and more water to grow and Another reason is birds flying over tend to poop in open areas not over trees where they live so the Berrie seeds they eat are dropped in Clearings like that same thing with small animals walking through the clearings.. I learned that when I was in the boy scouts

[@Larweigan]

Cool! I Didn't think of that 😃

[@dogmosatchmo]

Also, some power companies will plant them to avoid having to go back so often for maintenance. I worked for Asplundh who had a contract with Dominion power, and our job was to cut down everything, and spread a seed mixture. It was predominantly blackberries, with wisteria and trumpet honey suckle. The intention, is to mitigate tree growth, so the power company doesn't have to go so often to cut down trees. (Or hire others to do so)

[@TheKeenej]

Nice vlog. Thanks for sharing. So glad you kept the names hidden. Here in South Georgia, there are ample amounts of old graveyards. One thing I noticed is the amount of welch or conch shells around a lot of the older ones. The ole timers explain that the sound you hear when placed up to ear sounds like the ocean. Made sense. Nothing more calming than to hear the ocean. Have you encountered this? I would like to know your take on this.

[@elizabethlittler4472]

Hi I'm in the UK. We always listened to the sea in shells and I taught my children and granddaughter the same thing xx

[@Hoonozit]

Mighty respectful of you. I can tell you are a good man, Brad.

[@silentarcher99]

The respect and reverence that you show to those who have gone before to pave the way is awesome!!! You, sir, are a class act and I so wish there more more like you!!

[@westislandkev]

Thank you for your videos. It's a pleasure to see the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont. You are a lucky person to have so many wonderful history-rich places to metal detect in your neck of the woods. Watching your videos is a pure and simple pleasure.

[@Bsargentnoble1]

Thank you for the thoughtful and respectful manner in which you presented this place

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

This was your best yet, Brad. Remarkable. Rest in Peace.

[@allieregan5045]

❤️Loved this. Great adventure. Thank you for taking us along.

[@snickerstorino]

beautiful sir, thanks for sharing this with the world. What a solemn and yet amazing experience it must have been.

[@rd-tb1uw]

Thank you for taking us along on that journey.

[@jeanfleissner1660]

Beautiful scenery especially admired all the ferns. I am from Pa. & several years ago a young man earned his Eagle Scout badge by clearing & cleaning up an old graveyard. He researched the history of the family & it was published in the local paper. The area is still being maintained & can be seen off 79S between Washington & Canonsburg. BTW the stones dated were Civil War period.

[@rettrasberry4019]

Another beautiful and historic journey! Thank you.

[@pennystpierre4740]

Thank You for taking me along, I enjoyed that.

[@Teresia12]

I am quite envious of the landscape you have there. It is so beautiful. I miss my country home and blackberries. I love blackberries.

[@jaysonmailloux435]

This story reminds me of when the Saint- Lawrence seaway was created , villages and communities were also lost. In the Long-Sault parkway in Ontario, while canoeing we came across a submerged church steeple still visible below the surface. We continued following the old remains of the cresting roads through the water. A moving experience.

[@auldbadyin]

Well that was incredibly poignant as well as beautiful. Heart warming to see families keeping the cemetery cared for. Thanks for sharing and for maintaining the privacy of the place. Loved the heron flying off and the aquatic big foot banter. 👍

[@Mountlougallops]

Thanks for taking us someplace we’d never have experienced without your video. Beautiful.

[@PanManLou]

I really appreciate the thoughtfulness that you, Brad, and all others that you bring with you on these adventures to show, us the viewers, the respect in which you handle your finds. Love watching, listening to the music and pictures you capture. Thanks man!

[@joesommers9311]

a very nice deviation from metal detecting, a great video too. It's weird you did this video, my mother passed on sept.14, 2018 a day before her 75th birthday but it's good to see you guys are looking after those who cannot! GREAT VIDEO GUYS!!!

[@martismastiffs]

Beautiful... really enjoyed the poems someone read for us, in remembrance of the people of our past.

[@grammap9853]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful video. I enjoyed your reading of the monuments.

[@cj_m2477]

Great video. I really respect that you don’t show the names of people on the grave stones. Let them Rest In Peace. I wish I knew Vermont as well as you and Eddie do. No place like it anywhere else.

[@MarkSwansonMusic]

A great video, Brad! Your classy videos show more than just metal detecting, and this one is so good. I recently found a lost cemetery here in Michigan and it was a moving experience too. Good job!

[@johncearley8463]

I hope you know and understand what a great job that you do with your videos. After watching them I always take the time to read the comments and I am always impressed with how many people take the time to comment but more with how you have touched people with the respect and knowledge you have for the ones who came before us. Thank You Brad for giving me the opportunity to tag along on your journey to places I know I would have never seen.

[@jackieroach2680]

Your videos are always so beautifully shot and I love the music. I love old cemeteries as well. They’re just fascinating to see how long ago they lived and sometimes read how they died.

[@terryhennessey5688]

What a beautiful resting place. Felt a connection with the last epitaph. Told my kids to bury me in the hills of Vermont when the time comes. Serene. Thank you, Brad.

[@beccastein9241]

Yay! The best part about Fridays! Well, next to taking my daughter to her midwife appointments every Friday of course lol 😊

[@Long_Haired_Country_Boy]

Love the intro music! I’d buy a CD with just the music on it. Great videography as always, it’s good to see that the cemetery is being taken care of. Treasure your time with your friends, you never know how long or short that time may be. Glad to see Eddie, but I’m worried about the boy, he left home without a banana!

[@jamiebryant5251]

Long Haired Country boy, everytime I listen to Brads cd, it's as if I'm in the forest walking with him surrounded by nature

[@crissheehan6557]

I just bought his CD.... www.gmmd.us/store/c6/Store.html

[@jaybales3160]

Respectfully done gentlemen. Beautiful video production. Looking forward to your next video.

[@2FunWoolyboogers]

Brad,wonderful glimpse of some old American History. With Respect. Phyllis and I got the shirts and the gear we ordered. Pretty Cool. Keep giving us that "Dose of History and Reality". We all appreciate the efforts.

[@MBeasy52]

Excellent.

[@millwrightbob7499]

Brad, You are a class act. I enjoy your videos alot. Good to see Eddie again. The music is tasteful and the video is top notch. Thanks for your hard work and dedication to your audience. You take us places that most of us would never see. Bob

[@Udowgirl]

**Whispers*** "Its kinda Squatchy in here" lol that made my day right there

[@lydylnonners3065]

Wow! Absolutely beautiful cemetery in the middle of nowhere! Wonderful video, yet again!

[@lindahudspeth7780]

I just love your videos EVERYONE of them! I look forward to each Friday! Thank You so much and your music is spot on! Cheers from Australia

[@janetfranklin2223]

maybe you can contact the local genealogy society about the graveyard to see if they have its records. I'm a genealogist and I know how much it would mean that someone could find its relatives. I've traced one set of grandparents to Jamestown, Va to the 1600s. It is amazing how much a cemetery helps with research.

[@AECRADIO1]

Thanks for this video. I am happy you show reverence for those that went before you. You are like I am, in for the sights and adventure, not monetary gain. Those who came before us, must be remembered, or we lose sight of who we are. Thank you!

[@GMMD]

Thanks for watching, Ernest!

[@gregorybarr6112]

Beautiful and serene! Thanks for sharing your video!

[@colynnwatson8559]

beautiful and moving.

[@ccccarriemchardy9216]

Its fantastic that someone is looking after this wonderful place.

[@theyarddogs4100]

Them old cemetery's down south are just awesome I think they will be taken care for ever. Awesome video. Carl HH

[@ashleighnelson512]

Another fantastic adventure with Brad & Eddie! Thanks for making my Friday complete! One reason you probably find berries under the power lines is the birds who eat them will perch on the lines. The seeds will survive the bird's GI tract and are deposited wherever they happen to poop them out. The sunny locale of the power line easement makes a perfect new home for the berries to thrive.

[@user-randi1987]

Thank you, Brad and Eddie. This was very nice.

[@UrbanDKaye]

Very cool. And props to Eddie for the Gorn reference. lol Closer to my area there's a section of the Delaware river that was slated for a dam project in the 60s. The govt displaced the homeowners and prepared to flood the valley, but an old law prohibited damming the Delaware and the project (called the Tocks Island Dam) was scrapped. The land is now a protected wildlife area, filled with abandoned homes, towns, graveyards, etc.

[@TheNordicharps]

Beautiful. Thank you, Brad xx

[@keithlea6804]

We just found and made a box of brownies the date on the box was 2001. Brownies do have an exploration date. No amount of icecream can help

[@katiekoehlmoos6472]

LOL

[@tennesseegem1063]

Great video and you did a great job of filming it. The respect that you gave that place was Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[@nansea9691]

OMG Brad! You are so good! What a beautiful video, I loved every aspect of it. Your music with it is so perfect, it gave me goosebumps! Such talent you have, it feels like I am walking right along with you. Excellent video, good job!!!

[@GMMD]

Thanks so much, Nan!

[@steveo1239]

Wonderful video! Loved the slide guitar intro and the haunting music in the graveyard.

[@tattooRGBharley]

I have to say I love watching your videos. Not just for what you find but for the nature shots too. I it so beautiful watching.

[@downinthemuff]

Loved the music during the cemetery visit, it was very haunting and very suitable. Great video guys thanks for taking time to bring it to us.

[@camillefulton7709]

GREAT TO SEE U BRAD AND EDDIE, GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS. SAD TO SEE THOSE GRAVES SO ISOLATED, THERE IN BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY ANYWAY.

[@outlaw560]

Your music is awesome, would you consider someone else’s original musing for one of your videos?

[@nancyford4536]

Loved this video. You and Eddie are always great together. Thanks

[@kitsimmonds.344]

Thank goodness for Friday! Your uploads are the highlight of today's viewing, plus it's always great to see Eddie.

[@donnareiter9422]

Beautiful place for a cemetary.thanks for the trip.

[@Phantom-Hawk]

Your videos keep getting better and better. The flora and fauna of the Green Mountains of VT is beautiful. Keep up those good productions and we will all wait eagerly every Friday to see your next adventure. And of course everything you do is better when you have your “Sancho Panza“ Eddie P tagging along. Be well.

[@lindaklooster6875]

You have so much respect for everything you see,we need millions of clones just like you!

[@bigkahuna6277]

Great adventure as usual, look forward to Friday’s just to watch....thanks

[@davidraines2873]

This was a great video Brad and Eddy. Nice that some one makes the trek out to the spot and takes care of it but leaves it natural

[@randysmalling5722]

That was one of your best video. Makes you think about the lives back then.

[@stormygcannon1229]

Love how you respect the people deceased. In a National Forest bothers me people forget that not to be disturbed. Glad to see though families can go up there to attend the cemetery. To me how respect should be. Thank you.