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Houses for the dead...what about the living?
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Sanctuary
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Re: Houses for the dead...what about the living?
Sep 09, 2010, 17:39
Resonox wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
This meant removing the decrepit old outhouse that was already attached and where we discovered a brick lined grave beneath ground with the remains of a skellie in...headstone and all of a lady named Elizabeth. The digger driver who unearthed it fled from the scene and was never seen again!!

Surely the police had to question you all(digger driver included)...until the age of the burial was verified...It's the law of the land that all skeleton remains need to be treated as an unlawful death until proven otherwise your honour!


This was in a proper grave with a written headstone...'Here Lyeth...etc' date of birth/death etc so no mystery attached to it. Across the lane was a small chapel so we approached the man in black and told him about it. He had a very modern approach to it all and said that if we notified the authorities they would stop us building for a short while and as it was a mate of his that owned the house he would come and collect the remains and re-bury them for us in the same garden. And that's exactly what he did under a hole a labourer dug under an apple tree. He gave a short prayer and that was it, job done!
It was the headstone that came out of the ground first like something out of a horror movie when the leveller on the Bobcat struck the top corner of it on its first run. It was on the second run that the slate covering came off the tomb and the driver did a runner leaving us to deal with it all.
Funnily enough when a couple of labourers were pulling the old outhouse down one of them remarked how 'uncomfortable' he felt working in a certain area....no guessing where that was!
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