Catawissa's Hooded Grave Cemetery

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Hooded graves, also known as “mortsafes”, were prevalent in England and Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries as a means of preventing body snatchers from stealing the corpses of the newly-deceased which they would then sell to medical schools, doctors, and anatomy instructors.

they apparently never heard of wire clippers 👹
 

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