Man Caught Digging For Treasure In Cemetery

[itmaiden]

The cast iron decoration should have been put back at the same spot he found it. Obviously there is a grave there as there usually are by trees. Up in NE Arkansas, many of the old graves don't have markers. Just wasn't anyone to make tombstones back in the early settlement days and many people were poor. Usually just a small stone is set at the head of the grave. If you walk on the old graves you could be "in it" as they sink in deeply after the wood coffins rot.

One guy was metal detecting by a river when he found a square nail. Hoping there was a box of treasure he kept searching and found more square nails. He never found the box as it had rotted away. It's occupant had not. Made for an interesting day. The occupant was a woman buried properly facing east with her hair pulled back and adorned with a hair decoration and wearing a dress. The state couldn't let the woman rest in peace even though it was obviously an 1800's burial. They just "had to" yank her up and send her to Little Rock for xrays to be "studied". States do not respect the peace of those who have gone.

itmaiden

 

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[Siegfried Schlagrule]

Why did this make the news if the man was not charged, ticketed, or arrested?

This bodes poorly.

Make sure you close all gates!

That will cause as much bad will as cemetery digging. You leave all gates as you find them -
closed if they were closed or open if they were opened. Open gates are open for a reason.
Usually to allow livestock to reach the water tanks. A rancher with a bunch of thirsty or dead
steers wants to know why. You don't want to be the why he comes up with. siegfried schlagrule

 

[Philvis]

I guess he read the cemetery digging story in the Lost Treasure magazine a couple issues back.

 

[truckinbutch]

We have 3 family cemetaries on the home farm that have been unattended by any of the original families in over 70 years . 2 times geaneologists / archies have visited and remarked , "Isn't that nice" , took a few pics and went on back to hell where they came from without ever so much as plucking a weed off their 'revered' ancestors graves .
I would NEVER! hunt these places .
I do , however , spend time sitting with these 'Old Souls' and giving them some respect for their move toward the hope of affluence .....And some sympathy for how they were abandoned by their progeny.....
The stones start out as rough hewn native sandstone in the 1700's and transition from finished sandstone through the mid 1800's to beautifuly worked imported granite up until 1930 .
Subsequent family generations are interred in public resting places ; many 'saucer' buryings on the getgo and now have progressed to the fine monuments , again .
None of these have asked to come back to care for their ancestors resting places .

 

[Roadquest]

Could be, this guy was brain dead..

 

[Bum Luck]

Could be, this guy was brain dead..

Abby Normal?

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

LOL!!!

Could be, this guy was brain dead..

Abby Normal?