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  1. Well done Jonathon! I enjoyall of your vids. I have been researching this area for over 25 years. Would love to buy you a bbQ one day and share our knowledge with each other.

  2. Good video. Curious as to the type of Camera Mount system you are using. Is it a GlideCam or some other brand of that type of counterweighted gimbaled system? As for how a graveyard can be "forgotten", unfortunately for the most of us, once we get past 3 generations from ourselves, even our own family doesn't remember us, or even knew us. I know "of" my great great grandparents. But I never met them. I know where some of them are buried, but only because my mom did know them as a child, and did genealogical research on the family back in the 1980's. She wanted to be buried in the same country cemetery back in Central Tennessee, so she is. I can walk the lines of headstones and see these same names I remember from her research, but I never knew them. Once a cemetery is "full", and if the small town nearby becomes depressed economically and the people move away, these places simply go back to the wilds. In just a few generations, it's lost to time. So if you really want to be remembered for a long time on this side of the veil, we better do something pretty amazing, something that makes a big impact on humanity. Or we too will be lost to time…

  3. I grew up around Southern Indiana and there are a lot of "forgotten" cemeteries there. Some I found in the woods with no access to them. Then as the years went by roads were built to them. Not long after that the old markers started getting vandalized. People/kids would bust them up or just knock them over because most are just thin sandstone markers. They would have been better off if the roads were never built. I did find a plot however in a wooded area in Gibson County. It was hidden in a corner of a woods along the edge of a field a couple hundred yards from the road. When I first noticed it I seen that the grass was kept trimmed and upon further inspection we found a single marker in a roughly 20×20 plot of well maintained grass surrounded by a foot tall iron fence like border. I forget the details exactly on the marker now but it was a Civil War vet. I thought that was pretty cool. It was many years ago and I've moved away since but I would like to go back and see if I could find it again. Now that we have smart phones I could take pics of it and maybe research the man who lies there.

  4. Jonathan loved this short film of graves. I think that those stones around small grave were most likely of child with no top to place flowers. 1800's threw early 1900's so many people died of disease before they had preventive medicines. I used to do a lot of genealogy in past and looked at many cemeteries mainly in New Hampshire, Maine, and Wisconsin. Most of spirits I have heard of were caused from un-natural deaths like during civil war or Indian wars.

  5. Hahaha. Drop the camera and run…. You made me giggle. Be glad you aren't me. I see spirits all the time. Wake up to them looking at me just inches from my face. They don't mean any harm and I know it. Great video, Jonathon!

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