1,000 Graves For Every Living Resident (Colma, CA)

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  • čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
  • Colma, California is a city of the dead. Where the residents of San Francisco have been buried for over 100 years. 1.5 million graves fill a town with 1,500 total residents.
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Komentáře • 40

  • @MasonObscura
    @MasonObscura  Před 2 lety

    Need more California oddities? Check out the playlist:
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  • @YedolfWesler
    @YedolfWesler Před 3 lety +18

    Imagine you paid for a grave and they just take it one day. I'm haunting someone.

  • @VRed37
    @VRed37 Před 3 lety +16

    I love visiting old cemeteries and love to read about their histories. This was so interesting. Sad and kinda creepy seeing headstones used in the streets.

    • @ryangoose7630
      @ryangoose7630 Před 3 lety

      Well it's simple nobody dies..

    • @tinastralka7534
      @tinastralka7534 Před 6 měsíci

      It's theft someone paid for graveside and stone and greedy people just take what they want

  • @thomasdegowin3216
    @thomasdegowin3216 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Commentary was well organized and presented in video. Well done.

  • @teecee695
    @teecee695 Před rokem +5

    That’s a horrible way to use grave stones…

  • @dkgreen5458
    @dkgreen5458 Před 3 lety +2

    I surprised of the green spaces that Colma has. My paternal grandmother's family are buried in Mt Zion in Queens, NYC. Other than the paths that line the cemetery like a street, there is virtually no land. It looks like the dead were buried standing up. This is acres of land. Maurice Avenue, the street that forms the eastern boundary of the cemetery, on the north side of the Long Island Expressway, you will be looking west. The foreground is tall narrow headstones separated by millimeters of one another. No blade of grass. Creepy looking isolated trees. In the background you saw the skyscrapers of Manhattan which is about 7 1/2 miles. The tall buildings looked like gigantic tombstones flushed against the tall narrow headstones

  • @Michelle-bx5si
    @Michelle-bx5si Před 3 lety +2

    That makes for a seriously unsettled city of the dead. 😵‍💫

  • @thomasdillon7761
    @thomasdillon7761 Před 3 lety +5

    There's a special place in Hell for those who disturb the dead.

  • @lynnenneji2070
    @lynnenneji2070 Před 3 lety +3

    "Oh my, wow, Jesus", just some of my comments while watching your video. So interesting. Thanks so much for stitching this history together for us.

  • @joeboatwrench9315
    @joeboatwrench9315 Před 3 lety +1

    Great job!
    Loved it.
    Thanks.

  • @christinasornbutnark1208
    @christinasornbutnark1208 Před 3 lety +1

    Dude that was NUTS!!!

  • @JohnSmith-kf1fc
    @JohnSmith-kf1fc Před 3 lety +1

    You nailed it again Mason!

  • @laureen96
    @laureen96 Před 3 lety +1

    This is where parts of Vertigo was filmed the cemetary connected to tower & church

  • @shazmosushi
    @shazmosushi Před 3 lety +1

    5:05 Crazy the old gravestones are part of the pedestrian paths

  • @JamesReedy
    @JamesReedy Před 3 lety +2

    Whoa, wild history…I only knew Colma was full of car dealerships.

  • @wadeparker8695
    @wadeparker8695 Před 3 lety +1

    Love that sign off line!!)) thanks cheers 🍻

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 Před 3 lety +2

    Thanks Mason. i knew vaguely of Colma, but not the details. Now i want to go see it myself!:-) 🖖

  • @user-hl2bz7ej8h
    @user-hl2bz7ej8h Před 8 měsíci

    Just found you and think your doing a great job will catch up looking at content 😊

    • @MasonObscura
      @MasonObscura  Před 8 měsíci

      I appreciate it! Hope you enjoy them.

  • @Lazris59
    @Lazris59 Před rokem +3

    Damn, I am now wondering if this happened in NY since they are just like SF, surrounded on 3 sides by water. Crazy to exhume people... and even crazier to give away someone's headstone. JFC. Those wild west movies with someguy selling coffins to make a buck weren't lying. These guys were cut throat making a buck on selling their tombstone as building material... The 49s were just ate up and spit out by the gold rush capitalist making money off selling them transportation, supplies and a grave. Life must of been so rough for them.

  • @kenhoyer8601
    @kenhoyer8601 Před 11 měsíci

    Herb Cain quoted that Colma was the city that waits for the city to die to die.

  • @birdfriday
    @birdfriday Před 7 měsíci

    Did Jensen McRae watch this and then write a song? Bless this video because that song is a work of art

    • @MasonObscura
      @MasonObscura  Před 7 měsíci

      Interesting. Never heard of the song until now

  • @olegdoubko9351
    @olegdoubko9351 Před 3 lety

    Wow dude awesome super interesting thanks 🙏

  • @cababyboomerq6012
    @cababyboomerq6012 Před 3 lety +2

    Using headstones for public works? Disgraceful, period.

  • @KevinGoodson-og3ik
    @KevinGoodson-og3ik Před 5 měsíci

    I was there,Several times to make Deliveries. Very Creepy! 1996.

  • @orellisupplyl4178
    @orellisupplyl4178 Před 10 měsíci +1

    If Poltergeist were a vibe this video explains Frisco's current state, not to mention elephant-in-the-room political policies.

  • @dennisweikel1534
    @dennisweikel1534 Před 2 lety

    When you showed the collumbarium, not the collumbarium.

  • @tinastralka7534
    @tinastralka7534 Před 6 měsíci

    Evil people paid to put loved ones to rest and greedy people decide that land/ graveside belongs to them the stoned was paid was now stolen. Just like greedy people make laws for you to fish that they don't own. Greed😮

  • @kateapple1
    @kateapple1 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I would not accept a glass of water in Colma 😂😂😂😂 the groundwater has GOT to be demonic by now 😅

  • @mikearreola2609
    @mikearreola2609 Před 5 měsíci

    It’s pretty shady nd highly disrespectful to treat peoples graves and headstones that way! They came to strike gold and little did they know they’d die and be treated so cold. Forgotten and basically erased by man, not by God.

  • @nicem8746
    @nicem8746 Před 3 lety

    Seems peaceful. I wonder what the crime rate is, is it a good place to live?

  • @michaeltaylor7025
    @michaeltaylor7025 Před 3 lety +5

    Sounds like a democratic town.

  • @rudymorales7485
    @rudymorales7485 Před 3 lety +5

    Something new to me. All registered democrats with a 100% voter turnout.