The Mystery of Barbados’ Moving Coffins
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If it wasn't just made up, could also get a coffin standing on its head from simply there having been more weight there as the water made it float. Lower body weighing less than upper body, so the coffin floating up by its lower portion first.
Can you make a episode written by chat gpt. Would be interesting
I've seen water move dozens of coffins during various flash floods in Louisiana. These were all modern, metal, sealed coffins. In the southern part of the state, the water table is so high that most folks are interred either in fully above-ground mausoleums or in individually sized concrete boxes set only slightly into the ground, so that their thick lids sit at or slightly above the surface. Often, newer boxes are then stacked vertically atop the 1st. Only in a few hilly areas is it possible to dig a proper grave but even there, enough water can still move the coffins.
Obviously, all the above-ground structures are apt to be swept away in a flood but the interesting thing is unearthing of coffins in ground-level boxes and even buried several feet in the ground. This happens due to the buoyancy of the coffins. In the case of the ground-level concrete boxes, water gets in under the lid and floats the coffin within the box. This doesn't require a major flood, just enough water to fill the small space between the coffin and the sides of the box. Thus, it can happen just from a common hard rain of several inches in a short time. Anyway, the coffin is buoyant enough to lift the lid of the box, this being concrete 3-4" thick. As the coffin is usually curved on top, the lid tends to slide off to 1 side and end up slightly askew when the storm passes, like somebody with insufficient means tried to rob the grave. But if there's a major flood happening then coffin might be able to rise completely out of the box and float away in the surface water.
The process is essentially the same for coffins buried in the ground, although this takes a particularly severe storm and flash flood, especially after a fairly wet period preceding it. It also usually requires a fairly fresh grave, where the dirt above the coffin is still relatively loose. The ground gets so saturated that the coffin starts floating upwards through it, and the dirt above is so soggy and loosely packed that it can't prevent the coffin rising. As a result, the coffin can erupt from the ground with some force, usually with 1 end coming up first like at the end of that old "Poltergeist" movie. There is actually news video footage of this happening. Anyway, as this is a severe storm, there's usually a fair bit of water flowing across the surface so the coffin is often then swept away, although sometimes it remains upended partially protruding from its grave.
Anyway, coffins float (at least modern metal ones). Add sufficient water and they move very easily. This is a well-known and documented thing in Louisiana, happening basically in every major storm. But it's never been considered supernatural because it always happens during a highly obvious storm and up on the surface where it's totally visible while it's happening. The only difference between this and the Barbados case is the lack of visibility inside the tomb while this was happening.
Adding Ask a Mortician to "random references I did not expect from the whistlerverse"
"The Whistlerverse." I like it!
If ghosts are real, Simon would still refuse to become one after he kicks the bucket
No, he wants to live forever, he'd sit down for a ghostly brunch with the pharaohs to figure out how to last as a ghost the longest.
@@personzorz If you could live forever you'd still inevitable die at one point because you'd get stuck somewhere and die of starvation or dehydration - it actually got approached mathematically and over time the chance to get stuck in a situation you can't free yourself of approaches certainty. 🤣
@@kai_plays_khomuspresumably a GHOST wouldn't have that issue.
Also if your immortal then you'd just have to wait for someone to come along and pull you out or erosion or whatever to get you out of wherever you eventually get stuck.
If they're real he'd actively choose to move on anyway to avoid anyone noticing him and thinking ghosts exist
If he became a ghost he would be a sixth sense/the others type of ghost where be thinks he's still alive and assumes he's just having huge memory issues
Ask A Mortition is a fantastic channel that this audience would love and those who don't watch it should
Ask a Retired Mortician :) Her channel is pretty darn good nontheless.
@@ABrit-bt6ce Did Caitlin actually change the name of the channel? I've been wondering why I haven't been notified of any new uploads in forever.
She's been on sabbatical, but has been slowly revving up again. Sounds like she's got things in the works. @audreymuzingo933
@@audreymuzingo933 No, she's just gone a bit quiet. I watched the JFK vid just after I commented. 2 months ago was the last from her.
The middle ages were magic 🎵
I know that it's not the actual reason, but the thought of Mrs. Goddard's spirit being annoyed at the interlopers and Taking Steps To Resolve The Problem amuses me greatly.
"Get OUT of my HOUSE" *yeets coffins*
"Get OUT of my HOUSE" *yeets coffins*
Exactly what I came here to say! :D
Or just being annoyed at having the cheapest coffin.
As someone who’s lived in New Orleans all their life, and has witnessed the destruction and damage that a hurricane and flooding can cause.., coffins and caskets can be disturbed by the water and moved an astonishing distance from their resting place. After Katrina, the roads were littered with coffins, some were even torn open and the bodies were exposed or washed away entirely. The common method of burial here is to “bury” the dead in above ground tombs or crypts because the water table is so high that the bodies wouldn’t stay buried after the first major thunderstorm. The force of water is incredible. One cubic foot of water weighs 64 pounds and once it starts moving, it is powerful enough to level buildings.
lol I just commented something similar as a (now former) fellow New Orleanian! Hi!
That’s why you just don’t live below sea level. Common sense. Adopt mandatory cremation
Ee! I'm so very unreasonably excited to hear our very own Mortician Lady get a shout-out on this channel! :D
Yes! Caitlin is so under rated. She's demystified so much about death and dying in such a positive way that we just need more of her in the world
@@Seanii9323 Agreed. And less, like, CZcams censoring her because *gasp!* she mentioned... DEATH!!
I would never have guessed that my tiny island would have made it as a feature video on any of your channels in any form.. But here we are ^.^ ... Fun fact; Barbados is in the Atlantic. NOT, the Caribbean ^.^
Barbados Slim!!
My family are from Barbados and I didnt even know that!
It’s like saying Hawaii is in America; it’s part of America, so technically true, even though it is located in the Pacific.
Yep I learned so at school (combermere) in Barbados we are an Atlantic island nation though obviously culturally Caribbean.
I told my story on Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. I knew Barbados was south. I wasn't sure how far south. Also, my mind kept thinking of Jamaica! I had a friend from Jamaica. She was well educated & very kind. I loved my visits with her.
Yey.. Caitlyn got a shoutout! Highly recommend her book titled Smoke gets in your eyes. She answers all the odd questions often wondered in relation to the death process.
Is this a different title from Will My Cats Eat My Eyeballs by her?
I laughed at so many parts of "Smoke gets in your eyes" bwahhhaaa. Guess I have a sicker sense of humor than I thought lol
The best indication of flooding, aside from the actual movement of the caskets, is the mention of some of the caskets beginning to essentially disassemble themselves; the wooden portions of the caskets popping their seems; one even needing to be bound with wire to keep it together.
Having previously worked in a cemetery which featured about a 1 in 3 rate of entombment (vs internment) for enough years to know a bit about this sort of thing, I can attest that lead-lined casket's seals were actually better than our modern equivalent. They would typically not "fart", but rather swell slightly; the lead stretching; and thus maintaining their seals.
The casket that ended up in a standing position would not be so unusual, in that the "contents of the box" (being mostly viscose liquid and bones) may have shifted to the lower end of the casket as it started to rise with the water-level, leaving the other end more buoyant. It's actually more-strange-than-not that only one casket was found in this orientation.
I’m a bit puzzled, you wrote about the caskets that ended up in a a standing position and why. But most ended up on their heads, supposedly. And also Simon says coffins although I’m not sure they know the difference. Just theoretically I am assuming a coffin more likely to end up with the head down, as the narrow part seems more likely to float(?). I’m not sure honestly but when I think of bottles the top tends to float up and the bottom down, so I guess a greater likelihood of the same for a coffin, but a casket, of course having no narrow end, would be 50/50 chance of which side ended up.
@@KraftyKreator In the time period this story features, they could have been either shape. As to the "head" end of the casket sinking, humans have a greater concentration of bone mass in their upper bodies than their lower. That could have played a role. As well, most crypts have shelf-like pockets in the walls. Into which coffins/caskets would be fitted. This would mean that, in order to be floating around the room, they'd first need to float out from under the shelf above theirs. That might have caused the contents to become jostled a bit, from one end of the box to the other. The exception was the one placed on a bier (plinth, I think some might call it). This one might have had more freedom to tip in whichever direction offered the most/least resistance.
@@EgaoKage Don't forget playing bumper cars with other coffins, heavier ones taking longer to float and coming up underneath an already floating coffin, tipping it up at that end. Just watched video of homes flooded in Texas recently and the contents of the homes were scattered about much like described here.
Also if the smaller coffin was placed head to head on top of the larger then that would cause an uneven weight distribution from the start. Causing it to tilt towards the head end and any liquified contents to follow before it was floating clear of the ground. If it then drifted towards a wall before the water drained from the chamber the wall could have "helped" it to settle on its end when the water drained away. Essentially the wall would have prevented the lighter foot end from touchin the ground as the water drained.
Shout out, Caitlin! Love her channel as well.
I re-watch almost as many Ask A Mortician videos as I do Simon’s various channels! ❤ Thanks for the interesting story Emma!
Yeah I immediately thought flood water, the coffins could very well "tip" in the water, like boats that sink do, making it end up on its 'head' etc... It's not like the contents of a coffin stay perfectly straight or dispersed evenly, easily leading to a heavier end, and again causing a 'tipping'.
I was coming into the comments to add this. Shifts in weight, unequal weight distribution in the coffin construction, small leaks, etc. could all cause this. Not to mention if a coffin got caught up on a ledge or rough surface on the walls, one end would "stick" while the rest lowered with the draining water.
There was that sealed sarcophagus they found a while ago in Egypt upon opening they discovered the 3 buried inside of it had turned in a pool of liquid.
My guess is that the surface inside of the coffin is uneven, causing the liquefied remains to be unbalanced, so when the place is being flooded, only one end is being lifted, like half filled bottle of soda.
I was hoping someone would have mentioned this, as with the decomposing matter being shifted with the movement and ESPECIALLY in the case of one of the individuals being exceptionally large are going to shift how they balance when floating in the water, and thus how and where they're left positioned as the water slowly drains and leaves them positioned strangely and inconsistently to one another which would have made the whole thing feel more supernatural upon discovering it to anyone unfamiliar with what could have caused that.
@@Skelath forbidden smoothie
The ceiling of the vault was arched so if the water level was high the floating coffins could have been turned by it.
Thanks, Simon. As a Geologist, I immediately thought Water.
yes
I've never seen a lead coffin, let alone multiple lead coffins, float. With how big/small the vault is, it would take a strong surge of water to prop a lead coffin, that required 8 men to lift, against the door. Also, how would the only wooden coffin stay in place while lead coffins are thrown about?
@BURDYMAN777 it doesn't take much water for the lead coffins to float. Also, the wooden one was thrown around the first few times, until it was damaged and they tied it back together with wire. From that point on, it didn't move. Boats full of holes tend to be bad at floating.
@@BURDYMAN777 You wont see 8 men carrying the Titanic would you, but she floated, same principal, i have seen many wrecked and destroyed lead coffins etc in crypts and if you had a grasp of energy or forces etc, its a google away, but it really is simple.
@@BURDYMAN777 air inside lead coffins, wood coffin filled with water. A liitle bit of air will pick up alot of weight under water. Google "lift bags". 2 bags about 4ft square full of air will lift a 2000 pound car from the bottom of a river.
Ask a Mortician getting a shoutout is awesome! Lol 🤩🤩 def a great channel to check out!
Love hearing Caitlin on DTU!
This story reminded me of my story of family floating coffins.
In 1980/1981 I lived in Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷 Yes, there is a lot of rain in the Caribbean from the many storms. Yes, many hurricanes hit the islands.
We went to the island several months after grandfather had died. In my case, my husband's grandfather's coffin, along with those buried underneath him, floated up when the cemetery was flooded.
There were many coffins and dead bodies floating around various grave sites!
My husband with his mother's urging had to go out to the cemetery to put the grave site back in order. Mud, muck, water, who goes where, etc. My husband probably helped others as well!
Lord have mercy honey I bet that was a mess 😱
During major flooding events in my area, of the 34 bodies in the morgue 5 had died of of car accidents or heart attacks all the rest had floated up out of their graves all had been buried within the two years prior.
Why New Orleans has above ground cemeteries. Sounds like the flooding you had was bad, sorry you had to go through it.
@angelachouinard4581 didn't say where it was, didn't say it was recent! Completely wrong country!
I’ve watched the entire DTU back catalog in a month and now I get excited whenever there’s a new episode 😂
26:48 especially after hearing about Doyle getting tricked by fake fairy photos made with illustrations cut out of a children's book 😂
Everyone forgets. Holmes was fictional. And Conan Doyle was a loon.
There's no real genius there.
I have been wanting you guys to cover this for so long! And it's my birthday, what an awesome gift from the universe, thanks to you Simon, and your amazing team of writers and editors.
happy birthday!!!
We used to throw puffball mushrooms at each other as kids. I guarantee they don’t explode with any force, you just end up covered with spores. Probably a bad idea, but video games hadn’t been invented yet. 😅 Do take a visit to the Winchester Mystery House, it’s a weird and interesting place.
I'm now like Mrs. Winchester. I'm petite with arthritis in my knees & hips.
I remember the 4" risers for the staircases. I loved it then. But I often think of having shorter risers to prevent arthritic pain in my knees & hips.
I learned so much from Black Forger about puff ball mushrooms it was so interesting.
They grow all over here. They are a natural pesticide that's harmless to humans. That dust drives bugs off really well.
Nice sippy cup Simon 😅
Looks like my granddaughters Disney Princess sippy travel mug😮
Omg!!! Ask a mortician shout out!! My favorite channel… NEED A COLAB!!!
I need the story of Simon's cup from this video, because I have a feeling that it might involve his kids being adorable.
Does he have children?
@@nicoletor8604yep
Ag1
Agreed- immediately thought he had accidentally brought a large sippy cup from home! Made me chuckle the whole time.
Might be a Gamer Sups cup. Many shaker cups are built/look that way.
As a Bajan and avid watcher of all Simon’s channels who is also fascinated with the Chase Vault story I’m so happy to see this!
6 minutes in; does anybody remember the brilliant Jonathan Creek episode called 'The Three Gamblers' where they hide the body at the foot of the basement stairs in a little shack by a river and come back a week later to find the body at the top of the stairs with it's arm outstretched for the door.
I.e. the shack flooded and the body floated up and unfurled as the water rose, before the water drained out again and left it there.
Jonathan Creek was a brilliant programme. Don't remember that specific one though.
I remember reading about this in a book about the unexplained while I was in high School. Thanks for the video.
I remember similar events at a vault in a cemetery in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
The Sexton of the place was not a man who believed in ghosts, but neither he nor the grave diggers could explain it, although water ingress was his best guess.
6:33 Nail, meet head. It was written earlier that the coffins were lead lined, indicating they were sealed, meaning decaying gases would increase buoyancy. So yes, flooding in that area and subsequent draining over years would cause some interesting and spooky things to happen.
Thank you. That somewhat explains how lead coffins could float.
Born and raised in Barbados and never heard of this story! But wooo Bim finally made one of Simon’s channels!!
Had to wait until 18:51 before the Alien Theory appeared.
These AI generated thumbnails are an eyesore.
I know I'm late but thank you very much for citing the extremely good Ask a Mortician channel. Catelyn is an absolute gem and she deserves all the views.
I had quite a few of those children’s books about “the strange and mysterious”, I loved them, but at the same time they gave me crippling fears, the worst was the spontaneous combustion - I just could not stop thinking about it.
Same.
Me too, but they made me jaded. Every time I looked into a subject, I found they left out vital info that gave an obvious and mundane explanation. I don't trust anything now, cuz is always someone who prefers a fairy tale to reality. And so spins the facts.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx I did a cursory search on spontaneous combustion and there does not seem to be a clear scientific explanation, only theories) For the record - I’d love one, it would be rather comforting!
In case anyone was wondering, I thought I'd jump in to help Simon or anyone else who's interested with the pronunciation here. it's Bar-bay-DUHSS rather than DOSS or DOZE. I'm from an island a little further down the chain, and my Grandpa was Bajan (the word for someone from Barbados)! Love your stuff Simon!
Puff balls may be underwhelming to see, especially when people use words like “explode” but they're still super fun to squish.
Geezus Simon, we nearly got fifteen seconds into the video without making fun of people who believe in ghosts. I was worried the channel was changing!
Ooh so many episodes to choose from today.
One eye is swollen shut but I still get my fav CZcamsr so I'm good ❤ great job Emma!
What is wrong with your eye?
2:10 when we visited Barbados locals said "bar-bah-dose"
Aside from the tangent joke at the end this might be the video with the least tangents ever for Simon. So proud.
I’m not saying it’s aliens… BUT…
Yay! Caitlin Doughty! ❤
I’m tickled by the fact of the Chases adding their coffins to Mrs. Goddard’s vault after they bought the property. It reminds me so much of that joke in “Pirates of Penzance” where the Major General is troubled about shaming his ancestors (waves to the vault of ancestors), and Fredrick comments that they’re not his ancestors as he only bought the property a year ago. The major general replies something like, “when I bought the house, I bought the chapel and its contents! I don’t know whose ancestors they *were*, but I know whose ancestors they *are*! And I shudder to think that their descendant by purchase should’ve brought dishonor upon what was probably an unstained family!”
Are we going to brush past the fact one of the kids was named Dorkus? 😅😂
Dorcas was a fairly common name
I'm with you on that... what an unfortunate name, common or not
Almost as bad as Sigourney
Dorcus is a Bible name, hence popular
Dumb.. lol. Another fictional character is froto, that's not a popular name,
I found the cause of why the coffins were moving around! The vault was sealed cement, but they didn't use Nagarjuna Cement... (plays the advertisement song).
I had a book with all of these stories in them that I was obsessed with when I was 10
I like Simon’s sippy cup
Yaaaay my 3rd new Simon video today 😂
You don't think you may have a problem....😅 Cheers from New Zealand
@@stevelee5724 think? Absolutely not I’m much more self aware I know I got a problem 😂😂 shouldn’t pick topics I’m interested in lol
I've never heard of this story either. Thanks for the video
Dear Simon,
You help me get through the day with your endless entertainment.
Casual Criminalist can be a bit hardcore, though.
Thank you,
Jason from Queensland, Australia
Earthquakes activate my motion sickness. It sucks.
Oh you would have HATED my neighborhood a few years back. There was a volcano going off in my district and it caused like a dozen earthquakes a day. I saw one so strong it looked like someone had grabbed the ground and shaken it like a blanket, it *rippled*
I had a picnic in front of this church. I remember it being quite high up compared to the ocean level.
I love that Emma mentioned Ask A Mortician. Caitlyn Doughty is awesome, and her channel is great! ^u^
18:00 puffball mushrooms! I started foraging these a couple years ago. they are good fried up with onion and garlic
... no
I'm becoming very attached to Simon. Not in a weird, stalker way, more in the parasocial way that Simon has no doubt covered in one of his factoid bits. I'm not bald or male (female, fully head haired), but his soothing voice and skeptical, yet questioning takes reel me in. You go, Simon, you're the tits.
So glad for the shoutout to Ask a Mortitian!!
And this was a super fun script!
Simon’s theory on flooding doesn’t pan out. For one they are lead- lined coffins. Sure steel boats and ships can float but that’s because they’re designed to displace enough water to give the buoyancy. Lead is far too heavy for that, especially for something not intended to float. Secondly is the sand: if water was getting in then draining out it would visibly disturb the sand and at least some would drain out with the water.
Sounds like a really awesome unboxing.
What's up Simon you ultimate legend 🔥💯
I agree about the Winchester house. I still wanna see it because it just sounds/looks *really* interesting.
Another fun one!
I live just north of the Winchester mystery house. It is a fun place to visit. It’s very interesting to see but everyone around here knows it’s not haunted.
The funny thing I have seen: the places were weird and unexplainable things ACTUALLY happen, people usually won’t talk much about it. 😅
@@LittleKikuyu Sure they would. People love talking about weird things
Actually, Simon, I’m from Louisiana and I pronounce it Barbadus. Lol
Actually i watched ghost hunters and they said it really is haunted so ya...and they had spectromiters and evps so just because you live near by means nothing
@maxmizer002 hate to break it to ya but ghost hunters and all other tv programs like that exaggerate things for views. My brother was a show runner on a uk ghost hunting show (let's call it Least Unhaunted) and they used to make stuff up to make more interesting TV
Using Occam's Razor, the simplest answer is GHOSTS or ALIENS.
American here. Tomb burial is unusual in much of the country, but is very common in states such as Louisiana and Florida....two states most affected by hurricanes with very low elevations and subtropical climates. During hurricanes and floods, coffins in tombs move around a lot, and there are some gruesome occurances far worse that this case during the infamous Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. This is relatively common knowledge so I am surprised this isn't more well known in a hurricane impacted place like Barbados.
Hey, as a Bajan I always wanted to know more about that grave.
Trevor Marshall spoke about on something that used to show on CBC eons ago
My family is related to the Chase’s. So awesome to hear Simon’s take on a story from my island.
26:46 I think that's why Doyle hated writing Sherlock. He tried to kill him off at Reichenbach falls, but so many fans wrote demanding he write more that he was forced to resurrect him.
Me: *Reads title of video*
My Brain: Zombie...Zombie. ..Zombie Nation! DU DU DU DUT DE DUT DU DUT!!!
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHEREE.. I LOVE YOUUU
“This Baffling World” or something like that. I’m 80% sure I still have a copy around the house. Borley Rectory, Barbados coffins, etc ad nauseam
@5:40 'Dorkas Chase'... Lol... 'Dorkas'! (J/k, I know that's childish, but... Lol.)
It's probably spelled Dorcas, but you're not wrong 😂
You'd get bullied so hard as a child with a name like that now days
@@wolvie1618 So hard. The kids would be merciless.
@@wolvie1618I had a colleague and friend called Dorcas. I also remember it being the first name of one of our music teachers when I was in primary school.
Dorcus/Dorcas is Latin for antilope(I'm a Ling.Anthropology nerd).
So that, mixed with Dork being a relatively new word, is probably why Dorcus/Dorcas ended up being used as a name without anyone batting an eye.
The lead lining in old settlements like Barbados were fairly rough and uneven, causing one side to be heavier than the others. Once floated, that side would face down and inevitably rest on the floor when the water recedes. This is likely why the coffins were found in this orientation.
My guess about the heads down coffin, if the remains within the coffin weigh enough and shift to one end it would disrupt the bouncy. At that point all it would take is the lighter end dragging across the marble door and catching to cause it to end up head down as the room drained of water. Considering the dent/chip in the wall from the smaller coffin in the same visit it’s very possible more damage was done but not noticed and would greatly increase the likelihood of what I posed above.
One theory of how ancient Egyptians make a ground plain to subterranean structures was that they caved it and flooded with water, after a time drained the water and the ground was perfectly horizontal, it was a technique used by several peoples. So, well no, only flowing water would disturb the sand, not slow draining water. And limestone is incredibly porous, no need for water of the sea entering or the water table to be near the surface; rain water could infiltrate easily into the tomb.
Very enjoyable one this one
Simon, please do an episode on the dark pyramid in Alaska.
I mean it's not one of Simons channels but The Why Files recently did a dark pyramid episode that was pretty good
I love this story.
I don’t know about other places in the American south, but I live in North Louisiana and I call it Barbadus.
It's possible that one or more of the coffins were up against the wall as the water level dropped, snagging on the wall, and as the water dropped it was upsidedown which just as likely could of happened to cause them to be right side up if it would have snagged that way as well.
Simon doing a video on the Chase vault this should be an interesting watch. This was one of the most odd and baffling events in my country's history.
I was in the Chase Vault several times as a kid. At my request my dad tried to bribe the sexton to let me stay there overnight but alas…no.
Never heard this one before and really enjoyed it!
My mum used to drink at a pub in Borley and her and her mates would wind up the ghost hunters with outlandish tales, telling them to beware of the nun and if they see the monk they will be cursed to 3 years of bad luck 😂
Heyy!! Living in Barbados right now!! Gotta find this place!
"while many still continued to attribute the mischief to the cunning of the [black workers]."
I hate to think what words were replaced from this source's quotes
Wonderful presentation once again Simon and company for making sense of this superstitious oddity in Barbadian history
Another great episode! I did a little fist pump when flooding came back around.
I usually agree with Niccol, but I still think the water solution is more likely than a Freemason fiction.
0:15 I think they're trying to get back home...
...to the Bermuda Triangle!!
🤓
49:13 Saaremaa translates to "island land"
The Winchester Mystery House is, indeed, very cool. You need to take the big tour. It isn't cheap, but it's fun. Also, flooding in crypts is common in the Caribbean. I've been there, and the signs of water in cemeteries is obvious.
Yesss Simon you covered the Chase Vault. We learnt about it in school and on our way home we used to walk the cemetry. A few bold ones (not me) used to go peep to see if they saw anything 🇧🇧
The idea of a coffin disintegrating and the bones from inside floating around to bang around the inside of a vault is a very disturbing image.
Shout out Fact Boy for immediately coming to the most logical and likely conclusion. 👏👏👏
I remember my mum would tell me about this story when i was a kid, and my cousin confirmed it when we were in Barbados for the first time. I would get scared at night thinking they would come for me. I think that helped me with my decision to get cremated once i pass on.
I need to stop snacking while watching your videos.... thanks Henry 8
I was thinking about this case the other day .. when I was a kid I was fascinated by the Bermuda Triangle and this story was lumped into many of the books as being evidence of time portals and alien emp weapons
just gotta say -- *that bright pink against the cozy backdrop stands out miraculously.*
The Winchester house is fascinating just to look at. The ghosts may not be real, but it was definitely a lasting example of someone's mental health struggles. The twists and turns of a mind haunted by grief, guilt and extreme anxiety until she reached the breaking point.