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Ravid Day This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information.
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| | | A forgotten cemetery < on 1/27/2019 12:34 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The other day my manager told me about something that happened to a person that works on the janitorial night shift. She said the employee saw a woman walking down a corridor, it was after 8:00 pm and there should have been no one on campus at that time. So she began to follow her, the lady turns a corner and according to the janitor just vanished into a room that only had one way in or out. The rest of the night motion activated lights would cut on as though someone had walking down the hall or into darkened areas of the floor. Looking at the security recordings showed no one but the janitorial employee, but did show motion activated lights coming on in vacant areas on the 3rd floor. I am not a superstitious person, but my manager has told me she has heard foot steps and saw no one, a few other employees have also heard or seen things that were not normal in thier opinions. The fact that a person was electrocuted in the construction of the building or that a drunk man did jump off the top floor of the parking garage last year did not help the matter. Then my boss had to add fuel to the fire by stating that she heard roomers that the building was built on a cemetery! Now the poop hit the fan. She knew I have access to a lot of county and city records and asked if I could do some snooping, I said sure. Turns out there was a small cemetery that appeared on topo maps starting in 1918 and was there up until 1949, the 1957 survey did not show it, but, the 1961 survey did and it was the last time anything appeared on the Harris county maps. I figured the GPS location as 29.7828264, -95.6334882, typed it into my GPS and Google maps and holy hell! This is the "Cemetery" symbol on the survey maps The cemetery was right under our parking lot, there are no records saying if the graves were removed or if the cemetery was just lost and forgotten. It is interesting that in 1957 it did drop off the maps until 1961 and then never appear on any map again. Just maybe there is a ghost from over a hundred years ago walking the halls of this strange new building sitting on what was once thier farm.
[last edit 1/27/2019 3:11 PM by Ravid Day - edited 3 times]
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| | | | Re: A forgotten cemetery < Reply # 2 on 1/27/2019 5:34 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | They say the dead don't rest without a marker...
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| Mr. Bitey
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| | | Re: A forgotten cemetery < Reply # 5 on 1/28/2019 4:27 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by 6ozy "roomers" lolllll
| room·er /ˈro͞omər,ˈro͝omər noun: roomer; plural noun: roomers a renter of a room in another person's house. ru·mor /ˈro͞omər noun noun: rumour; plural noun: rumours; noun: rumor; plural noun: rumors are currently circulating about story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth. "they were investigating rumors of a massacre" synonyms: gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle; More antonyms: hard facts Seriously though - If I am reading the topo correctly, in addition to the cemetery coming and going, there was an approx 40' ridge present in 1949, it is gone in 1957, and returns again in 1961. With literal zero knowledge, I have to say the cartographer in 1957 made a mistake. In regards to it now being a parking lot, I would indeed love to know what happened to the cemetery. I wouldn't say it is common, but it certainly is not unheard of for graves to simply be built upon in the past. Again, without any real knowledge, I feel there are laws against this today, but those could certainly vary from state to state. A major interstate project here had a need to widen the freeway. Option #1 was to relocate portions of a 150+ year old catholic cemetery to the north, and a 100+ year old veterans cemetery to the south. Option #2 was to build a double-decker portion of freeway. Option #1 was selected, as it was cheaper, but the plans are currently on hold pending protest. For the time being, they added lanes by removing the shoulder/emergency lane. While I understand sometimes shit is forced to happen in the name of progress, I think it is just horrible when graves are disturbed. I would quit my job before following through any orders to do so - I really think it would mentally disturb me for life knowing I got in the way of someone's "final" resting place. A fine justification for cremation in my book.
[last edit 1/28/2019 4:28 PM by Mr. Bitey - edited 1 times]
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