... grave because it was against the law to steal it! If they did get caught they were usually beat up and possibly killed. Counter-measures were employed by the grievers to prevent theft of their loved ones. Watch towers were built at the perimeter of the cemetery so a look out could keep the area under surveillance. Large flat stone monuments were laid out on grave tops. (Today some of the graves in the United States still have these flat grave markers covering the entire top of the grave.) The Resurrectionists,...

... trying to photograph spirits, believes skin is best canvas for specters' orbs of energy 47-year-old says he was trying to photograph spirits, believes skin is best canvas for specters' orbs of energy  A man caught naked in a south Mississippi church cemetery says he was trying to take photographs of spirits. Robert Hurst tells The Picayune Item newspaper that he shed his clothes because he believes skin is the best canvas to show spirits' orbs of energy. The 47-year-old says he only intended to ...

.... The Ray Smith Funeral Home in Prospect Heights sold for $2.35 million last year, Crain’s reported. Another reason funeral homes have shuttered is that it’s expensive to snag a spot in New York City cemeteries, Crain’s reported. At Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, where experts predict space will run out in five years, the price of a three-casket grave plot spiked from $8,000 to $17,000 in the past decade. At Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, a plot for one costs $8,000 — double the price ...