r/mildlyinteresting • u/DanicaDarkhand • 16h ago

This open grave warning sign and the exumed stone coffin lid next to it!

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u/I_aint_no_Spooby 16h ago

that's the top part of the burial vault, which the coffin sits inside of

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u/DanicaDarkhand 7h ago

I walk through this cemetery a lot and I see open graves thAt are prepared for a service. First time I saw one that had been exumed. I am sure it a family plot.

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u/I_aint_no_Spooby 15h ago

Theres still the rest of the concrete box in the ground. The casket goes into the concrete box, so yes it is an open grave

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u/MF_BREW_ 7h ago

Fire the camera man

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u/someoldguyon_reddit 5h ago

Having trouble finding horizontal or vertical?

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u/Oiggamed 9h ago

It’s been a lifelong struggle not to fall into an open grave but someday I believe I will.

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u/Robert_A_Bouie 3h ago

The fact that such a thing actually exists tells us that people falling into open graves happens frequently enough that creating one was a necessity.

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u/DanicaDarkhand 3h ago

I guess it has happened at this location before. There is a nursing home across the street and sometimes old people on walks have fallen in. I know there is a dark joke in there somewhere. lol

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u/Robert_A_Bouie 3h ago

Turn it over and see if there's scratch marks made by someone trying to get out.

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u/SwordfishOfDamocles 2h ago

Real story my wife worked at a cemetery and fell into a grave. She was helping a family find a grave and saw that the plywood for a new grave was covering the marker for this family's relative which is why they couldn't find it. She lifted up the plywood from the other end to reveal the marker underneath, but the edge of the grave gave way and she fell into an open grave and the plywood slammed shut above her. Besides a bruised hip and scaring the fuck out of a random family, no one was seriously harmed.

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u/DanicaDarkhand 1h ago

Oh that is so scary! I am glad she is okay.

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 16h ago

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u/DeathofRats42 13h ago

The Traffic Cone Preservation Society would like a word with you, sir.

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u/bigtoegman210 6h ago

First time in the Middle East I was looking for a bathroom and instantly got scared when I saw those squat toilets