...Residents Forced to Move After at Least 120 Possible Coffins...Detected Under Apartment Complex

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[BenLurkin]

Residents at a Tampa apartment complex are being forced to move after a shocking discovery.

“This grassy area has the bulk of remains,” said Connie Burton, who lived at the Robles Park Village on Florida Avenue for about 20 years.

In that grassy area, an archaeologist used a radar to discover more than 120 possible coffins.

The Tampa Bay Times linked the forgotten 1900s Zion cemetery, likely the first in Tampa for African American, to this current-day public housing complex. The report prompted the housing authority to investigate.

“As a child, we had heard that this used to be a memorial site but we paid little attention to it because you know, at the time we needed housing,” Burton said.

Burton commended the housing authority for the way they handled this revelation. She said she was pleased the housing authority is turning the cemetery site into a memorial.

The housing authority will relocate nearly 30 families living at the complex.

[BenLurkin]

"They're he-ere."

[Eddie01]

When I was in college they were digging the street along side us and started discovering remains I know because anthology prof brought it up in class. It was over the old town cemetery moved to the top of the hill to build out the college.

What he didn’t know was the crazy paranormal activity that started in our house (5 guys) a month before. I wrote a log of most of it. We all experienced it.

[frank ballenger]

At night people report hearing unearthly voices saying “Reparations. Reparations.”

[BenLurkin]

Christians buried there. Long gone into the loving arms of God.

[PGR88]

[setter]

All the old farms in my area have small family cemetaries somewhere on each property. Most from early to late 1800’s.

Our farm had one on the other side of the road behind the house. When but the coal companies stripped mined that side of the road back in the early 70’s the old graves was basically pushed into the strip pit. No one cared about old dead white people then because the original families were long gone from the farm.

We now own the other side of the road where the barns were located and it was never stripped. Our main barn was built in 1849 and two were built the 1870’s.

[frank ballenger]

Call George Noory on the radio show Coast to Coast am. And there are at least 5 books on haunted colleges and so on.

One:
Haunted Colleges and Universities: Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms Paperback – Tom Ogden //

article:10 of the Most Haunted Colleges in America by Elisa Roland (subtitle:When it comes to having school “spirit,” these haunted campuses....) Reader’s Digest.

[dsrtsage]

[Chode]

heh heh heh heh...

[BenLurkin]

Ah yes. The hat box.

[traderrob6]

Good grief not Lars Thorwald!

[jonsie]

Haha when I read the headline I said I wonder how long it takes for someone to mention Poltergeist, imagine my surprise when it was the first reply.

[Sacajaweau]

“used a radar”....dumb a****. Too lazy to look up GPR...Ground Penetrating Radar.

[TalBlack]

Originally grave yards are located well on the outskirts of town and then slowly the twon or ANOTHER nearby town engulfs them and...suddenly...they are prime land...except for all them damn headstones littreed hither and yon...

[vetvetdoug]

The largest concentration of unmarked graves in the US is in NE Mississippi. The NPS estimated that there are from three to eight thousand unmarked graves in and around the city of Corinth, Mississippi, where the wounded from the battles of Shiloh and Corinth died. This doesn't include the ones that died of sickness prior to the Battle of Shiloh, after the battle, the Seige of Corinth, the Battle of Farmington, Shelton House, and the Battle for Corinth. There were mass graves from each engagement and individual graves the entire time. The majority of the dead were from the Confederate Army but there are many Union unaccounted and unmarked dead that never were removed and placed into the National Cemetery in Corinth.

[AnalogReigns]

In colonial America, graveyards were called “Church-yards” as they were always next to the churches, usually near the center of town. When towns got built up, and the church-yards got full, (or moved....) “Union” church-yards were built, usually at the edge of town—meaning a union of the (Protestant) churches, combining different denominations—and that’s when the term “graveyards” was developed. Since Protestants don’t have the doctrine of “sacred ground” like Catholics, people can be seen to be buried anywhere.

Some places though, which got very built up, the graveyard is the oldest place in town. I know in Charlotte, NC, the downtown (”uptown”) area has NO 18th C. buildings, at all (it’s all new skycrapers and such) though there are historic churches there—with modern buildings. Right close to the center of Charlotte, next to such a modern building, though there is an old Presbyterian church-yard...dating into the mid 1700s. It’s the only unaltered part of Charlotte within 5 miles.

[ChildOfThe60s]

My daughter is management in a state highway department. She has some interesting stories about running into cemeteries unexpectedly.

[The Westerner]

That adds a solemn note to this thread. RIP.

[upchuck]

In your excerpt, why did you not include these comments?

Yvette Lewis, the president of Hillsborough County’s NAACP said she was shocked about the discovery.

“It’s time for the city to right its wrong,” Lewis said.

Lewis said for these black pioneers who died in a still-fledgling city, there is no rest.

“People’s resting place are where they are supposed to rest,” Lewis said. “And the souls can’t even rest because it has been disturbed.”

Interesting her remarks are all negative, despite the city apparently bending over backwards to be accommodating.

[caver]

Interesting story.....