Mausoleum Desecration at it's Worst. The Destruction of a Father's Dream.

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    Miles Cemetery started as a settler’s dream and became a burial ground for some of The United States’ first patriots. Stephen Miles was a rich landowner in Monroe County in the 1800’s and chose Eagle Cliff in Waterloo to build a mausoleum for his family.
    The cliff overlooks a beautiful part of the Mississippi River bottom that was largely owned by Miles at the time. But in the 1900’s, long after his death, his plans for his family’s final resting place were derailed.
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    The Angel face you see is the Haserot, named “The Angel of Death Victorious". The stoic angel is seated on the marble gravestone of canning entrepreneur Francis Haserot and his family. Holding an extinguished torch upside-down, it represents a symbol of life extinguished. Wings are outstretched and the gaze is straight ahead.
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  • @robertducharme4868
    @robertducharme4868 3 года назад +111

    Some of the vandals who disrespectfully destroyed the coffins may still be alive if it happened in the early 50s. May they see your video and have horrific dreams forever.

  • @m.e.c.1007
    @m.e.c.1007 3 года назад +227

    Currently old cemeteries are being destroyed in rural places. Long forgotten, the stones nearly gone and new homes and whatnot are build on top of them. Disgusts me.

    • @PrincessDiana1220
      @PrincessDiana1220 3 года назад +27

      Those homes are going to be haunted. I hope they disclose that before the home buyers sign anything. Despicable!

    • @deborahw6860
      @deborahw6860 3 года назад +10

      Sidestep Adventure shows Alot of them old grave yards deep in the woods and show just what you mentioned here how sad

    • @MrDBarch
      @MrDBarch 2 года назад +16

      it is forthrightly illegal to destroy a cemetery to build homes onto it. the process involves applying for a very special grant from the government; application to REMOVE and reinter graves; and even then 9 times out of ten the application is refused as it always is referred to local committees. your claim is without merit im afraid.

    • @judymcgaugh6480
      @judymcgaugh6480 2 года назад +8

      It doesn't seem too hard to take American Native burial grounds no matter what has been said and build over them. You can get by with anything if enough money is involved... hope the folks that destroyed those bodies are haunted fot the rest of their lives and followed to the hereafter and never get peace.. Satanist use these rituals to call up demons to do their bidding.. and they think that demon will just dissappear once they get what the demon was used for. Its harder to send a demon back than conjur it up. The demon might like its freedom to dominate this plane and fight hard to stay inthat case I pity the person that brought them into exsistence. .

    • @alittlewheiser521
      @alittlewheiser521 2 года назад +8

      And that’s how the movie Poltergeist got it’s plot.

  • @alittlewheiser521
    @alittlewheiser521 2 года назад +58

    I remember the exact moment that I decided that I wanted to be cremated. I was a kid driving thru San Bernardino with my dad and was horrified when I saw men digging up old coffins not caskets and placing one almost upright leaning against a brick wall. They were digging it up to prepare the land for a new building. It was at that moment that I realized not everyone who is laid to rest is there forever. I don’t want to be a burden for my family members in the future either. ❤️

    • @TheEmeraldMenOfficial
      @TheEmeraldMenOfficial Год назад +5

      My town has used the same graveyard for decades and refuses to remove it… but I understand what you mean.
      My personal wishes are to be buried at sea, preferably over the wrecksite of Titanic: I always have had a fascination with the sea and with Titanic, and even though I’ll likely never get to visit in life, hopefully I can visit in death…

    • @twilightpurpleglow
      @twilightpurpleglow Год назад +5

      I agree. My family members gone ahead as well as pets, down the same road; Cremation all paid up front.

  • @debbiemorgan6701
    @debbiemorgan6701 3 года назад +40

    Just this past week my brother informed me that one of our ancestors headstone was stolen and the footstone was vandalized. It was over 100 years old. I don't understand why someone would do such a thing.

  • @patricialenaburg6553
    @patricialenaburg6553 3 года назад +51

    Sadly my 4th Great Grandmothers grave was desecrated during the 1960s. She was one of the 1st colony to Texas, with her mother, and step father. She was buried on property her, and her husband once owned, the cemetery had family members, and others interred there also. The cemetery was in horrible shape, stones broken, poison Ivy, briers covered it. Two cousins of mine went in, and worked very hard with help from volunteers, cleaned, put stones back together, etc. It took a couple of years doing this, but now looking nice, and is now is a historical site.

    • @jeanwenthold7216
      @jeanwenthold7216 3 года назад +4

      Very nice.

    • @janeblake5083
      @janeblake5083 Год назад +3

      That is such a wonderful accomplishment, with so much commitment from all those
      involved ..congratulations.
      We have some pioneer cemeteries here in Ontario that have fallen into disrepair and later
      to vandalism... So sad to see this.

    • @sheliametcalfe-farmer8998
      @sheliametcalfe-farmer8998 Год назад

      Unless your indigenous that land never belonged to your family, it was stolen from my people

  • @traceygoble
    @traceygoble 3 года назад +199

    It's so sad some people just don't care about anything. I love history they'll be remembered by you who told the stories..

  • @jimtownsend7899
    @jimtownsend7899 3 года назад +87

    His dream of his family being together forever didn't die. They are all together. Incorruptible, undefiled, and dwelling in God's eternal light. The same awaits us if we ask.

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 3 года назад +7

      As Christians we know that’s where our loved ones are. The living need a place where they can mourn their loved ones, and it’s sinful that someone desecrated those sacred grounds.

    • @bananagirlify
      @bananagirlify 2 года назад +3

      Blessings....

    • @dianacox2293
      @dianacox2293 10 месяцев назад

      Ron whar a beautiful place to be laid to rest with your whole family just to have some vandals come in pulling you out and burn you and take what they wanted. Such a beautiful place, but such a sad sad story. Thanks for sharing. I have been watching alot of your videoes and find them interesting and intriguing.

  • @TheBohemiansWife
    @TheBohemiansWife 3 года назад +72

    Fingernails don’t grow after death, the skin around the nails shrinks. Learned this on the RUclips channel “Ask a Mortician”. 😊

    • @suzanne6841
      @suzanne6841 Год назад

      I was just going to say the same thing about the nails😮

    • @maryfreebed9886
      @maryfreebed9886 Год назад

      Likewise hair, although I had a ridiculous mental image of what it would be like if the bit about the hair growing after death were true, with an idea of basically keeping the dead around to farm them for hair.

    • @vickithompson7503
      @vickithompson7503 Год назад

      I watch that show too!

    • @dorothypascoe5708
      @dorothypascoe5708 Год назад

      Kari the mortician is the best and VERY informative about whatever u want to know about funeral homes and the like❤.5/23

  • @victoriabridgeman5825
    @victoriabridgeman5825 3 года назад +107

    This story broke my heart. I don't like to see cemeteries in disarray. To hear about all the awful things that happened at the mausoleum makes me incredibly mad and heartbroken.

    • @marilynledet6140
      @marilynledet6140 2 года назад

      Sad

    • @marylock3105
      @marylock3105 Год назад +2

      3times people rip of my mum and brother plaque sad to say my mum died of cervical cancer my dad never visit her grave or my brother they buried together I go alot

  • @adamgropper2072
    @adamgropper2072 3 года назад +99

    Its a darn shame to see a grave destroyed and what have the deceased done to them? Nothing. This poor deceased individual doesn’t deserve this at all. My thoughts are with the remaining descendants.

  • @msoden4920
    @msoden4920 3 года назад +201

    Such a terrible, sad thing done to that family. Heartbreaking.

    • @ElCid48
      @ElCid48 2 года назад +2

      those earlier creeps who stole the jews and other items all suffered from their actions and the money they got turned to rot for them. as for the satanists, they are all suffering as well with illnesses =

  • @marygarner5249
    @marygarner5249 3 года назад +71

    People that can't respect the Dead you know they don't the living either sad

    • @paulabuck5976
      @paulabuck5976 3 года назад +5

      Good point, Mary.

    • @daviebaggins
      @daviebaggins 3 года назад +2

      Thats the time we live in. Deteriorating values , a fading appreciation of history by younger people. Happens in every age when societies age and wear out morally .

    • @noreanhill9613
      @noreanhill9613 3 года назад +3

      People that have nothing often resent or are jealous of those that do.

  • @jeffgrier8488
    @jeffgrier8488 3 года назад +36

    You're right, the view there is absolutely stunning. I always have a hard time trying to figure out what motivates people to desecrate graves and destroy grave stones and mausoleums.

  • @derichar2000
    @derichar2000 3 года назад +87

    Next time you are in Southern IL., you might want to check out some of the graves from the 1949 St. Anthony Hospital fire in Effingham.
    77 people died in the fire. Including a young nurse Fern Riley that refused to leave the newborns. A nurse Ms. Clemons that saved several patients and went back into the fire to save more. Frank Reis the hospital engineer who tried to fight the fire. It caused the laws for building hospitals and buildings like this to change.

    • @lynndinovo3500
      @lynndinovo3500 2 года назад +10

      Thank you for the information of this history. I live in IL and never heard of the Effingham fire. I will research it.

  • @MsKoofer
    @MsKoofer 3 года назад +70

    What a sad story of man’s inhumanity to man. Thank you for telling it in such a beautiful way!

  • @lee-annelandownunder4731
    @lee-annelandownunder4731 3 года назад +118

    Your the whole package with your research, voice and the drone work it makes your stories a must see and I appreciate them so much xxx

    • @stjudeprayer7
      @stjudeprayer7 2 года назад +5

      Very much a presentation of respect , beautifully done.

    • @marilynledet6140
      @marilynledet6140 2 года назад +1

      Yes he has so much respect for each family he talks about.

  • @reneeparent1596
    @reneeparent1596 3 года назад +63

    Once put to a final rest, everyone should be allowed to stay there forever, in peace. Every time I hear something like this, my heart breaks some. It really bothers me beyond what I can really put into words

    • @tootsiebabe3555
      @tootsiebabe3555 3 года назад +3

      Me too
      No words

    • @paulabuck5976
      @paulabuck5976 3 года назад +3

      Same

    • @fuzzamajumula
      @fuzzamajumula 3 года назад +2

      I get you. It almost left me speechless, too.

    • @rustyaxelrod
      @rustyaxelrod 2 года назад +8

      How do you feel about digging up tombs in Egypt and places like that? All the preparation to be interned forever but because it’s been a couple thousand years we feel justified it placing them on display for the public. The beliefs and wishes of those passed summarily ignored by pretty much everyone, in large part because nobody believes in those peoples God(s) anymore.

    • @reneeparent1596
      @reneeparent1596 2 года назад +1

      @@rustyaxelrod I don't like that either.

  • @Laurie03
    @Laurie03 3 года назад +68

    My heart is crying, how awful
    I hope all are resting in peace 🙏🏼

  • @Damianplaza
    @Damianplaza 3 года назад +32

    One of the saddest stories yet. My heart hurts after this one. Every wish he had was destroyed for eternity, truly a devastating story but I do thank you for posting it.

  • @tomdelica1960
    @tomdelica1960 3 года назад +6

    My grandmother once told me, as long as somebody remembers you, you never really die.

  • @christineshuler462
    @christineshuler462 3 года назад +85

    I don't understand the idea behind destroying other people's property, be they still taking breath or have taken their final. Then again I don't understand burying people with treasures, sorry King Tut.

    • @blancaesquer7051
      @blancaesquer7051 3 года назад +2

      Christine Shuler ; your apology to King Tut , made me laughed , hahaha 🤣😂

    • @johnsmith-jk5pz
      @johnsmith-jk5pz 3 года назад

      @@GlennaVan If that's true, they needed to be in an insane asylum indeed, not kept healthy.

  • @Laurie03
    @Laurie03 3 года назад +65

    When I pass, I want my body to be placed in one of those pods that grows into a tree,

    • @melanieiwasko4393
      @melanieiwasko4393 3 года назад +11

      That sounds like a lovely idea. Just as long as nobody cuts the tree down. :(

    • @Laurie03
      @Laurie03 3 года назад +11

      @@melanieiwasko4393 I have thought that too, I guess we aren’t safe not matter what we decide….

    • @TheJodilicious6
      @TheJodilicious6 3 года назад +2

      How about a mushroom suit?

    • @annette7154
      @annette7154 3 года назад

      Me too

    • @jaykneegarner2479
      @jaykneegarner2479 3 года назад +3

      Make sure that you have it in your will! Preferably with the funds to cover it.
      Sadly your wants and wishes mean nothing if it’s not in writing. I say this having lost 3 people in my life in the last few years. The latest being just this Monday.
      Put it in writing and make sure the funds are allocated for what you want done.

  • @teresanoel6355
    @teresanoel6355 3 года назад +112

    That is such a sad story. It's bad enough what people do to the living, but to desecrate them in death is just beyond horrible. I hope there us a special place in Hell for people who done this.

    • @daveguy8788
      @daveguy8788 3 года назад +11

      My son passed away in 2004 at the age of 16 someone keeps going to his grave and breaking his flower vases off its sad people have to do stuff like that and it really hurts and makes u upset

    • @beckygann7852
      @beckygann7852 3 года назад +7

      @@daveguy8788 that’s horrible. I’m so sorry ... I can’t imagine the heartbreak you feel.

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 3 года назад +3

      @@daveguy8788
      Those that do such vile things will one day pay for their bad behavior. In the meantime, can the caretakers of the cemetery be pressed to do something? Perhaps set up cameras in trees?

    • @barbaratg5230
      @barbaratg5230 2 года назад +1

      @@daveguy8788 I hope those responsible rot in h e l l
      Deepest sympathies for your loss Mr Guy
      Guy

    • @heididietrich9800
      @heididietrich9800 2 года назад +1

      If they did that to my mother, they would be hosed off the pavement.

  • @hamesh3474
    @hamesh3474 3 года назад +62

    Just so sad.. I found out that old graves of my family were disturbed.. just heart breaking

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 3 года назад +9

      I’ll never understand how a person thinks to do such heartless things, they must never have been taught respect, love or compassion.

  • @earthcat
    @earthcat 3 года назад +58

    The part of these people that matters most is still where they ought to be. I will take comfort in that.
    Requiescat In Pace 🕯

  • @justinthyme7275
    @justinthyme7275 3 года назад +21

    I haven't watched television in more than 20 years, there's nothing worth watching in mind. It's too bad you can't syndicate your work and receive compensation from commercial television stations. But turning a hobby into a business can destroy the hobby.

  • @patricianelson8
    @patricianelson8 3 года назад +26

    When I was 10, I had to stay with my grandparents in Sault Ste. Marie MI while my parents were looking for a house to buy in Oakland County MI. My cousin and I would go to the local cemetery and sit there looking at the headstones wondering how the people lived that long ago. Very peaceful even though it was next to a busy road. Thank you for sharing these stories.*edit. I looked it up, Maple Ridge Cemetery on Ashmun St.

    • @ryanshank1307
      @ryanshank1307 Год назад

      Hey there Patric. I to am from Michigan. Wayne County. There are some scary cemeteries around here. Where so many sick and horrible things have happened. I guess the living and the dead are never truly safe. Except with God.

  • @joem715
    @joem715 3 года назад +26

    What an awful thing to do to this family. I can imagine after the rituals were done, there were not even bones left to be gathered and bury together in a family grave, to at least give some sort of a resting place to these people.

  • @michele2855
    @michele2855 3 года назад +57

    A beautiful place. A shame that people do such senseless things
    Why anyone would want to be a satanist is beyond me
    Ron, you told the Miles family story well

    • @HighSocietyViolet
      @HighSocietyViolet 2 года назад +7

      Not all Satanists are like this. In fact the two major sects of Satanism have very strict rules you have to follow, and this behavior is not accepted. The sect of Satanism that I follow strictly forbids causing any unwanted harm to anyone. It also strictly teaches respect to the dead

    • @Kitty-mb4hy
      @Kitty-mb4hy 2 года назад +5

      Most Satanists never desecrate graves!
      Almost all people desecrating graves turned out to be wannabe teenager "Satanists". Sometimes those are simple stupid teenagers without any ties to satanism whatsoever, breaking something on accident because they were drunk. Yes, in some places teenagers drink at cemeteries to avoid getting caught... There were even cases of literal 6-10 year old kids breaking tombstones and wooden crosses.

    • @HighSocietyViolet
      @HighSocietyViolet 2 года назад +3

      @@Kitty-mb4hy So true. I 100% agree. Honestly Satanism(at least the sect I follow) is pretty peaceful. I've met more genuinely kind Satanists than I have Christians. Bottom line though is don't pass judgement on those you don't understand ❤

    • @JaniceGhostHunter13
      @JaniceGhostHunter13 2 года назад +1

      @@HighSocietyViolet Huh. That's pretty interesting. I'm aware of Satanists having actually some pretty good ethics but have never really had the opportunity to speak to one. I'm a Catholic myself, but good people is good people no matter how you slice it. You will always have the Edge Lord sacks of garbage anywhere you look and of all faiths or lack thereof.

    • @HighSocietyViolet
      @HighSocietyViolet 2 года назад

      @@JaniceGhostHunter13 I was raised Catholic myself but struggled with being told that nearly everything that made me happy, was sinful. When I started practice my faith now, I was told that the things that were "sinful"(ie horror movies, heavy metal, mythology etc) were nothing more than my nature. That by denying myself things that made me happy and didn't cause harm, was in fact causing harm to myself.

  • @barbiefinn8127
    @barbiefinn8127 3 года назад +59

    Happy Father’s Day Ron hope it’s going good for you and also happy fathers too the dad’s here and not here too ❤️✨☀️🤗🎈🎈😊💐🍀🌈

  • @margaretbauer4126
    @margaretbauer4126 3 года назад +23

    This sicken me. All that could sickened me even more, is the thought of a condo going in at that view. Australia is dealing with these issues at this very moment! Sick just sick.

  • @marriemalta3716
    @marriemalta3716 3 года назад +32

    THAT'S SO INHUMAN .SO SAD .MAY ALL THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE WITH THE LORD AMEN. ❤

  • @debramaugle5938
    @debramaugle5938 3 года назад +31

    Such a beautiful cemetery. It's story is so sad. I don't understand why some terrible people get a thrill over others property. And are hurting the family members who are still alive. It breaks my heart.

  • @LadyPercy.
    @LadyPercy. 2 года назад +7

    Thank you Ron, for once again allowing us to gain insight into the brave, beautiful and sadly despicable lives of those past. Tragic, that such a beautiful and peaceful cemetery should be desecrated by mindless acts of gross disrespect. That said, it's equally uplifting to see communities coming together to restore and protect these sacred sites. Prayers for Mr Miles and for those that were previously resting with him in the mausoleum, though their earthly bodies are now gone, their souls rest in eternal peace. 🇬🇧🙏🇺🇸

  • @TippyPuddles
    @TippyPuddles 3 года назад +13

    This is so sad. How can people have no heart, no thought of another persons loved ones?

  • @Teddi-6
    @Teddi-6 3 года назад +8

    Such a beautiful setting for something so incredibly disturbing to have happened.
    Some people just have no concept of the words, “rest(ing) in peace”.

  • @paulabuck5976
    @paulabuck5976 3 года назад +12

    Wow. ... Every time I think FOTF, you can’t possibly top your last episode, you do. I was moved by the haunting beauty & history of this place. I was also moved to great sadness over the vile desecration and utter destruction that was committed. I can just imagine in my minds eye how beautiful the mausoleum once looked. I’m left shaking my head. Thanks so much for taking us there.

  • @annieleeb5590
    @annieleeb5590 3 года назад +22

    I love the drone footage, please have a safe trip

  • @indigohalo3421
    @indigohalo3421 3 года назад +20

    How sad..I just can't understand what possesses ppl to be so horrific..

  • @rocksteady4me
    @rocksteady4me 3 года назад +19

    People can be so hateful and cruel. I will never understand it.

    • @DavidWilliams-so2dy
      @DavidWilliams-so2dy 3 года назад +1

      I didn’t think people were snake mean in the 40s and 50s though. Human cruelty is ageless I guess.

    • @beverlykennedy126
      @beverlykennedy126 2 года назад +1

      Can’t figure it out either! How could anyone do this sort of dessacration to a dead persons resting place ? It’s just terrible!

  • @debbieanne7962
    @debbieanne7962 3 года назад +18

    Wow, what a story, though built for eternity lasted but a few short years, shows times change quickly. Found your channel yesterday, it somehow popped up on my feed. Love it! and have binged watched. I love visiting cemeteries. When I traveled to England I wanted to visit a graveyard near my hosts place. He thought I was real weird. It was beautiful, particularly the graves of local gypsies. Not many old graves where I live. Keep up the good work, greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

  • @pameversole5886
    @pameversole5886 3 года назад +18

    This was heartbreaking 😢
    So beyond disrespectful!! Stuff like this makes me so mad. I am glad & thankful for the people who fixed it back, to its present state & taking care of it now.
    The view was beautiful...thanks Ron.

  • @dulcehajjar5826
    @dulcehajjar5826 3 года назад +23

    It’s a very sad
    and touching
    story for sure!
    Shame on those
    That desecrate
    Graves😨

  • @augustaanaximander
    @augustaanaximander 3 года назад +1

    Isn’t that view awesome!? I discovered this cemetery almost 20 years ago when it was in BAD shape…it’s come a LONG way & it’s nice to see that they’ve done even more work to preserve it! Those coping stones and the little stairs are all newer than 2017, you used to have to take a little running start just to get to the top!
    Ron, you did an amazing job researching and filming this really cool mausoleum! Thank you so much for going out there, hope you enjoyed it - and found the journey to it as worth it as I do, lol! Can’t wait to see the next great adventure! 😎

  • @helenwedekind6966
    @helenwedekind6966 3 года назад +88

    Breaks my heart, such cruelty of the dead.

  • @dulcehajjar5826
    @dulcehajjar5826 3 года назад +16

    Happy Father’s Day
    To All Father’s❤️

  • @trishross8359
    @trishross8359 3 года назад +3

    That is such a sad story I don't understand why people don't respect things that doesn't belong to them

  • @lorismith103
    @lorismith103 3 года назад +6

    Someone commented before that known grave robbing started in ancient Egyptian times & probably continues today.

  • @valgrant3303
    @valgrant3303 3 года назад +5

    As my grandmother would say, "those who take from the dead, the dead will take from you". Did those people ever get caught? I hope so. Yes the view if magnificent.

  • @Vcaser
    @Vcaser 3 года назад +9

    That made me cry. Bewilders me how people can do something like that. Stunning drone footage, wow

  • @laurab1089
    @laurab1089 3 года назад +2

    The cemetery is very beautiful and I get a sense of complete peace under the shade of the trees.
    The mausoleum and history are incredible. I don't know whether to be sad or completely outraged
    over destruction and what was done to the bodies.
    I pray they are all at peace.
    Well done Ron.. Well done.

  • @alexbramley195
    @alexbramley195 3 года назад +1

    I just want to say how happy I am to have found this channel. Because this guy genuinely seems to care for all these people that he comes across. Like whenever he’ll clean weeds or plants blocking a grave that makes my heart flutter. He takes time and genuinely appreciates everything he sees.

  • @bethshadid2087
    @bethshadid2087 3 года назад +14

    How udderly sad and disgusting 😓. RIP to the Myles family 🙏🕊️💗. and the desecration done will come back to haunt these evil ppl 🤬. Another stellar Video and drone work Ron💥....enjoy your Father's Day with your family...safe trip 💗🕊️

  • @deborahriley8136
    @deborahriley8136 3 года назад +14

    I've read that Mr. Miles was fond of gesturing at the horizon and saying, "For miles and miles, it is all Miles'."
    EDIT: If you're interested in Southern Illinois history and fun info like the above quote, "Legends and Lore of Southern Illinois" by John Allan is a great book. It's out of print, but there are copies available through Amazon and other online sellers. The incident about why a certain city in Northern Illinois didn't get a bank loan from Shawneetown is worth the price of the book alone!

    • @stephenbutterfield5986
      @stephenbutterfield5986 3 года назад +1

      Our family from Whiteside county

    • @pamela5250
      @pamela5250 3 года назад +2

      That’s is an excellent book. Also, “Bloody Williamson “

    • @deborahriley8136
      @deborahriley8136 3 года назад +1

      @@pamela5250 I'm glad to see that someone else enjoys "Legends and Lore" as much as I do. I'm not familiar with the book you mentioned, but I'll try to find a copy. Thanks for the recommendation !

  • @BrOnX_BoOyAH_86
    @BrOnX_BoOyAH_86 3 года назад +91

    Crazy how that “occult” craziness was taken as a joke back in the 60’s..

    • @oneeyeddog6127
      @oneeyeddog6127 2 года назад +7

      The occult has always been a joke and will forever remain one.Cant really argue with science.

    • @ronaldblackburn2483
      @ronaldblackburn2483 2 года назад +10

      Science is a cult unto itself

    • @stephaniecoggins733
      @stephaniecoggins733 Год назад +1

      It's grown so much 🤢

  • @40Bethy
    @40Bethy 3 года назад +27

    That's horrible that some people disrespect the dead like That!

  • @carolk5770
    @carolk5770 3 года назад +13

    My son & his wife are both MD’s working in LA. No…fingernails do NOT grow, and neither does hair. Once you die, all of everything dies with you.

    • @carolk5770
      @carolk5770 3 года назад

      @@jacobus57 Great point Jackie!!! Like…when you cease to live, it’s over. Totally over. Common sense. Hugs to you! 🇺🇸♥️💕🌸

  • @lindaschaldach1783
    @lindaschaldach1783 3 года назад +14

    Thats so sad that people desecrate cemeteries. That is such a beautiful place. I can imagine how beautiful that mausoleum must have been. The answer to the question, do hair and nails grow after death. The answer is no, because the body dehydrates and shrinks it gives the appearance that the hair and nails grow. Great story.🤗❤❤

  • @Shermaxphil
    @Shermaxphil 3 года назад +9

    The story is heartbreaking, the view is magnificent!! Thank you for another awesome video and air show! Thanks again for your dedication to keeping the memories of the forgotten alive.

  • @WhispersFromTheDark
    @WhispersFromTheDark 3 года назад +3

    Happy Fathers Day to Mr. Miles. My heart goes out to his spirit. I can't fathom the atrocities that occurred in that lovely cemetery. I can only hope that each and every one of the vandals and grave robbers were haunted throughout their lives and met with a reckoning when they passed this mortal coil.

  • @JuneTwo004
    @JuneTwo004 3 года назад +10

    Thank You 4 what u do... I appreciate all of your work..

  • @noragibson5293
    @noragibson5293 3 года назад +16

    That is one of the saddest things I have every heard of.

  • @kharris1972kh
    @kharris1972kh 3 года назад +3

    Those acts were beyond implorable. How could someone sleep at night after such disrespect for the deceased and their survivors? Thank you for another great video.

    • @beverlykennedy126
      @beverlykennedy126 2 года назад +1

      Someday the ones who did this awful. Act will have to stand before God Oh what a day that will be! SorryGod will not be enough when that day comes,

  • @melanieiwasko4393
    @melanieiwasko4393 3 года назад +10

    Very sad story but yet very beautiful at the same time.

  • @annagibson4238
    @annagibson4238 3 года назад +5

    When he said her younger brother touched the jaw.. then it fell off AND this will haunt him for the rest of his life... My thoughts were... GOOD !!!!

  • @richardferrara
    @richardferrara 2 года назад +4

    The whiskers don't actually grow after death. As the skin shrinks while decomposing exposes the hair underneath.

  • @nadiabrook7871
    @nadiabrook7871 3 года назад +1

    What an AWESOME video!! How DISGUSTING that some folk are not allowed to rest in peace even after they've been buried!! No wonder the ancient Egyptians put curses on their graves!!
    Take care, and stay safe everyone!! XXXX

  • @julierivers4199
    @julierivers4199 3 года назад +6

    Such a disgrace….There is a special place in Hell waiting for people like that. Thank you for telling that story.

  • @carrienecas9867
    @carrienecas9867 3 года назад +4

    It totally amazes me how evil some people are.....what a sad story....the cemetery is beautiful and I love the drone shots! Happy Fathers Day Ron

  • @jdearing46
    @jdearing46 3 года назад +33

    I've read that as the body decays and desiccates that the skin begins to shrink and lose moisture as it does so it appears that hair and finger nails are growing.
    That being said let's discuss the story around how he accrued all that land? If he got it through nefarious purposes then I have no sympathy for what eventually befell him. You see things have a way of balancing out. I will however also say that it is not a good act regardless to desecrate the mortal remains period. The graffiti looks a bit more modern than the 60's though. You would think they someone might see a fire big enough to burn many bodies to ash. The temperatures need to reach well above 1000° f to burn bone to ash. So I'm sure there was quite a nasty mess left there for others to clean up.

    • @brandyjean7015
      @brandyjean7015 3 года назад +3

      My 1st thought had been if his nefarious land grabbing, led to ill will even generations later. The story told makes it seem more likely to be repeated acts of simple abuse & desecration. That is a shame.

    • @johnsmith-jk5pz
      @johnsmith-jk5pz 3 года назад +2

      1000° ? That was not a crematorium. That was a ritual. I'm pretty sure they didn't really want ashes. Most likely some gasoline is all that they needed and wanted.

  • @colleencrane4843
    @colleencrane4843 3 года назад +2

    Ya know Humanity just sucks sometimes, I really hope they received their Karma, this really makes me feel so sad....Thank you for remembering these folks, God Bless them.

  • @diannecockrell3210
    @diannecockrell3210 2 года назад +4

    I want to thank you again for sharing these important stories from the past in such a respectful manner and for your dedication and kindness in the work you do. God bless you sir.

  • @proseb4bros976
    @proseb4bros976 3 года назад +10

    Such a beautiful place with such a sad past. I don't understand why people would do such vile, cruel things to the deceased.
    I grew up near a cemetery in Urbana, Ohio where a similar situation had happened in the 50s through the late 60s. A mausoleum fell into disrepair and the neighborhood kids vandalized it: pulled bodies from their caskets, busted up the markers, etc. It wasn't until the newspaper did a story on it labeling it "The Shame of Urbana" that a non-profit intervened. Ultimately, they had to tear down the building and put the unidentified remains in a mass burial mound.
    Even after all this time, no one likes to talk about it and you can't find anything out there about it because it brought so much shame to the community.

    • @proseb4bros976
      @proseb4bros976 2 года назад

      @@lovealllife748 I think it's just another way of disrespecting the dead; destroying their resting place then refusing to take accountability when nothing is done. Then to "bury" the truth and wash it out of your town's history. If the paranormal holds some truth, then what better reason to linger.

  • @terraalbritton6405
    @terraalbritton6405 3 года назад +5

    All he wanted was what we all want, to be with our family eternally. Hopefully they have that on the other side.

  • @countrycrossstitcher3573
    @countrycrossstitcher3573 3 года назад +1

    The music during the drone work was perfect for this video and I cried for this family

  • @melaniewright92
    @melaniewright92 3 года назад +2

    That is so sad. What a beautiful place. We don't want them forgotten but we don't want them desecrated either.

  • @freebird4863
    @freebird4863 2 года назад +6

    A beautiful tribute. Well done, sir. 🙏🏼💕

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie 3 года назад +4

    What a beautiful cemetery. The old stones are just gorgeous. I especially love the stones with the weeping willow carvings! I would love to live there. I would clean them. Thank you so much for taking us on this walk today.

    • @madelinemaize9786
      @madelinemaize9786 2 года назад +1

      Weeping willows are symbolic of longevity and are representative of life after death. Cemetery symbolism really interests me.

    • @IrishAnnie
      @IrishAnnie 2 года назад

      @@madelinemaize9786 Myself included. I have a nice book about cemetery symbolism.

  • @rachelcurtis134
    @rachelcurtis134 3 года назад +1

    There is no words to even comprehend, such wicked behaviour.

  • @biarritz84
    @biarritz84 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for sharing Ron. That's terrible what happened there very disturbing & sad indeed.

  • @Eileen0906able
    @Eileen0906able 3 года назад +4

    This is a good man.
    He makes us understand the importance of the past as well that we will all will be among the dead for sure sometime and the greatness of being remembered then.
    Thank you.
    Anselmo Varoli

  • @nancyvolke237
    @nancyvolke237 3 года назад +3

    Hope they are resting in peace.
    Ron almost 1,000 watching in the live!! Your videos deserve all our support....🙂😇🙏🏻

  • @bryandorsett5710
    @bryandorsett5710 Год назад +2

    As teenagers,we knew these 4 guys,that desecrated several graves,in an abandoned cemetery,where as kids,would hang out! Later at different times each one died in different horrible ways!

  • @j.whiteoak6408
    @j.whiteoak6408 2 года назад +2

    You do beautiful drone shots and your edits are always first class, Ron! Thank you. I hope those that desecrate graves never get to rest in peace themselves .. they don't deserve it. Revolting people!

  • @MysticChatty
    @MysticChatty 3 года назад +5

    HAPPY FATHERS DAY, RON. Hope your day is extra special!!

  • @susannacloer3599
    @susannacloer3599 3 года назад +8

    Your videos are such a joy. The photography, the history and the music. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.

  • @deirdresullivan2177
    @deirdresullivan2177 3 года назад +1

    I cant understand how people could do such an awful thing. People should be able to rest in peace!😥

  • @joshthemediocre7824
    @joshthemediocre7824 2 года назад +1

    Gotta be honest, as a latch key kid, i kicked over some gravestones when i was way younger, or i at least attempted to. As a adult who now enjoys spending time in graveyards, reading names, looking into the people, and visiting, i am full of regrets about it but i make sure i talk to every group of kids i see heading toward the graveyards, tell them how wrong it is and to be respectful, just to kinda makeup for anything i might have done. Nothing is worse than old broken graves, if they aren't already recorded they could be forgotten forever, everyone deserves to be remembered. I'm so glad you do this, you're really making a difference.

    • @KimberlyLew
      @KimberlyLew 2 года назад

      We all make amends at some point…hopefully. You’re doing good!!!

  • @amyc388
    @amyc388 3 года назад +11

    Sad what was done to it. However am I the only one that finds it weird a family member or descendent was buried under the steps? Like what's up with that? Seems like a random place to be buried. 🤷‍♀️

    • @seanoreiley48
      @seanoreiley48 2 года назад +2

      I was wondering the same thing. Maybe a lack of space? Or perhaps was the black sheep of the family? Whatever the reason I’d love to find out if there was an explanation.

    • @aquilaclark814
      @aquilaclark814 2 года назад

      Maybe the Mausoleum was full🤔..

    • @beautyindarkness
      @beautyindarkness Год назад

      It also seems almost disrespectful if you think that generally walking on a grave is looked at as disrespect- to bury someone purposefully where people are meant to walk seems very off.

  • @marygarner5249
    @marygarner5249 3 года назад +17

    Can Hardly wait You know it's going to be good

  • @tee_d_we_d
    @tee_d_we_d 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing the story of this man and this place. I hope all those who desecrated this place and the family were held accountable, if not by man's law in the afterlife. Thank you to the woman and her family that formed the organisation that takes care of this site. They are remembered through you and all that view this.

  • @judycook1918
    @judycook1918 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for taking the time to preserve history and share it with those who care. If we don't respect those who came before us we learn nothing from them.

  • @franceshenry2239
    @franceshenry2239 3 года назад +3

    Happy Father's day.

  • @juliaferraro2599
    @juliaferraro2599 3 года назад +3

    Once again I thank you for taking us on your journey and giving us some history of past lives and events. So sad that others don't respect the sleep of the deceased!

  • @kkormanik
    @kkormanik 3 года назад +2

    Another suburb video Ron. Very sad and terribly disappointed in humanity that could be so evil to destroy the resting place of the deceased. Love when you use the drone. Thank you.

  • @tonyishmael9666
    @tonyishmael9666 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for what you do I love walking in cemetery's and just thinking about the great and sometimes sad lives of those who came before us they should all be remembered

  • @sophianaqvi3697
    @sophianaqvi3697 3 года назад +3

    NOW THANKS TO YOU RON WE ALL KNOW ABOUT S. W. MILES IN ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. BET HE NEVER SAW THAT COMING HIMSELF. R. I. P. SIR

  • @helenwedekind6966
    @helenwedekind6966 3 года назад +6

    Gorgeous view from this mausoleum, amazing

  • @RAWRAWRAWR36
    @RAWRAWRAWR36 Год назад +1

    Wonderful depiction of this family’s story. Thanks Ron, your doing such an exceptional job captivating these stories!!!

  • @pameversole5886
    @pameversole5886 3 года назад +1

    Hope all the dads had a good Father’s Day!