Hats off to the veterans who were buried in those cemeteries and have been sadly forgotten by their future generations. 😔They deserve our respect & to be remembered 🇺🇸🦅🙏
Millions die daily having never been know by billions, who are also soon forgotten. Remember them also, for all the did, said, knew and saw are like the final words the Rutger Hauer spoke at the end of the original Blade Runner film. "All those moments will be lost like tears in the rain"
@@will-i-am-not We think and speak alike. Between now and when the sun expands to vaporize our oceans, perhaps we will actually evolve to be something worthy of the Time granted to us. There is great beauty during all the suspected futility of trying to transcend among others who couldn't care less. However, simple cares, and our serenity, these are good markers of our having been here. I lived without the steady burden of any societal war, and I beat the 1-in-20 odds for being born in the USA. I count my blessings less often than I truly should, but clearly more often and for the proper reasons, in contrast I think to the many styles of people I must still deal with each day. Just saying, I like your style. Live long and prosper the innocent deserving around us.
I think that the spirits of these folk that died long ago were happy to see someone visit them again. They were just peeking out to see who you were. Thank you for helping to keep their stories alive.
@Cindy Davis Well, experience informs our beliefs. When or if you have an experience, you may believe differently. In the meantime, maybe it's best to leave other people, and their beliefs, to them.
@@cindydavis1555I beg to differ. As one who visits old graveyards and buildings, I can tell you that spirits or ghosts, are very real. Hopefully, someday, you will experience the paranormal and come to appreciate that the afterlife is not to be feared, but to be explored and looked forward to.
I am glad I finally found my people/community here! Anytime that I tell anybody that one of my hobbies is visiting old cemeteries, they look at me with strange looks or tell me that I am depressed! Oh well, what do they know about the beauty, history, tranquility, and peace that these old cemeteries hold! I am SO glad that I found this channel. 💛
Oh you aren't by yourself, smile. I have always loved the beauty, peace walking thru cemeteries, especially the older ones. It's like opening, reading a book from the past. There is such an enormous amount of history in them. I used to walk through one I lived near when I lived in Eureka Springs Arkansas. There was a 3 person site, surrounded by a low stone enclosure...on each corner of the enclosure were statues of large dogs. There was a smaller dog at the headstone of one grave... turned out to be a young daughter. I walked my poodle thru this cemetery...it was a large, safe place to walk him. But it is true, each time we went there, he'd want to go to that gravesite...and lay on the grave of the young girl. Yes, the other two graves were her parents. I'd sit along on the stone wall. Once leaving, my poodle seemed concerned, whining as though something was wrong....I tried to soothe him, see if I could see anything....as we were leaving I heard, as did he, a little girls voice whisper "goodbye". 💞 It stopped me and then made me smile, as I whispered, you are welcome .
I’ve seen this in a few states that I’ve lived in. The government spends so much on frivolous things, why can’t the government pay for once a year for a group to go out to all these cemeteries and clean them up? These people matter and I find this so sad. Thank you Donnie for all you do.
I agree with the sentiment, but you really don't want the government even knowing where these things are at, much less having anything to do with their brand of help. You really don't.
Thanks for sharing that with us, Donnie. These were some of the good Americans that loved the country and were willing to make it here no matter what it took. Willing to fight in wars. Willing to struggle every day to make this a better country.
There’s a difference between those people and the ones coming here today. Those people were immigrants, looking to better themselves by hard work, and the opportunity’s this country afforded them because they were willing to work. The people coming today for the most part are here for a handout, they are not immigrants, rather, parasites willing to take government handouts rather than work for what they are getting. I know there are a few good ones, but I think that’s very few, from what I’ve seen in a border state. I know this comment will make some people mad, but I call it as I see it, and I’m not worried about political correctness just as most of the people in those Cemetary’s wouldn’t be either. Good video
@@craigcook1571 I am in total agreement with you. They are all criminals and became one the first step they took into this country. I would call that a felony. Now our tax dollars are feeding and clothing them and giving them shelter. It’s not right and even the ones that allow it know it’s not right. They are purposefully trying to destroy our country. 🇺🇸🙏🦅
My wife I drive our old Chevy truck all over the state of Arkansas. We love being out in the middle of nowhere and coming across an old cemetery. We will spend a lot of time looking at everything, making sure things are in order, and giving the dead the respect they deserve. The serenity is unmatched anywhere.
Ever since I was a child I’ve loved exploring cemeteries. Maybe it’s because I’ve always been able to see and hear spirits but, they’ve always been places of peace for me. My momma and my grandmother used to take me to visit the places where our ancestors were buried and tell me stories about them. Because of them taking me, I took my kids and now they know where their 4 times great-grandparents are buried and where they lived. Families need to pass on this information to keep that link with the past.
Crissy here Davids wife and you've said it perfectly. It's a good thing to teach youngsters about their family ancestors. I love 💕 that you do that. ❤😊
@@matthewblackwood4704 Not so. There is neither time nor distance on the other side. Folks who think demons are everywhere are prisoner to a loveless mindset. When we're in the high beams of God's love - and Donnie is - only good vibes are around. May extra angels find you on the path and may they lighten your load. Peace be.
In my early twenties I used to do the same. Visit old cemeteries and read the headstones. Haven’t in many, many years. Videos like this are fascinating
Im blackfoot,Cherokee and Irish mixed, I was born in Tennessee and moved when I was seven but before we moved my mother would take us kids on walks through the woods there's a super old cemetery off in the woods in Hairson Tennessee where the woods took over we always showed respect ,my mother's family still lives there ." Beware of the little people " Thank you for sharing these beautiful places that's been forgotten. Much love and appreciation God bless you and your beautiful family
Indeed!! My great grandfather was 100% cherokee on my mother's side, my father's side please forgive me if i messed it up, ebenekee...??? I also have Irish and Jewish lineage. Mrs, you spirit and soul, something about you stirs in me, and it's a good thing, may Thy Most High face shine upon you and your path, may He pour out HIS countenance upon you and bless you, amen.
@@chrystalmonroe3234 thank you for sharing about yourself,it's always appreciated 💖🫂🙏 ❤, thank you for your kind words dear🌻🫂,I definitely have an old soul .you have rich heritage it's beautiful 🖤🤍💛❤ many many thanks dear sister my God keep you in all of your days,many blessings to you and your beautiful family ❤
I could listen to you tell stories about these graveyards all day Donnie you have an soothing voice. Easy to get lost in your stories of Appalachia. Beautiful nature.
Imagine sitting around a camp fire by a small rippling creek way back in the woods listening to Donnie tell stories all night long. That's why the spirits of the ancestors come out and the birds are so quiet when you are around Donnie, they are listening too! Thank you!
Many years ago, I lived in Morgantown wv. My son and I went to Point Marion. On the way back in a very sharp turn we noticed an old cemetery, we stopped to see it and looked like someone drove through it and broke and scattered many head stones. We spent several hours trying our best to put them back best we could, making sure to get them right. Many were in the 1800s. I felt like the folks buried there deserved to have their graves fixed out of respect. Them things were very heavy, but we did the best we could. I hope them folks are resting easy knowing someone cares and they are not forgotten. Thank you for posting this, our history matters.
I just opened this and am astounded at seeing all these old head stones of these beloved quiet unadorned nature returned cemeteries,,,somehow they exhibit such a solemn graceful beauty in there very quiet place on Earth,,there history one can only let the imagination be free in thinking if the lives before us,,with your most soothing gracious voice you help bring forth the love of country and to all of those who came before us,,,Thank you so much for the caring,,devotion in bringing this to us,,seems so very worthwhile and breathes life full circle,,we don,t forget those who graced the earth before us❤
.......your undertaking is not to be taken lightly But, if people while alive, gave their lives to Jesus Christ, believe me, it doesn't matter what ppl do to the graves They're with Jesus, all tears wiped away
I appreciate you, for sharing and keeping the memories of the past alive. I especially love to watch your old cemetery videos. The unexplained is something I'm interested in, but wouldn't want to be in those cemeteries by myself. It is amazing how fast old cemeteries an old homesteads are taking over by nature, when all the caregivers are gone. This video honered a lot of veterans, and people long forgotten, but, never forgotten by God. Thank you Donnie. May God bless you.
My family and I were on the way to visit our grandmother on Christmas Eve 1977, when we witnessed a white ball of light fly in front of our vehicle, from a cemetery on one side of the road to a cemetery on the other side, everyone reacted to it at the same time. I was nine years old at the time and still remember it clearly.
Thank you for sharing this with us! My grandma used to take me wild berry hunting with her. She came from Poland & we lived in the NY/NJ area and whenever we passed a forested area we would stop and walk into the woods and inevitably find not only massive wild berry bushes, but always ended up in a forgotten cemetery. I loved (and still do) reading about the person written on their grave stones. Always sent them love. Love & Blessings in Absolute Abundance to All! ✨💖✨
Fascinating as always. I am a Brit waiting on my Green Card. My wife is American. I like to think of the pioneers from my old country coming here to Tennessee to live and fight for a great country, Tom Paine being just one. I feel like a modern day pioneer, trying to live self sufficiently on my little homestead. I have been here two years and feel part of this land already. It gets into your bones and very soul very quickly. I love to watch your videos, they help me understand so much of what is here.
@@MeadowDay Texas has incredible history, and the old cemeteries are so interesting to visit (all over the state). Visiting them makes for great road trips.
Hi Donnie, I'm in the UK and came across your channel purely by chance. When I was a child, I was fascinated by cemeteries, it had to be the really ancient ones going back 200 years plus. I always wondered about the lives lived by the people who were interred there. My favourite one was in the grounds of an old ruined cathedral near to where we lived in Scotland. I remember once getting my dad to come with me. I'm sure he was more than a bit concerned at what appeared to be quite a morbid past time for a ten year old. Anyway that particular day I pointed out the numerous headstones that had the skull and crossbones and my dad told me they were pirates 😂 I actually believed him! Years later while watching a documentary it mentioned that it signified people who had died from the plague. When I rang my dad up he roared with laughter saying that it had taken me long enough to rumble his big fib. I'm off to catch up on all your other videos now!
Donnie, It's always been a bit of a hobby of mine, looking around old grave yards here in England 🇬🇧, so thank you for sharing these amazing places, with the old tombstones. You have such a lovely calming voice and accent, which added to the peacefulness of your video. Really enjoyed and appreciated it. 💙 I have taken many photos myself of orbs and once experienced grey mist rising up in front of me as I was doing house work, there was absolutely no reason for it to be there, other than a visiting spirit as in your video. 💙That was their moment in time, and now this is ours! And all passes by to soon. 💜
Another wonderful story, Mr. Laws! Many, many years ago, we lived next to an old cemetery. Soldiers from the Revolutionary War were buried there. Some markers showed that they served under George Washington. Strange events DID occur that we could not explain!
This is greatly meaningful, Donne, and I appreciate your bringing the evidence of these old pioneers to us. The anomalies are interesting, but seeing the forgotten cemeteries and reading the names of some of the people buried there are of so much more importance. As it is said, "There are three deaths: the first when you die, the second when you are buried, and the third when your name is spoken for the last time."
@@5555kids It IS sad -- and even a bit chilling -- but I think of the saying as a reason to keep alive anything that might be part of a "lost" or forgotten person. There is a certain romantic or sentimental feel to that pursuit, apart from the plain history of it. I am so grateful that Donnie DID go out in the woods and found these cemeteries and grave sites, so we COULD remember the people there! With our recent Memorial Day remembrances, for instance, we also recall those who laid down their lives for the country and we say, "Never forget," even though they may have died decades ago, perhaps in far away lands. That all said, I am a firm believer in Christ and an eternity in heaven with Him, so I do not think of death as an end or something that is not positive -- "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:8).
Hello from southern West Virginia. I really enjoyed this video. I’ve gone cemetery hunting with my young daughters in the mountains here, not for the spookiness but for the history lessons. They see the struggles and sacrifices made by our early settlers. It helps them learn to appreciate our own lives and take nothing for granted. This was a really great video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I feel blessed to have 7 Family Cemeteries. It’s mind boggling when you see how far back Kin goes. There’s 3 in The Deep Mtns that are overgrown & hidden. That would be 10 but like you said, nature took them back. Especially our Cherokee & Seminole burial grounds. Thank you Brother Donnie. My little daughter use to take Paper & Pencil & I believe she’s still got those decades later.
I think the people who rest in these forgotten places, are just as curious about you, as you are about them. You show such respect and gratitude towards them, and I think they know and are grateful for your kind words of remembrance. Whilst there are people like you, history will never be forgotten. Have a wonderful weekend 💞
Good morning, Donnie! You never fail to deliver a both interesting and informative video. Thank you so much for all of the work you put in to bring us something to both enjoy and teach us. I look at these graves, and think of those who are, as you say, lost to nature, and I think that the ones buried there are known only to God. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Tell her to stop in and say Hi to us sometime. We would love to meet her. God bless!
I could watch Mr Donnie’s videos all day long. About the best RUclips channel out there. He reminds me of of my Momma’s side of the family, they was Mountain folk, brings back memories.
What a wonderful walk I took with you today, Donnie. Ive always been fascinated with old cemeteries, but I've never seen ones as old as these, and the rich history of the people who rest there. I wonder about them and their lives, loves, children. You do a wonderful narration, with your warm voice that sounds like old liquid silk. So soothing to listen to.
Thank you Donnie people don't seem to worry about history nowadays mage. They barely know their family but we have to keep reminding a moment. Thank you sir god bless
Great history Donnie! I’ve seen footage at Gettysburg of civil war ghosts walking thru a cemetery and walking thru the woods and up a hill. You can see their uniforms and the rifles they are holding. Thanks for all you do my friend.
So much forgotten history to be discovered in these long forgotten and cemeteries. This is so sad for these spirits. Thank you Donnie for being one of many people who provides us with a decent and historicall conscious.
The struggle was real pretty much everywhere. When my Norwegian GG-grandparents homesteaded in Dakota Territory they had to scratch a living from the soil gnarled with roots of tall prairie grass that'd been growing there for hundreds or thousands of years. (prairie grass fires were common, sparked by lightning) The Sioux/Lakota threat was still there in the southeastern area. I'm not sure what they used for heating as there were few trees, maybe buffalo chips. It really humbles me to contemplate all the misery and death they endured, along with uncertainly about the next meal. Add:: they entered Dakota Territory in 1870. I've often wondered if I had the same fortitude to leave my native land, knowing you'll never see family again, and head out to a new and wild western US. Usually end up feeling I'm less than worthy to stand in their shadow.
We see orbs clear as a bell on security cameras at our huge church...the cameras are manned 24/7...the entire security teams knows and Ive watched them floating around the Gym especially during worship...yes we have recordings and Im not shure my son is willing to upload..but if we do the location will be absolutely a secret as the church leaders know and we dont want a fuss about a side show.We dont see an orb for just a second but it travels in a circuit.
@@wirelessone2986 May i clarify... are you saying that the church services seem to attract more orbs than usual at other times?? Can parishioners see the orbs? During service? Whoaaa! I certainly don't get gospel like that at my church! Hallelujah!
I truly appreciate the respect you show and give to these long forgotten cemeteries and the souls that are buried there. Your narration of the video is also calming. You can count me in as a subscriber.
I love your content Donnie. These places are very special to me. My family were also among the first settlers in that area and all throughout New England. They deserve to be remembered. Those balls of lights were indeed spirits!
I love that you do this. If you know of an old cemetery, tell the boy/girl scouts in your area. These kids (like three of my own boys) need to take on a projects for their Eagle Scout badges. They have fixed up a few in New England. You might also get a garden club to adopt an area like that. It is a history lesson as well as a lesson in humanity. These little garden of sleeping angels deserve respect for their contributions. They are also lovely places to mediate and for birds. Our fraternal groups put flags on all the veterans graves on memorial day. This is the stuff that makes a better society.
I think-instead of alerting every known group of kids/teens etc. to where these cemeteries are-just leave them ALONE! No one needs to be announcing their whereabouts to the world.
That was really interesting. I think it's a wonderful thing that you are doing documenting these old cemeteries. It's sad that they have been neglected.
As a veteran myself, I just want to thank you and your family for visiting my fellow veterans and ensuring they aren't entirely forgotten. A lot of people like to talk an awful lot about supporting veterans, but if that were the case there would not be entire wards at VA hospitals, where disabled veterans get dumped to be forgotten and die. It's comforting to know that there's someone out there going to visit them, even 200+ years on
Awesome stuff, Donnie! I appreciate your effort to share these forgotten places and stories that are part of the fabric of early American history. You’re doing a good and noble thing! Safe travels and I’ll see you next time!
Donnie, thanks for sharing this. Remember when Memorial Day was Decoration Day? When I was a young kid my grandma would take me with her to where her family was buried way out in the middle of nowhere & we’d clean up the graves & put flowers on them. I live far away now but I often think about those cemeteries & hope to go back there sometime while I’m still able.
I love your appreciation of nature’s beauty and times past. The cemeteries are plain and simple but so beautiful. I think you have a gift of sorts that the spirits know you care and are attracted to you. Thanks for sharing! 😊🙏🏼🌷🦋🌼
Sir, I was a kindred spirit for a long time - it’s impossible to go backwoods hiking in a wheelchair - and I truly enjoyed this video. I would love to sit by a fireplace and hear your stories! Coming from Canada, I do not really have an accent and your voice is like warm molasses running one my soul! As you showed the old logging roads, it brought back so many memories of times I have done the same thing. I always thought it was magical with the leaves crunching and the sun dappling through; I used to pack a picnic and a book to read over lunch and would make the day of it. Because my Dad grew up in a cabin in the woods during the Depression, he had taught me how to get around and also to get by with what the forest offers. I felt so free to be a young girl (maybe 8-10 yrs old?) with a VERY strict father, but was trusted to spend the day wandering alone in the woods!
Thankyou Donnie for posting this. We just lost my mil and were taking her ashes and those of two of her sons back to WV for internment in the family plot. Those three had been a part of my life for decades. Now they walk with the ancients, but once in a while they let us know that they just behind the veil. 🙏
Those cemeteries look like they are deep in the woods. It's beautiful and haunting at the same time. Thank you for showing this, I am sure they appreciate it 💚 from Australia
They don't. Watch legitimate pyschics they will tell you. From what I have learned, your loved ones are with you, wherever you are, not at the cemetery as people believe. They don't hang out there. They are only there, while you are there remembering them.
Another great video. You should go back to Jefferson County and see all of the historic and very, very old graveyards. They are scattered all over and in place you never would expect. Grandma (Unci in Lakota) always told me to leave them a little something. If you have food leave a bite behind or a drink or piece of candy etc.. Have a great day and God bless.
So interesting especially from my viewpoint in New Zealand, one strange thing happened to me and some members of my family as we strolled through a small old church graveyard in the middle of Winter. Suddenly we could smell a strong scent of flowers... but there were no flowers anywhere and we searched everywhere! I have just subscribed and I look forward to watching more of your lovely videos, thankyou and all the best from New Zealand
This is fascinating. Thank you. Each family and their extended family had their own cemetery. It’s so mysterious. I have tons of war veterans in my ancestry. I wish we knew some of their stories.
Great video Donnie. I have a couple acres of land that border the Shenandoah National Park. Was roaming through the park and found a foundation to a house. After researching the area I found there are some cemeteries nearby from the families that lived there before the govt. "bought their property" to establish the park. No telling how many graves are there that no one knows about. Thanks for the video.
I'm not from the US but it's really cool what you're doing, documenting old cemeteries like this. Thing is - if people don't do this, they will be so overgrown and forgotten about, people will not remember the history. I often look at graves, first settlers and all that. History buff is me.
What a wonderful video. Such beautiful captures of spirits. You must be a light in the dark that they are attracted to. I would love to venture around those old Appalachian cemeteries. What a thrill! I love visiting the old pioneer cemeteries here on the Great Plains. They are sprinkled here and there across the prairie. Like you say, so much history. I love it! Many blessings fellow wanderer. ❤
That little white creature peeking around the tree is spectacular!! I’ve never seen anything like that and believe me, I’ve seen quite a bit. Thank you so much for sharing. The orbs fascinate me too. Oh btw… there is a chemical made for cleaning old tombstones. It’s called D/2. Have a great holiday weekend and thanks to all the veterans🤗❤️🐝
Thank you, Donnie. Those places you visited were so special. Some of the spirits wanted you to see them, I think. They knew you are a gentle soul. I am going to find Robyn's posts and I really look forward to watching more of yours. Bless.
Mister Donnie thank you for imparting a piece of your memory and a historic graveyards in your locality. all are aware that there are many creepy things in the woods especially on cemetery. I am not surprised what you are seeing and creepy voices heard are from souls good or evil. This was something we should aware of. ❤ from Asia.
Thanks for sharing...those were orbs. I've got pics of orbs when I scattered my husband's ashes where he wanted them spread. I also heard voices saying "bear boy". My husband as a young man rescued a cub from a tree after its mother was killed by a falling tree. The cub as an adult became an attraction at Woodland Park zoo in Seattle WA in the 1960s.
Facinating video. Really caught spirits of those passed. Hope the Cherokee passed are thankful too that you were there. Definitely Orbs. Bless all those who died. May they RIP. Wow to hear that spirit voice. Thank you for sharing and look forward to the next video. Love your accent too
I absolutely love your videos. I don’t comment often but had to on this one. I find this so fascinating, the beautiful woods and the long forgotten cemeteries peeking through, giving us pause and reminding us of our heritage. We owe everything to these brave people who now lay in quiet repose. I sometimes feel grateful that they can’t see what we’ve turned their sweat and blood into but at the same time wish they could see the marvels of today brought about also by them. I did genealogies on my family and it, too, is fascinating. Thanks for the video, I am going to see your sister’s channel.
Wow! I loved watching this. His voice is so soothing which really takes you right there with him. The stuff he captured are real & it's the spirits of those people saying hi & thanks for visiting them. Great video! 👍🏼👏👏👏
G'morning Mr Donnie, I loved this video. I live in middle Tennessee, I'm from Virginia and I have always loved to go to as many old cemeteries and churches..... I think of what were their lives filled with happiness tears hard work most dying so young....thank you for all you do to bring your videos to us. Have a great Memorial day. Thoses orbs are for real....
Donnie I HAVE to share this with you! I was walking around the 1800’s section of a cemetery we visit often, audio recording with my video camera on my phone. I was speaking as I walked around, reading headstones. I commented about one that had begun to fall over, “I wish these headstones were in better shape.” When I played the video back, a gravelly voice was heard responding to me, saying, “Me, too!” It sounded like an older man who had smoked pipes for many years!!!! Gave me chills! I believe that grunt sounding voice your sister Robin caught was a female trying to muster up the energy to vocally speak, but she could only manage a grunt, as it is very difficult for spirit to produce the energy vibrations to cross the veil to audibility for the living. Maybe it was spirit from the time of the grave, wanting to respond to her.
I think I finally understand why I am so drawn to you and your videos. What you feel, as do I so intensely, is curiosity and empathy towards the people who came before us. Who were they? What were their lives like? Overgrown cemeteries are especially poignant as they emphasize the "lost and forgotten"...almost as if their lives didn't matter' while their lives mattered every bit as much as our own today. Their struggles were so much greater as their carved out lives in rugged tough terrain and making what they needed. We don't hold a candle to them. History is fascinating and Donnie, you do it so well.
Good morning😊 Thank you for another awesome video! I hope you have a wonderful weekend❤ Edit: I love your videos but they always make me a little sad only because of all the things we've lost or are losing😢
I'm really glad I bumped into this channel. I really appreciate those historical burial grounds. Here on Long Island there's hundreds of them with people from American history. You did a really great job with this video.
Thank you, Donnie. There are so many stories behind those people that would be interesting to know. I think of me grandparents, that raised me a lot of my youth and their stories, I loved to hear them.
I had no idea shaving cream would clean off tombstones! That's fantastic information Donnie! Thank you for sharing that! We've always used muriatic acid for doing that. We won't be doing it that way anymore!!! I'm going to guess you used Barbasol. I have always loved walking in the old gardens (gardens of good and evil) cemeteries. I love the history. I love recognizing the memory of those who have passed that time perhaps has forgotten. The one thing I can not abide is those who vandalize cemeteries, tombstones and mausoleums. Not only is it disrespectful, but it shows a complete absence of respect or integrity in the character of those who do vandalize those things. It's inexcusable, disgraceful and unacceptable. In my not so humble opinion. They are orbs Donnie, and even a spirit playing peek-a-boo from behind the tree. Believe that. There is always someone there Donnie; you just may not see them, but you do them hear them. Fences and gates were put up around cemeteries, not for keeping people out, but for keeping the spirits within. 😉 The woman's voice on Robin's video said, "Hey". I just subscribed to Robin's channel as well. Thanks again for sharing Donnie!❤ ~ APRIL LIPKE
Thank you Donnie! I really enjoyed learning about your neck of the woods. Old cemeteries and their history fascinate me. I live in Massachusetts where we have many old and historical cemeteries. It’s fun and interesting to explore!
That is a neat Bear footage capture Donnie....such a beautiful area there...but that skull looking thing peaking around that tree was wild looking...it had a face to it...whatever it was . Thank you for the video Brother
I saw the face too, and it did look like a skull, or a skeleton, but I’ve watched that part over again an embarrassing amount of times, and can’t make myself see the face again to save my life!!😂😂😂
I just found your video and I am very impressed with your camera work. I love to see all of this stuff that nature tries to hide from us and you are so wonderful for exploring and finding it. I thank you so very much!!
Thank you for sharing this. It was very well put together and very respectful to the cemetery’s that you visited. One thing is certain. Nothing on this planet lasts forever. Eventually everything will be gone. The only thing that lasts forever is God and HIs Word. Have a blessed day sir.
I thought I was the only person to search graveyards. I did it in Florida most of my life and now in Arkansas. You are correct about the great history. Every person had their story. I pay my respect to all military veterans. Thanks for the video.
I absolutely believe in ghosts. I have a ghost cat in my house. My ancestors came to Virginia in 1653. My maternal great great grandmother was Cherokee. My family is rooted deep in Virginia & Kentucky. That disembodied voice on the EVP said "leave."
My family has an old cemetery dating back to the 1700. I haven't been there in a long while but always felt very peaceful there as a child like my ancestors were watching over me.
I've heard of an old cemetery with 1812 war veterans that was being cleaned up, but they couldn't be sure of where some of the graves were. A local group brought in their cadaver dogs - the kind that are brought in after a disaster to find people buried in the rubble - and they found the rest of the graves. A trained cadaver dog can find a human grave that is that old!
Thank you Sir!!! For documenting these when stumbling upon them. They indeed have a story to tell. I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Almost directly across from the Frontier City Theme Park. I learned of a old small cemetery thats back behind this hotel I stay in. I just went yesterday to check it out for a second time & noticed a lot peculiar stuff, including huge rusted pipes sticking strait up out of the ground. One is directly behind the hotel I'm at, & then the other is back behind Cracker Barrel thats up the road & across the highway. That one is huge, kinda like what Jeepers Creepers threw his victims down. I'm sure there's a plausible explanation. I personally never stumbled across pipes like that sticking directly up into the air & filled with gravel. But I immediately couldn't help but to think that those pipes were both connected to an ancient industrial structure. But yeah anyway, the Martin cemetery here I thought was a little odd. There's maybe 25 people there, if even. & It's usually always maintained, its in a wooded area. What stood out to me is how the 1st to be buried there was a stillborn, Baby Boy Martin. & Then after that, more stillborns one right after another with headstones that said stuff like died between 1889 - 1899. Idk maybe it's just me that finds that weird as well lol. & then besides the Martin family & their beloved sacrificial *COUGH* I meant Children, there's a Weiss family, Hutchinson & O'Neal and I think maybe a couple others. But yeah their all for the most part seemingly high ranking in the Army. & Again it's a tiny cemetery with maybe 25 buried there, a lot of Mid to Late 1800's, there are some new up to date graves there too. But all of those graves are still getting visitors & headstone decorations., & then whenever I was leaving the cemetery yesterday, as I closed and shut the gate & was turning to leave I noticed that the landscape looked oddly different. The 1st time I had left the cemetery, I was with my girlfriend & it was starting to rain, Her & I both joked around about there being a Trail Cam inside of a old discarded stove that was 20ft directly across from us, sticking out from behind a tree. But the rain was increasing pretty fast and we still had to walk back thru the woods. But yesterday that tree with the old discarded stove behind it wasn't there anymore! Not even a sign of a tree having used to exist there.
I love your channel Mr. Laws! Old cemetaries are so fascinating. My husband & I have visited a few backcountry ones while hiking. Amazing how they got the bodies up those steep inclines off trail, but so peaceful. I love to see what names were popular during the different eras. Thank you, sir, for not letting these settlers be forgotten.
Hats off to the veterans who were buried in those cemeteries and have been sadly forgotten by their future generations. 😔They deserve our respect & to be remembered 🇺🇸🦅🙏
Amen my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
We always have pennies for those graves.
Im a medium and are sensitive to spirits. Thank you for sharing.
Millions die daily having never been know by billions, who are also soon forgotten. Remember them also, for all the did, said, knew and saw are like the final words the Rutger Hauer spoke at the end of the original Blade Runner film. "All those moments will be lost like tears in the rain"
@@will-i-am-not We think and speak alike. Between now and when the sun expands to vaporize our oceans, perhaps we will actually evolve to be something worthy of the Time granted to us. There is great beauty during all the suspected futility of trying to transcend among others who couldn't care less. However, simple cares, and our serenity, these are good markers of our having been here. I lived without the steady burden of any societal war, and I beat the 1-in-20 odds for being born in the USA. I count my blessings less often than I truly should, but clearly more often and for the proper reasons, in contrast I think to the many styles of people I must still deal with each day. Just saying, I like your style. Live long and prosper the innocent deserving around us.
They are forgotten now. An illegal will be given government housing first than to a veteran. And we put up with it!
I think that the spirits of these folk that died long ago were happy to see someone visit them again. They were just peeking out to see who you were. Thank you for helping to keep their stories alive.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
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@Cindy Davis Well, experience informs our beliefs. When or if you have an experience, you may believe differently. In the meantime, maybe it's best to leave other people, and their beliefs, to them.
@@donnielaws7020no ⁰p
@@cindydavis1555I beg to differ. As one who visits old graveyards and buildings, I can tell you that spirits or ghosts, are very real. Hopefully, someday, you will experience the paranormal and come to appreciate that the afterlife is not to be feared, but to be explored and looked forward to.
I am glad I finally found my people/community here! Anytime that I tell anybody that one of my hobbies is visiting old cemeteries, they look at me with strange looks or tell me that I am depressed! Oh well, what do they know about the beauty, history, tranquility, and peace that these old cemeteries hold! I am SO glad that I found this channel. 💛
I love old graveyards too, have found several that no one knew about.
I love visiting cemeteries 🤗
I too love old cemeteries, full of history
Oh you aren't by yourself, smile. I have always loved the beauty, peace walking thru cemeteries, especially the older ones. It's like opening, reading a book from the past. There is such an enormous amount of history in them.
I used to walk through one I lived near when I lived in Eureka Springs Arkansas. There was a 3 person site, surrounded by a low stone enclosure...on each corner of the enclosure were statues of large dogs.
There was a smaller dog at the headstone of one grave... turned out to be a young daughter. I walked my poodle thru this cemetery...it was a large, safe place to walk him. But it is true, each time we went there, he'd want to go to that gravesite...and lay on the grave of the young girl. Yes, the other two graves were her parents. I'd sit along on the stone wall. Once leaving, my poodle seemed concerned, whining as though something was wrong....I tried to soothe him, see if I could see anything....as we were leaving I heard, as did he, a little girls voice whisper "goodbye". 💞
It stopped me and then made me smile, as I whispered, you are welcome .
I love it.
I’ve seen this in a few states that I’ve lived in. The government spends so much on frivolous things, why can’t the government pay for once a year for a group to go out to all these cemeteries and clean them up? These people matter and I find this so sad. Thank you Donnie for all you do.
That's a great idea my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Yes the gov. should but also it wouldn't hurt the locals to do the job. When you involve the gov. like the cops, bad things happen.
I agree. This is the first time watching. I found this very interesting. Thank you donnie
I agree with the sentiment, but you really don't want the government even knowing where these things are at, much less having anything to do with their brand of help. You really don't.
Unfortunately Marie they can’t even take care of our living Veterans. It’s truly shameful.
Thanks for sharing that with us, Donnie. These were some of the good Americans that loved the country and were willing to make it here no matter what it took. Willing to fight in wars. Willing to struggle every day to make this a better country.
Amen my friend. That are what started this country. Thanks for sharing this my. Your very welcome.
There’s a difference between those people and the ones coming here today.
Those people were immigrants, looking to better themselves by hard work, and the opportunity’s this country afforded them because they were willing to work.
The people coming today for the most part are here for a handout, they are not immigrants, rather, parasites willing to take government handouts rather than work for what they are getting. I know there are a few good ones, but I think that’s very few, from what I’ve seen in a border state.
I know this comment will make some people mad, but I call it as I see it, and I’m not worried about political correctness just as most of the people in those Cemetary’s wouldn’t be either.
Good video
Amen!
@@craigcook1571 I am in total agreement with you. They are all criminals and became one the first step they took into this country. I would call that a felony. Now our tax dollars are feeding and clothing them and giving them shelter. It’s not right and even the ones that allow it know it’s not right. They are purposefully trying to destroy our country. 🇺🇸🙏🦅
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I love that good ol' country voice. Reminds me when everyday life moved slower. Thanks.
Yes! Sounds like where I grew up in western NC💕
Yes. I could listen to that every night. So smooth.
"Our history needs to be remembered." Amen, brother Donnie. Amen.
Amen my friend.
Thanks Donnie for keeping the unknown history of Appalachia alive.
Your very welcome my friend.
My wife I drive our old Chevy truck all over the state of Arkansas. We love being out in the middle of nowhere and coming across an old cemetery. We will spend a lot of time looking at everything, making sure things are in order, and giving the dead the respect they deserve. The serenity is unmatched anywhere.
Ever since I was a child I’ve loved exploring cemeteries. Maybe it’s because I’ve always been able to see and hear spirits but, they’ve always been places of peace for me. My momma and my grandmother used to take me to visit the places where our ancestors were buried and tell me stories about them. Because of them taking me, I took my kids and now they know where their 4 times great-grandparents are buried and where they lived. Families need to pass on this information to keep that link with the past.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my.
Crissy here Davids wife and you've said it perfectly. It's a good thing to teach youngsters about their family ancestors. I love 💕 that you do that. ❤😊
Human spirits go on to the afterlife and don't hang around, if you are seeing and hearing these things it can only be demons
@@matthewblackwood4704 Not so. There is neither time nor distance on the other side. Folks who think demons are everywhere are prisoner to a loveless mindset.
When we're in the high beams of God's love - and Donnie is - only good vibes are around.
May extra angels find you on the path and may they lighten your load.
Peace be.
In my early twenties I used to do the same. Visit old cemeteries and read the headstones. Haven’t in many, many years. Videos like this are fascinating
Im blackfoot,Cherokee and Irish mixed, I was born in Tennessee and moved when I was seven but before we moved my mother would take us kids on walks through the woods there's a super old cemetery off in the woods in Hairson Tennessee where the woods took over we always showed respect ,my mother's family still lives there ." Beware of the little people "
Thank you for sharing these beautiful places that's been forgotten. Much love and appreciation God bless you and your beautiful family
Yes the little people and grass man
I miss the old days and have much respect for the people that lived back then!!❤
Indeed!! My great grandfather was 100% cherokee on my mother's side, my father's side please forgive me if i messed it up, ebenekee...??? I also have Irish and Jewish lineage. Mrs, you spirit and soul, something about you stirs in me, and it's a good thing, may Thy Most High face shine upon you and your path, may He pour out HIS countenance upon you and bless you, amen.
@@chrystalmonroe3234 thank you for sharing about yourself,it's always appreciated 💖🫂🙏 ❤, thank you for your kind words dear🌻🫂,I definitely have an old soul .you have rich heritage it's beautiful 🖤🤍💛❤ many many thanks dear sister my God keep you in all of your days,many blessings to you and your beautiful family ❤
@@tommyrobinson1742yep and spear finger too
I could listen to you tell stories about these graveyards all day Donnie you have an soothing voice. Easy to get lost in your stories of Appalachia. Beautiful nature.
Awesome my friend. Thank you.
I had to mention his voice too..... It is soothing makes the history so interesting.....
Imagine sitting around a camp fire by a small rippling creek way back in the woods listening to Donnie tell stories all night long. That's why the spirits of the ancestors come out and the birds are so quiet when you are around Donnie, they are listening too!
Thank you!
Yes Sir Donny I believe they Trust you and the Truth you pass on. Thank You Sir !!
@@pcj3405
Sweet!
Many years ago, I lived in Morgantown wv. My son and I went to Point Marion. On the way back in a very sharp turn we noticed an old cemetery, we stopped to see it and looked like someone drove through it and broke and scattered many head stones. We spent several hours trying our best to put them back best we could, making sure to get them right. Many were in the 1800s. I felt like the folks buried there deserved to have their graves fixed out of respect. Them things were very heavy, but we did the best we could. I hope them folks are resting easy knowing someone cares and they are not forgotten.
Thank you for posting this, our history matters.
Thank you for taking the time to righ,t someone else's wrong.
I just opened this and am astounded at seeing all these old head stones of these beloved quiet unadorned nature returned cemeteries,,,somehow they exhibit such a solemn graceful beauty in there very quiet place on Earth,,there history one can only let the imagination be free in thinking if the lives before us,,with your most soothing gracious voice you help bring forth the love of country and to all of those who came before us,,,Thank you so much for the caring,,devotion in bringing this to us,,seems so very worthwhile and breathes life full circle,,we don,t forget those who graced the earth before us❤
.......your undertaking is not to be taken lightly
But, if people while alive, gave their lives to Jesus Christ, believe me, it doesn't matter what ppl do to the graves
They're with Jesus, all tears wiped away
I appreciate you, for sharing and keeping the memories of the past alive. I especially love to watch your old cemetery videos. The unexplained is something I'm interested in, but wouldn't want to be in those cemeteries by myself. It is amazing how fast old cemeteries an old homesteads are taking over by nature, when all the caregivers are gone. This video honered a lot of veterans, and people long forgotten, but, never forgotten by God.
Thank you Donnie.
May God bless you.
Amen my friend. The good lord knows all. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
AMEN to that......www.gabrielenoindians.org
I could listen to your voice all day long. So soothing ❤
❤ from the piney woods of East Texas
My family and I were on the way to visit our grandmother on Christmas Eve 1977, when we witnessed a white ball of light fly in front of our vehicle, from a cemetery on one side of the road to a cemetery on the other side, everyone reacted to it at the same time. I was nine years old at the time and still remember it clearly.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Love cemeteries. They are peaceful. Nature is beautiful and it’s fitting that nature reclaims what rightfully belongs to her.
Yes, we return to dust
Thank you for sharing this with us! My grandma used to take me wild berry hunting with her. She came from Poland & we lived in the NY/NJ area and whenever we passed a forested area we would stop and walk into the woods and inevitably find not only massive wild berry bushes, but always ended up in a forgotten cemetery. I loved (and still do) reading about the person written on their grave stones. Always sent them love. Love & Blessings in Absolute Abundance to All! ✨💖✨
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Thats the kindest thing to do - send your love and blessings...🙏🙏
Fascinating as always. I am a Brit waiting on my Green Card. My wife is American. I like to think of the pioneers from my old country coming here to Tennessee to live and fight for a great country, Tom Paine being just one. I feel like a modern day pioneer, trying to live self sufficiently on my little homestead. I have been here two years and feel part of this land already. It gets into your bones and very soul very quickly. I love to watch your videos, they help me understand so much of what is here.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Welcome..from another Brit in Texas. So happy you respect the history of this special place
@@MeadowDay how long have your been here? I nearly chose Texas as home state but we found perfect homestead in Tennessee.
@@MeadowDay Texas has incredible history, and the old cemeteries are so interesting to visit (all over the state). Visiting them makes for great road trips.
Hi Donnie, I'm in the UK and came across your channel purely by chance. When I was a child, I was fascinated by cemeteries, it had to be the really ancient ones going back 200 years plus. I always wondered about the lives lived by the people who were interred there. My favourite one was in the grounds of an old ruined cathedral near to where we lived in Scotland. I remember once getting my dad to come with me. I'm sure he was more than a bit concerned at what appeared to be quite a morbid past time for a ten year old. Anyway that particular day I pointed out the numerous headstones that had the skull and crossbones and my dad told me they were pirates 😂 I actually believed him! Years later while watching a documentary it mentioned that it signified people who had died from the plague. When I rang my dad up he roared with laughter saying that it had taken me long enough to rumble his big fib. I'm off to catch up on all your other videos now!
WOW Thanks for sharing your story and this information. Thanks for watching my friend.
My grandad used to say the same to me "pirates graves" also in UK.
😂 thought so too when I saw them though I never asked
Donnie, It's always been a bit of a hobby of mine, looking around old grave yards here in England 🇬🇧, so thank you for sharing these amazing places, with the old tombstones. You have such a lovely calming voice and accent, which added to the peacefulness of your video. Really enjoyed and appreciated it. 💙 I have taken many photos myself of orbs and once experienced grey mist rising up in front of me as I was doing house work, there was absolutely no reason for it to be there, other than a visiting spirit as in your video. 💙That was their moment in time, and now this is ours! And all passes by to soon. 💜
WOW Thanks so much for sharing this my friend. Thank you.
Another wonderful story, Mr. Laws! Many, many years ago, we lived next to an old cemetery. Soldiers from the Revolutionary War were buried there. Some markers showed that they served under George Washington. Strange events DID occur that we could not explain!
WOW that's a old one. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Such as, curious
This is greatly meaningful, Donne, and I appreciate your bringing the evidence of these old pioneers to us. The anomalies are interesting, but seeing the forgotten cemeteries and reading the names of some of the people buried there are of so much more importance. As it is said, "There are three deaths: the first when you die, the second when you are buried, and the third when your name is spoken for the last time."
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. I never heard it that way. God bless you.
Wow...thank you.
Well that's a sad saying, the third death being basically forgotten forever. I prefer a more positive perspective on death.
@@5555kids It IS sad -- and even a bit chilling -- but I think of the saying as a reason to keep alive anything that might be part of a "lost" or forgotten person. There is a certain romantic or sentimental feel to that pursuit, apart from the plain history of it. I am so grateful that Donnie DID go out in the woods and found these cemeteries and grave sites, so we COULD remember the people there! With our recent Memorial Day remembrances, for instance, we also recall those who laid down their lives for the country and we say, "Never forget," even though they may have died decades ago, perhaps in far away lands. That all said, I am a firm believer in Christ and an eternity in heaven with Him, so I do not think of death as an end or something that is not positive -- "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:8).
“Dicen que el hombre muere tres veces: cuando mueres, cuando se te entierra y cuando se te olvida!” . Un saludo desde Texas.
Hello from southern West Virginia. I really enjoyed this video. I’ve gone cemetery hunting with my young daughters in the mountains here, not for the spookiness but for the history lessons. They see the struggles and sacrifices made by our early settlers. It helps them learn to appreciate our own lives and take nothing for granted.
This was a really great video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Be careful to say the least.
I feel blessed to have 7 Family Cemeteries. It’s mind boggling when you see how far back Kin goes. There’s 3 in The Deep Mtns that are overgrown & hidden. That would be 10 but like you said, nature took them back. Especially our Cherokee & Seminole burial grounds. Thank you Brother Donnie. My little daughter use to take Paper & Pencil & I believe she’s still got those decades later.
WOW, nature is taking them back. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I think the people who rest in these forgotten places, are just as curious about you, as you are about them. You show such respect and gratitude towards them, and I think they know and are grateful for your kind words of remembrance. Whilst there are people like you, history will never be forgotten. Have a wonderful weekend 💞
Thank you so much my friend for sharing this. I try. God bless you.
Loved this video, you're one thousand percent correct, History needs to be remembered!!, 😊
Good morning, Donnie! You never fail to deliver a both interesting and informative video. Thank you so much for all of the work you put in to bring us something to both enjoy and teach us. I look at these graves, and think of those who are, as you say, lost to nature, and I think that the ones buried there are known only to God. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Tell her to stop in and say Hi to us sometime. We would love to meet her. God bless!
Amen my friend. The good lord knows were and who each one of these souls are. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you your very welcome.
I could watch Mr Donnie’s videos all day long. About the best RUclips channel out there. He reminds me of of my Momma’s side of the family, they was Mountain folk, brings back memories.
He truly does capture what he talks about if that makes sense?
What a wonderful walk I took with you today, Donnie. Ive always been fascinated with old cemeteries, but I've never seen ones as old as these, and the rich history of the people who rest there. I wonder about them and their lives, loves, children.
You do a wonderful narration, with your warm voice that sounds like old liquid silk. So soothing to listen to.
Awesome my friend. Glad you enjoyed them. God bless you. Your very welcome. Thank you.
I do agree.. I love your videos Mr. Donnie!
Beautiful photos/videos, Donnie! Love your calm, gentle, and respectful voice 😊❤️
Thank you Donnie people don't seem to worry about history nowadays mage. They barely know their family but we have to keep reminding a moment. Thank you sir god bless
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Great history Donnie! I’ve seen footage at Gettysburg of civil war ghosts walking thru a cemetery and walking thru the woods and up a hill. You can see their uniforms and the rifles they are holding. Thanks for all you do my friend.
WOW that's awesome my friend. I have seen some videos on that. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome.
That's the devil.....familiar spirits
The dead are just that....DEAD
So much forgotten history to be discovered in these long forgotten and cemeteries. This is so sad for these spirits. Thank you Donnie for being one of many people who provides us with a decent and historicall conscious.
It is sad my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Thanks Donnie, do appreciate all the work you do to keep our past ancestors and history remembered.
God Bless you Friend and have a Good Weekend 🙂.
Thank you friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
God bless you Donne.
Thank you for sharing a little bit of Tennessee’s history. Yes, the struggle was real.
Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
The struggle was real pretty much everywhere. When my Norwegian GG-grandparents homesteaded in Dakota Territory they had to scratch a living from the soil gnarled with roots of tall prairie grass that'd been growing there for hundreds or thousands of years. (prairie grass fires were common, sparked by lightning) The Sioux/Lakota threat was still there in the southeastern area. I'm not sure what they used for heating as there were few trees, maybe buffalo chips.
It really humbles me to contemplate all the misery and death they endured, along with uncertainly about the next meal. Add:: they entered Dakota Territory in 1870.
I've often wondered if I had the same fortitude to leave my native land, knowing you'll never see family again, and head out to a new and wild western US. Usually end up feeling I'm less than worthy to stand in their shadow.
We see orbs clear as a bell on security cameras at our huge church...the cameras are manned 24/7...the entire security teams knows and Ive watched them floating around the Gym especially during worship...yes we have recordings and Im not shure my son is willing to upload..but if we do the location will be absolutely a secret as the church leaders know and we dont want a fuss about a side show.We dont see an orb for just a second but it travels in a circuit.
@@wirelessone2986 May i clarify... are you saying that the church services seem to attract more orbs than usual at other times??
Can parishioners see the orbs? During service? Whoaaa! I certainly don't get gospel like that at my church! Hallelujah!
Always a pleasure listening to Donnie.
Thank you Donnie for taking us on your backroads travels. Very informative, beautiful & spooky all rolled up in one!
Your very welcome my friend.
You sir are a spirit magnet. They must realize the good you’re doing and appreciate your respect.
WOW.
I truly appreciate the respect you show and give to these long forgotten cemeteries and the souls that are buried there. Your narration of the video is also calming. You can count me in as a subscriber.
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much.
apparently shaving cream can potentially damage the gravestones so just a friendly reminder.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I love your content Donnie. These places are very special to me. My family were also among the first settlers in that area and all throughout New England. They deserve to be remembered. Those balls of lights were indeed spirits!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
I love that you do this. If you know of an old cemetery, tell the boy/girl scouts in your area. These kids (like three of my own boys) need to take on a projects for their Eagle Scout badges. They have fixed up a few in New England. You might also get a garden club to adopt an area like that. It is a history lesson as well as a lesson in humanity. These little garden of sleeping angels deserve respect for their contributions. They are also lovely places to mediate and for birds. Our fraternal groups put flags on all the veterans graves on memorial day. This is the stuff that makes a better society.
That is a wonderful idea. And, it would stimulate a desire to learn about their own ancestors.
I think-instead of alerting every known group of kids/teens etc. to where these cemeteries are-just leave them ALONE! No one needs to be announcing their whereabouts to the world.
@@jimmierosati2679And it would alert every teen and kid to where these cemeteries are. They’ve been there all this time just leave them alone!
That was really interesting. I think it's a wonderful thing that you are doing documenting these old cemeteries. It's sad that they have been neglected.
Thank you friend.
Hello from KY love your channel ❤️.Well another chilling video.I love this stuff.I think their spirits came out to thank you for remembering them.❤
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
I love these old cemeteries. Incredible history. Thank you so much for what you do.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
As a veteran myself, I just want to thank you and your family for visiting my fellow veterans and ensuring they aren't entirely forgotten. A lot of people like to talk an awful lot about supporting veterans, but if that were the case there would not be entire wards at VA hospitals, where disabled veterans get dumped to be forgotten and die. It's comforting to know that there's someone out there going to visit them, even 200+ years on
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Awesome stuff, Donnie! I appreciate your effort to share these forgotten places and stories that are part of the fabric of early American history. You’re doing a good and noble thing! Safe travels and I’ll see you next time!
Thank you friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Donnie, thanks for sharing this. Remember when Memorial Day was Decoration Day? When I was a young kid my grandma would take me with her to where her family was buried way out in the middle of nowhere & we’d clean up the graves & put flowers on them. I live far away now but I often think about those cemeteries & hope to go back there sometime while I’m still able.
I sure do my friend. My family still does. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
That was nice
So interesting to see those old places. It's a shame that so many have been lost and forgotten.
I am really impressed by the dedication you put into producing these programs. Thanks!
Thank you so much my friend for sharing this. I really appreciate it. God bless you. Thank you.
I love your appreciation of nature’s beauty and times past. The cemeteries are plain and simple but so beautiful. I think you have a gift of sorts that the spirits know you care and are attracted to you. Thanks for sharing! 😊🙏🏼🌷🦋🌼
It sure seems that way my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Sir, I was a kindred spirit for a long time - it’s impossible to go backwoods hiking in a wheelchair - and I truly enjoyed this video. I would love to sit by a fireplace and hear your stories! Coming from Canada, I do not really have an accent and your voice is like warm molasses running one my soul! As you showed the old logging roads, it brought back so many memories of times I have done the same thing. I always thought it was magical with the leaves crunching and the sun dappling through; I used to pack a picnic and a book to read over lunch and would make the day of it. Because my Dad grew up in a cabin in the woods during the Depression, he had taught me how to get around and also to get by with what the forest offers. I felt so free to be a young girl (maybe 8-10 yrs old?) with a VERY strict father, but was trusted to spend the day wandering alone in the woods!
Thankyou Donnie for posting this. We just lost my mil and were taking her ashes and those of two of her sons back to WV for internment in the family plot. Those three had been a part of my life for decades. Now they walk with the ancients, but once in a while they let us know that they just behind the veil. 🙏
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. So sorry for your loss. God bless you.
I love old graveyards, and sometimes I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in more ways than one 😎👍
Thank you mr. Reed. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.
Those cemeteries look like they are deep in the woods. It's beautiful and haunting at the same time. Thank you for showing this, I am sure they appreciate it 💚 from Australia
I offended wondered why spirit's stay at the cemetery, this was eerie and peaceful at the same time enjoy it have a great memorial weekend 🇺🇸
Only the good lord knows them answers my friend.
They don't. Watch legitimate pyschics they will tell you. From what I have learned, your loved ones are with you, wherever you are, not at the cemetery as people believe. They don't hang out there. They are only there, while you are there remembering them.
The loved ones of the people in those cemeteries are as dead as they are.
Many of the spirits seen in cemeteries quite often have no other place to go
Another great video. You should go back to Jefferson County and see all of the historic and very, very old graveyards. They are scattered all over and in place you never would expect. Grandma (Unci in Lakota) always told me to leave them a little something. If you have food leave a bite behind or a drink or piece of candy etc.. Have a great day and God bless.
WOW that's a great thing my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Your Grandma is Wise and beautiful. 🤠🖖 ♨️
Thanks for taking me along with you.I find old cemetaries fascinating...like you say-there is so much history,You can almost feel it.
Your very welcome my friend.
So interesting especially from my viewpoint in New Zealand, one strange thing happened to me and some members of my family as we strolled through a small old church graveyard in the middle of Winter. Suddenly we could smell a strong scent of flowers... but there were no flowers anywhere and we searched everywhere! I have just subscribed and I look forward to watching more of your lovely videos, thankyou and all the best from New Zealand
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Nicely done ..
Thank You for sharing the history of our Nation....hope to see more of videos.
This is fascinating. Thank you. Each family and their extended family had their own cemetery. It’s so mysterious. I have tons of war veterans in my ancestry. I wish we knew some of their stories.
Great video Donnie. I have a couple acres of land that border the Shenandoah National Park. Was roaming through the park and found a foundation to a house. After researching the area I found there are some cemeteries nearby from the families that lived there before the govt. "bought their property" to establish the park. No telling how many graves are there that no one knows about. Thanks for the video.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
You need a metal detector.
I'm not from the US but it's really cool what you're doing, documenting old cemeteries like this. Thing is - if people don't do this, they will be so overgrown and forgotten about, people will not remember the history. I often look at graves, first settlers and all that. History buff is me.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thank you so much for making this and for just visiting those people. Giving it all so much life with your words. Beautiful video ❤❤❤❤
What a wonderful video. Such beautiful captures of spirits. You must be a light in the dark that they are attracted to.
I would love to venture around those old Appalachian cemeteries. What a thrill! I love visiting the old pioneer cemeteries here on the Great Plains. They are sprinkled here and there across the prairie. Like you say, so much history. I love it!
Many blessings fellow wanderer. ❤
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
That little white creature peeking around the tree is spectacular!! I’ve never seen anything like that and believe me, I’ve seen quite a bit. Thank you so much for sharing. The orbs fascinate me too. Oh btw… there is a chemical made for cleaning old tombstones. It’s called D/2. Have a great holiday weekend and thanks to all the veterans🤗❤️🐝
Awesome my friend. I will tell Robin about the cleaning. Your very welcome. God bless you my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 You’re welcome and bless you too❤️🤗🐝
Thank you, Donnie. Those places you visited were so special. Some of the spirits wanted you to see them, I think. They knew you are a gentle soul. I am going to find Robyn's posts and I really look forward to watching more of yours. Bless.
Your very welcome my friend.
Thanks Donnie. Our ancient tangled hills are full of mysteries. Blessings of the day to you.
That's so true my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I think these paranormal entities are just happy to see a friendly face visiting them! Great spooky video once again. Thanks!
Could be my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Mister Donnie thank you for imparting a piece of your memory and a historic graveyards in your locality. all are aware that there are many creepy things in the woods especially on cemetery. I am not surprised what you are seeing and creepy voices heard are from souls good or evil. This was something we should aware of. ❤ from Asia.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
It's so very true there is so much forgotten history and the people who once lived here, thank you for the time you put into these videos.
Awesome my friend. So true. Your very welcome.
Thanks for sharing...those were orbs. I've got pics of orbs when I scattered my husband's ashes where he wanted them spread. I also heard voices saying "bear boy". My husband as a young man rescued a cub from a tree after its mother was killed by a falling tree. The cub as an adult became an attraction at Woodland Park zoo in Seattle WA in the 1960s.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Facinating video. Really caught spirits of those passed. Hope the Cherokee passed are thankful too that you were there. Definitely Orbs. Bless all those who died. May they RIP. Wow to hear that spirit voice. Thank you for sharing and look forward to the next video. Love your accent too
Love your channel Donnie! God bless and good health to you and your family.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
I absolutely love your videos. I don’t comment often but had to on this one. I find this so fascinating, the beautiful woods and the long forgotten cemeteries peeking through, giving us pause and reminding us of our heritage. We owe everything to these brave people who now lay in quiet repose. I sometimes feel grateful that they can’t see what we’ve turned their sweat and blood into but at the same time wish they could see the marvels of today brought about also by them. I did genealogies on my family and it, too, is fascinating. Thanks for the video, I am going to see your sister’s channel.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Wow! I loved watching this. His voice is so soothing which really takes you right there with him. The stuff he captured are real & it's the spirits of those people saying hi & thanks for visiting them. Great video! 👍🏼👏👏👏
There's so much around us that we can't see or understand... I really enjoyed this look at the unexplained!
Thanks Donnie 😎👍
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
G'morning Mr Donnie, I loved this video. I live in middle Tennessee, I'm from Virginia and I have always loved to go to as many old cemeteries and churches..... I think of what were their lives filled with happiness tears hard work most dying so young....thank you for all you do to bring your videos to us. Have a great Memorial day. Thoses orbs are for real....
Good morning my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Donnie I HAVE to share this with you! I was walking around the 1800’s section of a cemetery we visit often, audio recording with my video camera on my phone. I was speaking as I walked around, reading headstones. I commented about one that had begun to fall over, “I wish these headstones were in better shape.” When I played the video back, a gravelly voice was heard responding to me, saying, “Me, too!” It sounded like an older man who had smoked pipes for many years!!!! Gave me chills! I believe that grunt sounding voice your sister Robin caught was a female trying to muster up the energy to vocally speak, but she could only manage a grunt, as it is very difficult for spirit to produce the energy vibrations to cross the veil to audibility for the living. Maybe it was spirit from the time of the grave, wanting to respond to her.
WOW Thanks for sharing this and your experience my friend. WOW.
LBH Sorry for butting in, just wanna say thanks for sharing your interesting story.
Thank you for taking me along on your adventures
You don't need to go by yourself anything can happen so be safe. I love your videos
Your very welcome my friend. Thank you friend for caring.
Beautiful video of forgotten cemeteries.. thank you🎉🎉🎉
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
I think I finally understand why I am so drawn to you and your videos. What you feel, as do I so intensely, is curiosity and empathy towards the people who came before us. Who were they? What were their lives like? Overgrown cemeteries are especially poignant as they emphasize the "lost and forgotten"...almost as if their lives didn't matter' while their lives mattered every bit as much as our own today. Their struggles were so much greater as their carved out lives in rugged tough terrain and making what they needed. We don't hold a candle to them.
History is fascinating and Donnie, you do it so well.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Good morning😊
Thank you for another awesome video! I hope you have a wonderful weekend❤
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I love your videos but they always make me a little sad only because of all the things we've lost or are losing😢
Morning my friend. You to. God bless you. Your very welcome.
I'm really glad I bumped into this channel. I really appreciate those historical burial grounds. Here on Long Island there's hundreds of them with people from American history. You did a really great job with this video.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you.
Thank you Donnie, for the pleasant walks! Those are the spirits still hanging around. So intriguing!!
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you, Donnie. There are so many stories behind those people that would be interesting to know. I think of me grandparents, that raised me a lot of my youth and their stories, I loved to hear them.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Irwin cemetery? Where is that?
I had no idea shaving cream would clean off tombstones! That's fantastic information Donnie! Thank you for sharing that! We've always used muriatic acid for doing that. We won't be doing it that way anymore!!! I'm going to guess you used Barbasol. I have always loved walking in the old gardens (gardens of good and evil) cemeteries. I love the history. I love recognizing the memory of those who have passed that time perhaps has forgotten. The one thing I can not abide is those who vandalize cemeteries, tombstones and mausoleums. Not only is it disrespectful, but it shows a complete absence of respect or integrity in the character of those who do vandalize those things. It's inexcusable, disgraceful and unacceptable. In my not so humble opinion. They are orbs Donnie, and even a spirit playing peek-a-boo from behind the tree. Believe that. There is always someone there Donnie; you just may not see them, but you do them hear them. Fences and gates were put up around cemeteries, not for keeping people out, but for keeping the spirits within. 😉 The woman's voice on Robin's video said, "Hey". I just subscribed to Robin's channel as well.
Thanks again for sharing Donnie!❤
~ APRIL LIPKE
WOW Thanks for sharing your story and thoughts my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Shaving foam???! He'll, l never knew that.!!
It doesn't clean them off...it fills the letters so they can be seen and read.
Pretty ingenious really.
@@jc4evur661 Indeed it is! Necessity has always been the Mother of invention. You use what you have! 😉
~ APRIL LIPKE
So very fascinating how we pass thru time & nature reclaims. Thank you so much for your hard work. Please take care out in the middle of nowhere!
Thank you Donnie! I really enjoyed learning about your neck of the woods. Old cemeteries and their history fascinate me. I live in Massachusetts where we have many old and historical cemeteries. It’s fun and interesting to explore!
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
That is a neat Bear footage capture Donnie....such a beautiful area there...but that skull looking thing peaking around that tree was wild looking...it had a face to it...whatever it was .
Thank you for the video Brother
Thank you friend. I don't know what that was. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
I saw the face too, and it did look like a skull, or a skeleton, but I’ve watched that part over again an embarrassing amount of times, and can’t make myself see the face again to save my life!!😂😂😂
I just found your video and I am very impressed with your camera work. I love to see all of this stuff that nature tries to hide from us and you are so wonderful for exploring and finding it. I thank you so very much!!
Thank you for sharing this. It was very well put together and very respectful to the cemetery’s that you visited. One thing is certain. Nothing on this planet lasts forever. Eventually everything will be gone. The only thing that lasts forever is God and HIs Word. Have a blessed day sir.
Amen my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
History needs to be embraced and appreciated, The graveyard with the stonewall was so beautiful Thank you Donnie and have a great weekend !
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
I thought I was the only person to search graveyards. I did it in Florida most of my life and now in Arkansas. You are correct about the great history. Every person had their story. I pay my respect to all military veterans. Thanks for the video.
I absolutely believe in ghosts. I have a ghost cat in my house. My ancestors came to Virginia in 1653. My maternal great great grandmother was Cherokee. My family is rooted deep in Virginia & Kentucky. That disembodied voice on the EVP said "leave."
I thought the voice said hey.
My family has an old cemetery dating back to the 1700. I haven't been there in a long while but always felt very peaceful there as a child like my ancestors were watching over me.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thank you so much for your talented work! I love going on a history journey and learning in depth the life of the Appalachian People.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.
I've heard of an old cemetery with 1812 war veterans that was being cleaned up, but they couldn't be sure of where some of the graves were. A local group brought in their cadaver dogs - the kind that are brought in after a disaster to find people buried in the rubble - and they found the rest of the graves. A trained cadaver dog can find a human grave that is that old!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 You're very welcome, and thank you as well.
Thank you Sir!!! For documenting these when stumbling upon them. They indeed have a story to tell.
I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Almost directly across from the Frontier City Theme Park.
I learned of a old small cemetery thats back behind this hotel I stay in.
I just went yesterday to check it out for a second time & noticed a lot peculiar stuff, including huge rusted pipes sticking strait up out of the ground. One is directly behind the hotel I'm at, & then the other is back behind Cracker Barrel thats up the road & across the highway. That one is huge, kinda like what Jeepers Creepers threw his victims down.
I'm sure there's a plausible explanation. I personally never stumbled across pipes like that sticking directly up into the air & filled with gravel. But I immediately couldn't help but to think that those pipes were both connected to an ancient industrial structure.
But yeah anyway, the Martin cemetery here I thought was a little odd. There's maybe 25 people there, if even. & It's usually always maintained, its in a wooded area.
What stood out to me is how the 1st to be buried there was a stillborn, Baby Boy Martin. & Then after that, more stillborns one right after another with headstones that said stuff like died between 1889 - 1899.
Idk maybe it's just me that finds that weird as well lol.
& then besides the Martin family & their beloved sacrificial *COUGH* I meant Children,
there's a Weiss family, Hutchinson & O'Neal and I think maybe a couple others.
But yeah their all for the most part seemingly high ranking in the Army.
& Again it's a tiny cemetery with maybe 25 buried there, a lot of Mid to Late 1800's, there are some new up to date graves there too.
But all of those graves are still getting visitors & headstone decorations.,
& then whenever I was leaving the cemetery yesterday, as I closed and shut the gate & was turning to leave I noticed that the landscape looked oddly different.
The 1st time I had left the cemetery, I was with my girlfriend & it was starting to rain, Her & I both joked around about there being a Trail Cam inside of a old discarded stove that was 20ft directly across from us, sticking out from behind a tree.
But the rain was increasing pretty fast and we still had to walk back thru the woods.
But yesterday that tree with the old discarded stove behind it wasn't there anymore! Not even a sign of a tree having used to exist there.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your story and thoughts. Thank you. God bless you.
Your story gave me chills. Are there freemasons buried there?
Not that I know of my friend.
Only recently found you. First I feel so at peace with your voice. Second I love history. Thankyou for sharing xxx
Awesome my friend. Thank you. Welcome to the channel. God bless you.
I love your channel Mr. Laws!
Old cemetaries are so fascinating. My husband & I have visited a few backcountry ones while hiking. Amazing how they got the bodies up those steep inclines off trail, but so peaceful.
I love to see what names were popular during the different eras.
Thank you, sir, for not letting these settlers be forgotten.
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Thank you very much. Your very welcome.