A Few Uses for a Dead Tombstone Recently there have been news stories about the inappropriate use of old tombstones. This is scarcely a new problem, as we look at 19th and early 20th-century stories of “A Few Uses for a Dead Tombstone”
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 12, 2015
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged A Few Uses for a Dead Tombstone , grave markers , recycled tombstones , reusing tombstones , tombstones , tombstones as decoration , veterans' headstones
The Phantom Tombstone For Memorial Day: a story of a very specific prophetic vision of a graveyard monument.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 23, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged cemeteries , ghostly tombstone , graveyard , Milford Haven , Pavin Phillips , Pembrokeshire , phantom funeral , phantom tombstone , premonitions , prophetic vision , second sight , The Phantom Tombstone , tombstones , visions
The Tombstone Censor tells you what you can and cannot have carved upon your gravestone.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 14, 2014
in Death , Ephemera , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Lives
and tagged cemeteries , cemetery laws , cemetery standards , censorship , epitaphs , gravestones , tombstones
