7 Cool Things To Look For In Old Cemeteries!

Hey, I'm an Aussie so can't really relate to any of this - But I really enjoyed the video and your presentation. Cheers.

That bit about the Sears stones made me have to check Amazon... I didn't see any on there, which I guess makes sense, but imagine cemeteries being full of Amazon stones?

I kinda dig the look of the Zinkers tbh

“Practically Indestructible”

Does that mean I can fire an artillery round and it won’t break 🤔

Your short made me check out your old video, glad i did!

Weirdly enough, that treestump gravestone you mentioned at the end is in Graceland, Chicago's most famous cemetery. I ran into it doing a photogrammetry project for monument conservation

On cementery says "R.I.P."

Please stop saying "literally" so much. It's the one blemish in an otherwise very professional video series.

The term "no issue" or "with issue" or issues means kids apparently. Thanks for the informative video. This is well done.

There is a couple of old cemetery's by me that have the log one! There's like 3 of em in one! That's awesome! Amazing video!

Wait a minute this cleared timber situation as news to me. What do you mean when you say lower New England? As someone living along both sides of the Massachusetts Vermont border for the last 10 years, I would be surprised to learn most of the forest that I've walked through was once all flat agricultural land.

did I hear Fahey's Poor Boy a Long Way From Home in the background??

Here in Central Illinois "Zinkers" are fairly common.

Do you recommend any cemeteries in Rhode Island to find Zinkers? I would love to bring my students on a field trip to find these. It would be a super cool class!

Zinkers slways fascinated me

Those old Zinkers seem to be in pretty good condition compared to some of the stones…..maybe they were on to something!

In 20 years we will use nanobot to bring all those people back and will never need a graveyard again.

Changing cemeteries?? What are you guys doing over there?
Leave the dead alone, they never bother nobody, them's good folks.
The story about the small stones made think if they even kept records of humans they enslaved..?!? The church is supposed to do that, I think it is that at least.

I grew up near a very large, very old cemetery in SE Wisconsin that I walked through every single day on my way home from school. I recognize ALL of these types of headstones - there are even a few of the Sears tree stump models there! definitely want to go back one of these days and see if I can spot any zinkers.

Very educational and interesting. Thanks

great content never knew what a zinker was just subscribed

After watching this, I took a stroll through a cemetery here in Canada and found some zinkers. Quite a few actually. I thought it would be an american only thing. Was pretty cool to actually see them in the first cemetery I checked.

Also Quaker graves are very plain and simple. They lived a very humble life

The above ground tomb is called a chest tomb

Guess who drove past the Douglas Center Cemetery and geeked out because they have 2 Zinkers right in plain sight? Thoroughly embarrassed the kids. 10/10 would do it again.

There's a great tree stump one right in South Hadley near Mount Holyoke College

banger as usual Mr Dime!

Good.

We have a tree stump one here at the city cemetery. Now I have to go and take a closer look.

Another great video. The research you find about history and then present to us for free is amazing. It's better than most TV shows.

Interesting ! Thx for uploading in 4:3, looks great in portrait mode and on old CRT monitors :)

Cool!

Seems like the Zinker ads were spot on... every single one of them is as legible as the day it was made, meanwhile the stone monuments ARE all cracked and decayed. A very rare example of a product that actually lives up to the marketing blurb.

In Athol, MA there's a marker carved 'STONE" (only) that's literally just a boulder. It always gives me a laugh.

I live these videos. I could accidentally fall in love with this guy easily

Great now its just made aware of these metals, criminals will now start to steal these just to sell them. They have already started to take the bronze off historical markers in California.

Wonderful content . Thank You.

The Zinkers are kinda cool. They're not THAT bad.

you are going places, this channel is amazing!

great content!!!!! :D

Who knows, maybe a few of the ones you showed here were used for hiding booze in the olden days, like that one from one your older videos.

They don't look bad really and seem to hold up pretty well. Bronze would be interesting too, always thought a bronze headstone could look interesting.

"some of the biggest trees you'll ever see..."

Me:*laughs in Californian*

Those giant pines are beautiful

I’ve seen that sears tree stump in a historic cemetery on the Campus of Deapuw, Greencastle, IN

Those Zinkers held up really well, just like the ad said. Still clear and legible after all those years. The stone ones are cracked and worn, just like the ad said. I guess we can't get any more of these these days because the entire mortuary industry is a total ripoff.

I'm surprised you didn't cover the Woodmen of the World headstones. They're always timber/log themed and some of my favorite headstone designs from a membership society that is now an insurance group.

Another great video! I live next-door to an old cemetery, I might have another look around

Never underestimate old cemeteries.