Rathbone Uncovered

[LincolnMan]

(06-06-2013 01:48 PM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  That is interesting history! I don't know about the rest of the country, but around here there are several smaller cemeteries that fit the description of cross-roads because modern civilization has created the roads all around them.

My family's cemetery is now surrounded by a Dash Inn, a liquor store, and a small strip mall! That happened in the 1980s, when the last of the old plantation was sold off by later owners. I've always had a mental picture of "spirits" from the graveyard arising during the night and sneaking next door to the liquor store for other "spirits..."

That is true in my neck of the woods in Michigan- there are many small cemeteries here where time has passed them by-and the modern world has been built up all around them. Of course, when the cemeteries were first established there was nothing else there. Now the cemeteries have become popular with teenagers- as they are thought to be haunted- maybe they are.