Hello my curious! Be all welcome to a new video.
In today's video I have prepared a list for you
with the 10 strangest graves, tombstones and mausoleums that have been discovered.
From a mausoleum that supposedly hides a time machine inside,
to a radioactive grave that you shouldn't go near no matter what.
This sounds curious, right?
But before we start with the topic I have a little question for you.
In my previous video, the one with the 10 strange things found in lakes,
I told you about an animal they found in a lake in the United States
that had a knife stuck in his head...
Do you happen to remember what animal it was?
To make it more fun,
here I am going to leave these 4 options on your screen,
choose the option that you think is correct
and write it down here in the comments right now.
At the end of the video I'm going to tell you what animal it was
and let's see if you got your answer right, okay?
All right, make yourself comfortable and enjoy it, bro.
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At Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, USA,
a rather mysterious tomb is found, which they say is cursed.
With the naked eye you can see a statue of a girl holding an umbrella,
the only thing different is that the statue is encased within a glass structure,
but don't think it's just decorative...
According to the story, the statue is locked up because it is cursed.
Cemetery security guards and others in the area
ensure that during rainy days and during the nights
the statue disappears for a while
and then returns to its original place as if nothing happened.
This story has not been told once, but several times.
A lot of people claim to have seen it.
Regarding the girl who rests in this tomb there is not much information,
it is only known that her name was Inez
and that she was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarke,
and that she died in the year 1880.
The reports of the security guards of that cemetery,
as well as its peculiar decoration,
have turned the statue of Inez Clarke into one of the strangest tombs in the world.
At the Mountain View Cemetery, in Canada,
there's a headstone that's shattered with Walter Summerford's name on it.
Initially it has nothing special except that it is destroyed,
but when you know the story of the person who rests in this tomb you will be surprised.
Walter Summerford is known as one of the unluckiest people in the world,
this is because throughout his life he received an impact of three rays.
Yes, you heard that right.
This man had the misfortune to be hit by three lightning strikes
and although he ended up hurt on each of those occasions he survived them all.
The chances of you being struck by lightning are 1 in 13,000.
Those are really low odds.
You have to be very unlucky for that to happen to you.
That's why Walter's case is so surprising,
I'm not sure of the exact odds of being struck by three lightning strikes in your lifetime,
but they must be one of many.
His family believed that someone had put a curse on him and it is very likely,
to date no explanation has ever been found for his case.
The craziest thing about his story is that even after he died,
he received another lightning strike,
only this time his tombstone was the one that suffered the consequences.
- Bullsh*t! - Benny...
Stop pissing on this poor man's grave, he's had enough.
At Brompton Cemetery, in London
there is a mysterious mausoleum that supposedly hides inside
a time travel machine.
As you can see, the mausoleum has an access door,
but no one knows where the key is to open it
and the authorities are afraid of tearing it down
because they think they might find other very disturbing things inside.
The name of this mausoleum is 'Courtoy Mausoleum',
if you visit Brompton Cemetery,
you will see that the style of this tomb is very different from the other tombs in the cemetery,
it is 6 meters high, it is built of granite,
it has a pyramid-shaped roof
and the access door is adorned with Egyptian details.
The mausoleum belonged to a lady named Hannah Courtoy,
a woman of London high society who died in 1849
and that apparently she was very attracted to the subject of the ancient Egyptians.
The thing about a time machine hiding inside her tomb
is because a journalist wrote an article in 1998
claiming that she had information about this mausoleum
and that it is a kind of portal that has a time machine inside it.
Whether it's true or not, the 'Courtoy mausoleum' has such strange details
that it is not something you see in all cemeteries.
In the Panthéon, in Paris, there is a tomb that can be very dangerous if it is opened,
the person who rests inside
was exposed to large doses of radioactivity throughout her life.
That is why the directors of this pantheon have decided to cover her grave with a layer of lead
to prevent it from harming the people who come to see it.
The woman who rests here inside is nothing more and nothing less than Marie Curie.
She was a pioneering Polish physicist and chemist in the field of radioactivity.
Throughout her life, this scientist was exposed to a large number of elements harmful to health.
Because her corpse keeps emitting radioactive atoms,
was placed inside a lead-lined tomb
to prevent it from becoming a danger to visitors to the Pantheon,
its remains are so toxic that it is said that it will remain dangerous
for at least 1500 more years.
So it can not be opened under any circumstances,
that is why it is considered one of the strangest and most curious tombs that exist.
In a Texas town called Aurora
there is a tomb that is shaped like a flying saucer.
This is not a decorative grave or anything like that,
in fact it is said that the remains of a being from another planet rest in it.
The story goes that in the year 1897 an unidentified flying object and its pilot
crashed into a windmill in this town.
The townspeople heard a loud bang
and they went to investigate what was happening,
to their surprise it was a flying object that they had never seen before in their lives,
a few meters from the accident they also found a strange-looking being
whom they decided to call 'Ned, the alien'.
Ned is supposed to rest here, under this grave.
His story is so curious that people from all over the world come here
to leave a memory to Ned.
To corroborate this story, investigations have been made in the soil of the area
and the conclusion is the same,
there is something or someone buried in this place,
they simply cannot remove it out of respect for the deceased.
This incident happened 125 years ago
and his grave remains a complete mystery.
- Hogwash! - Where are you going with that shovel, Benny?
Let the alien rest in peace for God's sake.
In the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in France,
there is an impressive mausoleum several meters high,
it is the tomb of a Russian Baroness named Elisabeth Demidoff.
According to legend, the Baroness promised to give her entire fortune
to anyone who managed to spend a whole year on hergrave.
All you had to do was sit on the grave without moving for a whole year
and all her fortune would be yours.
Since the Baroness died in the year 1818,
hundreds of people have tried to overcome this challenge,
but nobody has ever been able to do it.
It is said that people who have tried it end up seeing hallucinations
or they just go totally crazy.
For that reason the cemetery has decided to reject all new applications that arrive,
even today people still send letters requesting
to be given access to the tomb to overcome this challenge
and thus seize all the wealth of Baroness Elizabeth,
but they do not give permission to anyone.
From the way things look,
I think that money will never be claimed by anyone.
The mausoleum of this Baroness is not only the most curious of this cemetery,
because of its history, it is also one of the rarest in existence.
North of Russia, in the Ossetia region,
there is an area with several structures that look like small houses,
but they are not little houses, they are actually stone crypts.
It is an old cemetery that is abandoned
and in an area of ​​difficult access.
The name of that place is Dargavs,
although it is popularly known as the 'City of the Dead'.
Getting to this place requires a three-hour journey along a dangerous and hidden path,
it is not visited by locals, much less by tourists.
As you can see, you are in the middle of the mountains
with absolutely nothing for miles around.
These crypts are said to be the site of some 10,000 bodies,
there are several theories about how they got here
and one of the most rare says that this small town suffered the ravages of a plague
that wiped out all of them about 400 years ago.
The few that survived were burying the deceased in these tombs
and they left there because they considered it a cursed place.
That is another reason wh no one wants to visit these lands.
A cemetery so far away and with so many bodies
you can't find it anywhere on our planet.
In a small town in the Philippines there is an unusual cemetery,
it is the hanging graveyard of the Igorot tribe.
Unlike conventional cemeteries, where the dead are buried in the ground,
in this place the sarcophagi are placed on the side of a mountain,
in full view of all.
For centuries, the Igorot tribe in the Philippines
has followed this tradition every time one of its members leaves this world.
It is one of the few places on our planet where the dead are said goodbye in this way,
for this peculiarity thousands of people visit this site every year
to see the hanging sarcophagi in person.
It is said that this ritual is more than 2000 years old.
The Igorot believe that the higher your coffin is from the ground,
the faster you will get to heaven.
They also consider the land as something sacred
that must be destined exclusively for crops and not for burying the dead.
This tribe is not the only one saying goodbye to its members in this way,
other groups in China and Indonesia have been known to do it this way as well.
The hanging cemetery in the Philippines is considered one of the most curious in the world.
Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss-born graphic artist and sculptor,
he is well known in the world of cinema
because he was in charge of designing the settings
and the monster for the 1979 film Alien.
Unfortunately, Hans departed from this world in 2014 when he was 74 years old,
his grave is in the Gruyeres cemetery, in Switzerland.
and because it could not be otherwise,
his tombstone is not at all conventional,
in it you can see a design made by the artist himself.
While he was alive Hans Giger said that many of his designs
were inspired by his nightmares.
Thanks to his unique work,
he was able to dedicate his life to great projects in the world of cinema,
television, music and even video games.
He had a sinister, gloomy style, but at the same time fascinating
and one of his most remembered collaborations will always be that of the film Alien,
which was a complete success and continues to be highly valued to this day.
It is not for nothing that Hans Giger has been cataloge
as one of the great artists of recent decades.
The tombstone that is located on his grave is one of the most curious that has been designed.
In the middle of a movie theater parking lot, in the United States,
there is a small plot that has a tomb inside,
this grave belongs to a woman named Mary Ellis,
she died in the year 1828.
You're probably wondering what a tomb is doing in a place like this,
in the middle of a parking lot.
The story goes that Mary Ellis fell in love with a man she planned to marry,
after getting engaged, her future husband had to leave by boat for several months,
but on his return they would be united in marriage.
Her love for her fiancé was so great that Mary Ellis came to this place every day
to wait for her fiancé.
At that time, there was no construction on this site,
from here she could see the ships arriving at the port,
unfortunately her fiancé never came,
the years passed and she never married.
When she passed away her family decided to bury her here,
in the place where she came to wait for her lover who never returned.
The city never removed her grave to respect the wishes of Mary Alice
and because of its peculiar location, in the middle of a parking lot,
it is now one of the strangest tombs in existence.
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The answer to the question at the beginning of the video is option 'C', Alligator.
In July 2022, in a lake located in Florida, United States,
an alligator was found with a knife stuck in its head swimming as if nothing had happened.
Unfortunately the animal had to be sacrificed due to the deep wounds it had.
As well as this case, other strange things have been found in lakes around the world.
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