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Zombie Graveyard Found In Ireland

Archaeologists have unearthed a 'zombie' graveyard in Co Roscommon dating from the 8th Century.

The gruesome discovery was made by a team from the Institute of Technology Sligo, which discovered that skeletons were interred with large rocks placed in their mouths to prevent them rising from the dead at a historic site overlooking Lough Key, Co Roscommon.

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Soldiers graves from the War of 1812 in Chatham-Kent

Researchers and history buffs are hoping two days of ground sweeping this week in a Chatham-Kent, Ont., park will locate the graves of four soldiers from the War of 1812.

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Town Seeks To Ban Backyard Burials

When a loved one is laid to rest, it might be a surprise that they won't necessarily be buried in a cemetery.

In Colorado, a burial can practically take place anywhere in the state, as long as it's not federal land.

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Cemetery Walk Cochrane Catholic Cemetery: Video 4

Cemetery Walk Cochrane Catholic Cemetery Video 4

Ned Kelly's remains found in mass grave

The headless skeleton of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly has been found and identified more than 130 years after his execution in the Old Melbourne Gaol.

That a group of scientists could identify the body of a man who was executed more than 130 years ago, moved and buried in a haphazard fashion among 33 other prisoners, most of whom are not identified, is amazing," Victoria Attorney General Robert Clark said in a statement.

Ned Kelly was born in 1855 in Beveridge Austrailia. The eldest son of eight children to John 'Red' Kelly and Ellen Quinn.

His criminal life started early. Arrested first at the age of 14 for assaulting a Chinese man. In 1878 his mother was arrested and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for her part in an attempted murder. So Ned and his brother Dan, along with 2 friends went into hiding from police. The Kelly Gang as it was soon to be known ambushed a group of police on their trail in Stringybark Creek, killing three of them.

The Kelly gang spent the next 2 years on the run untill police cornered them at the Glenrowan Hotel. But his gang wore suits of body armor, possibly fashioned from moldboards plows and weighing 96 lbs. each, strong enough to repel the lead bullets in use at that time. During the gun fight three of the gang members died. But Ned, was captured after being shot several times in the legs. He was sentenced to death for murder.

Cemetery Walk: Cochrane Catholic Cemetery Video 3

Olive Tree Genealogy has added more Video of the Cochrane Catholic Cemetery in Cochrane Ontario.

Olive Tree has lots of other Cemetery Walk videos as well.

Cochrane Catholic Cemetery