Joy of Home Ownership: Buried Mystery in the Backyard

1. Ola Amigo
   May 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

   Actually, I can't tell if it's a grave or something else. It looks to small to be a grave and there look like 4/5 names on the concrete. I guess I'd keep trying to figure that one out. That's definitely different.

2. PockyBum522
   May 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

   Dig! Dig like the grave robbing madman that you are!~

   Seriously, I want to know more.

3. Ali S.
   May 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

   I think it's quite obvious that it is the name of the house!

4. darelparker
   May 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

   I'm betting on pet cemetery. Fluff and Morris sound like cat names.

5. Champs
   May 10th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

   Given the size and the names "Morris" and "Fluff" there's no mystery except for the number of pet carcasses inside. Three nicknames like that are a bit much for one cat.

6. mrmark
   May 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

   Stories without endings

7. otterly
   May 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

   Before you dig first thing you need to do is find the neighbors who have lived there the longest and ask them if they know anything about. It might just be a bit of 60' or 70's left over architectural element.

   Your house is not that old and something like like wouldn't be just skipped over by the builders as what you describe is very shallow.

   If I had no option I would sure as hell dig it out, pay the neighborhood kids, get Indiana Jones on that shit.

8. Steve
   May 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

   This is a mystery? Really? It's like saying "I got this envelope in the mail from the utility company. What could possibly be inside!?!?"

9. greg
   May 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

   A time capsule would be nice: some vintage Playboys, a can of Schlitz, some lawn Jarts (the deadly kind). As a kid I used to bury matchbox cars in my yard. But, I'm afraid this is something dead. Real dead. "No, you can't have another gerbil. Remember what happened to the last one?" OPEN IT, OPEN IT, OPEN IT, OPEN IT... Man, this is worse than Christmas.

10. astrodex
    May 10th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    "Dad, we can't move. What about Fluff and Morris and Tony. What if the people who buy the house decide to dig a hole there? We can't just leave them."

    "how 'bout we pour concrete over them and then no one will disturb them."

    I say open it. It's probably cats and gerbils and such, but you (and we) will never know until you open it.

11. Lars
    May 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    It's obviously something that was too secret, even for Al Capone's vault.

12. HoolaGirl
    May 10th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    I agree with Steve. Where is the mystery here?

13. Diogenes doo doo
    May 10th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    As a child in Tennessee, I once dug up whole a lot of sand dollars at the base of a tree in a yard on the block...I went to the bank and couldn't trade them in for sh*t.

    the first is true/the latter,not.

    Champs: possible pet carcass. Although, what kinda pet would be named Anthony?
    Greg: a can of Schlitz? If it's that , then I'll give you my entire collection of movie star toenail clippings.

    I think its a sacred boy scout virginity burial ?
    I remember.

14. Dave
    May 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Oooh; remember the movie Poltergeist? That house was built on an old cemetery. I see this mystery ending very badly.

    Sell the movie rights now while you can!

15. LisaL
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:14 am

    Well, looks like he's put dirt back over it!! How on earth he could do that is beyond me. I'd be obsessed trying to find what the heck it is.
    He really should've called some people out there to get them up and open them to see what they were if anything.
    UGH I wish I hasn't found this post.. I want to know what they were!

16. LisaL
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Wow.... engrish ftw! o_O sheesh....

17. Ratz
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:16 am

    This is weak, there's no ending to it! Damn, after tempting people like that, that guy'd better watch out in case neatorama readers start creeping in and digging up his back garden so they can find out for themselves.

18. Hirudin
    May 11th, 2008 at 3:14 am

    Who was Anthony? And how did he manage to write his name in solid cement?
    He must have been much smarter than his sister Lisa -- about whom we know nothing.
    http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F22.html

19. Hirudin
    May 11th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    Didn't The Tommyknockers start like this too?

20. Rosi
    May 11th, 2008 at 6:41 am

    This so cool! The most interesting thing I've found in my garden is a paperweight carved with patterns (probably manufactured). But a couple of streets down they found some students who went missing twenty years ago in a family's garden...
    I know it's really morbid but I find stuff like that really interesting.
    But at the moment I'm reading Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen and this is creepily similar... O_O

21. ted
    May 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Dude probably made it up.
    It's like the Angel they dug up on the Simpsons. In a week, he'll be advertising sneakers with it.

22. Lasse
    May 11th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    "Our pal Carl of the Warehouse was digging in his backyard early one morning".

    Uhm, why?

23. megatron
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    We may have found Jimmy Hoffa.

24. Princess
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    If this was a grave or time capsule it would have a date on it. MUST be buried treasure. Full of rare gems and gold bullion or priceless antiquities. Open it before the pirates steal it from your yard.

25. ripper
    May 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Careful- you could unleash forces we haven't seen since the opening of King Tut's tomb.

26. Ola Amigo
    May 11th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Ripper, good point. Something like that happened in Evil Dead.

27. Cathy
    May 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    Well, it either used to be legal to bury family members in your backyard in Tennessee, or it wasn't but people used to do it in Nashville anyway. I know more than ONE person who moved into an old house and actually DID find an actual grave, complete with marker and casket, in their yard.

28. Plasmator
    May 11th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    This is quite obviously a hatch to an underground station. If he chooses to open it, I certainly hope that he is a good typist and has some time on his hands.

29. DrJones
    May 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Plasmator: it must be his destiny that he found it. Some of the commenters are relying too much on science and reason!

    Maybe one day he'll have to figure out how to move the US?

30. Richard Conto
    May 12th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) had an article like this some time ago. It turned out that the "headstones" were flawed headstones or rejects from some monument company that got used as pavers for a path or patio.

    I'm sure there's no shortage of people who'd get a kick out of using headstones as pavers. And then the next owner just covered them up (or let them sink into the soil) rather than dig them up and dispose of them.

    Next mystery!

31. John Elar
    May 12th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    This is a great post. It is a very nice blog too. I add it to my favorites. Thank you

32. Fran
    May 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Enormously fascinating. I loved it; but wish we had an answer...

33. edselpdx
    May 12th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Sorry to be logical, but they're probably some kind of over-engineered foundation for a trellis or swing or something. The bent over bolts held the sill/lumber to it. When the structure came down, Tony thwacked the bolts over when he buried it so no one would impale their feet when walking over the thinnly covered foundation.

    I agree, check with the neighbors. Likely something the kids used when they were little and Tony took down when they were out of the house.

34. Cassie
    May 12th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    LMAO @ DrJones

    Spoiler alert

35. Alice
    May 12th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    DIG IT! Dig it! Maybe it's got some Pirate Booty!

    Diiiig it! Dig it!

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