Comments on: Four Real-Life Things That Are Creepier Than Halloween

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:00:37 +0000

How on earth is a law preventing you from disturbing graves without a good reason creepy? It would be creepier if you WERE allowed to dig up corpses willy-nilly.

By: Worm

Worm — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:03:19 +0000

I lived in Nashville for years and never once saw a random grave, not one. I live in Knoxville now, and I still have never seen one, in fact neither has any of my friends (most of us have lived in Tennessee majority, if not all, of our lives.)

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Foehn — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:47:34 +0000

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By: Midla

Midla — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:30:03 +0000

The body farm is very creepy. Very enjoyable read thanks.

By: TechGOnzo

TechGOnzo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:48:19 +0000

@Rick I grew up there too buddy. Nashville is rife with random grave sites. Also, I worked for a local paper and have done stories about how difficult it is to move graves off (or out) of Real Estate in high growth areas of town. Crazy about the grandparents having headstones for their dogs though.

By: The High Definite

The High Definite — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:33:09 +0000

[...] Geeks of Doom did a list of 4 Real Life Things Scarier Than Halloween: “So instead of going down the a-typical list of things you should do as a horror geek, I decided to dig up real things that are way creepier than Halloween and the entire month of October combined. Actually, this stuff is so twisted, you should probably click the little “x” in the corner and call it a day. You don’t want to read this. (I’m F&#^$ serious, look away.)” [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:16:20 +0000

Sorry to break it to you, but that IS a dog’s grave I believe. I grew up in Tennessee and my grandparent’s had a house on the lake; in the yard on the side of the house were 2 or 3 marble markers exactly that the one you pictured – they were dogs. I guess it is a Southern thing for well-to-do folks to bury a family friend like that.

By: I Crashed The Web

I Crashed The Web — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:59:48 +0000

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By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:44:49 +0000

Well, I have lived in Tennessee (Chattanooga) my whole life and I can’t particularly recall seeing any headstones anywhere unusual. There is a well-marked grave in Heritage Park, but the Heritage House has been there for maybe 100 years so I assumed it’s simply a past resident of the house buried there. Perhaps this is more prevalent in other parts of the state.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:16:47 +0000

As an on-again, off-again resident of Knoxville, I highly recommend one simple thing before anyone visits the Body Farm: Dose on ‘shrooms. The only time I’ve actually been there, I was tripping my b***s off and honestly didn’t think any of it was real. True story.

By: JHreha

JHreha — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:46:54 +0000

Nice one TC! This was a good list. I had no idea that GM used (uses?) corpses for crash testing. Interesting stuff. Oh yeah, way to make the front page of Digg!

By: Sean Nieuwoudt

Sean Nieuwoudt — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:43:01 +0000

entertaining read, i watched a show on tv a few weeks ago about that body farm …creepy stuff man!

By: TN Alex

TN Alex — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:41:45 +0000

Cool article

Side story:

I grew up in Knoxville – the body farm was one of those places that the Goth kids used to plan to sneak into — not that they ever did, the cops were extra-vigilant out there; though if you ask me, ‘sanctity of the dead’ goes down the toilet when you’re leaving bodies out to be devoured by wolves… not that I don’t get it.. but still….

Also, I got a job reasonably near the body farm working for an impact lab — and the zombie crash test dummies go way farther than the author of this article discusses. The guy I worked for (very kind man, but slow-speaking and monotone.. kind of sounded like a serial killer if you didn’t know him) got a contract from a car company to test their automatic window motors. His job was to figure out how hard a motor could roll up a window without being at risk of breaking someone’s fingers, should they get rolled up.

He accomplished this with… what else? Human fingers. He sat silently in his lab for days with a disembodied car door and a box full of old ladies’ hands (seriously). Looking bored, he would pick up a hand, roll one of its fingers up in the window until he heard a brittle “snap”, then write down a number, fiddle with the dial, and do another one.

Tennessee is a messed up place.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:25:33 +0000

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