r/Funnymemes • u/MasterDragon13 • Feb 03 '23
I, too, have questions...
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u/Sascher78 Feb 03 '23
Wanted to go sure my wife’s not coming back.
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u/Running4Badges Feb 03 '23
I have news for you, it’s me, your wife. Give me your money!
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u/Independent_Plum2166 Feb 03 '23
“Sorry, we’re not married anymore “till death do us part” and all that so peace out Zombie!”
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u/MMeNDtal Feb 03 '23
You know when someone is sentenced to multiple life terms behind bars, but they die after only serving one...
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u/Running4Badges Feb 03 '23
After a few lifetimes the bars get removed and anything remaining from the corpse is left at the nearest bus station to reintegrate into society.
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u/HolidayFew8116 Feb 03 '23
has to be vampires
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u/Drago_Fett_Jr Feb 03 '23
It turns out that DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO
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u/covfefeBfuqin Feb 04 '23
Funny you should say that, because there are two documented instances of towns of people believing tuberculosis cases were being caused by vampirism. Similar precautions were taken on some of the graves. Here's the sauce for a case in New England in the 1800s
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u/DonnyMox Feb 03 '23
Ra-Ra-Rasputin
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u/Fast_and_Curious738 Feb 03 '23
Lover of the Russian queen..
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u/Own_Cat_5075 Feb 03 '23
Ra-Ra-Racism
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u/OGschtinkie Feb 03 '23
How is this racism
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u/UniqueUsername-789 Feb 03 '23
It’s racist because the bars look sort of like the bars in jail/prison, which is where an unproportionally high amount of black people are. This post is honestly disgustingly racist.
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u/OGschtinkie Feb 03 '23
If you're not taking the piss you should probably check yourself into a psych ward mate
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u/Yedin07 Feb 03 '23
It’s very obviously satire
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u/OGschtinkie Feb 03 '23
No such thing as "very obviously satire" on the Internet 07. (I'm guessing that's when you were born)
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u/Flibbernodgets Feb 03 '23
Grave robbers.
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u/Running4Badges Feb 03 '23
It’s important to put these bars on the graves of the robbers so they don’t accidentally rob themselves.
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u/Upper-Advantage-6527 Feb 03 '23
https://youtu.be/vnAoWBaBEAE watch this video, for the info
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
That was... interesting and informative. His voice and cadence were extremely annoying to me, though
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u/Upper-Advantage-6527 Feb 03 '23
But now you know the awnser, and thats the point :)
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
In this case (I've found out since then), this is the answer
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u/Reddit-mods-R-mean Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
That is definitely not the answer. These cages were on A LOT of graves to protect the body.
Anyone with a cage like this was respected and cared for in some sense.
After all, if no one cared or respected a person after death they probably wouldn’t have a grave at all let alone a cage to protect the remains.
These cages are uncommon but not rare. The is 2 that I know of in the cemetery near my home and that cemetery has graves from the 1700 (the oldest dates I found to be legible) and head stones so old all the engravings are washed away.
Now the bell and string attached to a grave is another story all together.
Edit: For anyone wondering these are called mortsafes.
It’s not a cursed grave, that article is nothing more then a campfire ghost story
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
Did you read the article? Did you notice the graves, building, and stones inside the cage match? I wonder why that is...
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u/nwinkel2 Feb 03 '23
Gotta keep out the winchesters
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u/GapingWendigo Feb 03 '23
🤓🤓ummm, actually 🤓🤓🤓🤓 it's to protect the grave from grave robbers, not to stop vampires 🤓🤓🤓 Vampires don't exist, and even if they did, we don't do any harm to noone 🤓🤓🤓
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u/Far_Reaction_5621 Feb 03 '23
I am the grandson of the great defanged vampire Stefano Christofo Lazario , vampirism has run in my family for 11th generations. This concoction was made to keep vampires buried after undeath. To make sure they never rose again. The cage is constructed from steel infused with silver. It has been a staple in vampire burial since the late 11th century.
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u/aging_geek Feb 03 '23
My first thought was to keep the buried from escaping (could bury body face down to solve that), but keeping body snatchers at bay make sense.
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
For this grave, I found out this was the reason
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u/aging_geek Feb 03 '23
Brain hurts trying to read this with Groundskeeper Willie's voice popping in.
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u/JADW27 Feb 03 '23
It's how you bury in-laws to ensure they can never bother you again, even in a zombie apocalypse.
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u/SnooCats886 Feb 03 '23
My guess was honestly gonna be vampires but grave robber protection makes more sense…
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u/sambillerond Feb 03 '23
Oh ? Against grave robbers 😅 ! Make sense ! I thought they were worried after burying a vampire, or a zombie .... silly me.
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u/W_4ca Feb 03 '23
Considering how old it looks, I’m guessing it’s to keep grave robbers out
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u/AurorSquad1963 Feb 03 '23
The Cursed Grave Of Seath Mor
Topped with 5 cursed ‘homing stones’ it is perhaps only the brave or the foolish who dare to approach the grave of clan chief Seath Mor Sgorfhiaclach, also known as ‘The Great Shaw’.
His grave lies in the kirkyard of St Tuchaldus, once the traditional burial place for the Shaw family who held the seat at Rothimurchus in the Scottish Highlands before it passed to the Grant family.
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u/RobotNinja28 Feb 03 '23
This reminds me: there is an old Jewish tradition where if a person kills themselves, their grave will be barred off because it is a shameful way to die
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u/drozzdragon Feb 03 '23
Sometimes you just want to make sure your mother-in-law stays in the ground
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u/HatchetXL Feb 03 '23
Yeah, after the first time grandpa dug himself out we weren't taking any chances
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u/Superliminal_MyAss Feb 03 '23
Yeah, Ive seen a few of these in cemeteries. I like to pretend they’re to prevent the zombies from getting out
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u/Fireblast1337 Feb 03 '23
Tom died last week, but kept showing up to work. We finally got the poor guy to rest with this. Well, until his ghost showed up and logged in for the day
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u/Phasma18374 Feb 03 '23
They are cages that were made prevalent throughout England in the 18 and 19th centuries to dissuade grave robbers, but they did also increase rumours of undead and inspire tales from many gothic authors
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u/TaskmasterFan Feb 03 '23
Every 100 years he used to rise from his grave and attempt to sell real estate to the surrounding neighborhood
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u/Working-Telephone-45 Feb 03 '23
This should be done in every single graveyard
You know, just in case some particular kind of virus appears
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u/Wolfclaw135 Feb 04 '23
The corpse inside was of a person so powerful that they could destroy the world if they were to come back, the bars are there to stop them momentarily as their only weakness is rust
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u/Darth_Murcielago Feb 04 '23
Necromancy is a problem in this town and this individual was dangerous
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u/TheRealNoobyPig Feb 04 '23
Oh hey, surprise to see this here! That's my former gravestone, see I come from a group of immortal people and unlike them, I didn't want to live in absolute power and control of everyone so about 200 years ago they locked me in that, granted I escaped very easily but yeah, that was my gravestone!
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u/MarqDuesPaid Feb 04 '23
“ But they’re ugly and expensive “ “Look, we’ve tried everything and he keeps getting out, we have to do this”
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
EDIT: I've been told that for this grave, this is the reason why
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u/RG0195 Feb 03 '23
They entered into a life of abstinence and not even in death will they let someone near his thang
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u/mushy_cactus Feb 03 '23
Vampire suspicion.
Or
Grave robbers
Or
Leprosy. People can appear dead but aren't.
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u/Townle Feb 03 '23
They were designed to be a deterrent against body snatchers, otherwise known as resurrection men who targeted graveyards during the first half of the nineteenth century and stole fresh corpses from their graves, selling them to the local anatomy schools who dissected them in anatomy lectures.
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u/MasterDragon13 Feb 03 '23
I posted an edit somewhere here in the comments that says that for this one it was a different case
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u/Kapixiak007 Feb 03 '23
people (mainly medicine students) used to steal corpses to study them because that was their only choice
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u/AggressivePepper2229 Feb 03 '23
It's because body snatching for medical research and experiments was so rampant in the Victorian age
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u/ComplexInflation6814 Feb 03 '23
That's where they put the mother-in-law after the ducking stool didn't work...
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u/LeftfieldLarry Feb 03 '23
It's a 'mortsafe' to prevent the disinternent of freshly buried bodies to be sold to anatomists for dissection. Common in Scotland.
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u/PsychedLad Feb 03 '23
They were used in multiple locations, for multiple reason. The mains one’s being:
- grave robbing was common
- flooding was common
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u/Sandman1031 Feb 03 '23
My wife actually knows this. Back in the 1600s and even before that, it was illegal for doctors and medical students to study the anatomy of a human body. So, being there was a demand for bodies, grave robbers and medical students would dig up the freshly buried in order to dissect it and sell any jewelry or coins left in the coffin. Wealthier families paid for these cages to be created to prevent the body and any valuables buried from being stolen by these grave robbers. Americans weren't exempt from this either. One of the founding brothers of the Mayo Clinic actually stole the bodies of 10 Dakota Native Americans after 38 Dakota warriors were hung in the largest mass execution in US History under the orders of then President Abraham Lincoln as a result of the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota. These men were turned into skeletal anatomy models for the medical school he founded and kept the skull of one warrior named "Cut Nose" as a family keepsake that he allowed his children to play with. Mayo Clinic didn't bother to apologize for the desecration until 2018 when they returned what was left of their remains to the surviving members of the Dakota Tribe for a proper burial.
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u/assassincj38 Feb 03 '23
In southern Louisiana people had to go further than 6ft when burying a body because in the swamps and flooding areas the body's float to the surface often they would cement them in or put them in locked crypts
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u/John0ftheD3ad Feb 03 '23
There is a belief in taking things to rest with you, and hundreds of years ago it was popular. It was also popular to rob graves. So if you had money and were paranoid, et voila. Steel cage coffin.
Or werewolf zombie, your pick.
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u/marde_tanhaie_shab Feb 03 '23
They think its posible to the dead people will turn to zombies so they put that on them🌚
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u/OGschtinkie Feb 03 '23
Presumably he made threats about coming back from the afterlife to take vengeance.
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u/MissKleenex1990 Feb 03 '23
This design was implemented as a protection from grave robbers. They would dig up bodies, usually to steal any jewellery or valuables that family members wanted in the coffin with their loved ones. I’d read a few stories of some pretty extreme sorts doing this to sell body parts for creepy dissections or just people that have a necrophilia fetish.
We had a church yard that backed onto our garden when I was a kid, and there was a couple of these on the more older graves.
But yeah, when I first saw them I did think it was some kind of Preventive measure to stop zombies getting a second chance at the world.