Funkmeister
07-20-2006, 06:25 PM
Hi ya peeps!
My first post kinda creepy here is St. Phillip's Cathederal in the middle of Birmingham England.
At the time this photo was taken the entire church yard had the graves dug up and a burial pit from the time of the plague was also uncovered - this was all cordoned off from the public.
My mate was working there at the time he said it was amazing what they uncovered the bodies from the crypts were in almost perfect condition he told me like mummies from the horror movie but so fragile that if you touched them that part would almost become dust.
He also told me that most of the graves had lead lined or lead coffins and that when they opened these the bodies had become what he called soap mummies said they looked like grey soap as the fats had been converted into a soap like substance he told me he saw quite a few men with beards and dressed up like out of a time machine the worst that happened to the clothes were a white fungus one woman he said you could tell she was in her early 20's and looked lovely - so much for what I thought the maggots get you and only a skelton is left.
He also said a fair few of the graves were just skulls or skelton and everything was done under guard as lots of these burials could contain things like ornate rings or a family bible.
He said the things towards the back are the work mobiles the boxes are the contents of the individual graves all catalogued and left as undisturbed as possible.
He said it was creepy working in a crypt repairing any leaks or damage just so these corpses could go on for a few hundred years.
Masks had to be worn at all times due to the risk of any inhaled infection - i asked him about smells and he said at the worst an ammonia smell or fruit go figure.
Other than that have a nice look around Birmingham it's a great city plenty to see one of the best in Europe plenty of really nice buildings and parks
Funkmeister
My first post kinda creepy here is St. Phillip's Cathederal in the middle of Birmingham England.
At the time this photo was taken the entire church yard had the graves dug up and a burial pit from the time of the plague was also uncovered - this was all cordoned off from the public.
My mate was working there at the time he said it was amazing what they uncovered the bodies from the crypts were in almost perfect condition he told me like mummies from the horror movie but so fragile that if you touched them that part would almost become dust.
He also told me that most of the graves had lead lined or lead coffins and that when they opened these the bodies had become what he called soap mummies said they looked like grey soap as the fats had been converted into a soap like substance he told me he saw quite a few men with beards and dressed up like out of a time machine the worst that happened to the clothes were a white fungus one woman he said you could tell she was in her early 20's and looked lovely - so much for what I thought the maggots get you and only a skelton is left.
He also said a fair few of the graves were just skulls or skelton and everything was done under guard as lots of these burials could contain things like ornate rings or a family bible.
He said the things towards the back are the work mobiles the boxes are the contents of the individual graves all catalogued and left as undisturbed as possible.
He said it was creepy working in a crypt repairing any leaks or damage just so these corpses could go on for a few hundred years.
Masks had to be worn at all times due to the risk of any inhaled infection - i asked him about smells and he said at the worst an ammonia smell or fruit go figure.
Other than that have a nice look around Birmingham it's a great city plenty to see one of the best in Europe plenty of really nice buildings and parks
Funkmeister