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Sinkhole shuts historic cemetery
By adamg on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 1:40pm
The city has shut the Old Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street as officials try to figure out what caused a deep sinkhole at the rear of the cemetery - and what to do about it. Those cones don't look like much, but they mark a wooden sheet covering a hole big enough that officials don't want to worry about a tourist disappearing in it.
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I saw them setting this up further up Tremont St
Aw.
You beat me to it. Obviously someone escaped. Where's Buffy when you need her?
Will the city be swallowed?
Isn't this what happened in the closing scene of poltergeist - only faster for cinematic effect?
Where was the other burying ground in the North End?...
Where was the burying ground in North End when North End was the Jewish enclave?... it's not Copps Hill, it was a smaller buring ground maybe off Salem Street?... now probably built upon?...
Oy, braiiiiiins
The first recognized Jewish burial ground in the state is the Temple Ohabei Shalom Cemetery, but that's in East Boston. Maybe that's what you were thinking of instead of calling your mother, maybe?
Rotational Erosion
Methinks some fair colonial doth been spinning in the grave!
mother goose's parking spot
???????
Is that Gov. Bellingham's grave?
Is that the grave of former Gov. Bellingham? Legend has it when they opened it to put another body in (because he was buried alone and space was at a premium), they found his body floating in the water.
Maybe he's going for another swim?
"Sinkhole", eh?
Those intimately familiar with the works of Richard Upton Pickman might beg to differ.
Where's the Cryptkeeper when you need him?
The Globe digs up the story: Seems a tourist DID fall in the sinkhole, which put her on a secret stairway to a 300-year-old crypt:
Also: The cemetery was closed because of the icy walkways, not the hole in the ground. And the very first comment on the story will look familiar to readers of this thread.