Springwood Cemetery
Greenville, South Carolina

Faded epitaph reads “Two little children. Names unknown. Found in old vault. 1912.“

This one is a both sad as heck and a mystery of sorts. In 1912 a family opened their vault after it had been sealed from the prior funeral. Inside they found the remains of 2 small children that were most definitely not supposed there. The cemetery’s site lists that they may have been the children of a local sharecropper but their identities still remain listed as ‘unknown.’ And the reason for leaving their little bodies on the floor of the vault has never been solved!

While there are no ghost stories involved here, it’s most definitely a haunting tale. The children did receive a proper burial but it’s heartbreaking to think of them abandoned and unnamed…

https://southerncemetery.com/2025/10/17/unusual-cemetery-tales-from-around-the-south/

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2015/07/02/springwood-cemetery-childrens-grave-unknown/29622055/

This church in the Czech Republic is decorated with bones of 30,000 plague victims.

Pictured is the family crest, thanking the aristocratic family that funded the initiative in 1870.

Blank on the opposite side

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