I really do think you should report that smell, just in case. A recently deceased body could have been hidden in there to evade a criminal investigation.
You might be right Pamela . Maybe , seeing how the tomb is built into the hill , rodents were able to get in ? , or an injured or dieing dog/cat went in there to die ? Either way , it should be looked into , as there could very well be a dead body in there . Criminals are very innovative now-a-days . Enjoy your day Pamela
I would report that bad smell to whoever is in charge of the cemetery, hopefully they would check it out, there shouldn’t be a putrefying smell coming from an old mausoleum. Someone might have vandalised an old lead coffin, sometimes the bodies aren’t fully decomposed if they were airtight & would start decomposing as soon as the air got in. Or as someone said, maybe a recent dead body that shouldn’t be there.
My hometown in Indiana had a cemetery across the street from my family home that had a sizable mausoleum. The stench of death became noticable at the begining of one spring, it was investigated and it turned out that over time the water freezing in cracks every winter finally weathered the structure enough for this to happen. Some maintenance and the smell cleared out in a couple days.
Those modern "hotel-style" mausoleums are notorious for their odor problems. Bodies decay. That's a fact. But this business of stowing the deceased above ground is a lose-lose proposition. Above ground in summer, in 100 degrees Fahrenheit? Bodies are going to swell and leak anyway, but why add insult to injury? Even our American embalming doesn't count for much in these ill-conceived "condos."
Years ago, in the community of Mount Rozelle (Alabama), the county was widening the State Road of Highway 99. The grader struck an unknown grave, and up came an iron coffin from the 1850s / 60s. It had a young woman in its confines, and the grader broke a corner of the coffin. I remember hearing old folks say (who saw and witnessed the incident, that the smell of death (after that long) was horrendous. The Fisk coffin of the 1800s would keep a body fresh for a very long time. It had a glass front for viewing the deceased, and could be filled with a gas or alcohol. The people who witnessed this said that the body was perfectly preserved. Once the coffin was broken, the decay was immediate. I remember that one person told me that it was a beautiful blonde girl, they could still see her features through the glass window, but the grader struck the bottom of the coffin, exposing her feet, her toes immediately were turning black, and death was in the air.
@@jayham1970 as morbid as this sounds I'd like to have seen one of these coffins, this was at a time where death was viewed differently, the posed corpse photos and the wild west of preservation study.
We have a lot of civil war graves here in the USA even found one recently of an Irishman who immigrated here his grave covers were made in Ireland. I think the old historic graves are so beautiful!
Have you ever visited Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia? It was designed by Scottish-American John Notman. It’s about 75 acres, overlooking the Schuylkill River. Absolutely a must see.
@@robinhowells159 oh I have Scottish ancestry that’s neat! I have a video on my channel I posted a few weeks ago of an Irishman named Robert Preston who was appointed surveyor in my area of Bristol Virginia by Thomas Jefferson and he’s buried at the original land where he founded the Presbyterian church there it once was a log church but is now modern. The grave covers over him and his family’s graves were made in Ireland and shipped here.
Oh my goodness, this is such a gorgeous cemetery, everything is so green, the grass, the trees...just breathtaking. Very old and full of history. Thank you for the walk, and by the way I love your accent.
Absolutely unfortunately here in the United States we have a lot of drug addicts or homeless people who will break into a crypt to use in, overdose and die in.
Subbed we just found pals great uncles grave died 1931 afe 10 yrs Greenock cem built early 1840s oldest or one of the biggest in Europe holds highland Mary who died in a close in greenock close still there
I was so sad that when when I went to take flowers to my boss from her garden one week after she died I could smell her death. She was entombed in a wall mausoleum about 5 feet up from the ground along with her husband who was right next to her. It was terrible! Because I knew that it was her. She had been embalmed. What the heck? It made me sick to my stomach because I know that it would have pissed her off to know that she smelled of death! She paid alot if money for that special wall vault. I left that cemetery heartbroken for her. Something went wrong there. I went back a month later, it still had the smell of death but not as bad. So sad for her. 😢❤
Sounds like they needed to repair something they are designed to try to mask alot of the smell they have some sort of interrogation thing for the decomp to flow into gutters I think
An animal could have gotten inside and died. I doubt it is anything nefarious. From the dates of the deceased, there is no way a body would still be decomposing. I love your channel!
Or a homeless person. The chapel in the top could be a nice place to live. Then they could have died. They might be rotting inside in their sleeping bag. Most likely it is an animal.
@@BrettonFerguson it could be an animal. but it’s odd that the smell could reek from a few feet away from the tomb. It could also be a body because that sounds more likely judging from the smell but who knows
I live by the cemetery, the vandalism has been horrendous the last few years , large stone urns taken from the tops of monuments etc .The friends of the cemetery all work hard to help preserve the place and keep it nice .
You'd know if it was a deceased human causing the smell. It's so overpowering, its like nothing else you've ever experienced. Theres no easy way to describe the smell, because I've had a few different smells, but theyre always overpowering if someone has laid undiscovered for any time. It could be that an old lead lined coffin has been damaged and caused it to leak, or something like a tresspasser has gained entry and passed away. If in doubt, report it to environmental health, and they will investigate if you sound genuine enough.
A friend of mine years ago was the son of a coroner. My friend said that his father had said there is no smell worse than that of a decaying human body.
@andrewbrendan1579 he's not wrong. Unfortunately it's not uncommon for people to go undiscovered for a number of weeks or months, and people only becoming aware because of smells, the presence of flies or strange marks appearing on their ceilings if they live in a flat or maisonette.
Kia Ora from New Zealand. Your pronunciation of Waiuku was spot on. Gorgeous memorial stones, they would cost an arm and a leg nowadays. Thanks for the sexton viewing. Good thing we don’t have smell-a-vlogs, surely the sexton would have got a whiff and checked it out.
It is very possible that one of the bodies were buried in a lead lined coffin that burst. The “juices” would still be in there and would certainly smell horrendous if they escaped… even after all that time.
The craftsmanship and intricate detail put into the carving of the stones and the masonry of the mausoleums are so amazing, especially with the technology of the tools and equipment they had available to do it at the time of their creations
Very quaint and unique Dan. I wouldn't mind going back for another look. Loved all the different ornate monuments and I liked the look of the smelly masoleum. Too bad it smells! 🤣😵💫
I live how respectful you are when making these videos. If I saw one of my relatives final resting place being filmed by you I would not have a problem with it. Thank you for the beautiful videos.
This cemetery is magnificent, I think. The mausoleum at the entrance is spectacular, it is impossible and unfortunate to no longer build such a resting place. It must be said that the cost would be incredibly high but it expresses respect for the deceased. Thank you for your video, from Montreal.
I think cemeteries like this are fascinating. Having worked in the funeral industry and sold grave markers, many people, today, can't afford a fancy grave marker. Markers like these would cost over $15,000. today. Only the very rich would be able to afford them. I was going to comment that cemeteries are very peaceful places until that train blew its whistle.
It's possible that mausoleum was broken into to steal jewelry etc, the casket(s) was never repaired/replaced. A few of the doors to some of those mausoleums look like rough replacements.
Depends on whether it's a crypt or a mausoleum. You don't find many crypts anymore, they were for the natural decomposition of a body, and a few months (or years) later, the bones were collected and stored, and the stone table was ready for the next body. It's how families would be buried together, with their bones in their own niche of a wall, usually within the crypt. Very common until the 19th century. In New Orleans, they have smaller but similar crypts, that once the body has been reduced to bones, the bones are pushed to the back of the narrow crypt box, where they fall into a chamber below the crypt slot, but the bones are just piled up inside on top of one another.
This Victorian Cemetery is so beautiful, and breathtaking (no pun intended). I’m new to your channel, and I have the notification bell on. I would truly love to see more of this cemetery. Thank you so much for the tour.
The Butterfield chapel reminds me of the Dexter mausoleum in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Ohio. Chapel on top, crypt below. The butterfield and Lund families were both in textile manufacturing.
Looking forward to your stinky graveyard my son just got back from Kensell Green in London One of his coworkers from Delta was buried there and said he had never seen anything like that graveyard.I told him let me show you some graveyards from Dead 💀 Men Walking
I did some quick research so the Butterfield's have descendants up to 2017. Maybe someone got laid to rest there recently? However it does seem abandoned with the windows missing. Also you were right there was a break-in in 2014. Which explains the damage. Wish there was proper photos of it inside. Also some of the children's children migrated to the USA.
That is a big mausoleum. You should let management know about the smell. The Butterfield family must have been very rich to have their internment so big. Very interesting and beautiful cemetery plots.
I was about to click out of your vlog, then you started reading out some names. Thank you so much. I love the old stones, they have so much more character, charm and history than modern day ones. I was born in South Wales, so my absolute favourites are the Celtic Crosses and mausoleums! I'm watching from Australia and have just subbed. Deb of Oz.
@6:56 when you said "Freemason" something was whispering back. Its speaking to you a little before that...but it is drowned out with the traffic noise. Voice is on left ear chanel. @12:19 truck stopping in distance or sound of children in a choir?
Wow! What a fascinating cemetery. I have never seen anything here in the states like it. Even from that same era, which are way better than modern cemeteries. America has nothing to compare to that.
This is a favorite cemetery of all the ones you've done. It seems all the women back then were named either Mary, Elizabeth, or Sarah. As for the smell at the crypt. An animal probably squeezed in the vents then could not get back out. As to the age of the crypt, those bodies are long ago decayed.
Dan, you said it smelled of rotten eggs. All that popped up in my head, was the sulfer smell coming up from Hell itself. No disrespect intended to those intered.
Am I the only one who found it somehow endearing that there were gentle vines of blackberries scattered around, but kept trimmed back so as to not overtake the monuments?
The cemetary story and tour all 3 and more.....awesome. Always look forward to your videos. I.really like when you go around and read the name and dates. Take care ...
Very lovely video, Dan, but for some reason I too found the cemetery (though lovely) creepy. Glad it’s not just me! Please do go back and do another video on it.
What a spooky place! You couldn't pay me to live near there or walk there at night. The people who are buried here must be super wealthy; I've never seen so many massive and intricate monuments in one place before. Definitely worth a repeat visit.
Me and the wife are getting cremated, can’t see spending $14,000 and up just sticking me in the ground when no one would visit my grave in 25 years, waste of land and money! Cheerio! Happy trails!
Strange their should be no smell unless there was a recent intermittent The smelling stage of a body From start to finish dose not last long a mater of weeks but I see on the door and the doors next to the crypt seem to have a water mark was it flooded recently is it animal like rats that Can smell quite high when decomposing leek from surage or leek from other graves it's strange Love ❤️ your Chanel God bless
Near where I live near Surrey Camberley England there’s a really big old church and graveyard. Towards the back there’s an elevated part that is exclusively for babies and young children who’ve passed. It’s covered in toy ornaments and children’s things and is the saddest place I’ve ever visited yet 😢. It’s called St Michael’s on London road if it’s googleable.
Every body in that cemetery is most likely a complete skeleton by now, so I wouldn't be worried about the smell being from any of them. It's probably either a skunk or a dead animal. I used to work as a groundskeeper at a similarly aged cemetery here in the US, and I remember one of the graves getting broken open to where you could see the skeleton down in it.
If the coffins are properly sealed the bodies could have zero decay even in over 100 years, formaldehyde is powerful stuff and they made it a lot stronger then.
Awesome video! Lovely, moody old boneyard! I would hazard a guess that the Butterfield mausoleum has a hole in the roof or water has pooled and is now stagnant and probably rotting any wooden fixtures in the chapel. I'd report it. Keep these coming!
I want to clean them so bad, I’m wringing my hands! I just came back from WV and cleaned family stones 100 year plus old. In a month they will look like the day they were set. Too much grime, lichens, and moss actually break down the stones. These are stunning memorials.
What do you use to clean ol tombstone with annie? I live in Kentucky and alot of old tombstones in my local cemeteries I've been trying to clean up but can't figure out what to use that does best job
Be careful when cleaning tombstones, some are protected by local authorities because some of the lichen is rare and protected, some can be the size of your thumbnail and be 100 years old !
@@stuartlast8156 Yes, you're right! You should never touch old cemetery stones or even what looks unkempt greenery. Our local old cemetery is strictly protected from those who feel the need to scrub everything clean, and a man was recently arrested for tearing at ivy growing over an old gravestone. Some, are also nature reserves.
Subbed and liked. I find these graveyards fascinating we dont really have much like it in my immediate area if anywhere , in Australia. It will be such a shame when in the far off future the graves will go from a simple panel on the ground to a mere digital image and detail on a computer, no more burials. Very sad I think.
This may be a daft question but did you add a creepy sound effect at 12:20? I couldn’t hear any other ones during the video and you don’t seem the channel for cheap tricks etc.. Have a listen. It freaked me out with my headphones on😂.
I would report this to the cemetery because this is a very old tomb and all the bodies inside should have decayed a long time ago!!! So, if it smells like that, it means they have buried a new body recently (which i doubt because this tomb looks in disuse since a looong time and the embalming processes of today would not produce that kind of smell) or somebody, maybe, hide a corpse there (after a murder...) and this is what your smelling. Some people in the comments even wrote that it might be a homeless person that managed to find a way in, used it as a house and died there. Or might be a ded animal too. Who knows... but somebody (the peope in charge of the cementery, the authorities/ the police) needs to go inside and verify where the smell is coming from and why, because this is absolutely not normal!
There could easily be room for 6 to 8 coffins in the mausoleum you said smelt a lot. As you pointed out, it does seem odd that there would even be anything left in there to decay and smell. It is said that a body reduces to skeletal form after 30 to 40 years in a coffin. I wonder if rats or some other animals have got in there on a regular basis, and were not able to get out? I wonder if there is even anyone left alive who holds a key for these doors anymore? I spotted a tomb like this in a remote Scottish churchyard a few years ago. I think they came about as a way of thwarting Victorian grave robbers, back when grave robbing was a "thing"..... Grave robbers used to dig up recently buried corpses for cash, as bodies were needed for scientific research and experiments.
@morrisonscott702 Hello there! Everything's going really good, just got my Jack O' Lantern pumpkins at the store, yesterday and I'm excited for Halloween! 🎃😍
I never know where to stand when visiting graves. I feel like im standing on someone's chest when reading their headstone. It makes me think Im disrespecting the person buried there.
The heavily stained stone in the area is almost certainly a clue as to what is going on. While there is not a lot of volcanic activity in GB there could be the odd fumarole through which volcanic gasses could escape. Those have the rotten eggs sulfuric gasses smell and can also cause stains on the stone, in particular the very dark staining on the structure in question.
Hello glad to see you today 😁. I had surgery on my right knee replacement so haven't seen much of you. Take care and thank you for another great video ❤🎉
You've probably covered all of this before, (I've only recently found your channel), but Victorian cemetery monuments are rich with symbolism. To the Victorians a good death was as important as a good life! It would be really interesting to have you describe some of the symbolism as you come across it, once in a while, and the individual meaning, such as with the draped urn you mentioned on top of one of the monuments. (The urn symbolises death and the drapery the separation between life and death). In any case this was a really informative walk around. A well kept cemetery (leaving aside the matter of that smell!) I'm not so sure that an atmosphere would be created by the sandwiching of the cemetery between a road and a railway line. I just think that some places do have distinctly uncomfortable atmospheres and strangely enough, the fact that it's a cemetery isn't always a prime cause of this. Some are very peaceful with lovely restful auras. We can learn so much history from taking time out to look at old headstones, monuments and family vaults. It's good that you enjoy not only exploring them, but taking us along when investigating these treasure houses of history.
I live in the US... obviously we don't have Victorian era cemetaries. You've peaked my interest about the sybolism on monuments. I shall have to dig a little deeper... pun intended. Great comment, thanx for that.
D.G.W., as you were reading the names of the people buried in the cemetery, I wondered how long it had been since anyone had spoken those names -- If we could see the people buried there as they were in life, when they walked and rode about the town, wouldn't that be something? -- Also I'm curious about the type of stone used for the gravestones and crypts. Here where I live in Indiana in the almost-center of the continental U.S., we have some of the best limestone there is. The Empire State Building in New York is made with our limestone. What kind of stone was used for the gravestones and mausoleums at Utley. Granite was mentioned, what others are there?
There are three deaths: the first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
It really is a lovely cemetery. The structures are quite incredible. I am really amazed by all of them. It's a shame there is a smell there. It could be any number of things. I would notify someone to get it taken care of. People deserve to visit their lives ones without having to have something unpleasant. It's hard enough on people emotionally to visit their loved ones in the cemetery.
I love seeing these types of cemeteries. Each grave is unique and the headstones and mausoleums a work of art. No cookie cutter grave markers here. Thank you for posting.
Amazing cemetery! Thanks for taking us along. It would definitely be worth another trip to explore at some point. And I am with everyone else, I would report that smell to the authorities to have it looked into just in case. Just my thoughts.
I really do think you should report that smell, just in case. A recently deceased body could have been hidden in there to evade a criminal investigation.
You might be right Pamela . Maybe , seeing how the tomb is built into the hill , rodents were able to get in ? , or an injured or dieing dog/cat went in there to die ? Either way , it should be looked into , as there could very well be a dead body in there . Criminals are very innovative now-a-days . Enjoy your day Pamela
most likely a dead cat etc.
Absolutely,. Or an animal could have crawled in and died.
Yea call the cops... You never know..
that the most probable way, i am 99.9 percent sure there is not a body in there,as you would be near to vomiting if there was@@IrishAnnie
I would report that bad smell to whoever is in charge of the cemetery, hopefully they would check it out, there shouldn’t be a putrefying smell coming from an old mausoleum. Someone might have vandalised an old lead coffin, sometimes the bodies aren’t fully decomposed if they were airtight & would start decomposing as soon as the air got in. Or as someone said, maybe a recent dead body that shouldn’t be there.
@morrisonscott702 Please, don't stalk women on line.
It's probably a poor animal that got inside and wasn't able to leave.
@@Euduchaus I do hope not 😢
Probably some homeless hobo got in and uses it as a crapper.
Possibly a dead animal like a rat; hedgehog; hare; or maybe someone's pet cat!!
My hometown in Indiana had a cemetery across the street from my family home that had a sizable mausoleum. The stench of death became noticable at the begining of one spring, it was investigated and it turned out that over time the water freezing in cracks every winter finally weathered the structure enough for this to happen. Some maintenance and the smell cleared out in a couple days.
Really? I'm glad it was taking care of but that's just awful...I feel bad for ya'll
Those modern "hotel-style" mausoleums are notorious for their odor problems. Bodies decay. That's a fact. But this business of stowing the deceased above ground is a lose-lose proposition. Above ground in summer, in 100 degrees Fahrenheit? Bodies are going to swell and leak anyway, but why add insult to injury? Even our American embalming doesn't count for much in these ill-conceived "condos."
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Years ago, in the community of Mount Rozelle (Alabama), the county was widening the State Road of Highway 99. The grader struck an unknown grave, and up came an iron coffin from the 1850s / 60s. It had a young woman in its confines, and the grader broke a corner of the coffin. I remember hearing old folks say (who saw and witnessed the incident, that the smell of death (after that long) was horrendous. The Fisk coffin of the 1800s would keep a body fresh for a very long time. It had a glass front for viewing the deceased, and could be filled with a gas or alcohol. The people who witnessed this said that the body was perfectly preserved. Once the coffin was broken, the decay was immediate. I remember that one person told me that it was a beautiful blonde girl, they could still see her features through the glass window, but the grader struck the bottom of the coffin, exposing her feet, her toes immediately were turning black, and death was in the air.
@@jayham1970 as morbid as this sounds I'd like to have seen one of these coffins, this was at a time where death was viewed differently, the posed corpse photos and the wild west of preservation study.
We have a lot of civil war graves here in the USA even found one recently of an Irishman who immigrated here his grave covers were made in Ireland. I think the old historic graves are so beautiful!
Agree!!! I LOVE history.
@@IrishAnnie It's very interesting I could go down an entire rabbit hole of information like I do with my ancestry lol
Have you ever visited Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia? It was designed by Scottish-American John Notman. It’s about 75 acres, overlooking the Schuylkill River. Absolutely a must see.
Who was he?
@@robinhowells159 oh I have Scottish ancestry that’s neat! I have a video on my channel I posted a few weeks ago of an Irishman named Robert Preston who was appointed surveyor in my area of Bristol Virginia by Thomas Jefferson and he’s buried at the original land where he founded the Presbyterian church there it once was a log church but is now modern. The grave covers over him and his family’s graves were made in Ireland and shipped here.
Oh my goodness, this is such a gorgeous cemetery, everything is so green, the grass, the trees...just breathtaking. Very old and full of history. Thank you for the walk, and by the way I love your accent.
Absolutely unfortunately here in the United States we have a lot of drug addicts or homeless people who will break into a crypt to use in, overdose and die in.
It’s well kept…..
Absolutely agree. If there is such a thing as a 'nice' cemetery, this is definitely it.
Subbed we just found pals great uncles grave died 1931 afe 10 yrs
Greenock cem built early 1840s oldest or one of the biggest in Europe holds highland Mary who died in a close in greenock close still there
as a non-native english speaking person, I think he have no accent. Everyone's else, who speak differently, that who have actually
I was so sad that when when I went to take flowers to my boss from her garden one week after she died I could smell her death. She was entombed in a wall mausoleum about 5 feet up from the ground along with her husband who was right next to her. It was terrible! Because I knew that it was her. She had been embalmed. What the heck? It made me sick to my stomach because I know that it would have pissed her off to know that she smelled of death! She paid alot if money for that special wall vault. I left that cemetery heartbroken for her. Something went wrong there. I went back a month later, it still had the smell of death but not as bad. So sad for her. 😢❤
RIP to your boss.
That's dreadful. May your boss be hand in hand with her love.
Sounds like they needed to repair something they are designed to try to mask alot of the smell they have some sort of interrogation thing for the decomp to flow into gutters I think
Sadly the body may of have exploded due to gasses which must be an horrific experience for family and friends who visit.
@@VixxyMcN
It usually is vented out the back and through the roof. There was something wrong for sure. I birds nest in the vent?
An animal could have gotten inside and died. I doubt it is anything nefarious. From the dates of the deceased, there is no way a body would still be decomposing. I love your channel!
Or a homeless person. The chapel in the top could be a nice place to live. Then they could have died. They might be rotting inside in their sleeping bag. Most likely it is an animal.
@@BrettonFerguson it could be an animal. but it’s odd that the smell could reek from a few feet away from the tomb. It could also be a body because that sounds more likely judging from the smell but who knows
These are all truly forgotten souls. Not even distant relatives appear to visit anymore.
I live by the cemetery, the vandalism has been horrendous the last few years , large stone urns taken from the tops of monuments etc .The friends of the cemetery all work hard to help preserve the place and keep it nice .
Have you heard anything about that smell?
Vandalism in cemeteries is like stealing from the graves ,I always think of Teeny Tiny woman and heed.
You'd know if it was a deceased human causing the smell. It's so overpowering, its like nothing else you've ever experienced. Theres no easy way to describe the smell, because I've had a few different smells, but theyre always overpowering if someone has laid undiscovered for any time.
It could be that an old lead lined coffin has been damaged and caused it to leak, or something like a tresspasser has gained entry and passed away.
If in doubt, report it to environmental health, and they will investigate if you sound genuine enough.
A friend of mine years ago was the son of a coroner. My friend said that his father had said there is no smell worse than that of a decaying human body.
@andrewbrendan1579 he's not wrong. Unfortunately it's not uncommon for people to go undiscovered for a number of weeks or months, and people only becoming aware because of smells, the presence of flies or strange marks appearing on their ceilings if they live in a flat or maisonette.
As a fire-fighter pulling out bodies that have been in the river for over a month is beyond rancid
@@andrewbrendan1579 nah , any animal thats big as a human smell as well , its just the smell of death
Kia Ora from New Zealand. Your pronunciation of Waiuku was spot on. Gorgeous memorial stones, they would cost an arm and a leg nowadays. Thanks for the sexton viewing. Good thing we don’t have smell-a-vlogs, surely the sexton would have got a whiff and checked it out.
KIA ORA !!!. I wonder if that is what the soft drink is named after, "Just for me and my dog, not them pesky crows"
It is very possible that one of the bodies were buried in a lead lined coffin that burst. The “juices” would still be in there and would certainly smell horrendous if they escaped… even after all that time.
The craftsmanship and intricate detail put into the carving of the stones and the masonry of the mausoleums are so amazing, especially with the technology of the tools and equipment they had available to do it at the time of their creations
Very quaint and unique Dan. I wouldn't mind going back for another look. Loved all the different ornate monuments and I liked the look of the smelly masoleum. Too bad it smells! 🤣😵💫
I live how respectful you are when making these videos. If I saw one of my relatives final resting place being filmed by you I would not have a problem with it. Thank you for the beautiful videos.
Thats lovely to know, thank you
@@deadgoodwalks it's the smell of meh farts😂😂😂😂
@@deadgoodwalks did you contact the cemetery owners? So they can investigate the smell?
This cemetery is magnificent, I think. The mausoleum at the entrance is spectacular, it is impossible and unfortunate to no longer build such a resting place. It must be said that the cost would be incredibly high but it expresses respect for the deceased. Thank you for your video, from Montreal.
I think cemeteries like this are fascinating. Having worked in the funeral industry and sold grave markers, many people, today, can't afford a fancy grave marker. Markers like these would cost over $15,000. today. Only the very rich would be able to afford them. I was going to comment that cemeteries are very peaceful places until that train blew its whistle.
It's possible that mausoleum was broken into to steal jewelry etc, the casket(s) was never repaired/replaced. A few of the doors to some of those mausoleums look like rough replacements.
Very beautiful place, thanks for the walk thru.
I suspect some unfortunate critter got in there and, for whatever reason, couldn't find its way out. Must have taken place fairly recently.
I was thinking the same (sad) thing 😓
@@danielscuiry2847 probably a rat
There are some great memorials in this cemetery and shows how important the town was in the textile industry worth another visit 😊
Depends on whether it's a crypt or a mausoleum. You don't find many crypts anymore, they were for the natural decomposition of a body, and a few months (or years) later, the bones were collected and stored, and the stone table was ready for the next body. It's how families would be buried together, with their bones in their own niche of a wall, usually within the crypt. Very common until the 19th century. In New Orleans, they have smaller but similar crypts, that once the body has been reduced to bones, the bones are pushed to the back of the narrow crypt box, where they fall into a chamber below the crypt slot, but the bones are just piled up inside on top of one another.
This Victorian Cemetery is so beautiful, and breathtaking (no pun intended). I’m new to your channel, and I have the notification bell on. I would truly love to see more of this cemetery. Thank you so much for the tour.
It's like Vincent Price's iconic line in Thriller, " the stench of 40 thousand years!"
The Butterfield chapel reminds me of the Dexter mausoleum in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Ohio. Chapel on top, crypt below. The butterfield and Lund families were both in textile manufacturing.
Great video Dan, I went back and watched the whole thing. Thank you so much for sharing, it was great.
One of th BEST.
The train horn when looking at the Butterfield mausoleum sounded like young children singing in a choir,my heart lept in my chest!!
Love this video! Love the beautiful English style cemetery and love the scenery of England itself. Very gothic looking.
Looking forward to your stinky graveyard my son just got back from Kensell Green in London One of his coworkers from Delta was buried there and said he had never seen anything like that graveyard.I told him let me show you some graveyards from Dead 💀 Men Walking
I did some quick research so the Butterfield's have descendants up to 2017. Maybe someone got laid to rest there recently? However it does seem abandoned with the windows missing. Also you were right there was a break-in in 2014. Which explains the damage. Wish there was proper photos of it inside. Also some of the children's children migrated to the USA.
That is a big mausoleum. You should let management know about the smell.
The Butterfield family must have been very rich to have their internment so big. Very interesting and beautiful cemetery plots.
Google 'The Butterfield Family + Cliffe Castle + Keighley'. Indeed they were very wealthy, and didn't forget their roots.
What are those buildings in cemeteries used for anyway
I was about to click out of your vlog, then you started reading out some names. Thank you so much. I love the old stones, they have so much more character, charm and history than modern day ones. I was born in South Wales, so my absolute favourites are the Celtic Crosses and mausoleums! I'm watching from Australia and have just subbed. Deb of Oz.
@6:56 when you said "Freemason" something was whispering back. Its speaking to you a little before that...but it is drowned out with the traffic noise. Voice is on left ear chanel. @12:19 truck stopping in distance or sound of children in a choir?
I go past this cemetery every day to go to work at the local hospital, never realised how beautiful it was. Thanks for the heads up x
❤ 🌹 just found your channel thanks for taking us along with you on this adventure look forward to seeing the next one!
Wow! What a fascinating cemetery. I have never seen anything here in the states like it. Even from that same era, which are way better than modern cemeteries. America has nothing to compare to that.
Our house had a petrifying stench coming from under it, which turned out to be a large dead cat.
I find it so relaxing walking through graveyards and looking at old graves. I really enjoyed your video. Thank you.👍
This is a favorite cemetery of all the ones you've done. It seems all the women back then were named either Mary, Elizabeth, or Sarah. As for the smell at the crypt. An animal probably squeezed in the vents then could not get back out. As to the age of the crypt, those bodies are long ago decayed.
Dan, you said it smelled of rotten eggs. All that popped up in my head, was the sulfer smell coming up from Hell itself. No disrespect intended to those intered.
@@danhutson3460That was my first thought as well.
pure Lovecraftian vibe with a hint of Edgar Allan Poe
Its fascinating to see the initial function of the building in action, and remember our noses today are more sensitive than those of the period .
Beautiful walk! What a interesting cemetery! Thank you!
Am I the only one who found it somehow endearing that there were gentle vines of blackberries scattered around, but kept trimmed back so as to not overtake the monuments?
Lol @ myself , i jumped 3 inches off of my chair when the train horn went off lol
It is a lovely old cemetery. Thank you for taking us along ✌️⚘️
😂😂 …they are poor dead ancestors RIP
The cemetary story and tour all 3 and more.....awesome. Always look forward to your videos. I.really like when you go around and read the name and dates. Take care ...
Very lovely video, Dan, but for some reason I too found the cemetery (though lovely) creepy. Glad it’s not just me! Please do go back and do another video on it.
I mean... What did you expect it to smell like? A nicely roasted Sunday dinner?
What a spooky place! You couldn't pay me to live near there or walk there at night. The people who are buried here must be super wealthy; I've never seen so many massive and intricate monuments in one place before. Definitely worth a repeat visit.
It’s not the dead you have to fear but the living
@@cathybrown4102 Not afraid of the dead...just of seeing things I'd rather not. And, yes, I have seen things/
There were lots of wealthy mill owners lived in that area in the 1800s/1960s, that's why the grave stones are so elaborate.
Cant take your wealth with you ( born with nothing, die with nothing ) doesn't matter what you have in life, we are all the same when we die.🤣🤣
@@stevenc5227 Nopes but I wouldn't have an ornate mausoleum built for me in a beautiful Victorian cemetery
This is such beautiful Graveyard. Headstones are so detailed. One of the nicest graveyards I’ve seen so far.
Me and the wife are getting cremated, can’t see spending $14,000 and up just sticking me in the ground when no one would visit my grave in 25 years, waste of land and money! Cheerio! Happy trails!
If I was buried in a mausoleum I would have a doorbell and a mailbox on it.
You still get spam mail 🤣
id have a do not disturb sign
Thank you for sharing your time.... Interesting walk of past history... so amazing what you can see and learn. 😊
Hope you’re feeling better! Thanks for the vid!
Could be a large animal as well. But decomp doesn't smell like sulfur.
Strange their should be no smell unless there was a recent intermittent The smelling stage of a body From start to finish dose not last long a mater of weeks but I see on the door and the doors next to the crypt seem to have a water mark was it flooded recently is it animal like rats that Can smell quite high when decomposing leek from surage or leek from other graves it's strange
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11:31Is the smell of decomposing bodies coming from this vent? The grave already looks quite old.
Its a beautiful cemetery. The monuments are so gothic. Great video.
What is hat strange sound at 12:22? It is where you are at the smelly tomb. It’s weird!
Sounded like a train
Near where I live near Surrey Camberley England there’s a really big old church and graveyard. Towards the back there’s an elevated part that is exclusively for babies and young children who’ve passed. It’s covered in toy ornaments and children’s things and is the saddest place I’ve ever visited yet 😢. It’s called St Michael’s on London road if it’s googleable.
We have just come back from Bournemouth. Mary Shelly and Percy Shelly are buried there . We went and and had a look it’s in very good condition
Every body in that cemetery is most likely a complete skeleton by now, so I wouldn't be worried about the smell being from any of them. It's probably either a skunk or a dead animal. I used to work as a groundskeeper at a similarly aged cemetery here in the US, and I remember one of the graves getting broken open to where you could see the skeleton down in it.
If the coffins are properly sealed the bodies could have zero decay even in over 100 years, formaldehyde is powerful stuff and they made it a lot stronger then.
After 150 years you dont smell the bodies anymore
What a beautiful graveyard just loved some of the headstones beautiful designs some really magnificent ❤
Awesome video! Lovely, moody old boneyard! I would hazard a guess that the Butterfield mausoleum has a hole in the roof or water has pooled and is now stagnant and probably rotting any wooden fixtures in the chapel. I'd report it. Keep these coming!
❤ absolutely beautiful walkthrough! Thank you so much for sharing
I want to clean them so bad, I’m wringing my hands! I just came back from WV and cleaned family stones 100 year plus old. In a month they will look like the day they were set. Too much grime, lichens, and moss actually break down the stones. These are stunning memorials.
What do you use to clean ol tombstone with annie? I live in Kentucky and alot of old tombstones in my local cemeteries I've been trying to clean up but can't figure out what to use that does best job
Be careful when cleaning tombstones, some are protected by local authorities because some of the lichen is rare and protected, some can be the size of your thumbnail and be 100 years old !
@@stuartlast8156 Yes, you're right! You should never touch old cemetery stones or even what looks unkempt greenery. Our local old cemetery is strictly protected from those who feel the need to scrub everything clean, and a man was recently arrested for tearing at ivy growing over an old gravestone. Some, are also nature reserves.
@@stuartlast8156 My family cemetery has not such rules. Clean them or, they deteriorate to nothing.
@@missmerrily4830 If it’s your own family, you have the rights to clean them.
12:19 after you say "...be the bodies", the train ?? In the distance sounds like a choir 😄
Subbed and liked. I find these graveyards fascinating we dont really have much like it in my immediate area if anywhere , in Australia. It will be such a shame when in the far off future the graves will go from a simple panel on the ground to a mere digital image and detail on a computer, no more burials. Very sad I think.
Ohhhh, i have Hartley Ancestors from Keighley....and Holmes. They came to New Zealand. Great wander around and some interesting gravestones. Thanks
My prayers for the souls buried in this cemetery.
The loud train spooked me because I had the volume up all the way on my phone 🤣
Did you guys hear singing right around the 12:20 mark coming from the mausoleum? I had to play it over and over again.
Absolutely 💯 % yes, and not the same sound as the horns at 15:41. I too commented on that. Thank you for validating that for me
Definitely heard it!
Train.
@nicolad8822 skeptical much? Just messing with you
This may be a daft question but did you add a creepy sound effect at 12:20? I couldn’t hear any other ones during the video and you don’t seem the channel for cheap tricks etc.. Have a listen. It freaked me out with my headphones on😂.
Yes.
It might be a body in there if you can smell it outside the doors and when you went up to the front of it did you see the flies
I would report this to the cemetery because this is a very old tomb and all the bodies inside should have decayed a long time ago!!! So, if it smells like that, it means they have buried a new body recently (which i doubt because this tomb looks in disuse since a looong time and the embalming processes of today would not produce that kind of smell) or somebody, maybe, hide a corpse there (after a murder...) and this is what your smelling. Some people in the comments even wrote that it might be a homeless person that managed to find a way in, used it as a house and died there. Or might be a ded animal too. Who knows... but somebody (the peope in charge of the cementery, the authorities/ the police) needs to go inside and verify where the smell is coming from and why, because this is absolutely not normal!
Those are the most beautiful tombstones I've ever seen. My hat is off to the ones who created them.
14:59 that door is ghastly looking!
There could easily be room for 6 to 8 coffins in the mausoleum you said smelt a lot. As you pointed out, it does seem odd that there would even be anything left in there to decay and smell. It is said that a body reduces to skeletal form after 30 to 40 years in a coffin. I wonder if rats or some other animals have got in there on a regular basis, and were not able to get out? I wonder if there is even anyone left alive who holds a key for these doors anymore? I spotted a tomb like this in a remote Scottish churchyard a few years ago. I think they came about as a way of thwarting Victorian grave robbers, back when grave robbing was a "thing"..... Grave robbers used to dig up recently buried corpses for cash, as bodies were needed for scientific research and experiments.
No, that was the corpse cage.
This is beautiful......all of these have been so well cared for. The designs are gorgeous. 😮
This is a really cool cemetery! I love walking around in old cemeteries.. definitely think that putrefying smell should be reported.😯
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I never know where to stand when visiting graves. I feel like im standing on someone's chest when reading their headstone. It makes me think Im disrespecting the person buried there.
11:56 Gosh that smells terrible! Let's go in!
12:19 You can hear something weird and Idk what it is. The Sulphur smell comes from a malevolent ghost.I wonder how haunted that cemetery is
Train horn.
@@nicolad8822 Sounds like a whispering ghost child but I heard the squeaking of the rails
Singing...
Beautiful cemetery and nice to see that it is looked after .. 🐨😃
what was that noise at 12:19 really creepy noise echo..
Yes..
The heavily stained stone in the area is almost certainly a clue as to what is going on. While there is not a lot of volcanic activity in GB there could be the odd fumarole through which volcanic gasses could escape. Those have the rotten eggs sulfuric gasses smell and can also cause stains on the stone, in particular the very dark staining on the structure in question.
Hello glad to see you today 😁. I had surgery on my right knee replacement so haven't seen much of you. Take care and thank you for another great video ❤🎉
You've probably covered all of this before, (I've only recently found your channel), but Victorian cemetery monuments are rich with symbolism. To the Victorians a good death was as important as a good life! It would be really interesting to have you describe some of the symbolism as you come across it, once in a while, and the individual meaning, such as with the draped urn you mentioned on top of one of the monuments. (The urn symbolises death and the drapery the separation between life and death). In any case this was a really informative walk around. A well kept cemetery (leaving aside the matter of that smell!) I'm not so sure that an atmosphere would be created by the sandwiching of the cemetery between a road and a railway line. I just think that some places do have distinctly uncomfortable atmospheres and strangely enough, the fact that it's a cemetery isn't always a prime cause of this. Some are very peaceful with lovely restful auras. We can learn so much history from taking time out to look at old headstones, monuments and family vaults. It's good that you enjoy not only exploring them, but taking us along when investigating these treasure houses of history.
You are spot on with your comments! Well said
You are spot on with your comments! Well said
Exactly right..
I live in the US... obviously we don't have Victorian era cemetaries. You've peaked my interest about the sybolism on monuments. I shall have to dig a little deeper... pun intended. Great comment, thanx for that.
Do you have any idea what the letter 'K' , on the balustrade of that mausoleum might symbolize?
A dead animal could be somewhere near the vault as it looks like a window at the top is broken.
I think in general graveyards are going away... I'm going to be cremated and see no purpose whatsoever in having a monument
When I was in Puerto Rico and went to a cemetery where the coffins were exposed it smelled like Mayonnaise
you have ruinned Mayonnaise for me lol I am curious abput your experience... at any rate, best wishes!
D.G.W., as you were reading the names of the people buried in the cemetery, I wondered how long it had been since anyone had spoken those names -- If we could see the people buried there as they were in life, when they walked and rode about the town, wouldn't that be something? -- Also I'm curious about the type of stone used for the gravestones and crypts. Here where I live in Indiana in the almost-center of the continental U.S., we have some of the best limestone there is. The Empire State Building in New York is made with our limestone. What kind of stone was used for the gravestones and mausoleums at Utley. Granite was mentioned, what others are there?
There are three deaths: the first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
Opened in 1857, and ever since people have been dying to get in
Please report that smell.
The one with the smell could be a crime that’s hidden wow and those tomb stones are Literally Beautiful
It really is a lovely cemetery. The structures are quite incredible. I am really amazed by all of them. It's a shame there is a smell there. It could be any number of things. I would notify someone to get it taken care of. People deserve to visit their lives ones without having to have something unpleasant. It's hard enough on people emotionally to visit their loved ones in the cemetery.
Amazing place! The smell certainly concerns me. Thanks for the visit, a place I will never see in person, what a gift! Thank you!
I love seeing these types of cemeteries. Each grave is unique and the headstones and mausoleums a work of art. No cookie cutter grave markers here. Thank you for posting.
Amazing cemetery! Thanks for taking us along. It would definitely be worth another trip to explore at some point. And I am with everyone else, I would report that smell to the authorities to have it looked into just in case. Just my thoughts.
Thanks!
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