BLOT: (13 Feb 2014 - 06:33:53 AM)
University of Mississippi Medical Center has found 1000 bodies buried on its campus...believed to be the old state insane asylum's dead...and it costs too much to move the graves? Oh man...
Except, when testing the area, they found a thousand bodies and, right now, the assumption is that they may be the long lost dead of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum that was once on the site. The buried currently have no names attached. (!)
And moving the bodies will be too expensive, at a cost of about three million total dollars. (!!)
My favorite bit, for the whole Southern Horror Gothic flavor, was:
Eight years later, the Union's 46th Indiana Infantry Regiment arrived at the asylum. One soldier wrote that the patients "were terribly excited and were seen at the windows shouting to the soldiers."
Readying for the siege of Jackson, the soldiers set up camp, built fortifications and grew vegetables to sustain themselves...During the ensuing battle, Confederate soldiers fired back and hit the asylum, injuring at least one patient.
That's right, it is a graveyard of nameless bodies from an asylum that was involved in the Civil War. That was a base camp for Union soldiers, fired upon by Confederate ones. (!!!) Sweet, horror Jesus...
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