“Having gone so far, I made a discovery – amidst a solid mass of brick and mortar of the tenements, hid a long-forgotten cemetery. Our enterprising map maker found a way to get past the locked gate by spying an open tenement door, tiptoeing through and climbing over a back wall, where he found something remarkable. “I had noticed an iron gateway set in between two houses…cramped between the tenements…a gateway of a bygone day, tall with rusty bars of an ancient pattern…standing beside the closed gate with never a chink of broken space through which to peep at what was beyond.” From ‘Nooks and Corners of Old New York’, Charles Hemstreet, 1899 ©Marble Hill Cemetery Today, it is quite visible to passersby if not a little unknown back in the late 19th century it was overgrown, boarded up and hidden… The location marked on the map takes us to Second Avenue, between Second and Third Streets, to a small ornate, wrought iron gate set back from the street. “In this part of the city, the houses are so thickly bunched that not a foot is spared for even a bit of green, and if a few blades of grass struggle out from between the brick-paved courts, they are ruthlessly ground out of existence by heavy shoes, as if they were some poisonous and hurtful thing.” The Bowery Slum, ©Jacob Riis The man who made the map picks up the tale : Walking down the noisy Bowery, it is hard to imagine silence reigning anywhere, just as it must have been when the map was drawn back in 1899. We’re on the trail of this hidden graveyard in the midst of Manhattan’s bustling East Village. From ‘When Old New York Was Young’, Charles Hemstreet Like a pirate’s map of old, it has an ‘X’ marked on it, but this map marks the spot of buried treasure of a different kind – a long forgotten and abandoned graveyard. Some years later some strange explorer or treasure hunter stole those teeth.We are exploring New York City with an old hand drawn map that bears the mysterious legend, ‘Where Silence Reigns.’ Roughly sketched out over a hundred and twenty years ago, it shows just four streets. So, I do what any good explorer would do and I removed them from the box and took photos of them. I enter an upstairs bedroom and find a great antique dresser, I open up a drawer and find a white box, I open that white box and find a perfect and used set of dentures inside! At the time, only a handful had been here and much had not yet been discovered. This one is quite simple, it’s March of 2014 and i am exploring an amazing abandoned house in the middle of a snowstorm. In one of the rooms there was a safe with a yellow envelope that read This home was a time warp right back to the 1960’s and 1970’s with very little done to the decor since that time period. One of these homes was simply titled “Somewhere House” by the person who discovered it, but in my circles and amongst my followers it has come to be known as the Mid Century Time Capsule House. I’ll be posting this video as my 100th YouTube video next week, see the teaser video at 4 – A Grenade in a SafeĢ015 was a great year for exploring, there were many solid locations all unique in their own way. Human Teeth left behind in an abandoned dentists office. The Tooth, The Whole Tooth and Nothing Buut the Tooth, So Help me God.
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I had explored this location a few days earlier and spotted this jar in a supply room/lab room and it was full of extracted human teeth in some kind of a green solution. Second was in November of 2017 and we were on our way to explore all weekend in Kingston Ontario but our first stop was an abandoned Dentists office in Scarborough, Ontario. They were labeled with things like “stomach contents”, “liver”, “fetal ….”, I couldn’t make out that last one. I opened the drawer and pulled out a medical bag full of specimen jars each containing different human specimens taken during autopsies that were to be sent to the lab.
What we did not know was inside the autopsy room there was a small fridge that no one had yet looked inside. This one is a tie, two strange finds in two different locations.įirst, the Human Specimens: It was January 2016 and my first explore of the year, we had gone to explore an abandoned hospital that we knew had a great autopsy room and much more.
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