[UA] cemeteries in parking lots

[Drew Smith]

Oh yeah, there's one like that in New Jersey, too, at a movie theatre by
Route 1 and Route 18.  Just a solitary grave that's seated higher up than
the rest of the parking lot and fenced in.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Ross Payton <rpayton at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.roadsideresort.com/blog/paved-paradise-cemeteries-in-parking-lots
>
> This is more UA than DG but a parking lot cemetery is too weird an idea not
> to use in a scenario of some sort...ghouls working the night shift at the
> mall who sleep in the cemetery by day, to weird urban legends about the
> graves...
>
> *While I was researching the "Cemetery Safari" chapter for my upcoming
>> book Weird Oklahoma, I came across an unusual burial site<http://www.roadsideresort.com/stories/oklahomas-strip-mall-graveyard>west of Tulsa that was entirely enclosed within a strip-mall parking lot.
>> Once sacred ground, it's now a conspicuous patch of grass in a sea of
>> asphalt, a quirky spectacle to the shoppers forced to drive around it on
>> their way to Radio Shack.*
>>
>> *The handful of graves had become an absurd sight gag that punctuated the
>> often indiscriminate momentum of American progress. And it got me thinking:
>> were there others like it? Surely this wasn't the only time the deceased had
>> stubbornly spoiled the aesthetics of a well-drafted parking lot. I mean, the
>> good spots had already started going to the handicapped; it was only a
>> matter of time before the dead horned in on the action, too.*
>>
>> *And you know what? I was right. In fact, I found even more than I
>> expected ...*
>>
>
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