Their Graves Were DUG UP! - 10 Famous Exhumations

Interesting to hear the curious stories about the disturbances of the remains of these famous people!

I had a classmate who could honestly claim he went golfing with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1985. He died in 1959. In a very controversial and contentious decision, FLW was disinterred froM Taliesin in Spring Green WI, and moved to Taliesin West in AZ, per his late 3rd wife’s wishes. My friend’s family owned mortuary business got the job. So they dug him up, and apparently he had a hi-zoot coffin, because it was hermetically sealed and he said FLW looked PERFECT. He was especially excited because he was into architecture (in fact I met him in the College of Architecture and Planning a few years later). Anyhoo he said the most outstanding feature was that he was RED. He wasn’t sure if it was a reflection of FLW’s Native American heritage, or perhaps some chemical reaction. Anyhoo, he was cremated and then his family was entrusted to delivering the urn to either FLW’s daughter or his foundation. Trouble was, he was cremated on Friday but the hand-off wasn’t until Monday. Because it was an important job, my friend’s dad said “don’t let him out of your sight!” Well, he already had a tee time on Saturday….so…he very carefully put Frank in his golf bag, and took him out for a round of golf!!!!

JFK was actually also exhumed to move the grave a few metres up the hill to its current location. The exhumation was carried out at night and RFK was present.

Great video my friend! There are a bunch of these that you could do on a series. Elvis would be a big one.

William Quantrill's body is buried in three states, after being moved several times and bones being separated. The skull spent several years in a frat house in Kansas. The last burial, of what could be recovered, was in the Confederate Veterans Cemetery at Higgensville Missouri. It's in a box, in the ground, encased in concrete as not to be disturbed or stolen again.

Almost every public figure memorialized in a fancy mausoleum was temporarily interred somewhere while the final resting place was under construction. Examples are Grant, Garfield, McKinley, John F Dryden. And Harry Helmsley got moved to a new mausoleum in a new cemetery when the 'view" from his original mausoleum was "spoiled" by the construction of a public mausoleum by the cemetery.

Interesting history! I'm always learning something new about someone's life on your channel. So many notable people did not have a final resting place the first time. Hopefully they are all resting in peace now.👍

You should do a video on exhumations done to solve famous crimes!

I always learn something from your videos! Thank you!

Thank you for the new history lesson! Awesome job

Great information! I enjoyed this one too! Thank you!

Very interesting video. Hope you do another. Thanks for sharing

Lincoln's body was also stolen and unsuccessfully held for a ransom, which is why when he was laid in his permanent maselium, several feet of concrete were used to seal the grave and insure that the body would never be stolen again. His old maselium is only a short walk from his permanent tomb in the cemetery in Springfield, IL

I saw a program on Poe a few years ago. After running test on samples of his hair taken at the time of his death, it's now theorized that Poe died from Rabies. A person who has an untreated rabies infection would exhibit much the same symptoms that were recorded in Poe's last days. Plus the Poet had a proclivity to try and collect stray cat's as they were his pet of choice.

Interesting. Thank you for another great video !

This was fascinating and really interesting. I have been to Boone's and Lincoln's graves and knew about them but some of the others were new to me. Thanks you!

Great video! Thanks for sharing!!!

Great video Chris...history, my favorite thing!!! Always learning with your channel...👏😇👍🏻🙏🏻

This was interesting about all these famous people being moved. I love your videos

I enjoyed this, it was interesting to hear about how they were exhumed, and some several times! I knew about Lincoln, but didn't know about David Crocket or John Wilkes Booth. Interesting stuff as usual.