Why Graves Are Actually Dug 6 Feet Deep

Death comes for us all, and unless we decide we want to be cremated, we will all end up 6 feet under. But why 6 feet? Check out today's morbid history lesson all about the burial practices different cultures adopted, and why 6 feet under became the standard for burials.
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  • @davidpetruic9557
    @davidpetruic95572 жыл бұрын

    Someone told me once that zombies can only dig 5 feet up so that’s why bodies go 6 feet under, I think it was my dad actually. It freaked me out as a kid 😂

  • @arthas640

    @arthas640

    2 жыл бұрын

    Someone once told me it was so most people couldnt stand up in their graves and get out

  • @GenericProtagonist7

    @GenericProtagonist7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Huh, my grandfather always told me it was because the undead couldn't climb, so even if they dug out the ground they couldn't get out of the hole. Small world.

  • @mattm5941

    @mattm5941

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your dad lied to you

  • @alfthebastard8064

    @alfthebastard8064

    2 жыл бұрын

    Were you sitting on his lap when he told you these stories

  • @desertweasel6965

    @desertweasel6965

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are actually only about 3ft under the surface, maybe 4. The hole is 6 ft deep, but once you put a casket and vault inside, the top of the casket is about 3ft under the surface.

  • @babybionic3007
    @babybionic30072 жыл бұрын

    He's not telling stories he's feeding our boredom

  • @evopenguin5742

    @evopenguin5742

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ugh it's meant for educational purpose not to cure boredom

  • @Superman37891

    @Superman37891

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@evopenguin5742 it could even mean both of those things

  • @_TLA11

    @_TLA11

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@evopenguin5742 bruh

  • @dillonloxton

    @dillonloxton

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fax bro

  • @logandavis8120

    @logandavis8120

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not sure if that’s good or bad

  • @_Mr.Tuvok_
    @_Mr.Tuvok_2 жыл бұрын

    Government: “we don’t like to like this, but we kinda like this.”

  • @SuperBlessedKing
    @SuperBlessedKing2 жыл бұрын

    The antidote to boredom is the infographics show.

  • @achwen

    @achwen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@victoriawilliams2786 I think it’s the way teachers teach. If a student is more engaged in learning and is genuinely interested, it would be easier to learn.

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @brookarellastyle260

    @brookarellastyle260

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@achwen Agreed! We actually had this argument in class once when a teacher asked us why we could remember lyrics to a song, but not remember the answer to a math question. Songs are fun and math isn’t 😁

  • @amirdasmoker5256

    @amirdasmoker5256

    2 жыл бұрын

    Honestly. But it’s good information. Very beneficial.

  • @305r.a.p5
    @305r.a.p52 жыл бұрын

    Great Question that we all wondered but never asked

  • @idkanymore9894

    @idkanymore9894

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve always wondered this

  • @widjiro

    @widjiro

    2 жыл бұрын

    in my religion, when the first human died, the crows dug a hole 1.8 meters and then bury it

  • @EDsavant

    @EDsavant

    2 жыл бұрын

    They are not they are buried below the freezing line in your area and most times facing east

  • @jeffreyzain

    @jeffreyzain

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@widjiro - INTERESTING. WHICH RELIGION IF I MAY ASK?

  • @ofooda

    @ofooda

    2 жыл бұрын

    *you

  • @diversejoe617
    @diversejoe6172 жыл бұрын

    Cemeteries: "exist" Ed gein: *That's my kinda crowd*

  • @gezzarandom

    @gezzarandom

    2 жыл бұрын

    So he had the bad luck of being born in the wrong century.

  • @ashwinidesai4051

    @ashwinidesai4051

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @insertusernamehere8125

    @insertusernamehere8125

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lel

  • @verymelee9115

    @verymelee9115

    2 жыл бұрын

    *i feel like i was born in another time. also my armpits always itch, i wonder if thats the area that my ancestors had cronic wounds in* says gein

  • @nlocnil3602

    @nlocnil3602

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sees dead skin: all this unused material

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access2 жыл бұрын

    We bigfoots bury our dead too That's why humans never find our bones

  • @srmitobrgreenmushroom8390

    @srmitobrgreenmushroom8390

    2 жыл бұрын

    Epic

  • @keriezy

    @keriezy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Harry? Is that you?

  • @kellangibson9213

    @kellangibson9213

    2 жыл бұрын

    why do i see you everywhere

  • @yeman1913

    @yeman1913

    2 жыл бұрын

    Memer man

  • @robpatterson3133

    @robpatterson3133

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂 thats great

  • @ulardaddy
    @ulardaddy2 жыл бұрын

    What about the theory, the rain and snow had something to do with why bodies were burdied 6ft deep. Because if the land was flooded, the caskets would wash away. And with the tombs, the same thing, so the can't wash away.

  • @arthanza112

    @arthanza112

    2 жыл бұрын

    It happens in South Louisiana. Swamp area.

  • @THINKPATH

    @THINKPATH

    2 жыл бұрын

    fun fact: did you know that more people die from pigs than from sharks?! i will post regular vids like this so make sure to subscribe!! btw i'm a kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @brookarellastyle260

    @brookarellastyle260

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes I have heard about this theory

  • @twistedyogert

    @twistedyogert

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@THINKPATH Now I know why Muslims and Jews avoid pigs.

  • @DonnieDin
    @DonnieDin2 жыл бұрын

    Here’s the answer: Six feet also helped keep bodies out of the hands of body snatchers. Medical schools in the early 1800s bought cadavers for anatomical study and dissection, and some people supplied the demand by digging up fresh corpses. Gravesites reaching six feet helped prevent farmers from accidentally plowing up bodies” You’re welcome for saving you 10+ Minutes

  • @theinfluencer2109

    @theinfluencer2109

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @indridcold8433

    @indridcold8433

    2 жыл бұрын

    Jack The Ripper was a medical student. She was so desperate to graduate and become a medical doctor that she harvested unsuspecting people so she could study anatomy. The killings quit after her graduation and she became a medical doctor. Her reasoning was that those that were murdered served to save many more lives when she became a medical doctor and was practicing medicine. She died with a clear conscious.

  • @cnehndlela6536

    @cnehndlela6536

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@indridcold8433 so you know who jack the ripper is? Im asking since his identity is still unknown

  • @indridcold8433

    @indridcold8433

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cnehndlela6536 I just like this theory the most. Nothing is definite. Back then it was extremely rare for a woman to be a medícal doctor. The woman was psychotically obsessed with becoming a medical doctor. She was so obsessed that she studied anatomy with her victim's body's. There is even a name for the doctor-to-be. I just forgot it. It could have just been a coincidence that killings stopped after she became a medical doctor. Theory is nothing but a guess with facts thrown in to back up the theory. It is not definite.

  • @holad2127

    @holad2127

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @kodabear2270
    @kodabear22702 жыл бұрын

    So animals don’t try and eat the bodies and it makes sure they won’t get unearthed during floods and heavy rains

  • @Sweetbutapsycho4

    @Sweetbutapsycho4

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re 💯 right 😊😊

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @justinchun4593

    @justinchun4593

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Sheeraz why

  • @CallMeDX

    @CallMeDX

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spoilers but thanks

  • @CallMeDX

    @CallMeDX

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Sheeraz why?

  • @jayydel
    @jayydel2 жыл бұрын

    "Take this guy...hes black" 😂 idk why that caught me off guard seeing that captioned

  • @CallMeKurima

    @CallMeKurima

    2 жыл бұрын

    LOL that guy was so racist LOL

  • @JstormZx

    @JstormZx

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CallMeKurima LOL

  • @dewdecsys2083
    @dewdecsys20832 жыл бұрын

    He’s not teaching he’s telling us things we never bothered learning or knowing

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    @lilhaiti8200

    2 жыл бұрын

    soooo ... teaching ?

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    @ok-rn2un

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that's called teaching

  • @bigounce4293

    @bigounce4293

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s why it’s the Infographics show

  • @danielguzman1325

    @danielguzman1325

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is teaching

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @hungrydarkness
    @hungrydarkness2 жыл бұрын

    This channel has really grown since covid. A lot of topics. Excellent.

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @vapesog232

    @vapesog232

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 yessir

  • @musicmedia-
    @musicmedia-2 жыл бұрын

    I can't go through my day without looking at The Infographics Show two times a day... am I the only one?

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    @dylanmcadam8509

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @alfonsosierra406

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @dishsoap8428

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @trickzclipz5910

    @trickzclipz5910

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes you are

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @daltonnations9427
    @daltonnations94272 жыл бұрын

    First time I've ever been this early to a video

  • @matthewseverance1105

    @matthewseverance1105

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey! Same!

  • @kenesufernandez1281

    @kenesufernandez1281

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @Poo69

    @Poo69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @justinianthegreat154

    @justinianthegreat154

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @josephwilliams7995

    @josephwilliams7995

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_882 жыл бұрын

    As someone who worked for a utility company I can say the hardest part to hand digging a hole that deep is just getting the dirt up and out of it.

  • @Pyro_Might
    @Pyro_Might2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if pushing up daisy was originally for coffins stacked on top of another? Amazing how stuff become lost throughout time.

  • @starwarshelper

    @starwarshelper

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s probably because decomposing bodies make really good fertilizer so daisies would grow out of the ground over the body thus the body is “pushing up daisies” through the ground

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @janellecatigbe8343
    @janellecatigbe83432 жыл бұрын

    "Why Graves Are Actually Dug 6 Feet Deep" Me: So that the corpse can't get out when they turned to zombie?

  • @maxchannel2.065

    @maxchannel2.065

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @hailangarmy4ever468

    @hailangarmy4ever468

    2 жыл бұрын

    Loll😂😂 i too thought the same if the bodies turn into zombie they couldn't come out from their 😂😂

  • @crista1721

    @crista1721

    2 жыл бұрын

    You have played to much pvz

  • @blanco0949
    @blanco09492 жыл бұрын

    Grave digging is rare in Jamaica since we seal the coffin in all angles with concrete.

  • @Olkv3D

    @Olkv3D

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's the law in most places in the US that a buried casket must be encased within a cement box.

  • @wutgreens443

    @wutgreens443

    2 жыл бұрын

    Another yardie, wagwan bredda

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @luvmibratt

    @luvmibratt

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 Interesting

  • @codymobley7568
    @codymobley75682 жыл бұрын

    I am a grave digger out of the north Florida region, we always wonder the 6 feet thing too, but we only dig 48 in Down, mostly with shovels still and use vaults, but the depth is due to our water table, anything lower and you will be floating in the natural water wells of Florida

  • @Azazel-ug4lt
    @Azazel-ug4lt2 жыл бұрын

    "No bruiseness cutting up" Anybody else catch that

  • @tvby4916
    @tvby49162 жыл бұрын

    When you start watching into graphic you just can’t stop

  • @nishidohellhillsruler6731
    @nishidohellhillsruler67312 жыл бұрын

    We had an incident in Venezuela on the late 1800's. A German scientist moved to live in the mountains north of Caracas, and after a while it was discovered he had been stealing corpses. A mob gathered and went to confront him, but they found him dead, sitting on a chair, along with some other departed people. They were all perfectly preserved, looking eerily alive even, for it turned out to be that he had developed a perfect embalming fluid; a formula he took with himself to the grave.

  • @swavy5423
    @swavy54232 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered how but i never asked why. Thanks for the video for the helpful info

  • @zumy6299
    @zumy62992 жыл бұрын

    I remember you guys hitting 1mill and just realised u hit 10mil well done boys

  • @iamedyson

    @iamedyson

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah boy

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @devvydoesstuff

    @devvydoesstuff

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 shut up

  • @enopio_O
    @enopio_O2 жыл бұрын

    5:24 that happened in China during the pandemic. Residents were locked inside their home while the gate of the building is welded by police.

  • @SomeGuy-zh3gk

    @SomeGuy-zh3gk

    2 жыл бұрын

    So how they get they're essential needs?

  • @justagirlwithadream2933

    @justagirlwithadream2933

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SomeGuy-zh3gk they didn't.

  • @enopio_O

    @enopio_O

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SomeGuy-zh3gk many starved, many could go to hospital. dogs could not go out. Chinese people are tough people, they find ways to live. Only their lives are not in their hands.

  • @Wwim58687

    @Wwim58687

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@justagirlwithadream2933 false, food was delivered

  • @justagirlwithadream2933

    @justagirlwithadream2933

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Wwim58687 to all?

  • @connore08
    @connore082 жыл бұрын

    These are videos we never think about but are really interested it’s fantastic

  • @RadisMad
    @RadisMad2 жыл бұрын

    Bro imagine if history was taught in this format. With the way the script, animation, and attention grabbing the infographics show has their videos as. It'd be so much more interesting.

  • @CallMeDX

    @CallMeDX

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ikr

  • @wondoxl4866

    @wondoxl4866

    2 жыл бұрын

    History already the best class wym

  • @RadisMad

    @RadisMad

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wondoxl4866 it is but it'd be even better in this format

  • @KeIlyMel99
    @KeIlyMel992 жыл бұрын

    6 feet equals social distancing.

  • @mrbig4532
    @mrbig45322 жыл бұрын

    I heard it had something to do with the lengths of the digging tools , they used picks s and shovels so the hole would be a pick wide (36”) and a pick and a shovel deep 6’

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @jennj2049
    @jennj20492 жыл бұрын

    Kinda odd this situation all these years ago with a sickness going around that 6ft comes up in conversation just kinda weird thinking about it

  • @wackyweyland8857
    @wackyweyland88572 жыл бұрын

    For this reason they actually put shotguns in the coffins when they were buried. Whenever a grave robber showed up and opened the coffin, the got a surprise.

  • @andrewyerian214

    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever questioned why USA is the way it is? Go to Teach Others Daily . com. I have this spaced out because my comments seem to get deleted every time I post a link. Believe me. It will give you so much understanding on why the US is the way it is today and how it affects the rest of the world. Your life will change in 10 minutes. Give it a read. You will be very surprised? Do you like to learn? Go to the website I mentioned and share it with as many people as you can.

  • @DkViking1

    @DkViking1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 Thanks a lot, Andrew! 🤗🤩👍 What a great truth speaking website! ❤️

  • @santosgonzalez3443

    @santosgonzalez3443

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 shut up bot

  • @spook9496

    @spook9496

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 that’s offensive man

  • @elijah8107
    @elijah81072 жыл бұрын

    Britan: We Don't Have Enough Dead Bodies!. Chicago: ....

  • @alextheartist3754
    @alextheartist37542 жыл бұрын

    The dead bodies have to obey social distancing rules, obviously.

  • @fernandoperez1072

    @fernandoperez1072

    2 жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @Mike-gt1cs

    @Mike-gt1cs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why 6 feet? I can't fathom the answer to that question

  • @shadowwolf2524
    @shadowwolf25242 жыл бұрын

    During my senior year of high school,1981-82, I worked part time digging graves and burying people. I was paid $20 for the digging and $20 to lower the coffin into the vault and then cover them with dirt and put the sod and flowers on the grave. And,best of all, I got out of school to do the work. A buddy and I did the work while the old weird caretaker supervised us. We didn't dig our graves 6'. We were instructed to dig our graves 4 1/2 foot. Which I'm thankful for. No backhoes were allowed in this cemetery. So we dug them all by hand- with shovels and picks. Hard work, even for an in shape ,high school senior young man. My girlfriend always knew when I had buried someone. I always seemed to have some nice flowers for her on the days I did.

  • @Muhammad99923
    @Muhammad999232 жыл бұрын

    Excellent content u guys put out

  • @ParDegree

    @ParDegree

    2 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @samuelt3990
    @samuelt39902 жыл бұрын

    The way he says plague cracks me up

  • @robertsides3626
    @robertsides36262 жыл бұрын

    "As as a thicc cloud moves in front of an almost full moon." I can't help but snicker at that sentence.

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    "The moon is always mooning you because it's very cheeky." ---Albert Einstein

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fact checkers say..."Correct!"

  • @tawanamakotsi9839
    @tawanamakotsi98392 жыл бұрын

    Great information I never needed to know

  • @morelhunter3966
    @morelhunter39662 жыл бұрын

    This was way more fascinating than I expected.

  • @pollyg562
    @pollyg5622 жыл бұрын

    i always believed it was a very big coincidence that after years of been plaque-free in 1665 it hit again but as it spilled into 1666 the year of the great fire of London, could it not really been stated by a baker but started by somebody who wanted to cleanse London, and it kinda worked as the rebuild was much more hygenic, and it was the last mass plaque

  • @chemeister

    @chemeister

    2 жыл бұрын

    No. Because the fire was in the city of London (a very, very small part of greater london) which was also plague free for the most part. 🤷‍♂️ Nice idea though

  • @thearmchairjournalist566

    @thearmchairjournalist566

    2 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t know plaque was so dangerous 🤣🤣🤣

  • @candice6137
    @candice61372 жыл бұрын

    Caught a fresh infographics video

  • @nodicee2
    @nodicee22 жыл бұрын

    I wondered about this today lol good Timing

  • @Unpug
    @Unpug2 жыл бұрын

    Woah! I’ve never know this before! Great video

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold84332 жыл бұрын

    During a cremation, the jewelery, clothing, and tooth fillings are burnt along with the carcass. After several crispy critters are turned to ash, the bottom of the catch pan has a lot of gold, platinum, and other metals. Those metals are often removed and the undertaker does not always through them away. Is this grave robbery, or metal recycling? I knew a neighbour that had eight glass spaghetti jars filled with gold dust gathered from the catcb tray from crematoriums. Keep the jewelery of the beloved dead in your family if you intend to cremate. It will only be destroyed in the furnace and wind up being scavenged as scrap metals.

  • @BenAck912
    @BenAck9122 жыл бұрын

    Joe Strummer from The Clash would've probably already known why. He used to be a grave digger before the band started. R.I.P. John Graham Mellor 1952-2002.

  • @BenAck912

    @BenAck912

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Lee harry enty My favorite song by them is "Safe European Home."

  • @spacecitySuperSolid
    @spacecitySuperSolid2 жыл бұрын

    I needed this i learned something solid

  • @LandShades
    @LandShades2 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 10 mil subs! I remember when it was only 1 million

  • @somedude3887
    @somedude38872 жыл бұрын

    It’s 6 feet because people back then weren’t that tall and they wouldn’t be able to get out once inside the hole…💀

  • @dv5217
    @dv52172 жыл бұрын

    "For some particularly obese people, a coffin can be super-sized" _insert Chucky Cheese here_

  • @CallMeDX

    @CallMeDX

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @hongpingmike
    @hongpingmike2 жыл бұрын

    never wondered why but nice to know. thanks

  • @justinisprettycool69420
    @justinisprettycool694202 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 10M subs! 🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉

  • @chrismillvids600
    @chrismillvids6002 жыл бұрын

    Have a nice time of day

  • @Punxatowny
    @Punxatowny2 жыл бұрын

    I work as a gravedigger. Very accurate video. Where I work every burial has to be in a concrete burial vault. My company's rules state that there must be at least 18 inches of fill dirt above the lid of the vault. Which ends up being about four to five feet deep in total. Been doing the job for over five years, and have dug well over a thousand graves. Still haven't found any treasure unfortunately.

  • @shambhav9534

    @shambhav9534

    2 жыл бұрын

    Won't the company get the treasure even if you find it?

  • @scotts918

    @scotts918

    Жыл бұрын

    Why a concrete burial vault? What county are you in?

  • @coolchannel44
    @coolchannel442 жыл бұрын

    Thx for vid

  • @harryborger1732
    @harryborger17322 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 10 mil

  • @michaelanonymous9600
    @michaelanonymous96002 жыл бұрын

    I think it’s so we are still social distancing

  • @lyricpaladin7679

    @lyricpaladin7679

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bro it’s not funny (also nice cringe pfp)

  • @xXxXxXLoveBugXxXxXx
    @xXxXxXLoveBugXxXxXx2 жыл бұрын

    It's still pretty common in the South to bury loved ones with items that were important or loved. My great grandmother was buried with her hot pink rubber duck! lol A more interesting story is that of my great, great aunt. In the late 1800's she was unconscious for a couple of days and everyone thought she was dead, so she was buried, but that night after she was buried, a couple of grave robbers dug her up. She sat straight up in her coffin! She wasn't dead! The grave robbers ran screaming and later my great, great aunt said, "I'll bet those two boys'll never rob a grave again"! Then she went on to live another 10 years!! lol

  • @zella.shorts
    @zella.shorts2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is actually interesting! Usually this stuff is boring to me, but...wow!

  • @andreilangu7900
    @andreilangu79002 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 10m

  • @shainamwangi9868
    @shainamwangi98682 жыл бұрын

    His teaching what they don't tech u at school

  • @jonathanwelch168
    @jonathanwelch1682 жыл бұрын

    A random thing that poped into my head was that the infographic show should do some sort of face reveal thing.

  • @omotayosatuyi252

    @omotayosatuyi252

    2 жыл бұрын

    They don’t owe us a face reveal

  • @OrganicSistah

    @OrganicSistah

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@omotayosatuyi252 no one said they did lol

  • @omotayosatuyi252

    @omotayosatuyi252

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@OrganicSistah Ik but if they don’t want to do one they don’t have to

  • @mellowvalentine9354

    @mellowvalentine9354

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@omotayosatuyi252 obviously.

  • @onsa5362
    @onsa53622 жыл бұрын

    I love this frikkin channel!!!

  • @jake_idk09
    @jake_idk092 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I love your videos :)

  • @venus_de_lmao
    @venus_de_lmao2 жыл бұрын

    The death metal band Exhumed has an entire album about this practice.

  • @donm5354
    @donm53542 жыл бұрын

    Why are graves 6 feet deep? SOCIAL DISTANCING

  • @lyricpaladin7679

    @lyricpaladin7679

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not funny

  • @nouseforaname4100

    @nouseforaname4100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lyricpaladin7679 yes it is

  • @brunobucciarati834

    @brunobucciarati834

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Hubert Harmon you good?

  • @YukariAkiyama

    @YukariAkiyama

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Hubert Harmon nice bot

  • @ginantsfan5
    @ginantsfan52 жыл бұрын

    Most awesome vid!!!!!!

  • @thearmchairjournalist566
    @thearmchairjournalist5662 жыл бұрын

    This is very helpful information ☠️

  • @Mattafang
    @Mattafang2 жыл бұрын

    When I die, I don't care what anyone does with my body. I'm dead.

  • @JstormZx

    @JstormZx

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ain't that the truth 😂 Dead is dead

  • @emperorpawpateen.9992

    @emperorpawpateen.9992

    2 жыл бұрын

    We will have a party that lasts a week in your honor. You will be attending it too, just like Weekend At Bernies

  • @tonymontgomery5827
    @tonymontgomery58272 жыл бұрын

    8 year old me at a funeral: Grandpa why 6 ft? Grandpa: For him it's 6 feet closer to where he's going. Me:😳 gramps a d!ck to his brother!

  • @deadbrav
    @deadbrav2 жыл бұрын

    Thx U!

  • @phentromix3366
    @phentromix33662 жыл бұрын

    Six feet also helped keep bodies out of the hands of body snatchers. Medical schools in the early 1800s bought cadavers for anatomical study and dissection, and some people supplied the demand by digging up fresh corpses. Gravesites reaching six feet helped prevent farmers from accidentally plowing up bodies. Google search - instead of a 10 minute long story.

  • @quasarsavage
    @quasarsavage2 жыл бұрын

    6 ft deep... "Cause that's the depth" Lol

  • @wendydarling8192
    @wendydarling81922 жыл бұрын

    My brain is so random that I was actually thinking about this question yesterday 😳😂

  • @asiadaoverachiever
    @asiadaoverachiever2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @24934637
    @249346372 жыл бұрын

    I used to work in the funeral industry. I did one funeral in a churchyard where the grave officially had room for one more but there wasn't really enough space. The gravediggers had to squash down the remains of the previous interment to make space for the latest coffin. Even then there would only have been about 6-10 inches of soil on top when it had been covered!

  • @tatan898.
    @tatan898.2 жыл бұрын

    Everybody's gangsta Until the body removes it own coffin cover

  • @Blutroth
    @Blutroth2 жыл бұрын

    That whole plague and barriacading their doors thing is so Bloodborne.

  • @Crazeanimation
    @Crazeanimation2 жыл бұрын

    Just what you needed

  • @juniorcruvinel3926
    @juniorcruvinel39262 жыл бұрын

    5:30 - Even in that time, we can see that lockdowns don't work

  • @SWISS-1337
    @SWISS-13372 жыл бұрын

    "London was over populated and filthy" So, similar to today. (this is obviously an over dramatic joke, in before people not understanding what a joke is).

  • @bfreak444

    @bfreak444

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Los Angles

  • @ajp2223

    @ajp2223

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Sydney!

  • @thelibitinarius4320
    @thelibitinarius43202 жыл бұрын

    Coming from a country undertaker in the US, Graves are pretty much always about 5 to 5.5 feet deep and the “supersized coffins” more appropriately called oversized caskets(coffin is anthropomorphic in shape where caskets are the rectangular boxes that’s been popular for the past century) for not require more or less depth as usually we are looking for width and the depth of the casket is much the same as that of a “standard” sized casket. We do look for at least 3 feet of dirt on top of both the casket and vault which is usually 2.5 to 3 feet deep.

  • @azap7079
    @azap70792 жыл бұрын

    these people heal my overthinking

  • @mrmason167
    @mrmason1672 жыл бұрын

    It’s actually for social distancing

  • @Superman37891

    @Superman37891

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting to read a creative comment like this!

  • @thescrewarchive5283

    @thescrewarchive5283

    2 жыл бұрын

    Of course

  • @robertgoodwin2787

    @robertgoodwin2787

    2 жыл бұрын

    Trust the science

  • @scarlettsteele7999

    @scarlettsteele7999

    2 жыл бұрын

    6 feet is the magic distance

  • @istartedajoke1704

    @istartedajoke1704

    2 жыл бұрын

    You sir....are going to have over 1000 thumbs up before the nights over

  • @mrslug1417
    @mrslug14172 жыл бұрын

    Hmmm interesting

  • @roneyiswadi5813
    @roneyiswadi58132 жыл бұрын

    Cone-gratulations for hitting 10 mil

  • @karido4974
    @karido49742 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on 10 million.

  • @venus_de_lmao
    @venus_de_lmao2 жыл бұрын

    Enslaved people were also experimented on while alive, and to this day an alarming number of medical professionals don't believe Black people feel pain.

  • @Seasonedfried

    @Seasonedfried

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dont know that last part,seems like a stretch

  • @maffytaffy1231

    @maffytaffy1231

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t think anyone with a working brain thinks black people don’t feel pain 😂

  • @venus_de_lmao

    @venus_de_lmao

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@maffytaffy1231 Yeah, uh, you'd be surprised. Look at the links or Google "medical racism"

  • @thoth539

    @thoth539

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, I am pretty sure that those medical professionals were just racists. Otherwise, they are not professionals.

  • @venus_de_lmao

    @venus_de_lmao

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thoth539 It's a systemic problem. It's not just a few racist doctors. Look at the link instead of gaslighting me.

  • @Standardman9887
    @Standardman98872 жыл бұрын

    The grave can’t be too deep or else it might hit the water table

  • @indridcold8433

    @indridcold8433

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe incineration is a much more sanitary and efficient manner of disposing of the dead. I will be incinerated with no ridiculous death rituals. My carcass is to be incinerated within 30 hours of my life ending. There will be no grave, no burial vault, no grave marker, no casket, no embalming, no showing of the carcass, no social gathering, no obituary, no acknowledgement of my death other than the legal death certificate required by law. I will be dead. I will know no difference as to whether I am celebrated at death or completely ignored after death. Why pad the pockets of a stranger simply because I died?

  • @Standardman9887

    @Standardman9887

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@indridcold8433 yes that is definitely the most sanitary and efficient way of burial. At the moment I don’t know what way I would want to be buried but I have considered the pods with a tree. If not that. Then incineration would suffice.

  • @washedrazor
    @washedrazor2 жыл бұрын

    As an employee of a cemetery, we dig holes for concrete vaults 5-6 feet deep, and slightly deeper than knee height for urn vaults and babies

  • @calvinlalremsanga2777
    @calvinlalremsanga27772 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful

  • @dumdumgaming1209
    @dumdumgaming12092 жыл бұрын

    Ironically this video was today we had my aunts funeral today so she got buried today and I've always wondered

  • @jamiewulfyr4607

    @jamiewulfyr4607

    2 жыл бұрын

    My condolences for your Aunt.

  • @GangstaVic
    @GangstaVic2 жыл бұрын

    Grave Robbers 🤔 WHERE DO I SIGN UP 💰

  • @catherinelh1979

    @catherinelh1979

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ewww 😂 😂

  • @chris51269
    @chris512692 жыл бұрын

    @ 3:00 swear I hear "bruises" but captions say otherwise. Still great channel 👍

  • @evelyn1558

    @evelyn1558

    2 жыл бұрын

    He did a slip 🤣

  • @pierrelaliberte3964
    @pierrelaliberte39642 жыл бұрын

    About the plague, they even tried social distancing back then but only the ones that were Thought of being infected. That didn't work. Here and now in Ottawa Ontario, I've done what I was supposed to and today I received my second vaccine for Covid 19.

  • @Herotrap1
    @Herotrap12 жыл бұрын

    "Why does grave digger dig 6 feet deep" Me: So the the buried person stay dead

  • @davidk6269
    @davidk62692 жыл бұрын

    So that the evil undead have a hard time escaping from their graves. ; )

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    @andrewyerian214

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @bn3_

    @bn3_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewyerian214 have you questioned why you exist

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    @bn3_

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @jennifertaylor6957
    @jennifertaylor69572 жыл бұрын

    I love this story's

  • @vexpex7202
    @vexpex72022 жыл бұрын

    I'm subbed

  • @kingsnek7947
    @kingsnek79472 жыл бұрын

    The people predicted corona and put the graves six feet away from other people

  • @lyricpaladin7679

    @lyricpaladin7679

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not funny

  • @insertusernamehere8125

    @insertusernamehere8125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lyricpaladin7679 Yes it is who cares if it's about covid it's still funny.

  • @YukariAkiyama

    @YukariAkiyama

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lyricpaladin7679 Cope so hard. I stay winning, and you will stay losing.