Cemeteries often hold some very dark secrets. Families put faith and trust into the staff members who run and oversee these properties to treat loved ones with respect and care, but that’s not always the way burials work out.
I recently visited the Salt Lake City Cemetery, which is one of the largest in the country. My purpose for the trip to the 150-acre plus property was to seek out the headstones of a couple of people that have interesting back stories.
While there, I learned about a very dark, disturbing act that reportedly took place at the cemetery in the 1850s and sixties, and the details of the incidents are like something right out of the movie Psycho.
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A Former Employee Of The Salt Lake City Cemetery Was Reportedly Arrested For Robbing More Than 300 Graves, Wearing Many Of The Deceased People’s Clothing
The grave sites at the Salt Lake City Cemetery I past by there to see were those of Matthew Standford Robison and Lily Gray. Robison only lived a short time, and was blind and largely paralyzed his entire life due to birth complications. His father designed a unique tombstone that people from across the country go there to see…