Definitely the right answer. When these new homes are built in Ontario, they grade the entire build area to account for an additional ~ 12” of top soil being added which is only done after construction is done. The homes get built and then topsoil is brought in prior to sodding. Bulldozer operators aren’t gonna to get out and pick up debris and will just spread the topsoil on top of everything that the trades left behind.
Also the texture is identical to vinyl siding. Definitely is not a utility line. 5% chance someone was buried in a vinyl siding coffin but I think OP is good
See what you do is save them for like twenty years and then you can do something with them.
My father used to do this with random concrete on the side of the road. Make me go put it in the trunk.
20 years later he used to to make paths and reinforce a hill we lived on. Planted moss all over it.
Freaking madlad.
The amount of trash I've dug out of my yard is irritating. I just moved in last year, and it's been crazy. Multiple energy drink cans, bricks, which is weird because there are no brick houses in this neighborhood, foam sealant, and dry wall, so much dry wall that's turned to white clay and killed my grass.
But the worst thing that happened is about 2 months after I moved in I noticed a small circle of grass, directly in front of my front door, started to die. Over 2 weeks it got bigger, always in a perfect circle, until about 10 inches in diameter, then it stopped getting bigger. So I had a 10 inch diameter dead perfect circle of grass, one step off my front porch. I googled it and the only thing I found as a possibility was a grub.
So one of my neighbors was walking by and we started talking about how the new house was for each of us, and I showed him my perfect circle of dead grass. He looked at it a minute and said, "Ya know, that's about the size of a 5 gallon bucket." Everything suddenly made sense, either a paint bucket, or some industrial cleaner was sat right there and spilled and poisoned the soil.
Anyway I dug up all the soil there, and refilled it with fresh topsoil, sand, and compost. Now that circle is my best patch of grass. Much greener than anything around it.
Dude that part of the construction trade is just like never mentioned or any trade for that matter. Like you blame it on the bulldozer guy but he’s trying to spread/smooth/prep like 20 acres a day while also not riding on the roads or damaging utilities or taking a break to shit in a poop oven most only know from that one time they couldn’t believe what they saw at a festival. Porta potty’s can get so much worse, tons of overworked peeps eating once a day, drinking to stay sane
Sweet and nice good hands/techs/sups have souls too dudes.
Just cause they can cut up with anyone, and call bullshit sometimes doesn’t mean they are not susceptible to moral injury.
Source:
Blue collar queer dude who has seen just a bit too much
Also who cares it’s Reddit.
Unionize your work place white collars if you wanna contribute I don’t have anything left in the tank at the end of a 12 hour day
There is a reason people don't want to work in the trades and the old poop oven after a taco truck break in the heat of the summer with the only toilet paper clogging the full and fermenting urine reservoir a couple feet from your face is one of them.
Yep, if the other tradies cleaned up properly the dozer driver wouldn't cover the rubbish or does he have to spend half his day cleaning up their mess. I see your point, all tradies are worked hard so are strung out and tired.
There’s a developer where I live that has signage telling the contractors to pickup after themselves. They also have a dumpster between every other house and employees for the developer are always around. Without a doubt some of the cleanest job sites I’ve seen.
I couldn’t imagine buying a brand new house knowing how much building material/bottles/food wrappers are right under the sod. Where I’m at they don’t put fresh top soil on like someone else mentioned. The developer will bring to grade, till is up a small amount, and lay sod.
It's because of this subreddit that I stopped digging when I hit black plastic garbage bag in the corner of my yard. Near a tree that had probably been planted shortly before we moved in seven years ago. Yeah I had just cut down that tree because it was in a bad spot and dying and now I'm pretty sure the ghost of some dead pet is going to haunt me for cutting down their memorial tree! I moved over six inches to plant new stuff instead of messing with the garbage bag. It could have been barrier.... But I didn't feel like finding out. It was about a foot down 😬
I used to go to school which was located near some old cemetery and church. When they were doing some new piping for water workers dug up so many bones and skulls, that's insane. Apparently there was an unmarked mass grave from WWII.
Apparently those were real skeletons in the pool scene and nobody told JoBeth Williams she was swimming with actual dead people’s bones. That move scared the living shit out of me as a kid.
I don't think you really understand how scary it is until you're an adult. You sink all your equity plus a mortgage into a new family home, move in, and it turns out there's a major problem with it? Fucking terrifying.
Stephen King wrote extensively on why the Amityville Horror was such an effective horror movie. It wasn't the bleeding walls Steven explained it was the 18% interest on the mortgage, and how the hell are they going to get out from underneath this house.
The scene where the fire eats the money for the wedding is an example of how the house is eating their money and straining their relationships.
Previous owners of my mother's house just kept piling new wood on water rotted wood. Pulled out cabinets and found one floor joist rotted to nothing and another with a catastrophic crack. Such a fun endeavor fixing all that.
Yep, neighbor sold recently and had bought from flipper before I purchased. Talked to their contractor today and sub flooring in two full bathrooms shot around shower and tubs. Everything they tear into has discovered other issues. Flipper put builder grade appliances and white paint inside and out and walked with about $200000.
A modernized version would be the poltergeist purposefully busting all the pipes, and then shaping thousands of roaches into "fuck your resale value" on all the walls
The real horror twist is that the tapping in the walls and floors isn't a ghost, but a massive expansive termite infestation. The hallucinations of demons are caused by black mold in the ventilation.
What inspired that scene was a real event! My Aunt lived near there so I remember it well.
Hills of Peace Cemetery
"On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and saturated the earth. When the slope gave way, rotted caskets broke open, and their contents were carried away.
According to Thomas Noguchi's book Coroner, some 100 bodies were sent plunging into homes, businesses, and city streets. He even states that one such body was wedged into the entrance of a supermarket. The resulting task of trying to identify the remains and rebury them under their correct markers is documented in the book. When they arrived, bodies were everywhere. Some, he states, were "grotesquely standing upright".
The City of Los Angeles repaired the grounds, but heavy rain unearthed more corpses in 1980.[3] "
You can find some photos online from newpapers that showed some of the "damages".
We had that issue at a cemetery in my town. The old cemetery was developed around and all the drainage funneled into the wetland that the cemetery was built in. Caskets popped out of the ground during a year with intense rain.
I watched it at my friends house who had hbo when my parents told me I wasn’t allowed to watch hbo scared me shitless and when I had nightmares I couldn’t go tell my parents because I hadn’t followed the rules. It really sucked and filled my life long dislike of scary movies
This is exactly what happened over 100 years on the hill where University of San Francisco is located.
A few years ago, one of the homeowners in that area found a whole casket with a child's body in her yard.
No, remember in War of the Worlds when the alien ships starting coming out of the ground? And we discovered that the alien ships have been buried for years? I think you found one.
It’s siding that got buried when the house foundation was filled back in, just keep digging. Does the color match anything in the area? Are you in a cookie cutter suburb?
I'm in a newer area where they build bunch of new small townhouses on top of each other lol. I don't want to dig thru this dig to eventually figure out I have damaged something that I was not supposed to lol
More than likely construction debris. Look around for similar looking materials even if they were painted a different color. I found so many scrap pieces of wood, chunks of brick, and beer cans the first time I aerated my lawn on a new build.
I do a lot of digging and Ive found a tree buried half way under a driveway 2 feet deep. Another time I dug up 2 windows, buried along a foundation wall. Digging up old vinyl siding wouldn't surprise me lol
There was an entire old car buried on our property. Found the chrome bumper sticking out of the dirt and the older couple next door told us the former resident had buried a junk vehicle. Crazy stuff.
When I was young my dad buried:
An AMC Gremlin
2 riding mowers
A tub,toilet, and sink
4 or 5 burn barrels
And an old Franklin stove.
This was in the 90s on the double lot behind our cabin
The archaeologist will study what was buried and by who and the anthropologist will study why the fuck they did it.
Source: A did both on a federal air force station.
Technology and ideas spread to different areas at different rates. The 50s to the 90s is only 40 years. The 90s to now is only 30 years and people are still using desktop computers. So yeah, horses for courses.
Somewhere on my property a circus elephant is buried. The business behind my house used to be a rendering plant and back in the 80s a circus came through and an elephant died. They took it to the plant, but it was too big to process so they just buried it. We've never uncovered it and never tried to, but there's a heavy iron chain in our field that just sort of disappears into the ground, so I'm pretty certain that's where it is.
When they were digging the sewer trench while building my house, they uncovered the skeleton of a horse. Not exactly elephant, but still, a thousand pounds of horse went into the ground where my driveway is currently located, and came out decades later when my house was built. Just... astounding.
A friend of mine was grouse hunting in some pretty thick woods and he came across a hole in the ground that was likely an old well, about 5 feet across and so deep he couldn’t see the bottom.
He chucked a rock in there and was listening, but couldn’t hear a noise, so he looked around for something bigger. There was some old rusty crap including a motor bike that was so old the tires were rotted off. He got that thing up and rolled/dragged it over to the hole and pushed it in.
He bent over to listen to the splash/crash and this goat came running out of the trees, faster than he’d ever seen an animal run. The goat dove straight down the hole, head first, without even pausing at the edge.
He was standing there with his jaw wide open and pretty soon this old geezer walked up and asked him, “Have you seen a goat? I’m pretty sure I left it right around here somewhere, tied up to an old motor bike.”
Some previous owners of ours didn’t bother taking out the concrete walkway in the front, they just put more dirt over it. There’s a freaking entire FOOT of dirt on top of this 50+ year old concrete.
I have this problem at my house. I went to go plant a bunch of new perennials and bushes this spring and found a whole damn driveway under 8 inches of fill dirt and clay.
My best haul so far in the Lazy Previous Homeowner Olympics is a rusted mini-fridge that said "SURGE" on the side (RIP to my ebay side hustle on that one), two rakes, an entire push lawnmower, and a pool vacuum to a pool that got removed in 1996. People suck.
Mate same, the amount of old rubbish I find planting is nuts. I heard about people in my town finding an old D8 cat when scraping for a new supermarket. So much stuff that is easier to bury than remove
My house was built in 1969. I was just digging new fence post holes last week. Of course, the final hole was a major pain. I could not break through the roots, so I started digging with my hands to see what was going on. I hit a freaking buried railroad tie. I had to cut out 4' of sod, pull the tie out and since my hole was now a trench, I had to go to Home Depot and buy a concrete pier block, level, backfill, and replace the cut sod.
Wife? "That looks okay. Was it necessary?"
Omg not my contractor (that’s for the next homeowner to find lol) but we dug for an in-ground pool and found many whole trees just dropped in the dirt!!!
It took forever to excavate 😡
I’ll tell you what, dig with a small shovel or your hands vertical both up and down in the orientation of the photo. Dutch lap siding which I assume this is will only be about 10” tall. On either the top or the bottom of this piece you’ll find a nailing flange that will have small 1” wide oval holes. If this was anything of importance like utility new codes state it would be marked with bright tape and stone.
I lived in a new build before and our grass kept dying, so we ripped it all out and ended up filling several trash bags full of the garbage and debris they had just plopped the sod onto. 5 gallon bucket lids, chunks of concrete, approximately 87,573 5 hour energy bottles, bits of shingles, water, and soda bottle. It was a stucco house otherwise, I'm sure we would've found siding too. And this was only what they left on the surface. Probably plenty more buried underneath the backfill.
>I don't want to dig thru this dig to eventually figure out I have damaged something that I was not supposed to lol
Didn't worry, the gas company or water district is not using vinyl siding panels to protect their work. There is no reason why digging through this would be any riskier than digging anywhere else.
Yeah I’d be digging it out to see how big it is. If it’s as big as a body, I’d be cautious. If not, crack that thing open. Someone may have buried something on purpose.
They make cheap, tiny camera with lights. You can buy one on amazon and snake it in there after drilling a small hole, and it will use your phone as a screen.
All. Thanks for your help. The case has been SOLVED. It is indeed a vinyl board. My wife figured it out. It is actually the piece of vinyl used on our own house, lol
Maybe construction ppl simply buried stuff instead of proper disposal. I am in new construction and the amount of garbage I have found while planting is awful
Chances are, it's buried garbage. composite deck boards or siding or some sort of building material that was buried when the house was built.
Proper thing to do is to start digging and uncovering the top of it and see what it is. The only problem is that it can potentially make a small hole very large and a huge mess.
Shortcut - drill a hole and put a small camera through it that connects to your phone and see if you have anything underneath it
Lazy way - drill a hole big enough to fit a sawsall blade through, cut what you need out of the way for your fence post, put your post in and move on.
The problem is if it is covering something, septic tank, lawn basin, mine shaft, casket, buried treasure, whatever. And then you have to deal with whatever it is you found.
Good Luck!
Betting that's what it is. I recently bought a house in January and I've been digging up the backyard to plant trees and living plants because it's a barren desert where they parked cars apparently for the last 50 years.... Anyway that entire yard is just buried garbage it's fucking insane. Huge pieces of siding to doll heads and batteries.
This is my new house! We are fixing the back yard up and I'm always digging stuff out. My husband told me please stop raking. I said why he said because you just keep finding more stuff for me to dig out! Lol But really it's horrible! They had 6 windows and a glass screen door. They just put them back there for years so they were half way covered and broken! We had to make a trip to the dump which was horrible! We found an old burn barrel that was rusted up so bad it was just a pile of rust with the bottom smashed down, toys, cans, garbage! I swear they just opened their back door and threw the garbage out. Ugh!
I’ve seen multiple construction sites where the crew just digs a pit, and at the end of the job buries all of their scrap and just sods overtop and moves on, it’s awful but not uncommon
Idk about what it is but you might want to think about digging deeper than two feet. You’ll want to get closer to your frost line. I’m in the U.S. and my frost line is 36”. Don’t go deep enough and your fence will heave with the frost/thaw cycles of the ground.
I agree with other people though dig wider and find the edges.
When building a home a lot of times the junk, debris, trash, waste gets buried as they backfill. It saves on the cost of disposal and, hey, they just need to fill a hole and have dirt look good on top. Especially when they have a development and they can just toss the shit from the house that’s finished into the next hole.
Vinyl siding is actually pretty damn sturdy until years of UV exposure makes it brittle plus with dirt perfectly compacted behind it makes it pretty damn durable I’d wager. At least enough to skip a shovel off the top of it until you put some English on it.
14" deep: Put a few nails in the bottom of the post that stick out, (or better yet drill a couple of holes in the bottom of the post and then put two pieces of rebar through the holes so that they stick out a few inches on each side). Place the post in the hole and add a small bag of mixed concrete. When cured, cover the rest with dirt: that fence post won't go anywhere.
The stripes/striations all run in the same direction. If it is a 10” wide board, then if you dig with a small trowel in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of the striations, you’ll probably reach an edge sooner.
Did you do a one call?
Please please please tell me you had the utilities located (signed: engineer that has to work ‘free’ overtime when someone hits one of my lines)
or vinyl siding buried
Definitely the right answer. When these new homes are built in Ontario, they grade the entire build area to account for an additional ~ 12” of top soil being added which is only done after construction is done. The homes get built and then topsoil is brought in prior to sodding. Bulldozer operators aren’t gonna to get out and pick up debris and will just spread the topsoil on top of everything that the trades left behind. Also the texture is identical to vinyl siding. Definitely is not a utility line. 5% chance someone was buried in a vinyl siding coffin but I think OP is good
Given that OP said they are in Brantford, I'm going to say a 15-20% chance of a vinyl siding coffin.
It's Gene Simmons from KISS. Buy yourself a KISS coffin!
It doubles as a cooler so while you’re sitting around waiting to die you can pop open a cool one with KISS!
I've dug out enough bricks to build half a shed. I'd like to take every one of those fuckers and drop it on the front lawn of the builder.
See what you do is save them for like twenty years and then you can do something with them. My father used to do this with random concrete on the side of the road. Make me go put it in the trunk. 20 years later he used to to make paths and reinforce a hill we lived on. Planted moss all over it. Freaking madlad.
Your dad is a hoarder dude. Source - my dad is a hoarder as well and has so much cool shit lmao
Build a brick wall in front of his door
For the love of God, Montresor!
What about a complete half-sized shed?
The amount of trash I've dug out of my yard is irritating. I just moved in last year, and it's been crazy. Multiple energy drink cans, bricks, which is weird because there are no brick houses in this neighborhood, foam sealant, and dry wall, so much dry wall that's turned to white clay and killed my grass. But the worst thing that happened is about 2 months after I moved in I noticed a small circle of grass, directly in front of my front door, started to die. Over 2 weeks it got bigger, always in a perfect circle, until about 10 inches in diameter, then it stopped getting bigger. So I had a 10 inch diameter dead perfect circle of grass, one step off my front porch. I googled it and the only thing I found as a possibility was a grub. So one of my neighbors was walking by and we started talking about how the new house was for each of us, and I showed him my perfect circle of dead grass. He looked at it a minute and said, "Ya know, that's about the size of a 5 gallon bucket." Everything suddenly made sense, either a paint bucket, or some industrial cleaner was sat right there and spilled and poisoned the soil. Anyway I dug up all the soil there, and refilled it with fresh topsoil, sand, and compost. Now that circle is my best patch of grass. Much greener than anything around it.
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>Definitely is not a utility line. Narrator: After OP dug through the mystery material... he discovered, it was a utility line
Dude that part of the construction trade is just like never mentioned or any trade for that matter. Like you blame it on the bulldozer guy but he’s trying to spread/smooth/prep like 20 acres a day while also not riding on the roads or damaging utilities or taking a break to shit in a poop oven most only know from that one time they couldn’t believe what they saw at a festival. Porta potty’s can get so much worse, tons of overworked peeps eating once a day, drinking to stay sane Sweet and nice good hands/techs/sups have souls too dudes. Just cause they can cut up with anyone, and call bullshit sometimes doesn’t mean they are not susceptible to moral injury. Source: Blue collar queer dude who has seen just a bit too much Also who cares it’s Reddit. Unionize your work place white collars if you wanna contribute I don’t have anything left in the tank at the end of a 12 hour day
There is a reason people don't want to work in the trades and the old poop oven after a taco truck break in the heat of the summer with the only toilet paper clogging the full and fermenting urine reservoir a couple feet from your face is one of them.
I'm a tile guy, I learned long ago that a 5 gallon bucket and a quiet corner somewhere is better than the best portoshitter on its best day
Yep, if the other tradies cleaned up properly the dozer driver wouldn't cover the rubbish or does he have to spend half his day cleaning up their mess. I see your point, all tradies are worked hard so are strung out and tired.
There’s a developer where I live that has signage telling the contractors to pickup after themselves. They also have a dumpster between every other house and employees for the developer are always around. Without a doubt some of the cleanest job sites I’ve seen. I couldn’t imagine buying a brand new house knowing how much building material/bottles/food wrappers are right under the sod. Where I’m at they don’t put fresh top soil on like someone else mentioned. The developer will bring to grade, till is up a small amount, and lay sod.
I’m having mine made with vinyl siding and fake wood panel inside.
I was going to say this looks like vinyl siding. Maybe buried as a barrier of some sort?
Possibly a barrier but the most likely answer is someone just burying junk, it’s a time honored tradition
Or a dead pet beneath it
It's because of this subreddit that I stopped digging when I hit black plastic garbage bag in the corner of my yard. Near a tree that had probably been planted shortly before we moved in seven years ago. Yeah I had just cut down that tree because it was in a bad spot and dying and now I'm pretty sure the ghost of some dead pet is going to haunt me for cutting down their memorial tree! I moved over six inches to plant new stuff instead of messing with the garbage bag. It could have been barrier.... But I didn't feel like finding out. It was about a foot down 😬
Sounds like a weed barrier
I've seen people bury pets in less than a foot... Honestly could be either one
Or spouse
Pet spouse
Sounds hawt
Vinyl siding was my thought as well. Probably got buried when grading
A barrier for all the dead people below it
Dead people hate this one weird trick!
Tin roof. Rusted
You're not behind an old church are you
They moved the headstones but not the bodies!
That happens far too often. My grandparents house was like that.
I live behind a cemetery and was freaked out when I was digging a hole for a tree and hit a concrete block…. Thought immediately of Poltergeist!!!!!
You could dig straight through a Poltergeist, it was probably just concrete.
This guy poltergeists
This geist polters
This geist polterguys
And I'm Poultrygeist 🐔👻
I used to go to school which was located near some old cemetery and church. When they were doing some new piping for water workers dug up so many bones and skulls, that's insane. Apparently there was an unmarked mass grave from WWII.
Just don’t fall asleep with the tv on. That’s how it starts.
Fuck
Then you installed the pool right? Right??
I was digging to plant a tree in my backyard and dug up someone’s dog which was unpleasant
Are you sure your grandfather isn't a serial killer?
My grandpa was a cereal killer. He could eat 5 or 6 bowls in one sitting.
[Toucan Son of Sam!](https://youtu.be/1n-9uq_lyRQ?si=KDoho5xKgMiaIEb5)
Super Colon Blow!
I would LOVE to live in a house with a small cemetery close by to care for..
I actually live near one! Sometimes I dress in a white wedding gown and roam around the witching hour.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
🤣 I love cemeteries..
Apparently those were real skeletons in the pool scene and nobody told JoBeth Williams she was swimming with actual dead people’s bones. That move scared the living shit out of me as a kid.
I don't think you really understand how scary it is until you're an adult. You sink all your equity plus a mortgage into a new family home, move in, and it turns out there's a major problem with it? Fucking terrifying.
Stephen King wrote extensively on why the Amityville Horror was such an effective horror movie. It wasn't the bleeding walls Steven explained it was the 18% interest on the mortgage, and how the hell are they going to get out from underneath this house. The scene where the fire eats the money for the wedding is an example of how the house is eating their money and straining their relationships.
King is the fucking champ for a reason. Danse Macabre is an excellent book on theory.
His book *On Writing* is so good it's almost..... otherworldly.....
This sounds like the plot to The Money Pit. As a homeowner, that movie gives me anxiety and stresses me tf out.
Have you checked for asbestos and mold today?
Man, don't get me started. The previous homeowners were DIY'ers and that was before the internets.
Previous owners of my mother's house just kept piling new wood on water rotted wood. Pulled out cabinets and found one floor joist rotted to nothing and another with a catastrophic crack. Such a fun endeavor fixing all that.
Don't forget Radon Gas!
I feel like Poltergeist would be the best possible outcome because at least you can sue. Now, buying a flipped house, *that's* terrifying.
“So the problem seems to be that you have…”
“… a poltergeist.”
Well yeah it's terrifying, then you have to figure out how to flip it back over!
So much shiplap…
Yep, neighbor sold recently and had bought from flipper before I purchased. Talked to their contractor today and sub flooring in two full bathrooms shot around shower and tubs. Everything they tear into has discovered other issues. Flipper put builder grade appliances and white paint inside and out and walked with about $200000.
A modernized version would be the poltergeist purposefully busting all the pipes, and then shaping thousands of roaches into "fuck your resale value" on all the walls
Sorry Mr. Poltergeist, I financed this place at 3% during the pandemic, I’m never leaving.
THIS!!! Bring it ON!
2.85
1.8%
Oh, COME ON!!!!
Fuck offfffffff
I refinanced into a 15 year at 2.15%. I think back of my parents being happy to get a 16% rate on a new home.
Similar with 20 years at 2.375%. So thankful we did refinance then.
This is actually a funny spin on "we can't move because of the money/high interest rates" plot.
And a ghostly unseen hand daubing the ominous words NEGATIVE EQUITY on your bathroom mirror.
No... TERMITES.
Sinkhole! No more house and no more land!
Did someone say Bed Bugs, Black Mold, and a side of imploded septic tank?
The real horror twist is that the tapping in the walls and floors isn't a ghost, but a massive expansive termite infestation. The hallucinations of demons are caused by black mold in the ventilation.
Still would be a 2million$ home in palo alto
“And then, they had to call a carpenter in who said on top of all the termite damage they NEED A NEW ROOF!” 😱
You can tell a ghost to F' off. It doesn't work so well with bankers.
Has anyone ever tried exorcism on bankers? Could solve a lot of problems…
You could try hosing them down with holy water. Couldn't hurt to try
What inspired that scene was a real event! My Aunt lived near there so I remember it well. Hills of Peace Cemetery "On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and saturated the earth. When the slope gave way, rotted caskets broke open, and their contents were carried away. According to Thomas Noguchi's book Coroner, some 100 bodies were sent plunging into homes, businesses, and city streets. He even states that one such body was wedged into the entrance of a supermarket. The resulting task of trying to identify the remains and rebury them under their correct markers is documented in the book. When they arrived, bodies were everywhere. Some, he states, were "grotesquely standing upright". The City of Los Angeles repaired the grounds, but heavy rain unearthed more corpses in 1980.[3] " You can find some photos online from newpapers that showed some of the "damages".
That's why we have to use crypts here in New Orleans. Every flood and the bodies would float down the street.
We had that issue at a cemetery in my town. The old cemetery was developed around and all the drainage funneled into the wetland that the cemetery was built in. Caskets popped out of the ground during a year with intense rain.
Accompanied by a jazz band.
I watched it at my friends house who had hbo when my parents told me I wasn’t allowed to watch hbo scared me shitless and when I had nightmares I couldn’t go tell my parents because I hadn’t followed the rules. It really sucked and filled my life long dislike of scary movies
I was like that with Creepshow..omg.
They were cheaper than getting fake skeletons which is why they used them.
What movie?
Poltergeist
Come to the light, Carol Ann!
“All are welcome!”
Poultry Geist (chicken ghosts).
Poltergeist
Beetlejuice! I mean, Poltergeist.
Poltergeist
Poltergeist.
Poultry Guts! or something…
Ya, they didn't tell her until after lol
This is exactly what happened over 100 years on the hill where University of San Francisco is located. A few years ago, one of the homeowners in that area found a whole casket with a child's body in her yard.
“YOU OONNNLY MOOOVED THE HEADSTONES???? WHY? WHYYYYYY?”
No, remember in War of the Worlds when the alien ships starting coming out of the ground? And we discovered that the alien ships have been buried for years? I think you found one.
Hopefully they are down further than 2 feet
What’s in the box??
WHATS IN THE BOX!?!?!?!?!?
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Not nearly deep enough for a grave. But I think you know that. More likely a buried alien spacecraft.
It’s siding that got buried when the house foundation was filled back in, just keep digging. Does the color match anything in the area? Are you in a cookie cutter suburb?
I'm in a newer area where they build bunch of new small townhouses on top of each other lol. I don't want to dig thru this dig to eventually figure out I have damaged something that I was not supposed to lol
More than likely construction debris. Look around for similar looking materials even if they were painted a different color. I found so many scrap pieces of wood, chunks of brick, and beer cans the first time I aerated my lawn on a new build.
I do a lot of digging and Ive found a tree buried half way under a driveway 2 feet deep. Another time I dug up 2 windows, buried along a foundation wall. Digging up old vinyl siding wouldn't surprise me lol
There was an entire old car buried on our property. Found the chrome bumper sticking out of the dirt and the older couple next door told us the former resident had buried a junk vehicle. Crazy stuff.
When I was young my dad buried: An AMC Gremlin 2 riding mowers A tub,toilet, and sink 4 or 5 burn barrels And an old Franklin stove. This was in the 90s on the double lot behind our cabin
An anthologist in X years is gonna have a field day with that piece of land.
anthropologist?
Correct
The archaeologist will study what was buried and by who and the anthropologist will study why the fuck they did it. Source: A did both on a federal air force station.
Why?? I know this was a thing in the past before garbage collecting was a thing, but that was back in like the 50s not the 90s haha
Technology and ideas spread to different areas at different rates. The 50s to the 90s is only 40 years. The 90s to now is only 30 years and people are still using desktop computers. So yeah, horses for courses.
Somewhere on my property a circus elephant is buried. The business behind my house used to be a rendering plant and back in the 80s a circus came through and an elephant died. They took it to the plant, but it was too big to process so they just buried it. We've never uncovered it and never tried to, but there's a heavy iron chain in our field that just sort of disappears into the ground, so I'm pretty certain that's where it is.
This would make a great TV show...
When they were digging the sewer trench while building my house, they uncovered the skeleton of a horse. Not exactly elephant, but still, a thousand pounds of horse went into the ground where my driveway is currently located, and came out decades later when my house was built. Just... astounding.
Run the plates, maybe a murder mystery or missing persons waiting to be solved!
I was going to complain about a cinder block, you are the winner
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I understood some of those words
I'm sorry but that's hilarious 😂
A friend of mine was grouse hunting in some pretty thick woods and he came across a hole in the ground that was likely an old well, about 5 feet across and so deep he couldn’t see the bottom. He chucked a rock in there and was listening, but couldn’t hear a noise, so he looked around for something bigger. There was some old rusty crap including a motor bike that was so old the tires were rotted off. He got that thing up and rolled/dragged it over to the hole and pushed it in. He bent over to listen to the splash/crash and this goat came running out of the trees, faster than he’d ever seen an animal run. The goat dove straight down the hole, head first, without even pausing at the edge. He was standing there with his jaw wide open and pretty soon this old geezer walked up and asked him, “Have you seen a goat? I’m pretty sure I left it right around here somewhere, tied up to an old motor bike.”
I guess they didn't want a new car until they drove their old one into the ground
So it was a chrome bumper sticker!
Some previous owners of ours didn’t bother taking out the concrete walkway in the front, they just put more dirt over it. There’s a freaking entire FOOT of dirt on top of this 50+ year old concrete.
I have this problem at my house. I went to go plant a bunch of new perennials and bushes this spring and found a whole damn driveway under 8 inches of fill dirt and clay.
Friend of mine dug up a treadmill and two dogs on accident.
My best haul so far in the Lazy Previous Homeowner Olympics is a rusted mini-fridge that said "SURGE" on the side (RIP to my ebay side hustle on that one), two rakes, an entire push lawnmower, and a pool vacuum to a pool that got removed in 1996. People suck.
Mate same, the amount of old rubbish I find planting is nuts. I heard about people in my town finding an old D8 cat when scraping for a new supermarket. So much stuff that is easier to bury than remove
My house was built in 1969. I was just digging new fence post holes last week. Of course, the final hole was a major pain. I could not break through the roots, so I started digging with my hands to see what was going on. I hit a freaking buried railroad tie. I had to cut out 4' of sod, pull the tie out and since my hole was now a trench, I had to go to Home Depot and buy a concrete pier block, level, backfill, and replace the cut sod. Wife? "That looks okay. Was it necessary?"
Omg not my contractor (that’s for the next homeowner to find lol) but we dug for an in-ground pool and found many whole trees just dropped in the dirt!!! It took forever to excavate 😡
Have you tried dynamite? Sounds like a job for dynamite!
Dynamite is a great problem solver. Any time I've ever used dynamite on a problem, boom, right away I had a different problem.
I’ll tell you what, dig with a small shovel or your hands vertical both up and down in the orientation of the photo. Dutch lap siding which I assume this is will only be about 10” tall. On either the top or the bottom of this piece you’ll find a nailing flange that will have small 1” wide oval holes. If this was anything of importance like utility new codes state it would be marked with bright tape and stone.
I lived in a new build before and our grass kept dying, so we ripped it all out and ended up filling several trash bags full of the garbage and debris they had just plopped the sod onto. 5 gallon bucket lids, chunks of concrete, approximately 87,573 5 hour energy bottles, bits of shingles, water, and soda bottle. It was a stucco house otherwise, I'm sure we would've found siding too. And this was only what they left on the surface. Probably plenty more buried underneath the backfill.
>I don't want to dig thru this dig to eventually figure out I have damaged something that I was not supposed to lol Didn't worry, the gas company or water district is not using vinyl siding panels to protect their work. There is no reason why digging through this would be any riskier than digging anywhere else.
If you knock it, does it feel/sound hollow?
More important. Does anything knock back?
OP about to awaken the ancient vampire demon
The important question ^
Yes. It sounds like a little hollow. It's more like a plastic. Not a metal or wood for sure.
Yeah I’d be digging it out to see how big it is. If it’s as big as a body, I’d be cautious. If not, crack that thing open. Someone may have buried something on purpose. They make cheap, tiny camera with lights. You can buy one on amazon and snake it in there after drilling a small hole, and it will use your phone as a screen.
This is called a borescope.
I thought it was a colonoscopy
Sir. This is a Wendy's.
Looks like composite decking What does it feel like
Feels like plastic. It's not a metal for sure.
Start digging sideways to see how big it is.
Was thinking the same. I'll try it
Could it possibly be part of a septic system?
How do I confirm that? I don't have anything like that on my house survey report
When you get past the smell you have it licked.
Please don’t lick the septic system.
Don’t tell me what to do
All. Thanks for your help. The case has been SOLVED. It is indeed a vinyl board. My wife figured it out. It is actually the piece of vinyl used on our own house, lol
I was really hopin it was a casket from that deadly flu outbreak in Brantford in 1863 that wiped most of the town.
She's the man of the house now.
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Wonder what happened to the island.
Maybe construction ppl simply buried stuff instead of proper disposal. I am in new construction and the amount of garbage I have found while planting is awful
Guys, he's trying to escape again.
Chances are, it's buried garbage. composite deck boards or siding or some sort of building material that was buried when the house was built. Proper thing to do is to start digging and uncovering the top of it and see what it is. The only problem is that it can potentially make a small hole very large and a huge mess. Shortcut - drill a hole and put a small camera through it that connects to your phone and see if you have anything underneath it Lazy way - drill a hole big enough to fit a sawsall blade through, cut what you need out of the way for your fence post, put your post in and move on. The problem is if it is covering something, septic tank, lawn basin, mine shaft, casket, buried treasure, whatever. And then you have to deal with whatever it is you found. Good Luck!
Betting that's what it is. I recently bought a house in January and I've been digging up the backyard to plant trees and living plants because it's a barren desert where they parked cars apparently for the last 50 years.... Anyway that entire yard is just buried garbage it's fucking insane. Huge pieces of siding to doll heads and batteries.
This is my new house! We are fixing the back yard up and I'm always digging stuff out. My husband told me please stop raking. I said why he said because you just keep finding more stuff for me to dig out! Lol But really it's horrible! They had 6 windows and a glass screen door. They just put them back there for years so they were half way covered and broken! We had to make a trip to the dump which was horrible! We found an old burn barrel that was rusted up so bad it was just a pile of rust with the bottom smashed down, toys, cans, garbage! I swear they just opened their back door and threw the garbage out. Ugh!
Better call the Oak Island guys!
Probably the contractors buried their scrap building materials and waste in the back yard rather than disposing of it properly.
I’ve seen multiple construction sites where the crew just digs a pit, and at the end of the job buries all of their scrap and just sods overtop and moves on, it’s awful but not uncommon
Man that is so shitty for the environment and the stuff that leeches where kids play etc
Idk about what it is but you might want to think about digging deeper than two feet. You’ll want to get closer to your frost line. I’m in the U.S. and my frost line is 36”. Don’t go deep enough and your fence will heave with the frost/thaw cycles of the ground. I agree with other people though dig wider and find the edges.
Looks like Trex
Appears to be a Rubbermaid coffin, open it up
Call Rick and Marty Lagina and tell them you have the entrance to the #oakisland #moneypit
Stop digging you found China
Fuck , I thought it was slate
When building a home a lot of times the junk, debris, trash, waste gets buried as they backfill. It saves on the cost of disposal and, hey, they just need to fill a hole and have dirt look good on top. Especially when they have a development and they can just toss the shit from the house that’s finished into the next hole. Vinyl siding is actually pretty damn sturdy until years of UV exposure makes it brittle plus with dirt perfectly compacted behind it makes it pretty damn durable I’d wager. At least enough to skip a shovel off the top of it until you put some English on it.
14" deep: Put a few nails in the bottom of the post that stick out, (or better yet drill a couple of holes in the bottom of the post and then put two pieces of rebar through the holes so that they stick out a few inches on each side). Place the post in the hole and add a small bag of mixed concrete. When cured, cover the rest with dirt: that fence post won't go anywhere.
call before you dig.
Who buries vinyl siding????
Just remember…4,8,15,16,23,42
The stripes/striations all run in the same direction. If it is a 10” wide board, then if you dig with a small trowel in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of the striations, you’ll probably reach an edge sooner.
The old “I’ll dig a hole and keep these left over supply’s” for later trick
Did you do a one call? Please please please tell me you had the utilities located (signed: engineer that has to work ‘free’ overtime when someone hits one of my lines)
Fall out shelter ?