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Boston Common is a giant mass grave!. I'm not making this up, but rather quoting Holly Mascott Nadler's "Ghosts of Boston Town!." The fourth part of her book, entitled Haunted Landmarks, contains the 12th through the 16th chapters with the 14th chapter being entitle Bodies, Bodies Everywhere!. This chapter is on Boston Common!. It mentions the Central Burying Ground being located on the south end of the Common (which by the way I know from personal experince was being worked on in the spring of '94)!. But the Common itself is one big mass grave which includes pirates, Native Americans, Quakers, and witches!. Folks were hung on the common and then daring family members would cut them down in the middle of the night and bury them on the Common!. Among these was one Mary "Goody" Glover who was hanged from the Great Elm as a witch on November 16, 1688 (take note of that date, nearly four full years before Bridget Bishop, the accused "witch" hung during Salem Witch Trials, was hung on June 10, 1692)!. The Great Elm blew over in a storm in 1876!. The idea of Boston Common being a mass grave could be true as the second edition of "The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail" by Charles Bahne does say the Common was used for public executions!.

Ghost tours are held at Granary Burying Ground, or at least there were back around 2003 or so!. I've visited the Freedom Trail twice, the first time in the May 1994, the second time was October 2003!. While visiting Granary Burying Ground I noticed candle wax on the Franklin Monument!. Worried about what was being done I asked one of the tour guides who revealed at that time they did candle light ghost tours!.

And bringing up the Franklin Monument, this isn't a monument to Ben Franklin, but to his folks who are buried in Granary Burying Ground!. It was erected in 1827 as a replacement for an earlier grave marker and bears an inscription written by Ben Franklin himself!. also buried in Granary Burying ground are Ben Franklin (the uncle of Ben Franklin and for whom he was named), Sam Adams, the victims of the Boston Massacre (Sam Gray, Sam Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr), Peter Faneuil (the merchant who gave Faneuil Hall to Boston), Paul Revere, James Otis, and Mother Goose (real name Elizabeth Goose, but legend is that the character was named for her even though most of the Mother Goose stories predate her birth)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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