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Buried With Their Boots On · The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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  Good morning and welcome to the grim.
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  I'm your host, Kristin.
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  On today's episode, we'll be opening the gate and entering boot hill graveyard in tombstone, Arizona.
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  So grab your favorite mug cozy up.
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  And let's take a dig into history.
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  Americans have a reputation for wearing cowboy hats, riding horses, and drinking beer.
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  Westerns were a Hollywood staple for many years and many grew up watching stories on the Alamo or the OK.
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  Corral gunfight.
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  You have the question of what after isn't really thought of or considered.
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  Where are the men who died tragic deaths in gunfights or not laid to rest?
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  The west was known for being lawless full of opportunity and a vast undeveloped land.
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  Many perished in the pursuit of a better life in the gold rush or hoping to find some other sort of hidden gem out west tombstone was just one of those towns, but infamous from its partaken history.
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  It was first settled as many Western towns where from one lucky find of gold or silver.
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  In 1877, a man named ed Shevlin.
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  Evelyn part of a scouting party for the jury, Chao Apaches found himself in a place originally called goose flats.
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  And was going against the advice of other soldiers in his party, decided to go looking for stones and found something even more precious.
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  Silver.
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  Ed named his first mind, the tombstone after his fellow scouting parties, soldiers advised him that he would only be finding his tombstone in the wilderness and nothing else and thought the name would be fitting.
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  Even with a slower pace of life in the late 1870s news spread quickly.
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  Of Olin's find tombstone grew rapidly becoming the fastest growing city between St.
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  Louis and San Francisco.
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  Along with fast growing cities though, you always end up with the need for a cemetery or a graveyard.
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  Boot hill graveyard was tombstones first and filled with some of its most notorious residents we know of today.
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  The graveyard was founded in 1879 in use till 1884.
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  When the new tombstone city cemetery was opened.
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  Boot hill was aptly called the old cemetery by locals.
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  The graveyards original name.
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  Some story save was due to its resonance.
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  Most likely having died unexpectedly or violently and buried with her boots on this was refuted after discovering it was named in the 1920s to draw tourists.
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  After Dodges city pioneer cemetery had a lot of tourists luck with their name hollywood's westerns and dime novels idolizing the cowboy in lawless life started to rise and fame at the same time of the graveyard Surrey naming the name.
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  Ruber to also come from Western writer, Frederick Bett shot.
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  After he visited tombstone in 1919.
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  Plus, if you have residents from a notorious Western shootout in 1881, you need a good name, right?
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  There's around 250 graves within and thought to be over 300 plus residents, visitors looking to find certain graves or pay visits to certain people can purchase a booklet.
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  At boot hill graveyard gift shop with the names and locations of the graves.
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  Many of the original residents were, did sent her to the new cemetery in town.
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  The reasoning of this was concluded from the graveyard, having many thieves, murderers rustlers and prostitutes within its grounds and families.
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  Not exactly taken with the idea of loved ones, spending their forever place in the same burial ground.
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  The disinterment along with being forgotten years later makes it official number of residents complicated at best to me known.
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  The graveyard has an entirely other complicated issue though.
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  Unlike most many believe it wasn't real, but Japan entering tombstone, it's not hard to see why most people do question its authenticity.
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  The town has an impressive on the set of a Western feel and has many recreated buildings.
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  I built from the modern times to look as they would back then.
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  So many of those visiting even asked is this real, which leads to another issue of the graveyard.
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  It's also been recreated after a long stint of being forgotten and use that a garbage dump.
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  The town in the 1920s.
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  Many of its population decline for moving away, effectively ending its boom years and with it, the care of its oldest graveyard.
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  It's rumored that they care began again when former mayor and editor of the tombstone epitaph.
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  John Clum in 1929, went to pay his respects to his late wife's grave.
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  Grimly Crum couldn't find his Beloved's grave becoming distraught from the effects of becoming a dumping ground.
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  And years passing by.
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  Grimly Crum couldn't find his Beloved's grave becoming distraught from the graveyards affects of becoming a dumping ground in years, passing by.
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  Cross has made for blood, had to send a great aid grave robbers also stole souvenirs or graves had been trampled on by free range cattle.
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  Boot hill graveyard was no longer a burial ground, but a dilapidated piece of land.
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  Tombstones remaining residents along with Calum then decided things needed to change.
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  The town with the help of the boy Scouts cleared the graveyard of brush and debris.
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  Then with the help of its older residents attempted to relocate individuals, graves.
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  Somewhere then able to be re-established but many others were sadly not.
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  This is why when you're within the grounds, many unknown grave markers are seen by visitors.
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  The ones that are known are some of the most notorious residents due to many of the public witnesses to their death funerals or demises.
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  Starting with the boot Hills graveyards famous resonance.
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  We'll go with Mary China.
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  As the saying goes well, behaved women seldom make history.
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  And Mary's case this was a tale of half truths immigrating from China in 1839 from the golden Dawn Providence.
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  Mary's real Americanized name is wildly debated.
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  But thought to be married, Joe Singh, sadly, due to racism and not very welcoming to the influx of Chinese immigrants with language barriers, many were given generic American names like Mary.
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  So many Mary China's in the 18 hundreds, American west existed.
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  She arrived in tombstone with a bad name on boom, with many assuming they were husband and wife running the CanCan restaurant.
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  This is also believed to be why Mary's death certificate has her name listed as an alum and not Mary Jo sync.
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  Mary assisted tombstone wealthy with finding Chinese domestic servants.
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  Acting as a labor contractor, she used this business to collect private information on resonance and Towndrow blackmail or commercial reasons such as restocking.
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  Someone's favorite whiskey.
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  Thriving in tombstone.
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  Mary became a well-known respectable business woman with legitimate businesses, such as a grocery store and laundry is becoming known as the godfather of the city.
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  The darker side of her rumor tale is Mary was a Madame and tombstone running opium, dens, gambling, and prostitution in the Chinatown district.
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  She was also rumored to me, a money lender who used her own judgment to determine borrower's credibility.
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  Uh, Chinese article about Mary says an American utilizing history created a fictional character into a heroine for tourist reasons and no great business woman actually existed.
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  Mary died in 1906 of heart failure in tombstone with a very large number of residents attending her funeral.
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  She's believed to be haunting boot hill wandering around the graveyard, dressed in red.
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  Our next famous woman, resident definitely lives on the darker side of history.
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  Madame Dutch Annie queen, other red light district, and his real name is unknown similar to others in her profession of the time.
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  Many in town held her in high regard.
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  Has she helped men down on their luck or minors by lending money or other various means?
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  And these generosity led many in town regardless of their social stature to respect her actions upon passing an 1883 over 1000.
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  And residents of tombstone where I've said to have attended her funeral and formed a procession behind her hers.
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  Now have you been living under a rock or maybe just plain don't know we've been skirting around tombstones, most famous event and three of its graveyards, most famous resident members of the Cowboys.
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  Only lasting 30 seconds, but going down an infamy was the gunfight of the OK.
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  Corral.
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  Ironically, the gunfight didn't even happen in the corral, but on a small lot on Freeman street in tombstone.
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  The pinnacle of a heated situation between lawman Wyatt Earp, his brothers and doc holiday, and a group of Outlaws called the Cowboys.
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  Who are Billy Clayborne brothers?
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  I can.
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  Billy Clinton.
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  And brothers, Tom and Frank McClory.
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  Although the shooter, wasn't the exact end of the issue.
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  It's the most famously known gunfight within the long running conflict.
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  The Lee Clayton, Tom McClory and Frank McClory all died in the gunfight and are buried in boot hill graveyard.
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  The group was loosely connected, but had an issue with the marshals because of the interference, other illegal activities.
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  The gunfight took place because of a city ordinance in state and on April 19th, 1881.
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  They're prohibited carrying a deadly weapon in town.
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  It required everyone to deposit weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town with the city's Marshall.
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  Virgil Earp was charged with enforcing the ordinance.
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  The cup was, had refused to comply leading to herb, gathering his brothers and holiday and an attempt to disarm that Outlaws.
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  But instead led to the gunfight.
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  This was more of a high overview of the history leading up to and what happened next, but I highly recommend if you're interested to read up on the matter.
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  Each of the gravestones for the Cowboys are located next to each other in boot hill graveyard in row two.
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  Clinton is claimed to haunt the boot hill, a graveyard and the scene of the gunfight, where he died on Freeman street, lurking in both locations as an apparition.
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  John Heath mastermind and the biz B massacre, a result of a robbery gone wrong is also within.
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  He's learned of a rumored payroll for the copper queen mine amounting to$7,000 and devise a plan to steal the payroll.
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  The only problem was.
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  Being the day of the robbery, the payroll wasn't there.
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  Instead five Outlaws sands, Heath health of the bank, robbing the employees and customer's worth of$3,000.
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  Five people were shot in with four fatalities, including an expectant mother.
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  Needing to public outrage in Brisbane and tombstone.
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  He was discovered as the mastermind of the operation and was thrown into tombstone county jail.
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  The public, the following morning, took it upon themselves to exact justice taking over the jail and hanging Keith on a nearby telephone pole.
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  The rest of the Outlaws were then tried by the law.
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  Found guilty and hung many buried within boot hill graveyard.
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  Have sorted tales with a shot by other grave markers like red river, Tom shot by two police officers.
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  Three finger Jack Dunlap.
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  Shop bye Jeff Milton while robbing an express train.
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  Cowboy bill Cain, shop Beiber Al void.
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  And the Kansas city kid.
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  Uh, cowboy killed in a stampede.
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  The graveyard has a staggering statistic.
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  Uh, 40% buried within dying of other causes other than old age.
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  Some are more interesting than others with childbirth suicide, hangings incidents like drowning.
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  Infant fatality, gunshot wounds, knife wounds, blunt instruments, Apache deaths, legal executions, or Lynch mom, hangings.
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  I guess if it's a graveyard and America's wild west, it's going to have a wide range causes of death, right.
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  But Hill's hauntings are mainly in the form of photographs when attempting to photograph the historic site, unexpected guests are captured on film during the day.
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  Many don't actually occur in the evening.
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  One of the most famous catches was a man willing, a knife behind two women while visiting the graveyard.
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  Both say no, man was present with them though upon their visit.
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  An unmarked grave gave a journalist a seriously chilling experience while visiting.
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  Uh, whisper saying it was nice of you to do that.
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  Was hurt by the journalist, visiting the grounds and a childlike voice thinking he must've been mistaken.
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  He gathered himself together only to hear another whisper.
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  You came back.
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  You must like to play with me a lot.
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  Then leading to a laugh, the visitor saw a shadow shaped like a person in the corner of his eye, but it quickly vanished.
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  The boot hill graveyard gift shop.
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  It said you experienced merchandise, misplaced, moved racks, rotating on their own and apparitions.
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  Maybe Clinton's stroll from the graveyard to the OK.
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  Corral.
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  She's a nightly detour to scare tourists.
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  The graveyard also saw the Broadway to America, route 70 from North Carolina to Arizona.
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  Cut right through its grounds.
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  Leading to more movement of its permanent residents to the newer cemetery.
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  Leading many to wonder if it also contributes to the unknown haunted happenings.
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  Maybe the restless souls are looking for the original resting places.
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  In boot Hill's graveyard of tombstone.
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  The notorious residents souls in boot Hills graveyard.
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  I lived lives beyond the bounds of the law.
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  During life, and it seems after.
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  Learning the veil between the living and the dead.
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  The question is, would you like to be buried with their boots on the grave grind for boot hill graveyard was a cowboy cappuccino from the undertakers espresso bar in tombstone, Arizona.
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  For now we're closing the gate on boot hill graveyard.
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  We hope you enjoyed our dig into history.
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