You may have heard about a cemetery in Barbados where it's said there's a crypt full of coffins,

and every time they open it up, the coffins have all been jumbled up violently as if the

spirits don't want to rest.

Is it a hoax?

Does groundwater rise and float the coffins out of position?

Are the spirits actually at work, or might there be some other explanation?

The Moving Coffins of Barbados is up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Moving Coffins of Barbados.

It was 1812 when wealthy landowner Colonel Thomas Chase died by his own hand on the island

of Barbados in the lesser Antilles.

He was not a well-loved man and was known for excessive cruelty to his slaves and his

bad temper.

His body was born to the family vault he'd purchased some 12 years before, which already

contained the remains of two of his daughters.

The great marble slab covering the stairs down into the vault was moved aside, and eight

strong men bore the heavy lead-lined coffin into its resting place.

But a horrifying surprise awaited the burial party.

One time, within the preceding month, the coffins in the vault had all been moved and

were found scattered Helter-Skelter about the small stone walled crypt.

So goes the story of the Moving Coffins of Barbados.

The story goes on to say that on four other occasions from 1816 through 1820, the Chase

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