Unmarked Graves
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - Unmarked Graves
The Florida School for Boys, also known as the Dozier School, operated from the year 1900 until 2011. This reform school had notorious history of abuse: beatings..torture…even murder of students by staff. Many believe over 100 bodies were buried on school grounds. To this day, those who survived, and the loved ones of those lost, fight for justice for those unmarked graves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you love scary movies? Do you like scary stories? Well, we've got a really scary story for you |
| 0:07.3 | today. If you like the saw movies, but you like them because they're not real, brace yourself |
| 0:13.1 | because this one is 100% real and true. Stick around for the end of the episode. We're going to talk |
| 0:18.7 | about it. |
| 0:26.6 | They called Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the happiest place on earth. |
| 0:39.8 | But drive just 325 miles or so north of the Magic Kingdom, and you find yourself in a place where dreams never came true, unless those dreams were nightmares. |
| 0:46.2 | They called it a school, but the grounds were littered with unmarked graves. |
| 0:56.1 | The boys that made it out alive tell of beatings, assault, torture, and murder. |
| 0:59.9 | And those boys, they were the lucky ones. |
| 1:03.6 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. They're going. |
| 1:05.0 | Real, right. |
| 1:06.0 | Real, right. |
| 1:08.0 | No, no, no, no. No. You're a man. What? |
| 1:21.1 | Weird. Weird. Stuff. |
| 1:28.3 | What was it that woke Willie Bell up that fateful night? It was 3.30 in the morning, the quietest, deepest part of night in building one at the Florida Reform School for boys. |
| 1:38.0 | A sudden sharp noise? |
| 1:39.8 | The first hint of smoke? |
| 1:42.5 | We'll never know. |
| 1:44.0 | Willie Bell got out of bed, alarmed enough by whatever had broken his sleep, to make |
| 1:49.3 | his way through the darkness to the hallway. |
| 1:52.4 | What he saw must have nearly stopped his heart. |
| 1:55.4 | The entire stairway was in flames. |
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