Grave Robbers Beware: Cemetery guns and coffin torpedoes

There was a time when vampires, zombies and the undead were not the only cemetery problems we faced. There were, in fact, very real dangers of grave robbing in the (crooked) name of medicine. To combat the body snatchers? Cemetery guns, of course. A cemetery gun: to be pointed in the direction of grave robbers. The science of grave robbing Disinterring and robbing graves of their freshly-buried corpses was a legitimate problem in the late 18th and early 19th century in both the United States and abroad.



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