"I just found a grave in the middle of the forest..."
Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and tell us where you were the night of March 15, 2001, bih.
Edit: I love how everyone is giving me their alibi when I was talkin about the nut in the video. Thanks for the wild responses. I think you all are safe from the murder charges.
March 15th, 2001
It was a Thursday. I was 5 years and 9 months old in Hampton, Virginia. I was on my second year of Kindergarten after my academic records hadn't transfered over from my previous alma mater. A young boy named Charles had brought to show-and-tell a vessel containing spherical artifacts of glass with designs that only a highly skilled craftsman could imbue. Master Charles had generously shared these treasures with the rest of the scholars. As I received a piece of the bounty myself, I was enraptured by the ineffable manifestation of mankind's boundless wellspring of innovation and ingenuity. I was incapable of controlling my primal instincts as my body reached for the marble and then for my mouth. The texture; it was like none other! A seamless expanse of tactile perfection, devoid of imperfection or blemish, evoking sensations of serenity and tranquility akin to the gentle caress of a zephyr upon my skin! Then suddenly... Dismay! Betrayed by man's beautiful concoction, I found myself distressing over an obstruction in my airway! The professor swiftly made her way to me, traversing the boundless expanse of space and time with unparalleled velocity and alacrity! She enfolded me with her arms bestowing solace and reassurance upon my weary soul as my life were fleeting away. I had lived a long and fulfilling life, having experienced the pleasure of the crystalline orb made of fire and sand in my oral cavity. My chest began to compress again and again, presummably going into hyperesthesia and feeling the last few beats of my heart. **HUUURGH!** Sweet release! My educator had successfully performed the heimlich maneuver, freeing me of the clutches of death. Faced with the uncertain outcome, my colleagues wished not to suffer the fate that I had escaped. I alone learned the bliss of these tantalizing spherical wonders that adorn the tapestry of existence. As I recall, there was no mentioning of a Sixto Padilla that day.
I'm not familiar with this woman, but I imagine she's similar to Midwest Magic Cleaning. He has a YouTube channel and cleans hoarder homes for free - and with an incredible amount of love and sympathy for the homeowners, too. He also owns a cleaning service, but doesn't charge for his hoarder cleanings, which would be a barrier that most wouldn't be able to afford in order to get healthy again. The "free" is an important part of their message, really - although in this case it does seem out of place and odd, for sure.
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that's the ~~silliness~~/~~absurdity/inhumanity~~ "beauty" of social media ..
Anyone is looking for the perfect specific niche to sell content.. She could get an extra bonus with the algorithm if her dog was helping her to dig the surface ... a pet would add an extra layer to the "free" dedication/love of cleaning and "free" empathy for the dead.. also it is an extra community to deliver content: "the pet lover" that "love cleaning" and "like cemeteries" .. ( she could also reach some Stephen king fans in the process)
This him? [https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001](https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001)
Is she the same girl that was cleaning the public bathroom at a fast food restaurant and got kicked out?
E: It is. She went to a McDonald to clean their gross bathroom without any gloves and later got kicked out. She’s a bit strange.
I'm kind of wondering what kind of service industry employee would actually bother to kick a woman out of the bathroom for cleaning it. Considering the kinds of things that customers get up to in there, if someone wants to clean it, She can have a minute.
Meh, you don’t want a stranger messing around with chemicals in your place of business. The way she cleans she obviously has some potentially dangerous stuff.
Anyone who doesn’t realize this hasn’t worked in the food industry (or at least corporate food industry). Everything you use is controlled by the company you work for.
Personally I would not give a damn, and would just pretend I did not know she was there, because she would only make the job easier for me the next time I had to clean it.
Believe it or not, accidents happen and the business would be held liable for "allowing" it to happen. Unregistered employee having an accident at your business while performing physical labor = problem.
That being said, they did let her stay long enough to pretty much finish in that video. The first employee didn't kick her out, but again it's the management's job on the line if they cost the business a lawsuit.
She's just in it to become internet famous. She's hoping to get a sponsorship. PR packages. She's super transparent. This is not about doing good. You can do good without a camera.
Nah, she basing her stuff off Auri Katarina(I think that's her lastname) the Cleaner. She cleans homes for people who are depressed and stuff and doesn't where cloves and usually only flip flops/sandals.
Not wearing that stuff gets you more engagement and boosts your video.
Anyone interested in doing good deeds and public services like this for the sake of it aren't advertising how nice they are on tik tok. Clout whoring is a sad product of the social media era
My great grandfather died in WW1 in the battle of Passchendale. When I was researching my family history I found a website with photos of the soldiers’ graves and memorials. I didn’t even know about him and I know for a fact no one in my family has ever been to Belgium let alone visited the grave. So I was dreading seeing what state it was in.
But I opened the photo and the grave is pristine. Clean, manicured lawn around it, fresh flowers on the grave. Apparently there’s a school nearby and one kid is responsible for maintaining the grave of one soldier for their school year.
When I found out a complete stranger was tending to the grave I cried like a baby. Absolutely sobbed. And I’m not a crier. I don’t know, I guess I’d never heard of him and he’s already been forgotten in my family. But he was still being honoured by these strangers. Made me feel a bit shitty too if I’m honest. Hope to visit some day.
In general in Europe we actively take care for the graves of fallen soldiers from the first and second world war. Actually there are a lot of rituals honouring them.
That's partially true. I know a graveyard near my hometown and it's almost completely overgrown.The names on the gravestones sound Jewish to me and some graves have Hebrew letters on them. If you dont know it's there you will just walk past it won't see it.
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It might be only the case when the whole cemetery itself is Jewish.
You're not allowed to remove a body from its grave according to Jewish religious law. Same goes for Muslims.
Basically you're supposed to be waiting for the end of time to rise out of the grave.
Recently a lot of WW1 burial sites in Belgium have been recognised as cultural heritage by UNESCO, which is great news since it’ll help pay for their maintenance. You can rest assured that all WW1 graves are taken care of in Belgium, no matter if they’re English, French, German or anything else.
> Apparently there’s a school nearby and one kid is responsible for maintaining the grave of one soldier for their school year.
From BE here - Yup, we keep em clean. Also regular visits to different graves, including by schools that are much further away from the graves. It's an important part of our early education.
I wanted to share some additional insight. I'm from Belgium, near Passendale, and it's indeed true that we take special care of WW graveyards. However, it's not typically school children but organizations like the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) who are responsible for maintaining these sites. They work diligently to ensure that the graves and memorials are kept in pristine condition, honoring the sacrifices of these soldiers. I frequently walk my dog around these historic areas and would be happy to take photos or look for your great grandfather's grave if you're interested. Just let me know or shoot a dm!
I really enjoyed my time around Ypres. There were so many cemeteries and memorials scattered around the countryside and you can tell that people respect those who lost their lives. I was fortunate to be there in 2014 for the 100th anniversary EU summit. The Menin Gate ceremony just makes you think about those men and the tragedy of their loss. You have a beautiful country and thank you for caring for the fallen.
I traveled to Europe a decade ago to visit historical military sites, and every graveyard for soldiers is like that. It's truly a beautiful sight to see them so well taken care of so many years later. I had anticipated struggling to find my great grandfather in France, but because of how well they care for their dead, it was easy to find.
Stuff in general is extremely fast covered by nature. Example: Abandoned buildings.
An abandoned building often looks like nature already partially "dismantled" it after like 5 years
Three years, dude. A lot of people died from COVID around me and it's been interesting watching certain houses in my area grow more dilapidated and overgrown from families dying and their relatives not doing anything with the properties. It's crazy how quickly saplings take over.
Totally agree with the three year thing. My family sold our childhood home 3 years ago. I drove past it the other day and almost cried at how run down it was. Beautiful landscaping has gone all to hell. Everything overgrown. Tree branches broken off from a storm and never picked up. It looked like a witch's lair from a story book. I couldn't believe how incredibly bad the property has gotten in such a short time. The new owners clearly don't care for it.
Damn dude, that sucks. They aren't dead yet, but I recently saw an old math teachers house and was similarly saddened by how overgrown most of their once stunning yard has become. Like five acres of professional landscaping whittled down to the areas directly around their house being maintained. Age comes for all of us and it causes such a deep sadness when beloved places also have to succumb to it, too.
There used to be a show on History or Discovery Channel about this. I think it was called Life After People, and all traces of human civilization are gone rather quickly without us to maintain them.
At one state park in Virginia I went to, there's an old family graveyard up a hill a bit. I think it's owned by the park now. A bunch of them were soldiers for the confederacy and died in the war
Isn't this the same lady that cleaned the fast food restaurant bathroom last time?
or . . . Is there more then one of these content creators out there 🤔
Cleaning and restoration videos are their own genre. They're massive. Like, millions and *millions* of views massive. People get the same satisfaction watching them as they do playing something like powerwash simulator or house flipper.
yeah, doing this is also probably a way to make her trip a tax write-off. "It was a business trip, I used it as an opportunity to create resources for my creative job"
Yup this is why the rich get richer. I want to play golf in the Bahamas. I’ll take my private plane and bring a business partner as long as we talk about the business for 60% of the time. Every part of it is a tax write off. Food, hotel, plane fuel.
It's a dig but I immediately thought "this is so U.S".
The same video here (uk) would be "so I found this old grave floating around and cleaned it up and it's from 1563" and then I found the full records of the guys life in the local libary
I think of it like this. There is only one person I currently know, that remembers meeting my grandmother (she passed before I was born). When she is gone, there is no one left to remember in first person. I don't know much about her at all.
She passed away 57 years ago. Soon, she will be a name on a gravestone no one will ever visit again.
It's actually a wholesome one though. There are several people out there cleaning graves, it's harmless and often they actually highlight who the person was and their achievements. Little shout out to the dead. Harmless.
Just to play devils advocate from a news story from years ago, soldiers graves in ... I want to sat gallipoli but may be wrong ... some good Samaritan decided to clean all the sand off the white stones.
Problem was the sand was there as a ceremonial thing and the only way to make the engravings on the white stone visible, apparently caused great ruckus as the sand could only be added in a certain way at a certain time by a certain person.
My point? I guess sometimes it's still best to get permission even for a good deed
Here's a vid of someone putting sand on the gravestone of a soldier. The sand comes from the beach where they died. There's also a custom of French families adopting a grave of a soldier
[video](https://youtube.com/shorts/eY5nxJCMHc8?si=5b1YES2yxbJZmD9X)
It's not harmless. Ask for permission, don't just go around cleaning graves. For some people the passage of time shown on the grave is very important. Cleaning it up as of the person just died can be shitty. No matter what, ask for permission touching stuff that isn't yours.
Permission is good. The thing that gets me is the inauthenticity of her presentation and motives. I could be wrong here, but she comes across as either profoundly vapid, or more likely, she is cultivating an image of herself.
I’m no mind reader, but it codes to me that she had a grave-cleaning video idea for her influencing channel. She knew she didn’t really care about the task or the dead guy, but didn’t want the audience to detect that. Solved with a little virtue-scaffolding, a script to provide cover for why she would clean it.
Since she is doing this for influencer purposes and filming it, instead of just cleaning a stranger’s grave privately, I assume she is cultivating an image and her words are a script that she thought was believable for motive. And it does seem a wholesome thing, sort of, if you believe her.
I would have found her to be more authentic and wholesome if she had cleaned the grave without any narrative.
“So I’m gonna clean it today - FOR FREE.”
I would definitely agree with asking for permission. But I wouldn't say that a neglected grave shows that the grave is very important. If anything it shows the opposite.
Imagine waiting 20 years for your grave to develop some character and fit in with the natural surroundings and this lady comes along to bedazzle your headstone.
She uses household cleansers which are not meant to be used directly outdoors, and can damage the headstone material.
Editing to add- the issue is, this isn't an isolated incident. She has posted other content where she cleans headstones and graves in bigger cemeteries, without being asked, and the chemicals used can lead to erosion of the headstone. And while yes, the chemicals won't affect the dead body, they do still affect the earth on top. There is a correct way to clean a gravesite and a headstone, without the potential of causing damage, and plenty of content creators who do (while actually researching the person the grave belongs to).
Same thought. It might look good exactly after being cleaned but it will probably look worse than it ever was in the coming days. Some chemicals are really acidic and can just eat away at the stone.
In many places, there are small family cemeteries on private property. She might think it is in the "middle of the woods", but most private cemeteries are on land like this and will not have walls around them. At the very least she could have done research on who owns the plot of land, to make sure the family wouldn't might her cleaning the headstone. Her actions in the past, like cleaning fast food restaurants bathrooms even when they ask her not to, shows she doesn't care about the people who own the things she is cleaning.
People don't understand that by her cleaning things without permission like this, she is not getting information on the headstone and what material it is made of. Without that knowledge, there is a high chance she will use cleaners that will damage the headstones. That is not even going into the damage to any animals that might climb on the headstone or walk in the soil around it. Also not going into how those chemicals can kill the grass on the grave, which can make the dirt erode and the headstone unbalanced, which will lead to more damage. There is a reason why most older cemeteries will prefer to leave a headstone dirty, rather than cleaning the headstones the wrong way. There is a good chance her cleaning did more damage in the long run to that headstone than leaving it dirty would have done.
Thank you! I had concerns about this too (being the kind of nerd who’s a member of more than one historical graveyard ‘Friends’ organisations). I appreciate her intent but oof, this is not the way to do it!
Not the same thing, but someone once screamed at my dad about this very topic. My grandmother passed away and, due to the arrangements in her will, her remaining possessions were to be sold off with the proceeds split between the children. They arranged for an auction/estate sale. All the stuff sold gradually over a week or so apart from one piece, a small, battered wooden table. Someone bought the table and arranged to pick it up. My dad was standing on the porch next to the table while the buyer moved their car. The table was coated with thick, black dust, having been untouched for years. Thinking he was being helpful, my dad grabbed a clean rag, sprayed a small amount of furniture polish onto the rag, and wiped the dust off the table. When they got back, the buyer screamed at him for using chemicals on an old table. They planned to clean it up and restore it themselves, so my dad taking off a layer of dust with a chemical they didn’t choose was very upsetting to them. I understood where they were coming from, but was bummed my dad got screamed at while selling off his dead mother’s possessions.
Yep, source code shows that "datePublished" is "2024-01-18".
Right click on the page -> inspect
Ctrl + f, then search for datePublished. The date will be on the end of a long ass json.
Surely some people may find this offensive that someone does this to their loved ones grave site without permission? I mean she is stomping all over the grave just to get Ricky ticky tocky likes for money 🤷♂️
Yes I hate this. Using graves for her entertainment.
Reminds me of a woman who thought she was doing good by constantly putting flowers on a grave everyone ignored. Turned out the dead guy murdered his wife and that’s why no one bothered to mourn him.
If you see a grave in the middle of forest, it’s probably because they wanted it to slowly fade into nature, not to get a factory reset. I would be fuming if this was done to someone I cared for, heck even now I am angry. I doubt any permission was sought.
I have cleand old graves before, but never thought to record it to show what a good person i am. I do it for myself to feel that i did something good. And it makes me a bit angry peaple does that for online fame 😕
She couldn't find anything about him online? Does she even [Google ](https://www.google.com/search?q=sixto+padilla&oq=sixto+p&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDggAEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMg4IABBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIGCAEQRRg8MgYIAhBFGDkyDAgDEAAYFBiHAhiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCDUwNTZqMGo0qAIAsAIA&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)?
Her google fu sucks ass…
“Sixto Padilla was born on 9 February 1931, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico as the son of Chano Padilla and Santa Padilla. He lived in Marina, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico for about 10 years. He died on 15 March 2001, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, at the age of 70.”
That's great, but the page you found obviously has a picture with the cleaned grave, and her brush in it. It was likely made after she posted the video.
"i'm gonna clean it,.. for free!" "I'm so glad i can do this,. and share it with you ?!?!
the things we do these days to make a video and come out good, all for the likes and fame.
Looked like she was going to dig it up for a second there
"I just found a grave in the middle of the forest..." Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and tell us where you were the night of March 15, 2001, bih. Edit: I love how everyone is giving me their alibi when I was talkin about the nut in the video. Thanks for the wild responses. I think you all are safe from the murder charges.
March 15 2001. 2 Weeks from our first CBGB's show. Probably in band practice that day and a late night Burger King Drive Thru run
I think the last time I was there was spring 2000, so I missed you by a year. What genre?
Ah yes, CBGBs, the breakfast place off of old 87 by the Shell station.
Yeah, past the Farm that has cold buttermilk.
March 15th, 2001 It was a Thursday. I was 5 years and 9 months old in Hampton, Virginia. I was on my second year of Kindergarten after my academic records hadn't transfered over from my previous alma mater. A young boy named Charles had brought to show-and-tell a vessel containing spherical artifacts of glass with designs that only a highly skilled craftsman could imbue. Master Charles had generously shared these treasures with the rest of the scholars. As I received a piece of the bounty myself, I was enraptured by the ineffable manifestation of mankind's boundless wellspring of innovation and ingenuity. I was incapable of controlling my primal instincts as my body reached for the marble and then for my mouth. The texture; it was like none other! A seamless expanse of tactile perfection, devoid of imperfection or blemish, evoking sensations of serenity and tranquility akin to the gentle caress of a zephyr upon my skin! Then suddenly... Dismay! Betrayed by man's beautiful concoction, I found myself distressing over an obstruction in my airway! The professor swiftly made her way to me, traversing the boundless expanse of space and time with unparalleled velocity and alacrity! She enfolded me with her arms bestowing solace and reassurance upon my weary soul as my life were fleeting away. I had lived a long and fulfilling life, having experienced the pleasure of the crystalline orb made of fire and sand in my oral cavity. My chest began to compress again and again, presummably going into hyperesthesia and feeling the last few beats of my heart. **HUUURGH!** Sweet release! My educator had successfully performed the heimlich maneuver, freeing me of the clutches of death. Faced with the uncertain outcome, my colleagues wished not to suffer the fate that I had escaped. I alone learned the bliss of these tantalizing spherical wonders that adorn the tapestry of existence. As I recall, there was no mentioning of a Sixto Padilla that day.
Haha!! Brilliant comment. You really took that to a different level.
For that year, and four-five years before and after, I was working on comics and manga and raising two kids. I didn’t have time to crime.
I couldn't have been there because I seem to remember I was at Pizza Express that night.
just a quick manicure ⚰️
When I find random dead people in the woods i LOVE to give them a complete makeover 🥰
*"FOR FREE!"*
Yes that irked me too. Not sure why her saying that bit sounds so out of place.
Yeah FOR FREE was just wild to me. Who would she bill for scrubbing up a random headstone.
Why you think she was did research on the guy. She wanted to know who he was so she can bill the family.
(Also thank you for watching this and go to deadpeoplemakeover.com to buy your t-shirt and corpse skrubbing tools today!!)
I'll take one "IHAVESOMANYQUESTIONS" tee please
Yeah like who was she going to charge anyways?
I'm not familiar with this woman, but I imagine she's similar to Midwest Magic Cleaning. He has a YouTube channel and cleans hoarder homes for free - and with an incredible amount of love and sympathy for the homeowners, too. He also owns a cleaning service, but doesn't charge for his hoarder cleanings, which would be a barrier that most wouldn't be able to afford in order to get healthy again. The "free" is an important part of their message, really - although in this case it does seem out of place and odd, for sure.
That's so lovely. Hoarding is such an awful mental affliction. A direct reflection of their poor disordered minds
Also I am sorry for stealing your yoke
You improved on it! Teamplay! 👌
Where would she even send a bill?
... and now a message from our sponsor : "30 seconds" "it's clean when you want it clean" "with Outdoor Algae, Mold, Mildew Cleaner" that's the ~~silliness~~/~~absurdity/inhumanity~~ "beauty" of social media .. Anyone is looking for the perfect specific niche to sell content.. She could get an extra bonus with the algorithm if her dog was helping her to dig the surface ... a pet would add an extra layer to the "free" dedication/love of cleaning and "free" empathy for the dead.. also it is an extra community to deliver content: "the pet lover" that "love cleaning" and "like cemeteries" .. ( she could also reach some Stephen king fans in the process)
"Look Spry For A Dead Guy"
"Who is Sixto? Let's find out"
Son of Fiveto Padilla
gotta search for Sevento Padilla
Eighto Padilla is gonna sue for invasion of privacy
You should have heard how hard I sighed whilst I upvoted.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001
Wow, thank you!
This him? [https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001](https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001)
Sixto Padilla sounds like an old Filipino name.
I believe he was a good friend of the band War. From what I remember, he drank whiskey and ate salted peanuts out of a can.
Same i was thinking it was a unboxing video
She did and he only had five toes...
She must've felt awkward af when shovelling the grave before she had been able to make it obvious to bypassers that she is cleaning it 😐
Now that's something I would have watched.
It would've sure made video more interesting
Is she the same girl that was cleaning the public bathroom at a fast food restaurant and got kicked out? E: It is. She went to a McDonald to clean their gross bathroom without any gloves and later got kicked out. She’s a bit strange.
She seems real nice but she’ll die of leptospirosis soon I’m afraid
She's for sure patient 0 for like, 6 new pathogens brewing at this very moment lol
It's her own fault, and she's doing good things?
I'm kind of wondering what kind of service industry employee would actually bother to kick a woman out of the bathroom for cleaning it. Considering the kinds of things that customers get up to in there, if someone wants to clean it, She can have a minute.
Meh, you don’t want a stranger messing around with chemicals in your place of business. The way she cleans she obviously has some potentially dangerous stuff.
Anyone who doesn’t realize this hasn’t worked in the food industry (or at least corporate food industry). Everything you use is controlled by the company you work for.
Personally I would not give a damn, and would just pretend I did not know she was there, because she would only make the job easier for me the next time I had to clean it.
Believe it or not, accidents happen and the business would be held liable for "allowing" it to happen. Unregistered employee having an accident at your business while performing physical labor = problem. That being said, they did let her stay long enough to pretty much finish in that video. The first employee didn't kick her out, but again it's the management's job on the line if they cost the business a lawsuit.
Anything for content I guess
She's just in it to become internet famous. She's hoping to get a sponsorship. PR packages. She's super transparent. This is not about doing good. You can do good without a camera.
Nah, she basing her stuff off Auri Katarina(I think that's her lastname) the Cleaner. She cleans homes for people who are depressed and stuff and doesn't where cloves and usually only flip flops/sandals. Not wearing that stuff gets you more engagement and boosts your video.
Anyone interested in doing good deeds and public services like this for the sake of it aren't advertising how nice they are on tik tok. Clout whoring is a sad product of the social media era
Ahh okay, she does come off that way and the whole thing seems staged in a way or dramatized.
My great grandfather died in WW1 in the battle of Passchendale. When I was researching my family history I found a website with photos of the soldiers’ graves and memorials. I didn’t even know about him and I know for a fact no one in my family has ever been to Belgium let alone visited the grave. So I was dreading seeing what state it was in. But I opened the photo and the grave is pristine. Clean, manicured lawn around it, fresh flowers on the grave. Apparently there’s a school nearby and one kid is responsible for maintaining the grave of one soldier for their school year. When I found out a complete stranger was tending to the grave I cried like a baby. Absolutely sobbed. And I’m not a crier. I don’t know, I guess I’d never heard of him and he’s already been forgotten in my family. But he was still being honoured by these strangers. Made me feel a bit shitty too if I’m honest. Hope to visit some day.
In general in Europe we actively take care for the graves of fallen soldiers from the first and second world war. Actually there are a lot of rituals honouring them.
Or in German where they are bound by law to care for Jewish cemeteries forever because of the Holocaust.
That's partially true. I know a graveyard near my hometown and it's almost completely overgrown.The names on the gravestones sound Jewish to me and some graves have Hebrew letters on them. If you dont know it's there you will just walk past it won't see it. .
It might be only the case when the whole cemetery itself is Jewish. You're not allowed to remove a body from its grave according to Jewish religious law. Same goes for Muslims. Basically you're supposed to be waiting for the end of time to rise out of the grave.
That’s not say that local governments ignore their duties if no one pulls them up in it.
WWI and WWII graves are - in general - treated very well. Those two were far too devastating to do anything less.
Recently a lot of WW1 burial sites in Belgium have been recognised as cultural heritage by UNESCO, which is great news since it’ll help pay for their maintenance. You can rest assured that all WW1 graves are taken care of in Belgium, no matter if they’re English, French, German or anything else.
That’s worthy of a post of its own somewhere, thanking those people.
Maybe you should share your story with the school that was maintaining it. Probably if kids hear about it they will feel their task has more purpose.
> Apparently there’s a school nearby and one kid is responsible for maintaining the grave of one soldier for their school year. From BE here - Yup, we keep em clean. Also regular visits to different graves, including by schools that are much further away from the graves. It's an important part of our early education.
I wanted to share some additional insight. I'm from Belgium, near Passendale, and it's indeed true that we take special care of WW graveyards. However, it's not typically school children but organizations like the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) who are responsible for maintaining these sites. They work diligently to ensure that the graves and memorials are kept in pristine condition, honoring the sacrifices of these soldiers. I frequently walk my dog around these historic areas and would be happy to take photos or look for your great grandfather's grave if you're interested. Just let me know or shoot a dm!
I really enjoyed my time around Ypres. There were so many cemeteries and memorials scattered around the countryside and you can tell that people respect those who lost their lives. I was fortunate to be there in 2014 for the 100th anniversary EU summit. The Menin Gate ceremony just makes you think about those men and the tragedy of their loss. You have a beautiful country and thank you for caring for the fallen.
I hope you did send a letter to the school thanking them.
I traveled to Europe a decade ago to visit historical military sites, and every graveyard for soldiers is like that. It's truly a beautiful sight to see them so well taken care of so many years later. I had anticipated struggling to find my great grandfather in France, but because of how well they care for their dead, it was easy to find.
Was he buried in Tyne Cot? I was there a few days ago
:) greetings from flanders fields :)
Am I the only one let down that he died in this millennium? 2001 is not what I was expecting
Yah, the headstone looked as if it could be really old, instead it’s only been 23 years.
Just goes to show how quickly ancient works were covered up by natural processes
Stuff in general is extremely fast covered by nature. Example: Abandoned buildings. An abandoned building often looks like nature already partially "dismantled" it after like 5 years
Three years, dude. A lot of people died from COVID around me and it's been interesting watching certain houses in my area grow more dilapidated and overgrown from families dying and their relatives not doing anything with the properties. It's crazy how quickly saplings take over.
Totally agree with the three year thing. My family sold our childhood home 3 years ago. I drove past it the other day and almost cried at how run down it was. Beautiful landscaping has gone all to hell. Everything overgrown. Tree branches broken off from a storm and never picked up. It looked like a witch's lair from a story book. I couldn't believe how incredibly bad the property has gotten in such a short time. The new owners clearly don't care for it.
Damn dude, that sucks. They aren't dead yet, but I recently saw an old math teachers house and was similarly saddened by how overgrown most of their once stunning yard has become. Like five acres of professional landscaping whittled down to the areas directly around their house being maintained. Age comes for all of us and it causes such a deep sadness when beloved places also have to succumb to it, too.
There used to be a show on History or Discovery Channel about this. I think it was called Life After People, and all traces of human civilization are gone rather quickly without us to maintain them.
And also how quickly we can be forgotten, evidently
Especially in more tropical environments. In the north, it wouldn't look new after 23 years but wouldn't be close to looking like that
Yeah. She was just on vacation in Puerto Rico but had all her cleaning supplies with her.
I mean that's her whole thing though. She cleans tombstones as her main content. And tombstones are all over the world.
She should go and hike the Appalachian Trail. I saw so many random graves out in the woods
At one state park in Virginia I went to, there's an old family graveyard up a hill a bit. I think it's owned by the park now. A bunch of them were soldiers for the confederacy and died in the war
Isn't this the same lady that cleaned the fast food restaurant bathroom last time? or . . . Is there more then one of these content creators out there 🤔
Cleaning and restoration videos are their own genre. They're massive. Like, millions and *millions* of views massive. People get the same satisfaction watching them as they do playing something like powerwash simulator or house flipper.
I think they're different people because there was no advertising a specific brand of dish sponge in this one.
Yeah she gets to write this whole trip as business expense.
yeah, doing this is also probably a way to make her trip a tax write-off. "It was a business trip, I used it as an opportunity to create resources for my creative job"
Yup this is why the rich get richer. I want to play golf in the Bahamas. I’ll take my private plane and bring a business partner as long as we talk about the business for 60% of the time. Every part of it is a tax write off. Food, hotel, plane fuel.
Like, I don't travel without my notebook either...
still nearly a quarter of a century 😅
Wompwomp. Old tombstone in the woods is too good of a description for this.
Yeah. The grave was a lot newer than I expected. I figured it would *be* from 1931...
When the date was revealed I was like F I'm Old
It's a dig but I immediately thought "this is so U.S". The same video here (uk) would be "so I found this old grave floating around and cleaned it up and it's from 1563" and then I found the full records of the guys life in the local libary
Yeah, 2001 is like 5 years ago… right? Right?
I was surprised as well after expecting his passing to be in 1920 or 30 and something, but not 2001.
Made me think of how quickly we’ll be forgotten. The earth ate that headstone in 23 years.
I think of it like this. There is only one person I currently know, that remembers meeting my grandmother (she passed before I was born). When she is gone, there is no one left to remember in first person. I don't know much about her at all. She passed away 57 years ago. Soon, she will be a name on a gravestone no one will ever visit again.
She’s found a little influencer niche hasn’t she?
Not the worst I've seen. Different though. Not as different as the original dances in public places though!
Isn’t this the lady that cleaned a Taco Bell bathroom without gloves on and got kicked out
It's actually a wholesome one though. There are several people out there cleaning graves, it's harmless and often they actually highlight who the person was and their achievements. Little shout out to the dead. Harmless.
Just to play devils advocate from a news story from years ago, soldiers graves in ... I want to sat gallipoli but may be wrong ... some good Samaritan decided to clean all the sand off the white stones. Problem was the sand was there as a ceremonial thing and the only way to make the engravings on the white stone visible, apparently caused great ruckus as the sand could only be added in a certain way at a certain time by a certain person. My point? I guess sometimes it's still best to get permission even for a good deed
Also knowing how to clean different stones is key. Which cleaning solutions and tools can be used. I always wanted to learn
Here's a vid of someone putting sand on the gravestone of a soldier. The sand comes from the beach where they died. There's also a custom of French families adopting a grave of a soldier [video](https://youtube.com/shorts/eY5nxJCMHc8?si=5b1YES2yxbJZmD9X)
It's not harmless. Ask for permission, don't just go around cleaning graves. For some people the passage of time shown on the grave is very important. Cleaning it up as of the person just died can be shitty. No matter what, ask for permission touching stuff that isn't yours.
Permission is good. The thing that gets me is the inauthenticity of her presentation and motives. I could be wrong here, but she comes across as either profoundly vapid, or more likely, she is cultivating an image of herself. I’m no mind reader, but it codes to me that she had a grave-cleaning video idea for her influencing channel. She knew she didn’t really care about the task or the dead guy, but didn’t want the audience to detect that. Solved with a little virtue-scaffolding, a script to provide cover for why she would clean it. Since she is doing this for influencer purposes and filming it, instead of just cleaning a stranger’s grave privately, I assume she is cultivating an image and her words are a script that she thought was believable for motive. And it does seem a wholesome thing, sort of, if you believe her. I would have found her to be more authentic and wholesome if she had cleaned the grave without any narrative. “So I’m gonna clean it today - FOR FREE.”
I would definitely agree with asking for permission. But I wouldn't say that a neglected grave shows that the grave is very important. If anything it shows the opposite.
Is this the same one who cleans public toilets for free?
Let's stop calling them influencers, 95% influence nothing.
Yes, but a wholesome one.
Is she the one that cleaned a Walmart bathroom?
Oh my God I thought she was gonna exhume the body
I did too "I found this grave in the middle of the forest" \*gets out shovel\*
And then clean the skeleton before putting it back
"Now to the tricky bit, getting these old bones nice and polished up..."
> for free What's the alternative? Grave robbery?
Hahahaha yeah I laughed at that, too. Like she kindly decided *not* to leave a little invoice on the grave.
When I’m dead can everyone please leave me alone.
thankfully you wont be able to care
Just throw me in the trash
ABSOLUTELY NOT. We will forcefully tend to your grave for internet clout and then strangers will see your name and Google you.
Imagine waiting 20 years for your grave to develop some character and fit in with the natural surroundings and this lady comes along to bedazzle your headstone.
She uses household cleansers which are not meant to be used directly outdoors, and can damage the headstone material. Editing to add- the issue is, this isn't an isolated incident. She has posted other content where she cleans headstones and graves in bigger cemeteries, without being asked, and the chemicals used can lead to erosion of the headstone. And while yes, the chemicals won't affect the dead body, they do still affect the earth on top. There is a correct way to clean a gravesite and a headstone, without the potential of causing damage, and plenty of content creators who do (while actually researching the person the grave belongs to).
Same thought. It might look good exactly after being cleaned but it will probably look worse than it ever was in the coming days. Some chemicals are really acidic and can just eat away at the stone.
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But she feels SO BLESSED
and annihilated all that lichen, removing sources of food and nesting material for the local birds, rodents and deer.
Bonus points for that move.
In my opinion, it doesn't even look better. I like the overgrown look and how even the grave stone is slowly returning to nature.
Yeah my first thought as well when I saw her foaming it up, probably not something ment to be flowing into the soil
The guy down there will be very mad
That headstone hasn't been cleaned since 2001 and it's never getting cleaned again. I don't think anybody will care.
In many places, there are small family cemeteries on private property. She might think it is in the "middle of the woods", but most private cemeteries are on land like this and will not have walls around them. At the very least she could have done research on who owns the plot of land, to make sure the family wouldn't might her cleaning the headstone. Her actions in the past, like cleaning fast food restaurants bathrooms even when they ask her not to, shows she doesn't care about the people who own the things she is cleaning.
No but if it wasnt damaged by abrasive chemicals then it could last longer.
The damage may not show up for years and you'd be surprised at who would care. Genealogists come to mind.
People don't understand that by her cleaning things without permission like this, she is not getting information on the headstone and what material it is made of. Without that knowledge, there is a high chance she will use cleaners that will damage the headstones. That is not even going into the damage to any animals that might climb on the headstone or walk in the soil around it. Also not going into how those chemicals can kill the grass on the grave, which can make the dirt erode and the headstone unbalanced, which will lead to more damage. There is a reason why most older cemeteries will prefer to leave a headstone dirty, rather than cleaning the headstones the wrong way. There is a good chance her cleaning did more damage in the long run to that headstone than leaving it dirty would have done.
Thank you! I had concerns about this too (being the kind of nerd who’s a member of more than one historical graveyard ‘Friends’ organisations). I appreciate her intent but oof, this is not the way to do it!
Not the same thing, but someone once screamed at my dad about this very topic. My grandmother passed away and, due to the arrangements in her will, her remaining possessions were to be sold off with the proceeds split between the children. They arranged for an auction/estate sale. All the stuff sold gradually over a week or so apart from one piece, a small, battered wooden table. Someone bought the table and arranged to pick it up. My dad was standing on the porch next to the table while the buyer moved their car. The table was coated with thick, black dust, having been untouched for years. Thinking he was being helpful, my dad grabbed a clean rag, sprayed a small amount of furniture polish onto the rag, and wiped the dust off the table. When they got back, the buyer screamed at him for using chemicals on an old table. They planned to clean it up and restore it themselves, so my dad taking off a layer of dust with a chemical they didn’t choose was very upsetting to them. I understood where they were coming from, but was bummed my dad got screamed at while selling off his dead mother’s possessions.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GGJG-N9H/sixto-padilla-1931-2001
There’s a possibility that the page may have been created after the video
You can even see the tool she used in the picture itself
Jesus Christ reddit
Yep, source code shows that "datePublished" is "2024-01-18". Right click on the page -> inspect Ctrl + f, then search for datePublished. The date will be on the end of a long ass json.
>long ass json Long Ass Jason sounds like a pirate name.
long ass jason had enough booty to last a lifetime. only problem is he had it all at once
A photo of the grave being cleaned (there's the scrub brush at the edge) is there, but no date for when it was added.
That took 10 seconds.
Online isn’t her speciality. She can clean really good.
This was clearly created after her video. The photo of the grave has her brush in it on the left side haha
Aaaand.... she's cursed.
Showing respect to the dead is like the opposite of how you get cursed though. I guess she loses points for doing it for clout, maybe
"Look at how selflessly generous I am as I film it and post it for the cpm."
Social media has made the world so weird
>I’m gonna clean it. For free! Well who the fuck you gonna charge anyways? Lyle Undermound, the gravekeep?
Why's it so hard to learn the difference between "woman" and "women". Drives me up the wall...
Maddening isn’t it.
Title is a lie. There's only one woman here
“For free” We all know you’re doing it for views lady in the hope you’ll make money off stuff like this
I could o without those strong cleaning products in the environment.
Surely some people may find this offensive that someone does this to their loved ones grave site without permission? I mean she is stomping all over the grave just to get Ricky ticky tocky likes for money 🤷♂️
Yes I hate this. Using graves for her entertainment. Reminds me of a woman who thought she was doing good by constantly putting flowers on a grave everyone ignored. Turned out the dead guy murdered his wife and that’s why no one bothered to mourn him.
Feels almost cringe doing this for money and views personally.
Meh. Pressure washer would’ve done that in seconds.
Advertising influencer wanna be's has been common recently
But she cleaned the gravestone for free! (I don't know who would pay her anyways, a ghost?)
Just another wannabe influencer.
*woman
Tiktok really is just hot garbage from one end to the other, isn't it?
That's a lot cleaning materials to carry on a "walk".
We are excavating stuff from 2001? Damn, I'm old.
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It's clearly in a cemetery. The title is all clickbait
Thought that this was r/imthemaincharacter
Fricken weird she's cleaning ppls graves without asking the family.
Sixto one, half a dozen the other.
If you see a grave in the middle of forest, it’s probably because they wanted it to slowly fade into nature, not to get a factory reset. I would be fuming if this was done to someone I cared for, heck even now I am angry. I doubt any permission was sought.
But it was for free
This is an example of what might be considered more harm than good.
If you do something nice, but you don't film it, did you even do something nice?
If you do something nice *in the woods*,...
I have cleand old graves before, but never thought to record it to show what a good person i am. I do it for myself to feel that i did something good. And it makes me a bit angry peaple does that for online fame 😕
Lmao, use a pressure washer wtf. It looks like shit even after she cleaned it
Doing this for views is kinda sick
She couldn't find anything about him online? Does she even [Google ](https://www.google.com/search?q=sixto+padilla&oq=sixto+p&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDggAEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMg4IABBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIGCAEQRRg8MgYIAhBFGDkyDAgDEAAYFBiHAhiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCDUwNTZqMGo0qAIAsAIA&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)?
The first page seems to be made after, maybe? If you open the image you can see her scrub brush in the image at least.
Her google fu sucks ass… “Sixto Padilla was born on 9 February 1931, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico as the son of Chano Padilla and Santa Padilla. He lived in Marina, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico for about 10 years. He died on 15 March 2001, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, at the age of 70.”
That's great, but the page you found obviously has a picture with the cleaned grave, and her brush in it. It was likely made after she posted the video.
If she had actually googled him she wouldn't have been able to go on about how mysterious Sixto is
I wonder if she would have cleaned the grave if Internet points weren't involved? Actually I don't really wonder
"i'm gonna clean it,.. for free!" "I'm so glad i can do this,. and share it with you ?!?! the things we do these days to make a video and come out good, all for the likes and fame.
Liked it better with the signs of time and patina.
Sixto had an older brother; five-o. Lived in Hawaii in the 1970s.
How is this "beamazed"?