# Do the Dead Get Pissed at Being Moved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332 "2008-12-16T01:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/21 "2008-12-16T19:03:30Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I actually take a friend with me gravehopping occasionally and we’ll dance in the cemetery, which is fun: our logic is that if there are spirits there then they only see people crying as they bury someone else or at very most they’ll see a groundskeeper (and many not even those), but they never see anybody dancing or having a good time, so it’s our public service to them. > If one ever asks to cut in I’ll stop. When I was a kid I used to get high and drink beer on Al Jolson’s grave. I wonder if he’s gonna confront me about it later. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/22 "2008-12-16T19:17:56Z")
Yeah, they hate it big-time. You read in the papers all the time about zombie uprisings following grave moves. Heck, time was when the graveyard was the quietest part of town, and people used to like to live next door. Now? You can’t give those properties away. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/23 "2008-12-16T19:27:48Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > There’s a grave in my dad’s (and other ancestors’) graveyard with “NOT TO BE OPENED” written on it. WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/24 "2008-12-16T19:38:49Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > I’ve heard the dead know only one thing. It’s better to be alive. Ok. It’s been 2 hours. This is killing me. What friggin’ movie is that from? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/25 "2008-12-16T20:06:13Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease. Or it’s a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/26 "2008-12-16T20:16:26Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Any cases of a dead person doing anything besides decaying slowly? Tons! Lots of dead people decay quickly, for instance. And a whole lot of dead people get torn apart and eaten by animals, which is much more exciting. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/27 "2008-12-16T20:26:01Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease. Perhaps, or just an eccentric family member. It is written in the cement that ceils the top of the plot, not on the gravestone itself. It looks like it was written with a stick and the lid off something for the Os. Our family Priest said he had never seen anything similar in any other graveyard he had visited throughout the country. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/28 "2008-12-16T20:27:30Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Ok. It’s been 2 hours. This is killing me. What friggin’ movie is that from? Full Metal Jacket? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/29 "2008-12-16T20:33:57Z")
Yeah, the dead hate leaving their graves. Even once you get them up and moving, they’re always dragging their feet. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/30 "2008-12-17T04:49:01Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Full Metal Jacket? Yes. Of course! It came to me a little while ago and I just had to come and make sure. It was driving me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/31 "2008-12-17T05:38:18Z")
Native-American dead especially don’t like being moved. I reckon they’re still bitter about their land being taken the first time, do it a second time and they open a whole can of spectral whup-ass. Now if you excuse me, I have to get back to the conversation I was having with my TV. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/32 "2008-12-17T07:03:07Z")
How much should you tip dead-people movers? \* ETA: Forgot, this is SDMB. The answer’s nothing.\* ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332/33 "2008-12-24T14:10:38Z")
I remember a story about an Egyptologist who found a group of three mummies, a parent (can’t remember which gender) and two children; a boy and a girl who had been laid to rest together. The parent was well preserved, the kiddos not so much, he decided to take the adult back to London, and leave the kiddies back. Apparently a week afterwards he started having nightmares in which the parent came to him rather annoyed! He was on the next ship to Alexandria and retrieved the kiddies. The parent was satisfied. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dead-get-pissed-at-being-moved/477332.md?page=1)