A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34297 Submitted by: Susan Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: October 18 1906 Article Description: Petrified Corpses - Four Bodies Found Turned to Stone in a Baltimore Cemetery. Article Text: Petrified Corpses - Four Bodies Found Turned to Stone in a Baltimore Cemetery. Baltimore, Md, Oct 17. The work of removing the remains of persons buried in old Sweet Home Cemetery (St. Alphonsus’) Biddle Street an Loney’s Lane, to the new Holy Redeemer Cemetery, on the Belair road, which has been going on for some time, has brought to light remarkable phenomena. It has been found that by some strange chemical action a number of the bodies buried there have been turned to stone, the process of petrification being so complete that in each instance the body, when disinterred, retained the same shape and form as when it was placed in the ground. According to GEORGE DORBERD, sexton at the cemetery, four petrified bodies have been taken from the ground since last spring, when the work of disinterment began. The most recent case was brought to light last Saturday when the grave of Mrs. CATHERINA VALENOVSKI, an aged woman who was buried two and a half years ago, was opened and the body found petrified. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DC-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com