The 4 Weirdest Things Found Hiding Beneath Our Feet

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Schools Keep Finding Mass Graves

The bigwigs at University of Mississippi Medical Center were getting ready to start building a new parking lot when some tests (and presumably local fortune tellers) delivered a nasty surprise: The ground under the future lot held something like 1,000 dead bodies. The deceased are believed to be former inmates of the long-gone Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, because sometimes B-horror movies get things right.

It's unclear whether officials balked at the estimated $3 million required to rebury the bodies or if Ole Miss Movie Night had recently screened Poltergeist, but the school eventually decided to relocate the parking garage to next to the dental school ... which may contain bodies of former slaves and Civil War soldiers.

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-- and slowly the camera pans away to reveal that all of Mississippi is actually a burial ground.

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Belgrade Unearths One-Ton Bomb from World War II

Construction workers in Belgrade were rummaging around under the streets when they discovered a one-ton World War II-era bomb buried about 20 feet below street level.

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"I quit."

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A Music Hall Under a Piano Store

Intrepid reporter Josh Coe was doing a story on a group of street performers in Boston when he heard a rumor about a mythical underground music theater, allegedly beneath the historic M. Steinert & Sons piano store. When the store employees stonewalled Coe (including a gaunt, elderly man with piano keys for dentures and a talking raven who told him that "it weren't meant to be disturbed"), he decided to dig deeper. He eventually went all the way to the top and talked to the president of Steinert, who told him, "Oh, yeah, it's totally there."

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"Where the fuck is that organ coming from?"

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Couple Finds $10 Million in Their Backyard

Treasure hunting is actually a legitimate career, even if it causes your dad to hastily change subjects whenever your name is brought up. But while most treasure hunters might spend thousands (if not millions) on sophisticated equipment and travel to exotic locations in search of lost fortunes, one Sierra Nevada couple had a decidedly less dramatic tale.

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Seriously. There's not even a douchey real-estate developer or pirate legend with a porn name.

Did they use top-of-the-line metal detectors and scour historical maps for clues? Nope. They were playing with their dog in the yard and noticed the corner of a coffee can poking out of the ground. Instead of using special excavation equipment to preserve the treasure, the pair dug it out of the ground with a stick and discovered that the can was filled with $20 gold coins, dated from the 19th century. The couple kept digging anticlimactically and unearthed a total of eight cans containing nearly 1,500 coins. All said, they had the coins appraised at roughly $10 goddamn million. The world waits with bated breath for the 45-second blockbuster movie detailing the discovery of this lost lucre.

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