The following teaser is from the March 8, 2014 edition of local10.com:
CNN – Amid a grove of trees, buried beneath the grass and dirt, Mississippi’s past is colliding with its future.
Surveyors last month discovered dozens of neat, tight rows of coffins just feet below the ground at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Sure, there were stories that there was a cemetery somewhere on the grounds of the medical center that today sits where the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum once stood.
But the location of the cemetery was lost to history. That’s until an estimated 2,000 unmarked graves were discovered during a survey for a planned campus expansion.
The find has forced the medical center to halt its expansion and begin the daunting task of figuring out what to do about the 2,000 bodies lying in the path of their next big thing.
