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An overgrown, historic cemetery nestled in a corner of Philadelphia is for sale for $1 million — and comes with some 33,000 dead tenants.
“There are 33,000 people here and we don’t have accurate maps and records. You would have to do ground-penetrating radar over 26 acres to find everybody. There are infinitely cheaper and easier places. If you’re looking for the site of your next distribution center, Mount Vernon ain’t it,” he added. Zimmerman said a fellow volunteer once stopped a group of old women at the front gate believing the cemetery was “a portal to another plane of existence.”Stuffed animals have also suddenly appeared on graves in the locked cemetery. Foxes will take the toys and drag them back to their dens, Zimmerman said.
The PDCD has held conservatorship over the property since 2021 after its former owner, A Washington D.C.-based attorney Joseph Dinsmore Murphy, let the property fall into complete disrepair. The cemetery’s headstones and pathways have been largely overrun with brush, critters and litter for decades.
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