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A common explanation for supernatural goings-on in the United States, most commonly seen in movies coming in two common varieties: A Haunted House is built on an ancient Indian burial ground. The disturbed spirits of the ancients of the land then enact their bloody vengeance against those who wake them by turning off the lights, making hooting noises, creating flies and maybe, if they feel up to it despite being dead, killing people. Sometimes this isn't known or revealed until the end, sometimes it's known only to the greedy land developer who just doesn't care as long as he gets it cheap, or to people who don't believe in such nonsense but will by the end of the movie. The other slightly less common version has the spirits of the dead not bothered by new construction (after all, people have to live somewhere). At least they weren't until someone dug up something they owned or disturbed their remains. At that point whoever did it or whoever was in the vicinity of it is cursed. Generally whatever horrible thing happens to the fool who did it will continue, following them from place to place no matter how far from the original burial ground they go, until they put whatever they took back or give the remains a proper burial. That activates the Curse Escape Clause and the dead go back to eternal resting until someone else decides to mess with them. The reasons for the ancient Indian burial ground are plenty. Burial sites are often connected with Ancient Evil, and, in the USA, unless your definition of "ancient" is pretty flexible, that means Native Americans. Some tribes didn't give their burial grounds signs that they were graveyards, such as tombstones, memorials or rolling clouds of Ominous Fog. Native Americans are stereotypically assumed to be more magical, and hence will have niftier ghosts. The plotline can play off the concept of The Savage Indian of The Western, or be used as a message about the compassionate native who got the shaft from settlers and then got an affordable three-bedroom home dumped on top of him by the evil real estate developer. Older works may ignore the supernatural aspect completely. For example, in The Western, disrespect for an Indian burial ground may lead to attacks by their very living relatives. In comedies, an Indian burial ground may be seen as the equivalent of Buried Treasure. For example, in Our Miss Brooks and Petticoat Junction (see below), characters actively searched for lost Indian burial grounds in hopes of monetary reward or professional recognition. This is mostly a Dead Horse Trope these days. If it gets used, it's often at least slightly tongue-in-cheek, humorous, lampshaded or subverted. In any plot with something weird happening, a Genre Savvy character may make the Obligatory Joke that it's due to an ancient Indian burial ground, even outside the Americas. On a more serious note, much like how Campbell Country is the non-American counterpart to Lovecraft Country, this trope can also be extrapolated to tombs and ruins from ancient cultures more appropriate in a given non-American setting. For example, stories set in Britain may use Celtic, Roman, Saxon, or Norse ruins to similar effect. Truth in Television to a point: from time to time a real estate developer in America will actually be chagrined to discover that their brand new subdivision was at one time the cemetery of a local tribe or a forgotten frontier settlement. It's also worth noting that in decades past, less scrupulous developers occasionally quietly disposed of such remains in the nearest empty hole, and even the more respectful tended to gather the remains and inter them en-mass in the local public cemetery with little to no effort made to identify them. This trope, however, seems to be a case of a Space Whale Aesop resulting in positive real world changes: These days the discovery of such sites by developers not wishing to Tempt Fate note or at least not wishing to lose potential home buyers who don't feel like putting their own skepticism to the test... usually results in very public demonstrations of utmost respect, proper archeological investigations, and dignified relocation or reinterring of the remains. Sub-Trope of Due to the Dead and Holy Ground (although, once disturbed, it can easily turn into Unholy Ground). Note that in many cultures, disturbing graves or other places related to the dead is regarded as dangerous. Note that this trope refers to Native Americans, not people of the country (or subcontinent) of India. The majority of the people of India are Hindu, and hence usually get cremated instead. This wiki does not, however, recommend desecrating burial grounds in India purely on the basis of this loophole. Compare Curse of the Pharaoh, Gypsy Curse, and Hollywood Voodoo, similar curse-related tropes with similar ethnic baggage. |
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A variation in Doom House, the house turns out to be built on a "terrorist burial camp". | |
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Despite being found in parodies of Poltergeist, Poltergeist itself averts this trope. When Steven tries to get answers from the greedy land developer, his answer is along the lines of, "What's the problem? It's not like it was built on an Indian burial ground." (He's technically correct, as the subdivision in which Steven and his family reside was actually built over a regular cemetery; the curse-and-vengeance aspects of the trope still seem to apply, however.) | |
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The Simpsons: In the very first "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special, it turns out that the Simpsons' new house is cursed because it was built on Indian burial grounds. When he discovers this, Homer calls the realtor who sold the house to him and angrily accuses him of keeping it secret. He apparently mentioned it five or six times. Mentioned in "Kamp Krusty" when Krusty the Klown reveals that the titular camp was built on an Indian burial ground. Subverted in that this fact is actually a sign of the camp's dismal quality, rather than actually affecting it. In the Simpsons' world, Krusty merchandise tends to be extremely shoddy and poor quality, if not outright dangerous to use. In "Treehouse of Horror V", the first segment is a The Shining parody, with the Simpson family moving into a haunted hotel. |
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Marik in Marik Plays Bloodlines searches a hotel haunted by Mel Gibson: | |
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The harvest festival on Parks and Recreation was built on Indian burial ground. The local tribal chief puts a curse on the festival (in spite of not believing in such nonsense) in order to get some negotiating leverage. When the town caves to his demands, he performs a spurious ceremony to remove the "curse." | |
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In Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, what's being built over an Indian burial ground is actually not a house, but a fast food restaurant. The title is kind of giveaway. | |
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One episode of Back at the Barnyard had Otis disturbing the spirits of deceased house pets when he built a shack over where they were buried. | |
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Used by Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans, to hide from other Native Americans. | |
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Within the Woods, a short film that Sam Raimi made in order to secure funding for The Evil Dead (1981), has Bruce Campbell disturbing an Indian burial ground. | |
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In The Last Continent, Rincewind asks if the cursed beer warehouse was built on an Aboriginal Burial Ground or other sacred site. Subverted because he's told the natives said the builders were welcome to the land, it was completely unwanted and unsacred. | |
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In an episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jerry has to go to the basement of the Atlas Dinner and discovers a stone plate stating it was built on such ground. | |
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SCP-4697 is a former First Nations residential school in northern Ontario with a mass grave of deceased students on the premises, which is fittingly spectacularly haunted. The Foundation's ongoing refusal to return the remains of the deceased students to their families is clearly not helping. | |
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Variation: the Supernatural episode "Bugs" puts the killer bug infestation up to the fact that the houses were built on what had once been an Indian village. After the village was destroyed by the Europeans, the village chief cursed the land so that no white man could ever live there. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, the reason that the Angels always make a beeline for NERV HQ is because it was built on top of the remains of the Second Angel Lilith, which they seek to use to trigger Third Impact and reclaim Earth for themselves. | |
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In Beyond: Two Souls, Jodie stays in a ranch owned by a Navajo family, which happens to be haunted by a restless spirit summoned by their ancestors. | |
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Lampshaded in Zombie Roadkill. Witches came in and burned the Indians' virgins, then cannibals ate the witches, then the government built a lab and experimented on murderers and child molesters. Then they built a cursed highway over it. | |
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In Identity after a few of the cast have been picked off by the still unknown antagonist, Clea DuVall suggests that maybe this is a result of the motel being built upon an Indian burial ground, as it is detailed in a brochure she read about the area they are in. Given the subsequent events, this would have to be considered a subversion. | |
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In Boneyard, a gargoyle jokes that the eponymous cemetery is built on the site of an Indian burial ground. | |
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Rose Red: As another Stephen King example, the haunting of the titular mansion is attributed, at least initially, to it being built atop an Indian burial ground in the prequel "diary". It seems to grow beyond this, however, since multiple victims of murder or who disappear in the house become malevolent ghosts, and the house itself becomes a Genius Loci. | |
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In The Whiteboard Tawny asks if the "outlaw" paintball field (where safety rules are ignored) is something like an old burial ground where "they only buried the really stupid ones." | |
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In the Arena of the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3, when you're helping debug the program the guy you're helping will joke that they've been having so many problems with their equipment that it's been speculated that the Arena was built over an old Prothean burial ground. | |
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In Batman, it's established in Dark Knight, Dark City that the reason Gotham is such a Wretched Hive despite Batman's work is that the city is an Eldritch Location built on top of a temple used in a Black Magic ritual that summoned the demon Barbatos (by Thomas Jefferson, for some reason). | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "She's the Mayor", when Phineas and the gang turn their backyard into an old timey frontier village, an inexplicable Old Coot comes with the village, and one of his blatherings is about the village being built on top of an Indian Burial Ground. When Dr. Doofenshmirtz is about to get kicked out of his building in "Run, Candace, Run", he tries to spread this rumor to make it unsellable. As all his endeavours, this does not work. |
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Our Miss Brooks: The promise of a large reward sees Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton search for a lost Indian Burial Ground in the episode ''Indian Burial Ground''. The trope is partially subverted as the supernatural plays no role in the program. This is fortunate for Miss Brooks and company, as they end up digging up an empty lot in search of artifacts! | |
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In The Sims 3, moving into a new house can trigger the "Indian Burial Ground" opportunity, summoning a few ghosts into the property. The player can choose to keep them or ask the repoman for help. | |
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The Finder story "Third World" has an Ascian (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to, in some ways, Native Americans) cemetery which is supposedly haunted and genuinely turns out to be the home of a Hate Plague-inducing nanotech AI. | |
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Justified in Dead Beat, which establishes that reanimated bodies in the world of The Dresden Files have more power if they've been dead longer. Hence, necromancers prefer to call up the undead from the oldest burial sites a given continent has to offer. Or a local museum's dinosaur exhibit. | |
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Goblin Hollow: Why Beltane claimed to want to perform a rite there. The only thing they were burying there was garbage, however. She really just wanted to harass Ben. | |
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In an issue of The Incredible Hulk, the eponymous Hulk lands in a Wild West Ghost Town, which was 'ghosted' by the vengeful ghosts of a nearby Indian Burial Ground, who were disturbed by the greed of the gold-miners. There, he gets attacked by Pariah, an undead cowboy wielding a Glowing Green Rock infused with the howling souls of a thousand angry indians. | |
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The Onion: Report: Economy Failing Because U.S. Built on Ancient Indian Burial Ground" | |
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Ghost Towns, a crossover between Werewolf: The Wild West and Wraith: The Oblivion, uses this as a possible scenario. In the Wraith book Mediums: Speakers with the Dead, Native American burial mounds are called out as being one of the few places in the living world where the original Dark Kingdom of North America, which oversees the Native American dead, is still strong. (Most of North America is under the control of Stygia, Europe's Dark Kingdom.) |
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In the premiere of Boss some workers discover an Indian burial ground while moving a Christian cemetery located on top of it. This severely derails the mayor's plans for extending the airport onto that site and threatens to put a stop to a massive 20-year redevelopment plan for the area. The man who failed to keep the discovery from the media gets his ears cut off as punishment. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters used this a few times: In one episode, the Monster of the Week was the result of toxic waste being dumped on an Indian burial ground. In another episode, a farm is haunted by the zombified family who used to own the place, because a later owner removed the tombstones from the family cemetery and built over it. (Ray says that this "meets all the criteria" for this type of haunting.) In yet another episode, a roller coaster at a carnival becomes "possessed" by the spirits of animals who died in a fire at a previous carnival that was on the site of the current one. Variant: "Night Game" had a site where ancient Native American spirits fought a war every five hundred years. In the present day, a minor-league baseball stadium was built over the site, so the latest skirmish between good and evil took the form of a baseball game... with Winston as shortstop. |
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In The Shining, it is mentioned early on that the Outlook Hotel was built on a burial site and the builders even had to fend off attacks from local tribes. Stanley Kubrick carries on the theme with the interior decoration of the hotel using Native motif and ornaments. This makes a clear metaphor for the white Americans invading and then appropriating what belonged to those that originally lived on the land. | |
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Petticoat Junction: In "Hooterville Valley Project", Uncle Joe briefly tricks a state official into believing that the Shady Rest Hotel is the site of an Indian Burial Ground. Not to scare him off, but to set up a archeological dig that would derail Mr. Bedloe's plans to flood the area with a dam. | |
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In Scalps, a group of students go digging in an Indian burial ground and have to face a restless spirit. | |
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At the start of Bone Eater, a construction crew desecrates one to build Dick Krantz's casino despite the local tribe's protests, awakening the titular monster which kills the crew employees. Krantz himself eventually pays dearly for his attempt when the monster comes to kill him. | |
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In How to Survive a Horror Movie, a sign your house may be haunted is Native Americans showing up to ask, "Where's our cemetary?" | |
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In Freeman's Mind, Gordon Freeman speculates early on that the Black Mesa research lab was built on an Indian burial ground, given its New Mexico location. He starts doubting it later on when finding that the entire facility is built inside a literal mesa. | |
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The Hawaii The Brady Bunch episode has the boys returning a taboo statue to the burial ground of the first kings to stop the bad luck they think it's causing. They end up running into an old archaeologist, played by Vincent Price, who's desperate to protect his find, ties them up for a while and talks to the big statue there. | |
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In The Venture Bros., the Venture compound was built over an Apache burial ground. Their ghosts rise from the dead and wreak havoc every year on "the anniversary," to the point that bodyguard Brock Samson considers it more of an annoyance than anything. Usually Dr. Orpheus, necromancer extraordinaire, takes care of it. | |
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In the second Oddworld game, Abe's Exoddus the Glukkons are making their Soulstorm Brew from the bones of ancient Mudukons buried in their ancient burial ground, the Necrum. To add further insult, the miners are blinded Mudokon slaves who aren't aware that they're desecrating their own ancestors. The game starts with the spirits of those ancient bones contacting Abe to shut down the brewery like he did Rupture Farms. | |
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Played with in Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil. Investigating the haunting at Harwood House, you discover that a (British) burial site had been bulldozed and the bones, dumped in a hole by some would-be renovators in the 90s. The twist is, Harwood House was already so intensely haunted, by ghosts from the 18th century, the 1920s, and The '80s, that a few additional spirits riled over the recent disturbance of their graves would just be more faces in a very large crowd. | |
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Inverted in Rutherford Falls, where some Native American characters come to believe that a cultural center located in an old colonial house is haunted by disgruntled white ghosts, and try to appease them using traditional gear such as Chardonnay, Cheers DVDs and Malcolm Gladwell books. | |
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Psychonauts: Lampshaded and subverted in a conversation with Frankie to Hand Wave why so many psitanium arrowheads, the currency of the game, are buried around the camp. Further played with during Vernon's story about the Ancient Indian Summer Camp built on top of a Caveman Burial Ground. |
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Inverted in an episode of Wellington Paranormal (a New Zealand parody of the X-files and Cops) when Sergeant Maaka discovers that the police station was overrun with ghosts because it was built on the site of an old cemetery belonging to what he calls the "P�keh�" (the Maori word for Caucasians). | |
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The eponymous Joe's Diner was built on top of one. As a result, the place is haunted by the ghosts of two Native American cheiftans currently buried there. | |
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In Until Dawn, Mount Washington is described as sacred to the Cree and the presence of the Wendigo were due to a curse placed on the land. This would mean the Washington estate, the sanatorium and most especially the mines were all built on native holy ground. | |
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A ghostless version is used in Jeremiah Johnson. Johnson, after spending a good chunk of the movie getting to know his family and get settled into the life of a mountain man, is recruited by soldiers to lead them through the hazardous mountains to rescue a caravan stranded in Crow territory (Crow Indians are referred to as the more dangerous of the local bands in the movie). Johnson reluctantly agrees and takes leads them. However, they come across a Crow burial ground and Johnson refuses to pass through, saying its sacred and that even Crow people don't often step foot in them. The soldiers balk at his warning and ask how long it would take to go around. Johnson says it would take days and the soldiers press Johnson to lead them through the graveyard, which he does, warning the soldiers to go slowly in single file and be absolutely silent. They make it safely through the burial ground and get to the caravan, but when Johnson goes back through the sacred grounds he notices, to his horror, that one of the skeletons is adorned with his wife's blue bead jewelery. He rides home as fast as he can and finds both his wife and adopted son slaughtered. | |
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In The Waltons season 6 episode "The Warrior", the Walton's barn is revealed to have been built on an Indian burial ground, and an old Cherokee man who wishes to be buried there demands they tear it down and purify the land, because they are desecrating it, which Pa Walton is dead set against. Things come to a head when the Cherokee man sets fire to the barn and insists he will continue trying after he is arrested. Grandpa Walton confirms that the burial ground is there by digging up the floor, shattering their original beliefs in "morally righteous white settlers versus savage Indians". The old Cherokee man dies from the stress in his holding cell, and the Waltons agree to let his son bury him on another part of their land, surrounded by nature. | |
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Grim Prairie Tales: Colby tries to make up lost time by cutting a across an Indian burial ground. Had he just kept riding, he might have been fine, but he just had to stop and pay Last Disrespects to a dying Indian. He then finds himself the target of a terrible vengeance from the tribe. | |
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From Dusk Till Dawn has a variant, with the final shot revealing that the vampire-infested strip club is actually the top layer of a mostly buried Mayincatec pyramid. | |
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In South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Indian Burial Grounds are a terrain type in the "Bring the Crunch" DLC where if characters die on certain tiles they'll be revived with buffs and have the Confused status, which causes them to attack both friends and allies. In the story, after encountering a dying camp counselor the kids decide to use the dirt of said burial grounds to try and save him. It promptly fails and the Creepy Gas-Station Attendant constantly following you tells you that the revival aspect was just a gameplay mechanic. | |
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Team Fortress 2: The fifth Scream Fortress event takes place around a portal to Hell the Mann brothers’ companies dug - Bluchart’s men found it by accident as part of mining operations, but Redmond’s were apparently trying to get there on purpose. Apparently Hell is pretty mundane, because the reason there’s possessed books and skeletons running around has nothing to do with that - it’s because they dug through an Indian burial ground to get there. Subverted in the sixth Scream Fortress event, where Merasmus forgets to build his Amusement Park of Doom over a Sumerian burial ground, which causes it not to work properly. He figures out a loophole and hires the mercenaries to kill people to provide enough bodies to create a "burial" ground for the amusement park. |
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One Nightmare Room book, called Camp Nowhere had a camp that was built on ancient Native-American ground. The camp was cursed to vanish forever, but a deal was made to let the campers return as ghosts for two days every year. | |
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CSI: In the B Story of "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp", a skeleton is found on the site of Sam Braun's old casino as it is being demolished. When Sara investigates, she finds Native American artifacts near the remains, she calls a halt to everything until their origins can be determined. The developers are worried that the site is a Native American burial ground; not because of any curse but beacuse if it is, the whole project will have to be shut down until a complete archaeological examination is conducted. However, the bones turn out to belong to a reporter who was murdered in 1964 while dressed in a Native American stage costume, and whose body was dumped in the casino foundation. | |
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"Ghost Photo Park", the second chapter in Twilight Syndrome, takes place in a city park that's gradually revealed to be plagued by a presence of vengeful, tormented spirits. The haunting is eventually revealed to have originated as a result of the park being a former execution site where the local feudal lord would send undesirables and political rivals to have their heads chopped off atop a hill, which would then roll down and accumulate in the nearby lake. It's mentioned that a Shinto shrine was eventually built on the grounds for the same reason in order to placate the spirits, but the hauntings resurfaced after it was torn down to build a parking lot. The chapter epilogue shows that a new, smaller shrine is built in the same location and seemingly restores peace. | |
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In the original film version of The Amityville Horror, the house moved into by an otherwise happy family is revealed to be built on an Indian burial ground. As in, the Indians sent their crazy people to this land to die, though they didn't bury them. The bad spirits there cause the husband/father to grow his beard, become moody, and develop a worryingly close relationship with an axe. | |
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Played for laughs in xkcd with this comic. | |
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South Park: The pet shop in "Spookyfish" was built on an Indian cemetery. However, that wasn't enough to anger the spirits, as the owner, one night, dug up the bodies, pissed on their bones, and buried them back upside down. "Asspen" has a character note that, among other things, K-13 was used as a burial ground by "a tribe of vampire Wichita Indians who ate the flesh of children with no eyes." "Margorine" parodies Pet Sematary (1989) when Butters' dad buries a dead pig (who he thinks is the dead Butters) in an ancient Indian burial ground to resurrect him. When Butters (who was Faking the Dead the whole time) returns, his dad assumes he Came Back Wrong and locks him in the basement. |
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In The Darkside Detective, the gate attendant at the camp ground claims it was built on the site of a massacre, and is haunted by the unquiet spririts of the Indians who died there. | |
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Ghost Master has an Indian ghost with a shed built on top of his grave. | |
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Pangs" concerns a tribal spirit that gets released when Xander excavates some land for a building site. Amongst other things, it gives him a venereal disease. Which one? All of them. | |
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5 Second Films has "The Used Car": | |
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The Family Guy episode "Petergeist" parodies the film Poltergeist (despite it being a regular cemetery in the film). Peter builds a multiplex in the back yard, then discovers that underneath is an Indian burial ground. He then finds an ancient Indian skull and uses it as codpiece. And then uses it to pee in. You'd think building a multiplex over an Indian burial ground would be enough to get him haunted for life, but noooo... | |
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The song "Rockin' the Suburbs" used as the ending song for Over the Hedge had the verse: | |
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Drawn Together has the episode "Ghostesses In the Slot Machines", where the cast discovers that the house was built on top of an ancient Indian burial ground during a remodeling challenge which disturbs the spirits and makes them haunt the house. To appease them, the housemates gives them a muddy patch of dirt in the backyard where the swingset used to be. The spirits wants to honor the land like their ancestors would have wanted; by building a casino on it. | |
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Several Creepy Pastas deal with this. Sniff is about a guy whose Granny's house in Glasgow is built on a collapsed mine. The story recounts how the narrator was woken up one night by the sound of sniffing. The house is haunted by one of the pit mules trapped in the accident. The Smiling Woman involves a First-Nations kid who accidentally desecrated a grave while playing in the woods one day, unleashing a demon who kidnaps children on his hometown Cabin Getaway (later novelized as Stolen Tongues) involves the characters girlfriend being attacked by F.N. ghosts when they visit her fsther's cabin in Michegan, which was actually built on an ancient indian battlefield which became Unholy Ground due to the ritual desecration performed on the losing side's corpses. In ''The Ozark Cable Incident," the local TV station had purchased an abandoned insane asylum, with attached cemetery. The company bulldozed the hospital and dug up the graveyard to make room for a bigger facility. The town's TV's would occasionally show images of a man with his eyes gouged out, and rotting corpses until the CEO of the company was persecuted for the desecration. |
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On Friends one of the things that Phoebe brings to adorn Monica's new antique dollhouse is a handkerchief ghost. She claims that this is because the house is built on an ancient Indian burial ground. And a toxic waste dump. | |
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In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hilda plans to put an Indian Burial Ground under an annoying neighbour's house, but Zelda stops her because that sort of thing affects the whole neighbourhood. | |
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Yvon of the Yukon has one of the main characters bring a visitor on a tour of his town, noting a ridiculous amount of buildings built upon an 'ancient Indian burial ground.' The one thing that wasn't was the modern Indian burial ground, which uses the latest in technology to ensure nobody can build on top of it. | |
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