History Main / IndianBurialGround

*** I have to add to this. The question was also asked in the book if the Wendigo was a real thing, or did some Indians get a taste for human flesh and then claim the Wendigo had touched them, as in the Devil Made Them Do It? The only person who ever actually sees anything like a Wendigo is Louis Creed, and by that point he's already well into madness, carrying his child's body. To me, these are the kinds of things that scare me about King's novels. Crazy Wendigo beast? Nah, probably not real. The demons in our own minds that cause us to do crazy stuff? Definitely real, and in all of us.
**** It may have been Louis' insanity that made him bring his son to the graveyard, but no psychological phenomenon would explain the fact that everything buried there comes back from the dead. Blame what you want on psychology and human nature, but even that can only go so far.

* FiveSecondFilms has "[[http://5secondfilms.com/watch/the_used_car The Used Car]]":
-->''"You don't want this one. It was built on an '''indian burial ground'''. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking there's a stuck tape]]."''
** Although, considering that the tape is Cyndi Lauper, [[TakeThat it's debatable as to what's worse]].

* 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.

* In one Donald Duck story, Indian Ghosts suddenly appear in Donald and the Boys' house (after Donald made a huge short circuit by wiring all household appliances on one plug hole). Subverted, as the boys first think it's a case of ole' IndianBurialGround, but it turns out, that it's an ancient Indian relaxation spot, and they find the house comfortable.

A common cause for supernatural goings-on in America, commonly seen in movies: A [[HauntedHouse house is haunted]] or {{Curse}}d due to being 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, killing people.

--->--''{{xkcd}}''

This is a mostly a DiscreditedTrope, mainly due to most viewer's recognition of it. If it gets used, it's often at least slightly tongue-in-cheek, humorous, heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] or [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. In any plot with something weird happening, a GenreSavvy character may theorize that it's due to Ancient Indian Burial Ground, even if they're in Europe or Asia* at the time.

-->* Note that this trope refers to Native Americans, not people of the Country 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 [[LoopholeAbuse purely on the basis of this loophole.]]

* In an issue of ''TheIncredibleHulk'', the titular 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 [[GlowingGreenRocks Glowing Green Rock]] infused with the howling souls of a thousand angry indians.

* In {{Boneyard}}, a gargoyle jokes that the titular cemetery is built on the site of an Indian burial ground.

* 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 [[spoiler: his wife's blue bead jewellry. He rides home as fast as he can and finds both his wife and adopted son slaughtered.]]
* 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.

* 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. The bad spirits there cause the husband/father to grow his beard, become moody, and develop a worryingly [[{{Ax Crazy}} close relationship with an axe.]]

* GoblinHollow: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00201.html Why Beltane claimed to want to perform a rite there.]]
* Played for laughs in xkcd with [[http://xkcd.com/782/ this comic.]]

-->'''Lisa:''' An ancient Indian burial ground!
-->'''Bart:''' Wow, this place has everything!

--->'''Mr Burns''': This house has quite a long and colorful history. It was built on an ancient Indian burial ground and was the setting of satanic rituals, witch-burnings, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking five John Denver Christmas specials.]]\\

-->'''Didi:''' Looks like someone's finally taking the Patents' place.
-->'''Betty:''' Yep, must be nobody told them about the house being built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
-->'''Didi:''' Oh, Betty, that's just a myth.
-->'''Betty:''' Yeah? [[NoodleIncident Tell that to the Patents]].

-->* Note that this trope refers to Native Americans, not people of the Country 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.

* Land belonging to California State University Long Beach was found to contain an Indian burial ground/sacred site when development unearthed human remains. There have been occasional plans to turn it into a mini-mall or parking lot, but after the college endured protests it has been left undisturbed and undeveloped. (The remains that were revealed in the initial development were reburied by ancestors of the tribe.)

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* Lampshaded to hell and back in ZombieRoadkill. 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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->'''Girl''': Remember last week when we dug up all those Indian bones and made puppets out of them?\\
'''Guy''': Sure...\\
'''Girl''': It turns out they were buried over an ''ancient [[IndianBurialGround Indian burial ground]]!''
-->--'''[[http://xkcd.com/782/ xkcd]]'''

* Parodied in xkcd with [[http://xkcd.com/782/ this comic.]]

* Lampshaded in xkcd with [[http://xkcd.com/782/ this comic.]]

->'''Girl''': Remember last week when we dug up all those Indian bones and made puppets out of them?\\
'''Guy''': Sure...\\
'''Girl''': It turns out they were buried over an ''ancient [[IndianBurialGround Indian burial ground]]!''
-->--'''[[http://xkcd.com/782/ xkcd]]'''

->'''Girl''': Remember last week when we dug up all those indian bones and made puppets out of them?\\

'''Girl''': It turns out they were buried over an ''ancient [[IndianBurialGround indian burial ground]]!''

'''Girl''': It turns out the were buried over an ''ancient [[IndianBurialGround indian burial ground]]!''