Burial Ground Found in WV Man's Garden

A West Virginia man believes that his property holds remains from a Native American Burial Ground.  Ralph Carpenter claims there are a number of American Indian burial mounds in the hills above Henry's Fork and the West Fork of the Little Kanawha in Calhoun County. One, in fact, sits in the middle of his garden, covered in trees.

"I don't have trouble sleeping at night, and I'd like to keep it that way," Carpenter said of not disturbing the mound.

Carpenter, 65, and his wife of 47 years, Nancy, live year-round at the top of a wooded hollow between Letherbark and Henry's Fork in a rustic log cabin he pieced together from secondhand wood, metal and stone. He reportedly owns 180 to 190 acres. Most of the land is wooded and open for hunting.

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