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Table Of Content Rothwell Bone Crypt Most viewed Chammünster Ossuary Salzwelten: The Hallstatt Salt Mine Ancient Places Viral Articles Just as charnel houses can remind us of past deaths, so do hauntings serve the same purpose. However, some of the imagery in the film does recall that of charnel houses. Sometimes, when residents die, they do not have family members to arrange funerals or burials for them. As such, the managers of Kkottongnae Village opened a charnel house for said individuals. The priests at Kkottongnae Village say a daily Mass for their souls. Rothwell Bone Crypt Once the houses had served their purpose, they were burned to the ground and covered by earth, creating a sort of burial mound. Anthropologist William F. Romain in Mysteries of the Hopewell notes that these charnel houses were built in the form of a square, and their diagonals could be aligned to the direction of maximum and minimum moon-sets both north and south. Bodies were exhumed after only a few ...