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Gravestone prank hits after 3 decades
HYDE PARK, Utah, A Utah woman working to remodel her home said a gravestone she discovered hidden in a basement wall was placed as a practical joke in the 1970s.
Miriam Gunn of Hyde Park said she discovered the white gravestone, which bears the name Earl Stephen Balls and marks the year as 1900, behind wall of a shower in the basement bathroom of the house, which dates back to the 1960s, The (Logan, Utah) Herald Journal, reported Tuesday.
Gunn's husband, Rob, contacted the previous owner of the house, who revealed his then-15-year-old son had placed the broken gravestone in the wall as a practical joke while remodeling in the 1970s.
"I got the idea when we were framing it that someone would open up the wall a hundred years from then and find it. Turned out it wasn't a hundred years later," said the prankster, who asked not to be named.
The man said he found the gravestone in his back yard and does not know how it came to be there. Earl Balls is buried at the nearby Hyde Park Cemetery and his grave bears a newer stone.
HYDE PARK, Utah, A Utah woman working to remodel her home said a gravestone she discovered hidden in a basement wall was placed as a practical joke in the 1970s.
Miriam Gunn of Hyde Park said she discovered the white gravestone, which bears the name Earl Stephen Balls and marks the year as 1900, behind wall of a shower in the basement bathroom of the house, which dates back to the 1960s, The (Logan, Utah) Herald Journal, reported Tuesday.
Gunn's husband, Rob, contacted the previous owner of the house, who revealed his then-15-year-old son had placed the broken gravestone in the wall as a practical joke while remodeling in the 1970s.
"I got the idea when we were framing it that someone would open up the wall a hundred years from then and find it. Turned out it wasn't a hundred years later," said the prankster, who asked not to be named.
The man said he found the gravestone in his back yard and does not know how it came to be there. Earl Balls is buried at the nearby Hyde Park Cemetery and his grave bears a newer stone.