Only in the South

Only in the South...

A nice big wine display - with a sign telling you that you can't buy any of it, because it's Sunday.

The Jesus billboard

First religious advertisement spotted during this trip to Georgia.

I bet so many people convert to Christianity because of this billboard. They go, "Man, the only thing holding me back was that I just couldn't remember the guy's name!"

Ghost Hunting: Slave Graveyard in Georgia

We pull up in front of a small Baptist church off the main road, just outside of Athens, Georgia. My brother leads us through some thick brush into the woods behind the parking lot. At the edge of the woods, there are a couple of modern gravestones.

We walk further into the woods. The last light of twilight is on the horizon.

Standing amidst the dark trees, we notice nothing out of the ordinary…at first. If you take a closer look at the ground, however, you will see them.

The graves. Where the slaves were buried.

They are barely recognizable—shallow depressions in the earth, just the size of a human body. All these years later, the earth still sinks down over the final resting places of these people. An unmarked flat stone has been placed at the head of each grave, the only manmade marker the tombs have received.

As we stand amidst the ancient stones and cold pine trees, my brother explains how he found out about the slave graveyard.