What is it actually like to get down into the dirt and carve out a space for a body’s final resting place? On this episode of Atlas Obscura Tries, Director of Video Chris Naka picked up a shovel and joined Ed Bixby, owner and operator of Steelmantown Cemetery in Woodbine, New Jersey, to see what it would be like to partake in this practice.

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CREDITS

Directed by
Derrick Belcham

Produced by
Doug Baldinger

Production Assistant
Lizzie Philip

Special Thanks
Ed Bixby

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