Trinket hunters blamed for targeting ghost town cemetery in southern B.C.
COALMONT, B.C. — Someone is digging holes in the cemetery of a ghost town in southern British Columbia and a member of the local historical society believes it’s the work of misguided treasure hunters.
“It’s pretty disturbing, very disheartening,” said Bob Sterne, who has tended the cemetery in the former gold rush town of Granite Creek for more than a decade.
Sterne said Friday he checked the area after the Victoria Day long weekend and was surprised to find 16 new, but familiar, shallow holes where the ground had been dug up and replaced.
“My guess is, because we have seen those kinds of marks before, that it was somebody with a metal detector and when they get a ping they dig a shallow excavation, find anything or don’t find anything, and fill the hole back in.”