Print ArticleSo you thought you knew Jacksonville? Here's a few long lost facts about downtown that will have you wondering what else is out there that you don't know.
6. Poltergeist on Church Street
In 1982, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer generated $121.7 million at the box office for a film focused around ghosts originating from an improperly relocated cemetery underneath a new neighborhood. Called Poltergeist, that movie was fiction. On downtown's "Billy Goat Hill," there really was a cemetery improperly relocated.
In 2001, while working on underground utilities for the Parks at Cathedral townhome development, contractors discovered human remains. This area was then determined to be a part of the Old City Burial Grounds, Jacksonville's oldest documented public cemetery. The 19th century graveyard was relocated, allowing the project to move forward. 
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