A Texas high school football stadium was built on a graveyard in 1935. Bones are still turning up.

A football field in San Saba, Texas, was built atop a cemetery, and bones still sometimes...

The land was donated to the school district by the J.D. Rogan family, whom the field is now named after. The property was a cemetery from 1958 to 1934, and it is believed that about 200 bodies, including many Civil War soldiers, were buried there before it was no longer allowed to be used, according to Sports Illustrated.

KWTX reported that the city passed an ordinance in 1878 that required burials to take place only at a new city cemetery at the edge of town. Families were invited to move their own loved ones after the land was donated, but some chose not to do so. The remaining gravestones were removed to make way for the football field.

"While no one knows for sure how many bodies are resting beneath the sod, the Armadillos are grateful for their presence," Sports Illustrated [email protected]

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