Did anyone watch the segment yesterday (5/20) about the housing development that is built over a cemetery called "Black Hope Cemetary"? Two particular families (Haney's & Williams's) that were terrorized by the spirits spoke on the segment. Does anyone know where exactly this housing development is. I can't believe that the girl that was digging for the grave died of a massive heart attack afterwards and she was only 30 years old. What is everyone's thoughts about this story?

I saw part of this story. the lifetime website says it was in Newport, Texas outside of Houston.

http://www.unsolved.com/0229-Blackhope.html

How sad that the developers thought nothing of building over a cemetary just because the people buried their were too poor to have headstones. It sounds a bit too much like "Poltergeist" to me, but i wasn't there.

Actually it's the subdivision called Newport, not the town, and it's near Crosby, a small town northeast of Houston.

There is a town called Newport, but it's close to Dallas.

Recently, in Houston something similar happened again, but this time it was the Allen Parkway Housing Projects.
They had decided to tear them all down and rebuild new complexes, but in digging around once the debris was all gone, they found another pauper cemetary with no markers anywhere. As I recall, one story said city records didn't have it platted on their land maps, and it was said it was because it wasn't an "official" cemetary - poor people just went and buried their folks on that land.
Another story said that the city had moved all the bodies to another cemetary, but evidently, just like in Poltergeist, turns out they only moved the stones.
Never did find out which story was true.

The difference with this case is that no one who had lived in the original project complex ever complained about strange things happening.
Last I remember was that there had been some mediation going on, some local members of a black history group wanted to push to either have the cemetary restored and have research done to find who is buried there, or they wanted to have the bodies removed to another nearby cemetary. Either one was going to cost the city money, and I'm not sure they wanted to spend any.

They never have said what ultimately happened.

Also as I recall, originally that black man had tried to tell the developers about the cemtary before anything was ever built on the land. They had laughed and asked him how he knew, and he said he had helped with the burials when he was a boy. They didn't believe him, just thought he was a rambling silly old man and sent him away.
Should always listen to the old folks!

Finally, it brings to mind a house my sister used to own. That subdivision is built on land that belonged to one of the original settling families to the area. Anyway, sis's house is right down the street from the family's cemetary, complete with historical marker.
The little cemetary is fenced off, but has houses built right up next to it.
All seems safe, until you read the marker, which states that the family originally set aside 3 acres for the cemetary. Looking at what's fenced off you clearly see that it's not 3 acres, and folks weren't always buried with markers.
Some peculiar things did happen at her house. Sometimes we'd take pictures and see "orbs" floating around.
A couple times the back door opened, yet the door had been closed, locked and deadbolted, yet it would just "float" open.
one time the baby got this really fearful frightened look on his face and screamed for half an hour. We could not get him calmed down, and there was no reason for him to be crying.
Things would fall off shelves, or sound like it, but when we checked, everything would be in place. The phone would ring, the answering machine would pick up, and nothing.
Nothing really bad though, just strange, and that was down the street from the cemetary.

Makes me wonder how common this situation really is?