graverobbers
Cemetery theft perpetrators
Graverobbers are people who dig up corpses or steal from graves.
Historically, graverobbers supplied cadavers to medical schools for dissection, or looted burial sites for valuables.
The term extends to anyone who profits from the dead or desecrates their memory: Those estate lawyers are nothing but graverobbers.
Also spelled as two words.
Those who steal during chaos
- plunderersThose who steal violently
- desecratorsThose who profane sanctity
- thievesThose who commit larceny
- pillagersThose who ransack
smugglers · fencing · black-market · contraband · trespassers · vandals · sacrilege · profanation
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- cadaversBodies after death
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- cryptsSubterranean burial chambers
mausoleums · shrouds · coffins · burial · corpses · graveyards · cemeteries · tombstones
Bathed in lunar glow
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- shadowyObscured by darkness
- lanternsEnclosed portable light sources
- darknessTotal absence of light
stealthy · furtive · cloaked · silhouettes · shovels · digging · eerie · gloom
looters
Those who steal during chaos
- plunderersThose who steal violently
- desecratorsThose who profane sanctity
- thievesThose who commit larceny
pillagers · smugglers · fencing · black-market · contraband · trespassers · vandals · sacrilege · profanation · illegal
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- cadaversBodies after death
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
crypts · mausoleums · shrouds · coffins · burial · corpses · graveyards · cemeteries · tombstones · epitaphs
moonlit
Bathed in lunar glow
darkness · stealthy · furtive · cloaked · silhouettes · shovels · digging · eerie · gloom · nightfall
excavation
Act of unearthing
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- digUnearth by shoveling
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
relics · mummies · sarcophagi · funerary · tombs · pyramids · barrows · tumuli · fieldwork · preservation
graverobbersmourners
Those lamenting a death
grievers · bereaved · pallbearers · loved ones · death doulas
graverobbersgravediggers
Those who excavate burial plots
groundskeepers · sextons · undertakers · funeral directors · morticians