Elvis Presley's crypt goes under the hammer

Elvis Presley's original crypt is going up for sale as part of celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien's Music Icons auction next month. The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died on August 16, 1977, Stuff.co.nz reported. Two months later, they were re-buried at his Graceland home after a failed attempt to steal the singer's body from the crypt. The pair were then moved and reburied in Graceland's meditation garden, where they remain to this day. The original crypt has stayed empty ever since. Julien said that the winning bid from the auction beginning June 23 would receive the crypt, opening and closing of the vault for burial, a memorialisation inscription and use of a chapel for a committal service. Transportation and funeral home charges are not included.