WARNING:This post contains graphic content regarding death, dead bodies, and gore.
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“I was 16 and working at a nursing home as an aide.
On my third day, a woman died peacefully after being in a coma for a week.
I had never seen a dead body up close before.
She let out a long ‘uuuuuuuuuhhhhhgh.’
I booked it out of there and ran to the seasoned nurse, sobbing.
Anonymous
2.
“A woman in our nursing home was dead.
She wasn’t breathing, but her heart was still beating because she had an implanted heart monitor.
They couldn’t pronounce her dead, because of the beating heart.
“I was working the night shift at my first nursing job.
One of our patients was in end-stage liver disease from alcoholism and was expected to die any day.
Then, we went about our other tasks for the night.
Soon after, I heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the exam room where the gurney was.
We unwrapped him and found him very much alive.
We called the doctors, who reversed his death and put him back to bed.
“My best friend works in the death business.
To set the scene, a family called in that their mother had passed in her apartment.
It was on the third story of a building that had narrow halls and no elevators.
Anyways, she went to pick up the body to take back to the funeral home with an assistant.
Mind you, the whole family was there and pretty much in hysterics.
They crowded around as my friend and her assistant made their way down the stairs with the body.”
The body started letting out farts straight into my friends face.
Pfffft, Pfft, Pfft, Pfft with every step down they take.
u/sweetoklahome
5.
“This is a friend of a friend’s story.
She (a mortician) met some guy at the bar.
They hit it off, and she gave him her number.
Before the funeral service, she received several calls from an unknown number.
Whenever she picked up, there was no response.
u/ThrowawayPOOPEY
6.
“This is my mother’s story from back when she was a teenager.
A guy she knew took a job at the local funeral home.
He worked the graveyard shift, and all was well for the first few months.
Dude was often weirded out at work, claiming that the building was haunted.
They picked her up, and the guy was freaking out, saying he had a bad feeling.
“He went about his work, still a little freaked out.
Suddenly, he heard this low, soft moan.
He swore it was just his mind playing tricks on him and went about his business.
He heard it again, a little louder than last time.
A short time passed, and it got louder.
His first thought was that the mortician was fucking with him.
He had been shaken all evening, and this asshole was pranking him.
The dead lady grabbed the guy’s wrist.
He let out this scream, bolted for the door, and ran all the way home.
Turns out, the lady wasn’t dead.
The hospital got it wrong (hooray, 1950s medicine).
She woke up at the funeral home and scared the everloving hell out of the assistant.
The guy quit the next day and said he would never set foot there ever again.”
u/CylonsInAPolicebox
7.
“My dad is a mortician.
Growing up, we lived above the funeral home.
My life was just like the movieMy Girl.
Dad has been a mortician for over 40 years and has tons of stories.
The worst by far is the human soup guy.
Apparently, this elderly gentleman passed away while having a bath…with the water still running.
He was living alone in the house with very little family.
I dont remember how long he was in the bath before before someone found him.
My dad went to pick up the body, and he was essentially human soup.
The hot water constantly running and the amount of time cause his body to turn to mush.
He said the smell was the worst he ever smelt.
u/mrsluzzi13
8.
“About seven years ago, my friend took a gig as a custodian at a funeral home.
The job description itself sounded great from what he told me.
It was the graveyard shift and not full-time, but the pay was good.
Next to the funeral home was a separate garage-looking building where the mortician would take care of his business.
My friend only did this job for six days before he quit.”
“Here’s how he described it to me.
The first few days went okay.
He was nervous about working there at night but was able to brave it out.
He went in, quickly looked around, and started to leave.
Then, at the last moment, he heard something drop and hit the ground.
He stopped and stared back for a moment and decided, ‘Fuck it, I don’t care.’
This is where shit got weird.
He got up and walked away.
He took a moment to gather himself, then walked out and locked everything up for the night.
Just at that last moment, he heard a loud bang, like a door slamming.
He bolted to his car and sped home.
u/ObiMemeKenobi
9.
“I was ready to embalm a lady who just arrived and was pronounced dead within the past hour.
It is best to embalm as soon as possible to death for the best results.
As I opened her Carotid artery, blood began to squirt out like her heart was beating.
I asked my very experienced boss if he had ever seen that before, and he hadn’t.
So, I asked if he thought she was still alive.
At that moment, the blood made one last big gush and stopped.
‘She’s not anymore,’ he said as he left.”
“I work with the dead (procure eyes and corneas for transplant).
Just his face, nothing else.
“There was a lady who had passed at our mortuary.
She was in the cooler, and it had not been long since she’d died.
The viewing went off without a hitch.
The next day, I was back at work and afraid to go downstairs past the bottom step.
I said, ‘I am sorry I said you stunk, but you did.
I wasnt expecting it because you just died.’
I realized that the apology still mentioned her slight odor, so I apologized profusely again.
Later, I was in the basement with my co-worker, past the cooler where she was residing.
It slammed my forehead straight into the shelf base in front of me!
My co-worker said, ‘Why did you do that?’
and I said, ‘I didnt!’
“I heard on the news that a friend from my youth had been killed.
u/Wackydetective
13.
“This happened when I was a kid in the late 1940s in Connecticut.
Well, one day, the cemetery manager came to inspect the facility and noticed something disturbing.
Two of the recently deceased had bruises on their faces.
When he asked the night watch what had happened, he found out why.”
“Apparently, the night watchman got tired of sitting there all night with nothing to do except drink.
He propped them up at the table and dealt the cards.
It seemed like all went well for the first few nights.
meaning a larger body needed to be cremated.
My Dad was in prime shape and said sure.”
The crematorium was nearly automated.
So, my Dad and Mr. Mort set it and walked down the street for a coffee.
About 20 minutes later, they saw a firetruck go by but thought nothing of it.
Then another one went by.
This was a small town in western South Dakota, so there weren’t many firetrucks.
What happened: the lady was too large for the machine.
u/Bugloaf
15.
Beneath the hospital, they had these long, dark tunnels leading from one building to another.
It was late at night, so she asked a security guard to walk with her.
The only sound was the rattle of the wheels and cart.
She found the cord and pulled it to find the room filled with covered bodies on gurneys.
It emitted a loud groan and shuddered violently.
She never went to the room alone after that.”
lunallee212
16.
“I have a few stories.
Being trapped in the morgue alone during a hurricane.
Our morgue was basically in a basement, and the hospital was near a main waterway that flooded.
There was a guy who’d drowned and was dead on arrival.
Once we locked him up in the cabinet, we started hearing a tapping noise from where he was.
The creepiest was when we got some people who were taking bath salts and had eaten other people. "
“My best friend growing up lived in the ‘upstairs’ of his family-owned funeral home.
u/slytherinprolly
18.
“My wife is a mortician.
u/iamblankenstein
19.
“We had an older lady come into the ER in full arrest.
We worked her for a bit: compressions, epi, intubation, etc.
Docs did an ultrasound of her heart to check for activity prior to calling a time of death.
Family on site were notified; they said their goodbyes to their loved one and provided funeral home info.
Did we purposely give her the wrong information?
Right info, right patient.
Who knows, but I saw the ultrasound, and there was no movement.
No vital signs, no pulse, no cardiac activity.
Still, they had the option of calling her a full code status again since she was alive again.
It took a few hours for her to pass…again.”
“A dead guy farted on me.
Im an RN and was helping to wrap my first dead patient.
I shrieked and jumped back while my seasoned colleagues laughed at me.”
“One of the decedent’s grandsons faked a breakdown over the casket.
While doing so, he stole all of her jewelry off her body.
u/tossaway78701
22.
“I worked at a funeral home for quite awhile.
When I first started about a month in I was working during a holiday weekend.
The only people there were the transport guys and me.
They came to drop off a body and left right away.
I thought they were still there and needed to ask a question.
It literally made me pee a little in fright.”
“Turns out, the transport guys picked up the body from an area hospital.
He’d passed away while in a slightly reclined position, and rigor mortis had set in.
So, they couldn’t flatten him out.
u/nachosquid
23.
“I was a student nurse when a patient assigned to me passed away.
It freaked me out so much that I bolted outside.
“Back in the day, I worked for a funeral home.
More often than not, this was typically in the middle of the night.
Doe' get comfortable in our cooler, I was ready to leave.
This door is very big, very heavy, and takes some power to open and close.
u/Gh0stW1thTheM0st
25.
“A friend told me this story ages ago, and I hope I remember it well enough.
It wasn’t autopsied or prepared for funeral yet, but that was where they were taking it.
So, it was wrapped and just sort of laying on the floor.
Sitting up caused it to expel more air from its lungs.
u/crazy-diam0nd
26.
“I am an ER nurse.
But their phone stayed behind in the ER by accident.
Every day at 2:30 p.m., an alarm would go off.
So, we locked it in the med room, but it was still really loud.
To this day, I shudder when I hear the same ringtone.”
u/NurseJoy_IRL
27.
“My ex-in-laws were in the death business.
They told me a story once about the county attorney whose wife passed away.
The family was very wealthy, and she had a mouth full of gold fillings.
The attorney demanded that my inlaws retrieve the gold from her mouth.
This required using a dental drill to drill down her teeth and dig out the gold.
u/aylandgirl
28.
“My creepiest moment was when I was in the morgue by myself at 4 in the morning.
I was using the lift to put a body into a crypt.
It had reached roughly eye level when the power suddenly went out.
It was pitch dark I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face.
I couldn’t make out what they were saying or where they were coming from.
The power came back a few moments later, and I moved on with my night.”
Haha, still creepy.”
u/Swazz_bass
29.
“Im an RN.
One of my patients died.
Two nurses are required to prepare the body for the mortician, which entails washing it and stuffing orifices.
I was one of them on this occasion, and it was my first experience doing so.
No one prepared me for what happened.
The damp cotton balls we placed to keep his eyes closed fell off, and his eyes opened.
The last of the air from his lungs escaped, making him groan.
This all happened at once, and I was terrified.
I almost dropped him with fright!”
“Worked at a mortuary for a few years.
During a viewing, the gear failed, and this gentlemans mouth literally popped open.
The lead embalmer was not on site, so I did my best.
It looked as if he was attempting to scream.”
u/Maelja
31.
“I had a gig doing overnight transport of dead bodies for a while.
Think black suit, white shirt, black tie, unmarked black van, and white gloves.
Our boss wanted us to look high-end.
It’d been a solid two hours of total silence when the corpse let out a low wail.
It sounded like, ‘uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh!'”
The carriage they had taken got stranded, and the boy went for help.
The girl, unfortunately, froze to death in the carriage, in an upright, seated position.
u/DeathFrisbee2000
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