Brace yourself before reading.
Content warning: Discussions of death, homicide, and suicide.
Some descriptions may be graphic.
), what is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen?"
Hundreds of people who work around death shared their stories, which ranged from strange to weird to chilling.
Here’s everything they wrote:
1.
Without thinking, I grabbed his head and tried to ‘put it back on.’
I don’t know why.
The old timers laughed and teased me a few times.
It won’t be the last.'
I have heard of other people doing similar things but haven’t personally witnessed it."
bruisermcstinkfinger
3.
“A European bloke came in three weeks after falling off a horse.
He didn’t go to hospital when it happened.
He had literally shattered two ribs.
“I worked in a veterinary clinic for a while.
I have witnessed the phenomenon of ‘jumping ship’ twice.
Once, we had a cat who was old and sick brought in to be put down.
He had some ticks that all jumped off as soon as the drug was injected.”
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5.
She says it was one of the most unsettling moments of her career.”
The weirdest part of it is that he didn’t kill himself straight away.
Her body had decomposed more than he had.
Demaikeru
7.“Paramedic.
Hangings are always very eerie scenes.
They somehow seem staged, cinematic, and unreal.
And it’s odd what sticks in your memory.
Like how neatly they placed their slippers beside the ladder or how rough the knot was.
Hangings often extend the neck in an inhuman way.”
IrrelevantPuppy
8.
“I was transporting a man with liver disease and diabetes.
I wore my fucking gloves after that.”
Everyone in the room was like, ‘What the fuck?!'"
deficientbread
10.
He was feeling well on the day of discharge.
His sons came by to double-check he got on the ambulance.
I have never had a patient die while in the process of leaving the hospital.
It’s weird for a physician to say, but damn, what a good way to go."
dagayute
11.
So I started to suction it out, and then I realized he never started to breathe.
I checked a pulse.
He was dead, but his eyes were still open, like he was staring at me.
We left him in bed peacefully."
“Not really weird, just the only thing that stands out in my mind.
On this night, a body was brought in under special circumstances.
A body was found in a body of water, so the patient was already swollen from that.
It has been at least a few days since the time of death.
“This is what happened: all suspicious death autopsies are performed at a single location in my state.
It was the most putrid thing I’ve ever had to be a part of.”
Weiner_Queefer_9000
13.
“I work in a mortuary.
She looked like a lawnmower had attacked her and crudely stapled back together.”
His wife and adult kids came in that afternoon to make arrangements.
We ended up picking up both the husband and the wife at the same time.
And no, those greedy sons-of-bitches didn’t offer the family a discount on the removals.”
Haceldama
15.
“Paramedic here; this isn’t involving death, but it’s the weirdest thing I’ve seen.
The patient looks at me and goes, ‘Do you know the time?’
I told the patient, ‘I actually don’t’ (my phone was dead).
The patient says, ‘It’s okay, it is 8:17.’
Then says, ‘Do you know how I know?’
I look at her and say, ‘You have a watch?’
She then goes, ‘No, Jesus told me.'”
“I then asked my partner what time it was, for the hell of it.
Sure enough, she got the time right.
Didn’t say a damn word the rest of the ride.
“Medical student here and been in the hospitals all year.
She went from cheerful and talkative to a shaky, catatonic mess within a week.
Her skin looked like that yellow construction paper from elementary school.”
BTW, the brain turns to liquid when it dies (liquefactivenecrosis).
But organs always have weird anomalies.”
luxunit
18.
“I went to a car accident where a man had a watch embedded in his head.
He was driving one-handed when he collided, and the airbag forced the watch into his skull.”
“I had a patient die in ICU that was in his 60s or so.
He was a missionary who came back early from a South American country due to abdominal pain.
His bowel had perforated due to parasitic worms.
When he died, the abdomen was still wiggling.
I cleaned him up, bagged him, and prayed that the worms didn’t come through.
I hope the morgue freezer killed those things.
That was the most gross thing I have ever witnessed in many deaths I have seen.”
This week, there was a foot found at a train yard.
It turns out it belonged to a homeless guy in another state riding the rails.
Dth_Invstgtr
21.
“My husband worked in the medical field for years.
Once, he was in an elevator with someone from a science donation pushing a cart.
Another woman on the elevator asked what was in the cart.
I didn’t know they cut up the bodies like that.”
monsters_Cookie
And lastly:
22.
We get called for a 60-something man, short of breath.
We get our stair chair and attempt to get him from his bed into the chair.
He collapses, has a syncopal episode, and comes to a few seconds later.
I say, ‘We have to get you on this chair.
We need to get you down the stairs to get you on the stretcher.’
he says… ‘I’ll show you.’
AND THEN HE FUCKING DIED."
We did this four or five times before getting him into the resuscitation room in the ER.
He ended up walking out of the hospital five weeks later.
It was so whacky."
Neo_Knievel
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
