Random Coroners Describe the Gnarliest Bodies They've Ever Seen (16 items)

• (#9) Swallowed A Fish Bone

  According to iLauraawr:

  My sister works as a histologist and has helped out for one or two autopsies. She told me a story of how when they were doing an autopsy on this guy his bowels were extremely swollen, hard and stuck [sic] together. On further examination, he had swallowed a fish bone which pierced his stomach, into his intestines and skewered them together.
• (#15) Baby In A Microwave

  According to Redditor somethingspiffy:

  I was a biological anthropology major with a minor in forensics. She was a forensic investigator for years and never seemed to be bothered by anything blood and gore. I came to know her pretty well and we were talking one night while on a three-week field school. She said she could deal with all the car crashes and gunshot victims. Adults or kids.

  She was called in on a case one night and she said she knew something was really bad because of the looks on the detective faces. She was directed to the kitchen. She was expecting a bloodbath. There was no body laying in the floor. There was no blood splattered on the walls. There was, however, a microwave with a baby in it.

  That was her last case. She quit and became a teacher. I've never verified the details but I don't have any reason not to believe her.

  Edit: More than one person mentioned True Detective. That's not were this came from. I was told this over a decade ago and as far as I know she was telling the truth. This is a lady who worked identifying victims at the Oklahoma City bombings and taught me how to do facial reconstruction. I believed her.
• (#16) Anatomical Abnormalities

  Some stories from Typhun:

  I have a few thousand hours of cadaver dissection under my belt, and anatomical abnormalities are my absolute favorite to stumble upon during the course of a dissection. We all have a general plan with our bodies that most of us follow, but there are variations that will never have any positive or negative impact that you will never know about, and somebody like me stumbles upon it after the fact.

  There are a lot of documented variations in texts like Gray's Anatomy, but sometimes you'll stumble upon things that you can't really identify or aren't really too well documented. Some people will have extra muscles in there arms, legs, or hands. I'm not talking about things like plantaris or palmaris longus, but extra muscles that re completely unique with no documented names that I could find. It's always really odd.

  Sometimes, people will have congenital abnormalities and be missing a muscle, artery, nerve, etc. One person, their vertebral artery came directly off of the aorta on the right (I believe, going by memory) as opposed to the subclavian which is the normal occurrence. Now, the really odd part about this was that the left vertebral artery terminated at the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, so the basilar artery contribution was only from the right vertebral artery. Their Circle of Willis had an incomplete contribution, but I don't know anything about the people when they are alive so I don't know if they had any cognitive or neurological deficits.
• (#3) Facial Dissection Of A Slain Person

  Shared by SparkleSpectre:

  Trainee anatomical pathology technician here (AKA mortician, I guess). Th[e] most interesting and creepiest thing I have seen so far was a facial dissection of a [slain person]. Basically the face is peeled off the skull from the chin upwards, but is left attached at the nose to help re-orientate it back into it's original position (even though it can never be perfectly placed back to where it was)... Was very strange to see the inside of someone's mouth folded up over the rest of their face.
• (#13) Shot Through The Eye

  From Redditor Yorkshiretit:

  I'm an anatomy student and there's a museum at the university with all different pathological specimens. The one that haunts me till this day is a jar containing just a man's face which was shot through the eye. The rest of the face is surprisingly intact, well the best you could hope for after being shot.
• (#12) Crack Santa

  From pericardia:

  So I used to do some work for a forensic anthropologist at the MEO in our city. We once had a set of remains that were 1) found in a chimney 2) with a crack pipe and 3) a burlap sack.

  We called him Crack Santa.

  I'm pretty sure if any of my friends see this on reddit my identity is blown, but worth it!

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