A Worker Found A Box With A Smiley Face Filled With Strange Items
[ranking: 10]
From TheWarlockk:
"I was weed whacking one day when this lady with two kids told me she found a weird box in a Walmart bag buried by the baby section... I walked over there and this wooden box had a heart with a smiley face on it with cross bones drawn behind the heart, all on the top of the box. I opened it to find varying items like broken glass, blue cloth, and a button. I think there was something else. I told my boss and he told the priest, who said it was witchcraft."
A Coffin Leaks Green Ooze
[ranking: 7]
From ExplosionsInTheRye:
"...We exhumed a coffin for a reburial elsewhere that broke when we were lifting it out. We brought it over to the work yard while we waited for the truck and some green ooze started coming out the one end. It didn't smell at all, and had the texture of mashed up Jell-O."
A Cemetery Visitor Tried To Commit Suicide
[ranking: 11]
From Ugly_Couch:
"It didn't happen while I was there, but my boss said someone slit their throat at their grandma's grave. They had to run over and save the guy."
An Encounter With A Perfectly Seated, Fresh Corpse
[ranking: 1]
From adelvetica:
"This was pretty much when I decided that I couldn't work at the cemetery anymore...
As I drive up to my usual spot, I notice a white car parked in the middle of the road at a diagonal, almost blocking the entire road. I parked behind it and thought it was weird, but maybe an elderly person was visiting early or something. I got out of my car and started walking up the hill to get to our office on the other side. On the hill there was a brick path with a railing. As I'm walking up on the brick path, it's really bright, but I can sort of see someone slouched on the path with their head down low, sort of leaning against the railing.
Sometimes there are homeless people who sleep in the cemetery. I thought this was one of those situations, so I got off the path and walked on the grass, trying to avoid encountering the person. But as I got closer, I realized that there was something seriously wrong. I walked a bit closer and immediately knew this person wasn't alive. I didn't want to walk closer, but I could see it was a woman and she had a thin noose tied around her neck, and there was blood everywhere around her.
...The other weird part was that she was perfectly sitting, almost like she had been placed there or something. It could've just been a coincidence, I don??t know. After that horrible viewing, we went back to the office and waited for the police to come...
They came back half an hour later and told us they found a suicide note in the car I parked behind. They told us she was a former nurse and had recently lost her daughter. No one knew if the woman??s daughter was buried nearby, or why she picked that spot she did."
Sometimes Caskets Explode Open
[ranking: 9]
From OprahLuvr:
"I used to be the head of maintenance and labor at a very large cemetery. Often, we'd exhume graves to re-settle them, due to the fact that most graves weren't buried properly the first time around, at least those before 1920. Well, you'd dig out most of it when all of a sudden, the lid would burst off. Reason being is that occasionally, the coffin was sealed so tight, the methane build-up from the decomposing body would fill the casket. Either the excavator or a shovel would knock the lid loose a smidge and BOOM.
The same thing happened once also to a crypt. Doors blew off."
This Deceased Person Didn't Want To Be Cremated
[ranking: 6]
From madmuncher:
"I have worked at a cemetery for around seven years. One day, I was working in the crematorium and had just loaded a coffin onto the charger (device that shoots coffin into cremator). I walked around to the computer to check the temperature and press the start button. When I got back to the charger, the coffin was hanging off and about to fall, which was weird because it was put on straight. Anyway, the green light flashed and I opened the cremator door and proceeded to charge the coffin. All of a sudden, the coffin got snagged! At least half the coffin was hanging out. Flames starting running up the coffin and it was hectic. I managed to get it in and all was good, but I really think this person just didn't want to be cremated."
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