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."
A Woman Was Kidnapped... Or Maybe Not
[ranking: 2]
From adelvetica:
"I was sitting in the truck while my co-worker went inside the office to finish documenting the service. The truck we used to drive was a real beater and completely filthy inside. Digging graves is pretty messy, and the truck was littered with dust and old Tim Horton's coffee cups. I'm sitting in the truck when an older gentleman comes up to the door and asks me a question about finding a grave. Pretty common question, as any cemetery is pretty much impossible to navigate without assistance.
I go to respond, when all of a sudden an older lady opens the side door, jumps in and points her finger and yells, 'THAT MAN KIDNAPPED ME, GET ME AWAY FROM HIM!! DON??T LET HIM EVER TOUCH ME!!!' I??m completely floored by this. She doesn't look out of sorts at all, completely normal, but she's in a complete f*cking panic. I look at the guy who all of a sudden walks away from me and looks totally shocked. He can barely talk, he's totally floored. Meanwhile the older lady is pleading with me to help her, repeating that she's been kidnapped. I try to calm her down, but she's completely losing it and then she opens the truck door and runs towards my two other co-workers who are watering flowers about 500 meters away.
I get out of the truck and ask the older guy what was the HELL is going on, but he can barely talk. He mutters something that she might have Alzheimer's and it's tough taking care of her. I ask if we need to call an ambulance for her, or if she has medication, but he doesn't know what to do. I can see the older lady talking to my co-workers and she seems a bit more at ease with the distance between her and the guy. As I look back at the older guy by me, he begins walking back to his vehicle and says, 'I'm sorry about this whole thing and I won't bother you again.' He gets into his van and just drives away. He didn??t try to run back to the older lady or anything. He just takes off!
As I walk towards my other co-workers, I can see that the older lady is gone... they said that before they could help or call someone, she ran to the street flagged down a random vehicle and got inside!
Then the guy from before drives by in his van, smiles and nods at me like none of this just happened and slowly drives away from the cemetery."
Creepy Flowers That Never Wilt
[ranking: 3]
From seagullalumni:
"In one of our mausoleums, some of the crypts (the hole in the wall the caskets go into) have enough space for caskets to go in one after another. For example, one casket will go in first, then the hole will get sealed and you can put the spouse or whoever wants to go in the same crypt, years later after opening it again.
The only creepy story I've been told by a couple of our groundskeepers is this: People often put flowers in the crypt before it's sealed. They claim to have re-opened a crypt from the 1990s years later to see the flowers still completely fresh, like new. Real, not fake flowers."
Two Sisters Went To A Funeral, Only One Left
[ranking: 4]
From FunDirector:
"We had these two really active senior sisters in town, always out and about doing things. Never married, lived together their whole lives, took care of each other all the time. One of their friends died, and they came to the funeral. After the sermon, we are ushering everyone by the casket and Sister One waves us off, and sits there holding Sister Two's hand. We take the casket out, we are getting everyone into their cars and these two sisters are still sitting there. I walk over, ask if everything is all right. Sister One calmly tells me Sister Two died during the service, and they didn't want to make a fuss at their friend's funeral."
An Eggplant Stuffed With Paper Was Dropped In A Freshly-Dug Grave
[ranking: 5]
From Punxatowny:
"About 30 minutes before a funeral, someone showed up and was standing near the freshly dug grave. I thought nothing of it, thinking they'd just shown up early. About 10 minutes later, I get a call from the manager. She says someone put something inside the grave. I go to investigate and this is what I found [the eggplant]. The picture and the strips of paper were found inside the holes [of the eggplant]. I'm not sure what its purpose is. My first thought was voodoo, but many others have suggested it may be santeria. The name on the paper was not the name of the person being buried."
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."
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 Gravedigger Discovers An Unmarked Grave
[ranking: 8]
From Barkingpanther:
"In the '60s, my dad worked a lot of random odd jobs to pay for college. One of them was as a gravedigger. Said he got paid $5 a grave, which in itself is pretty friggin' weird to me.
One summer day, he and a friend of his were digging away in a big field adjacent to part of the cemetery. As he tells it, he was digging away five feet into a half-finished grave when his shovel hit something... weird. Not a root or a stick, and certainly not dirt. Something hard.
He pries it up with his shovel, and it's a legbone. Obviously a femur. He's shocked. His friend is shocked, but he in turn starts digging a little more, and he turns up more bones. and then my dad went back to it, and he finds a skull. Then they turn over more earth, and they turn up another skull.
That's when they called it quits.
They called the cops and in the end, it turns out that my dad and his buddy had happened upon a mass grave from a Spanish flu epidemic in the early part of the 20th century. Which makes a little bit of sense, considering they were right next to a cemetery anyway. But there had been no marker, and the place was a clear green field when they started so... yeah."
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."
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 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."
A Corpse Whose Hair And Fingernails Grew
[ranking: 12]
From meeeghanp7:
"My grandpa was the head honcho at a cemetery, and when my dad was younger, he worked doing manual labor type stuff. This one time, a lady was moving to Florida and wanted to move her husband's grave with her. Water had gotten into the casket, and I guess that caused the corpse's hair and fingernails to continue growing for some reason, according to my dad. I don't know how long the guy had been buried, but I would imagine a corpse with super long nails and hair is quite an unpleasant sight."
They Found An Alarm Clock That Went Off At The Same Time Everyday
[ranking: 13]
From the95th:
"We get everything from beer, cigarettes, photos, musical instruments, birthday cards, Christmas trees, lights, and my personal favorite, a solar alarm clock that went off at 3:14 pm everyday."
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