If I had to try and scare myself as quickly as possible, I probably wouldnt put on a horror
film, Id probably go to the nearest graveyard.
Theres just something unnerving about them, especially when youre alone.
Well, imagine being a cemetery worker - its literally their job to be alone, in a cemetery,
at night.
Sounds like my kinda nightmare.
Will it now be yours too?
Lets find out - Im Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Cemetery Worker Stories.
These all come from reddit so if you hear me say a name, its their username.
Alright lets get into our number 10 which is Blue Eyes.
This one comes from Hotsheethotel.
He said that when he was in high school in the late 70s, he and his best friends worked
in a cemetery as groundskeepers.
It was their job to trim the hedges and keep the grounds tidy.
They often had to remove dead flowers or notes from graves but one day they found something
truly shocking - a naked dead body.
It was a young woman around the same age as them, she was a student at a neighbouring
high school.
She had been left neatly with her arms at her sides on that foggy morning.
She had been strangled right there - her killer had punches her several times in the face
before she died.
The police identified her quickly, but her clothes were never found and her murder never
solved.
He and his friend got grilled by the police but they quickly realised the boys were just
as shocked and confused as everyone else ...
Moving on to number 9 we have The Fresh Corpse.
This one comes from Adelvetica.
She said that one night, she drove up to her usual spot when she noticed a white car blocking
the road.
She parked behind it, got out of her car and started walking up the hill to her office.
As she made her way up the brick path, she looked ahead so see someone in the lamplight,
slouded against the railing with their head down.
At first she thought it was a homeless person, not an unusual occurrence.
As she got closer though, she realized something was seriously wrong.
She realised they werent alive.
It was the body of a woman with a noose tied around her neck - there was blood everywhere.
The way she was sitting made it look like she had been placed there.
She called the police who found a suicide in the car that was blocking the road.
It was from a former nurse who had recently lost her daughter.
After that night, she decided she couldn't work in a cemetery anymore …
Moving on to number 8 we have The Eggplant.
This one is just straight up weird.
It comes from Punxatowny.
He said that one day, about 30 minutes before a funeral, someone showed up and was seen
standing near a freshly dug grave.
He thought nothing of it and thought they had just shown up early.
About 10 minutes later, he got a call from her manager.
They told him someone had put something inside the grave.
Confused, he went to investigate.
There, in the grave, he found an eggplant.
Inside the ggplant he found a picture and some strips of paper with strange words written
on them.
The names on the paper did not include the person being buried.
He and his co workers became convinced it was voodoo …
Next up at number 7 we have The Sisters.
This one comes from FunDirector.
He said that their town had two elderly sisters who were inseparable - they did everything
together.
They never married and lived together their whole lives, taking care of each other all
the time.
When one of their friends died, they came to the funeral.
After the sermon, he ushered everyone over to the casket.
Sister one waved at him and is sitting there holding sister twos hand.
He and his co workers took this casket out.
He starts getting everyone into their cars when suddenly, he realises the two sisters
are still sitting there.
He walks over and asks if everything is alright.
Sister One calmly tells him that Sister Two had died during the funeral service but they
didnt want to make a fuss at their friends funeral.
Some people might call that respectful - actually no, thats just creepy.
What do you guys think?
Next up at number 6 we have The Gravedigger.
This one comes from Barkingpanther.
He said his Dad was a gravedigger in the 60s.
One summer day, his Dad and his friend were digging graves in a field next to the cemetery.
He was digging 5ft away from a half finished grave when his shovel hit something - it didnt
feel or sound like a stick or a root - it was something different.
He pulled it up with his shovel and to his horror - it was a legbone, a femur by the
look of it.
They began to dig more and soon found more bones, then he found a skull, then another.
Thats when they quit.
After contacting the police, they found out they had happened upon a mass grave from the
Spanish flu epidemic in the early 20th century - that wasnt good enough though and they vowed
to never dig graves again …
Next up at number 5 we have the Exploding Casket.
This one comes from OprahLuvr.
She said she used to be the head of maintenance and labor at a very large cemetery.
Quite often, they would have to exhume old graves and re settle them, due to the fact
that most graves werent buried properly before about 1920.
The scary thing was though, these old coffins had a chance to practically explode.
In the decades since the burian, methane gas from the decomposing body would fill the tightly
sealed casket.
During the exhumation, it would only take a small knock from a shoven to loosten the
lid and then boom - the entire casket explodes - Ill leave the gruesome results of that to
your imagination …
Moving on to number 4 we have Cremation.
This one comes from Mad Muncher.
They said they worked in a cemetery for around 7 years.
One day they were working in the crematorium and had just loaded a coffin onto the charger
- the device that slides the coffin into the cremator.
He walked around to the computer to check the temperature and press the start button,
when he got back to the charger, the coffin was hanging off and about to fall - that was
strange because he put it on straight.
The green light flashed and the coffin began moving forward, then it got snagged began
hanging out.
Flames began running up the side of the coffin and he had to practically wrestle it into
the cremator.
To this day he believes that the person really didnt want to be cremated …
Next up at number 3 we have the Kidnapping.
This one comes from Adelvetica, the same person who we talked about earlier.
She said one night she was sitting in her truck while her co worker was in the office
finishing some paperwork.
As she sat thee, an old man came to the door and asked aout finding a grave.
She opened her mouth to respond when all of a sudden, an old woman jumped in through the
side door, pointed her finger at the man and screamed -THAT MAN KIDNAPPED ME, GET ME AWAY
FROM HIM!
DON'T LET HIM EVER TOUCH ME!- … she looked sane but in total panic.
The man looked shocked and began walking away, seemingly lost for words.
She asked the man what was going on - he could barely talk but muttered something about her
having Alzheimers and how hard it is to care for her.
Then, he got into his van and just left.
When she walked back to the truck, the old woman was gone.
Her co worker said that she had flagged down a random vehicle and got inside.
Then, the man slowly drove past, smiled and nodded, as if none of it had happened at all.
No thanks.
No thanks to all of that.
Moving on to number 2 we have The Flowers.
This one comes from Seagullalumni - great username by the way.
He said that in one of their mausoleums, they had some crupts with enough space for caskets
to go in one after another.
He gave the example of one casket going in first, then the hole is sealed and then years
later they put another family member in after opening it again.
This was pretty normal and nothing out of the ordinary happened.
People would often put flowers in the crypt before its sealed.
One night, they opened a crypt from 25 years ago and to their shock, they found real, fresh
flowers lying inside.
There was no way someone could get in to do that, especially without being discovered.
Everyone was too freaked out to even talk about it …
And finally at number 1 now we have The Smiley Face.
This one comes from the Warlockk.
They said they were weed whacking at the cemetery they worked at one day.
A woman with two kids walked up to him and said shed found a weird box in a Walmart bag
buried by the baby section.
He walked over there and found a wooden box.
It had been carved with the a heart and a smiley face.
There were crossed bones drawn behind the heart.
He opened the box to find various items like broken glass, blue cloth and a button - a
strange mix of objects.
He took it to his boss who in turn took the box to their local priest.
They concluded that it was witchcraft and urged him to not pry into the matter any further
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