• From the set of a crime show to inside convenience store air conditioners , we count
ten of the weirdest places dead bodies have been found!
10 – CSI: New York, • The crew behind CSI: New York see gruesome
shit all the time, but nothing prepared them for the actual real life human corpse that
was found on set in 2006.
• The crew were getting set to film a scene in downtown L.A. – I know, right?
CSI: New York is filmed in California.
I just don’t know what to believe in anymore…
– during this, a building engineer stumbled across a mummified corpse during a routine
building inspection.
• The creepiest part is the actual plot of the episode involved a mummified corpse.
I wonder if they considered using it in a scene.
Sure it’d be disrespectful, but it’d save hours on makeup…
9 – On a Couch, • A Bristol man somehow forgot all about
the rotting corpse that had sat on his couch for ten years.
Supposedly Alan Derrick had invited the homeless man Denis Pring to crash on his couch back
in ’98 – and Denis had died after a night of heavy boozing.
• Alan was terrified so he decided not to tell anyone.
He tipped his couch over, closed the door and pushed that memory into the corner of
the mind that’s reserved for repressed shit.
• Alan’s neighbours complained about a bad smell, but they knew Alan lived in squalor
so figured it was probably just year-old food scraps or something.
It wasn’t until Alan moved out in 2008 that authorities discovered the dirt pile and bones
that was formally Denis Pring.
A coroner confirmed the cause of death was hypertension or ‘drinking too damn much’.
8 – Gym Mat, • American high schools have seen a lot
of tragedy in recent years, but this 2013 case of a seventeen-year-old found dead and
rolled up in a gym mat was particularly unsettling.
The incident occurred at Georgia’s Lowndes County High School.
• Officials ruled that Kendrick Johnson’s death was caused by accidental asphyxiation.
They believe he got caught in the mat while trying to get his lost sneaker back.
• Kendrick’s grief-stricken parents think differently.
They believe their son was murdered by two classmates, whom he’d gotten into fights
with the previous year.
No evidence was found to substantiate this, but Kendrick’s parents claimed that was
because local authorities were covering it up.
Whatever the case, it shows high school has become a pretty dangerous place.
7 – Teddy Bear, • Buy one soft cuddly teddy bear and receive
a free helping of … human remains?
That’s the deal Joshua Scott from Alabama got when he purchased a five-dollar teddy
bear from a thrift shop.
• When he got home, he discovered an urn full of human ashes inside the bear.
Like, seriously, how is that an acceptable way to dispose of someone’s ashes?
I mean, how hard is it to walk five feet and scatter them outside?
You don’t go entombing someone’s soul in a stuffed toy.
This isn’t the movie Child’s Play.
• Anyway, Joshua reported his insane finding but no one stepped up and laid claim to the
urn.
Makes you wonder about this mysterious bear’s origin.
Think of all the crazy shit it must’ve seen…
6 – Haunted House, • Every year, an Illinois family gets into
the Halloween spirit by turning their home into a super spooky haunted house attraction.
But in 2014, visitors got an extra dose of terror when they realised one of the props
was actually a real dead body!
• An unknown seventy-one-year-old man had died in the house and was left there for three
weeks.
It wasn’t until a little boy told his parents that he was ‘scared of the old stinky dead
man’ that the host family realised something was seriously wrong.
Another child, thinking it was a prop, knocked the corpse over, severing its arm and sending
blood and bodily fluids everywhere.
• It’s believed the man suffered a heart attack.
The only silver lining is that the family definitely had like the most realistic haunted
house ever.
5 – Paula Abdul’s House, • When you’re living in a huge mansion
in a fancy neighbourhood the last thing you’d expect to find outside your home is a dead
body, but that’s exactly what turned up outside the estate of former American Idol
judge Paula Abdul in 2008.
• Paula Goodspeed was a huge Abdul fan who’d auditioned for Idol years earlier.
She didn’t make it past the first round and developed an unhealthy obsession with
her favourite judge.
• Goodspeed was known by L.A. police as a serial stalker, and it appears her obsession
with Abdul pushed her over the edge.
Her death was ruled a suicide.
4 – Under Tree Roots, • Hurricane Sandy was a tragedy, but its
path of mass destruction had one unexpected outcome: it revealed human remains that had
been hidden for centuries!
• During the devastating storm, hundreds of trees were knocked down in Connecticut.
Moment of silence for all our fallen tree brothers.
In these twisted roots were the decayed remains of several Yellow Fever victims.
• The remains were discovered by a homeless woman, who probably chanced upon them while
taking a piss.
I’m kidding.
Sort of.
Investigators didn’t suspect any foul play and think the area was probably an ancient
burial site.
3 – In a Paper Mill, • A paper mill seems one of the safest,
most unassuming places a person could work.
It’s the last place you’d expect a dead body to turn up, but in 1987 skeletal remains
were found at Georgia-Pacific West Inc. paper mill in Washington.
• Apparently, a worker had noticed unusual temperatures in one of the boilers and discovered
the bones lying on some pipes when he investigated.
The strange thing is that this was a super difficult place to dispose of a corpse.
You’d have to have access to the building and lug that dead weight up several flights
of stairs.
• Nothing suggested the victim ever worked at the paper mill and, since the high temperatures
destroyed all traces of DNA, it’s likely their identity will remain a mystery.
2 – An Air Conditioning Unit, • Don’t you hate it when a perfectly good
plan goes to shit?
In 2013, a would-be burglar tried to break into a North Carolina convenience store via
the air conditioning unit and died.
• The man was too big for the building’s ventilation shaft.
By the time he realised this it was too late to turn around; he was stuck.
• When his corpse was discovered it had severely decomposed because the store had
been closed for months.
I mean, what a shitty way to go…
Slowly starving to death, regretting your life decisions…
“I… should’ve gone to law school…”
1 – Babies in the Freezer, • You often see crazed psychopaths in horror
movies disposing of victims in their freezers, but this chilling act has also occurred in
real life.
• In 2008, a German mother was arrested after the corpses of three infants were found
in her freezer.
The woman had callously murdered her own children shortly after they were born and then kept
their frozen remains hidden away for twenty years.
• The corpses were discovered by the woman’s older son who was digging through the freezer
looking for a frozen pizza.
I think a discovery like that would ruin my appetite
for life…