Random Cemetery Workers Describe Creepiest Things Left At Graves (14 items)

• (#2) A Woman Was Kidnapped... Or Maybe Not

  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."
• (#8) Sometimes Caskets Explode Open

  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."
• (#11) A Cemetery Visitor Tried To Commit Suicide

  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."
• (#9) A Worker Found A Box With A Smiley Face Filled With Strange Items

  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."
• (#14) Someone Left Their Confessions With The Dead, And One Cemetery Worker Found Them

  From flyinglifeaway:

  "Confession letters... just some old ones."
• (#1) An Encounter With A Perfectly Seated, Fresh Corpse

  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."

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