Man was found living with dead roommate for month inside home

A neighbor said he had contacted township officials to do a welfare check out of concern.
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[@CoutureThug]

This happened 20 years ago with my neighbor who lives three doors down. One summer we started smelling something funky outside and the neighbors had no idea what it was but it smelled like it was coming from that house. Come to find out when the police did a wellness check that the elderly man who lived there was dead for a while still lying in his bed and his elderly sister who was suffering from dementia had no clue at all, poor lady. May they both rest in peace

[@foreverblessed6443]

That's different.

[@davide.b8027]

I remember that. The old lady sold me his clothes

[@CoutureThug]

@@davide.b8027 yeah right after you helped her clean the backyard by picking up all the dog poop with your mouth, you were such a big help to her

[@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396]

Damn 🙏

[@NurseLisaD]

That’s CRAZY!!

[@smokeybeard2549]

That's when you know rents getting crazy expensive. When someone is willing to live with a dead body in the house for free rent. JESUS.

[@shaylalewis6560]

Exactly...So sad 😥

[@animestudent3885]

Protest for free rents lol.

[@adrian8773]

Na people are just lazy and dont wanna work

[@randallsmerna384]

I don't think the young man's name was Jesus.

[@pattihawks353]

@@randallsmerna384 Thank you, I was about to say similar. People, please don’t use God, Jesus or Holy, as exclamations or in cursing Ways! Those are referring to our Heavenly Father, Creator and not jargon. Respect is no longer taught, apparently. Reverence either! You may, however want to call upon His name for forgiveness and learning.

[@rachaelworley590]

My roommate is 71 and I check on him all the time. He stays in his bedroom. I've heard him fall before, scared the shit out of me. I have all of his family members phone numbers just in case something does happen to him. He's a good person and a better friend.

[@cann4222]

❤

[@debrafrakes6479]

you are a gem!

[@quaithom3138]

I'm glad he has you as a roommate.

[@rachaelworley590]

@@quaithom3138 thanks

[@saberbo89]

You are good woman Rachel god bless American families

[@penelopelopez8296]

He probably had no place to go if he reported the guy was dead. Still, that’s just creepy. I’d be freaked out sleeping at night knowing there’s a dead body in the house. And, it’s a disgusting health hazard.

[@mariamaria2751]

Not to mention....the smell

[@bernaortega596]

😱😃🤣

[@stripecatflippangitnamecha8721]

@@mariamaria2751 he probobly duck tape the door where he died that way the smell stay inside

[@JITLmeHARD]

@@stripecatflippangitnamecha8721 can now only assume you have a body in your new "Spare room."

[@jayxcv5409]

I'd probably just put the body in a bag and bury it a couple steps of minutes into the foresty area, from what it seems like that's where house looks like it's by. And just call it a day, if not call it a couple years lol.

[@dawnelder9046]

We had a horrible stench in our house. Changed the garbage. Stench still there. Found the cause. 1 small dead mouse. My daughter said she saw the cat chasing one the day before. One month with a full size dead human. I want to know what type of air freshener the younger man was using. It must be great stuff.

[@tootmysteamboat2887]

🤣

[@Vallentina0325]

I can't even imagine. We were gone for a month, in July, & when we got back, we couldn't even enter the house. The culprit: a dead rat! We lived in that house for another 7 yrs & I would always smell a whiff of it.

[@brwncrss1]

Weed and getting high !! probably was he using to avoid the rotten human body strong smells to bother him , May be it was worth it instead of paying for rent somewhere else 🏡 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂 unbelievable what some people has to do in order to avoid rent payments expenses 😂😂 ??

[@subhub637]

@@brwncrss1 you genuinely think the smell of weed can cover the stench of a dead body..?

[@MyrrdinWylltEmrys]

😬

[@installersdirect1751]

I did a hardwood flooring job years ago where an elderly man died at the top of the stairs and had fallen from his master suit balcony to the living room floor below where he decomposed for almost 2 months. His dogs ate him to stay alive but they eventually died of thirst/starvation as well. Anyways, after professional clean up, there was still a lot of organic matter and blood gelled up between the planks. I ended up removing about a 10x10 section of flooring and lacing in new wood because it was so swelled up with body fluids. Definitely the craziest job I've ever been on. Edit: Some of you people commenting have no sense of nuance and/or context. I don't know the dudes entire story, I was just a contractor who received minimal information from one of his relatives, I'm not claiming his death was an act of a vengeful God or a result of karma. I simply shared a story that sort of aligned with the news story in the video! Stop acting like y'all know my beliefs based on 2 short paragraphs of a story that happened over a decade ago... Thanks 😊

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

If for some reason people still believe in God. Imagine those dogs in that house for what must have been months having to eat their master, looking out the windows, slowly becoming weaker and then dying themselves. No Angels nothing intervened nothing Shone it's light.

[@installersdirect1751]

Adding god into it... the man was a lottery winner who right after he won he basically told his entire family to fuck off. He squandered away most of his money and died broke and so alone that no one thought to check in him for at least the 2 months he had been dead. So alone that his dogs died they way they did because their master was who he was. God works in mysterious ways eh? Lol BTW I dealt with one of his sisters who was handling the estate after he passed. The estate paid me to do the flooring job which needed to be done in order to sell the house. Beautiful beach house on Lake Michigan that went for like 2mil back in probably 2010ish. Still one of my highest paying jobs to date lol ended up refinishing the entire house AND guest houses flooring!

[@user-rc1ik6hg2t]

damn thats crazy

[@MillennialMountainMama]

@@installersdirect1751 😵

[@rhondaboliver5381]

not how it works even if u could begin to understand you wouldn't from saying what u did yea it sounds bad but it also sounds dumb countless things die everyday in more cruel ways then this u can believe what you want about Christianity but if god used some almighty power to save something like two dogs then nothing would die or be killed in a bad way but you need to believe to understand which u clearly don't you just bring up the common argument of well if god is so good why do bad things happen why wouldn't he intervene to save 2 dogs its not how it works I'm not really a Christian at all or godly either but do believe god

[@factualbreakdown3072]

Yikes! What's wrong with people? I remember walking to school as a 5 year old with my friend, past the home of an elderly couple who would give us fresh green beans from their garden as a snack. Two days went by and we didn't see them, so we went up to the door and knocked. No one answered but the smell was really bad. When we got to the school, we told the Crossing Guard who was a Police Officer in our town. The couple was found dead in their home - one must have died and the other suffered a heart attack upon the discovery. At least they had people who cared.

[@brega6286]

That is so sad. It took little children ! Yes...you cared.

[@factualbreakdown3072]

@@brega6286 Chris and I has spent many days that Spring and Summer with this couple. They taught us how to plant seeds, and watch them grow into vegetables. I still plant vegetables to this day. I'm not sure that kids today would have done the same, but we knew that something was very wrong after not seeing this lovely couple for days, and we knew enough to report it to the Police. Now they call it: "If you see something, say something."

[@KatarinaS.]

You had more sense and decency at age 5 than the idiot staying with this poor fellow.

[@lil.hell1]

yea right

[@factualbreakdown3072]

@@Faithfullfertilitytv Good question. Since we'd see this couple every day, sitting in chairs at a table on their front lawn, where they had baskets of vegetables for sale, after seeing them outside on Monday, but not Tuesday or Wednesday, on Wednesday we knocked on the door, since we wanted to ask if we could have some string beans. Mailboxes weren't at the street like they are where I live now - they were either on the house itself, or a slot in the storm door, like ours was. Unless they had a really bad cold, the Mailman would have definitely noticed the foul smell. This was an old farmhouse that did not have air conditioning. The crossing guard/Police Officer was our neighbor, so it was natural for us to tell him what happened. I still like raw string beans to this day, and still grow them myself. My son liked taking them as snacks and now he grows them.😊

[@residentgomez]

a man living with a dead body is not a gentleman.

[@pazuzu-gb7ok]

One month that corpse was putrid I suspect. 🤮

[@msnos6245]

I think he meant gentlemen friends in a different way.

[@blackoutgstar9949]

@@pazuzu-gb7ok yeah even if he didn't kill him that is batshit crazy to live with a dead body for a month

[@shavonbrown4613]

U funny asl 🤣🤣🤣

[@lequanmooney5237]

But the man giving the interview was

[@haileymarvin8488]

To me I’m creeped out! Like what? How can you not report a death and then just be living with it for a month? I’m glad you got arrested for failure to report you deserve it

[@empresstina876]

What a weirdo he is, like who does that.

[@ScarletBrimstone]

It's a squatting tactic. Some don't care if they're living with a corpse. So long as they have a roof over their head.

[@angelinamiari1613]

@@ScarletBrimstone I have a friend who was living in & remodeling a home in Miami in which a 93 years old woman died. The neighbors all came to my friend, one by one, and told him that the people who had been "taking care of" the lady who died had strung up sheets around the carport & were living under the sheets for the 6-10 days that the elderly woman was dead inside the house with all the windows closed & the doors locked. They knew she was there, but since her daughter lived in another part of Florida, they thought they could keep quiet about it, collect her check every month (the police never found her bank cards) & have all the drunken crack parties they wanted. The neighbors that were closest to the area of the house where her body was finally called police, because the smell was overwhelming & nobody had seen the poor lady outside feeding her cats. The crack heads had been feeding them. There was a heavy high pile carpet on the floor with an inch of padding underneath....and when the people came to clean the house & pulled out the carpet, her body had basically melted into the carpet, passed through the padding & left a permanent mark on the hardwood floor underneath, as well as the sub-floor. My friend said that the first time he went into the house (he was doing construction work), he had to back out, because the stench was so overpowering. He had to wait till the house was cleaned & properly sanitized before he could walk back in there. The lady 's daughter had originally wanted to just fix up the house & sell it... but when she saw the mark on the floor that her mother had left, she told my friend to just demolish it & she sold the land. My friend still has the before & after video of the floor.

[@ScarletBrimstone]

@@angelinamiari1613.... Wow... That is messed up... The closest thing I have to that is when I had downstairs neighbors who were in a satanic cult and sacrificing animals in the unit. The pentagram is still in the living room under the carpet. My latest neighbor is even worse. She must have some demons in her at this point.

[@Icewind007]

Meh, the US is half third world, so living with a corpse is no worse than living in the city.

[@Miss-Katie_kate]

He knew he wouldn’t have a free living space anymore and that’s why How sad that he would rather let it smell and just be so heartless that you care more about yourself then someone who helped you out in the first place..sad world we live in

[@Odin33356]

Your best have never helped or fixed a god damn thing.

[@jessicafashionlover2148]

how can he stand that odor its a smell that will forever live with u

[@freegame202]

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[@freegame202]

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[@byloyuripka9624]

if youre dead who cares. theres no difference between being an organ donor or letting people play volleyball with your corpse. are you not your mind? we occupy our physical body and without it our mind is nothing but if youre gone?

[@shericebattles]

Big ups to the observant and caring neighbor🙌🏾

[@judiwiegel8181]

I didnt get the "caring neighbor vibe"...but yeah how much longer would that poor old man be in that bathroom.

[@shericebattles]

Well he cared enough to call for help when he noticed things were out of order. People just try not to invade people's space. I feell like he did his part. That man would still be in that bathroom if that neighbor had not called soo, I applaud the neighbor for caring 👏🏾

[@playerswhelm]

👍🏻

[@lionman3378]

He only cared cause the neighbor yard was not being kept

[@playerswhelm]

@@lionman3378 only one around that would call

[@lynettedundon1410]

How could he live with the smell and the conscience for not giving him a decent burial? RIP Michael.

[@R-BURQUENO]

Perhaps you would be willing to pay for the man's burial costs?

[@melaniemsp9712]

@@R-BURQUENO if he reported it he wouldn’t had to pay for funeral costs… you make no sense

[@touyatodoroki7935]

fear of homelessness. this is the kind of horrible thing that happens when the economy fails.

[@eckankar7756]

When I was a kid something like this happened to neighbors. Two sisters and their brother all in their 80s and 90s lived together. One day the police were called and found all dead, the brother had been dead 1.5 years and was propped in a chair in the living room in front of the TV. One sister had been dead 6 months was in bed and the last to die was laying next to her hugging her.

[@missfortune8553]

That's really really sad.

[@sky.the.infinite]

😬😬😬

[@theempresss]

Awwwwwwww

[@allaboutmycats454]

That’s the saddest one I’ve heard.

[@thetman0068]

What the hell? Why? Dementia??

[@milksteak9213]

Makes you wonder how many times you passed by a house with some weird shit going on inside

[@megan893]

I always wonder this. Helps me keep an eye out. You never know, and there are just too many bad people out there

[@telleroflies4373]

How about u mind your business 🙂

[@sky.the.infinite]

@@megan893 Agreed!

[@Kingsombra21]

LMFAOOO

[@thegrim418]

I often wonder that as people pass by my house.

[@nathanaelsolomon4103]

This world is like a real life tv show damn

[@W8RIT1]

Yeah... The Twilight Zone

[@saintfrancisobrianevangeli2793]

NATHANAEL SOLOMON, ONE DAY YOURS WILL END AND WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY ??? AND AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE AND AFTER DEATH THE JUDGEMENT. HEBREWS 9:27 THANK YOU.

[@martytrueblood5902]

idiocracy

[@davide.b8027]

@@saintfrancisobrianevangeli2793 I know where he will spend eternity...in the ground, back into the earth from which he came.

[@tatmanmyownbossdannydraco]

Like Trump said enjoy the show

[@toxic.city.instr_]

This is why its important to build genuine relationships with others, keep in touch with your loved ones so that others may be aware of anything that might happen to you

[@brega6286]

Yes...I tell my neighbors the raw truth. I am an elder and if you do not see or hear me over four days...best you alert someone or...be prepared to move out for awhile. Death happens...no biggie. Well until we start to stink.

[@badbunny6572]

You don't always have a choice in the matter...

[@Christian-wu3mp]

@@brega6286 thats kinda selfless of you to think abt others even after u die

[@floridaboy3213]

I don’t get how someone can sleep and live easy knowing there’s a dead body chilling in the house

[@dominicbrogsdale3348]

That's crazy to me

[@qwertyhimym]

I'm just chilling in cedar rapids

[@petemavus2948]

@@qwertyhimym 😂

[@ziao.1359]

This is why I love love my African culture. The whole village will take care of you for free if you don’t have a family and if you do have a family…. Your kids and grand kids will take care of you till you die. No home alone nor stay in nursing home. We were raised its our job to take care of our elders!!

[@megan893]

Mexican culture is the same❤️ The elders raise us and our children, then we in return care for our elders. No babysitters, no nursing homes. I'm going to be buying a home soon and I'm bringing my grandparents with me. I also expect my children to take me in when my time comes. No nursing home for me. It's just what we do ❤️❤️

[@ykjo5613]

That's really beautiful, and how it should be! We've lost all sense of family, duty, and humanity around here these days.

[@lilbbmuffin]

@@megan893 I was just about to mention Mexican culture! 💪🏼🇲🇽 you said it beautifully ✨

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

I lived in China. It's the same there.

[@Notanks228]

Understand a person has died. This is not the time to gloat about this great your people are. Shame on you. How low.

[@paigeharms1991]

A neighbor was recently found dead in my area. His next door neighbor called because he hadn't seen the man in a long time & had noticed a lot of flies on the windows. Super sad! One of my biggest fears is dying alone with no one to remember me, care about me or even discover me...

[@Osamabeenthottin]

I’ll come find you 😘

[@Haaaayley]

This happened in Scotland recently. A 78 year old man kept his dead wife in his house for 12 YEARS because he didn’t want to be alone. He couldn’t accept that she had died and didn’t want to let her go. They had been married since 1976. Really heartbreaking. The only reason she was discovered was because she didn’t show up for her covid vaccine. Edit: she was discovered last year, when the covid vaccines were first rolled out, and that is why she was discovered, because she didn’t show up for an appointment to get her vaccine. She died of natural causes 12 years ago. I’m confused, why do people think I’m implying that covid was around years ago?? 🤣 also it’s all over UK news articles, just Google it lol

[@abrahimbah6934]

Lol 😂 I’m weak 🥴🥴😩😭😭😭😳

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

OhmyGAWD. 😳

[@vizzylotl5623]

Aww so sad...but also lmao, the only reason of it being deiscovered haha

[@HomophobicXenu]

ok wheres the proof

[@rihannaajie3866]

Covid?12 years ago?

[@AgentAO7]

This happened to our neighbor who lives just accross us. We didn’t know he was dead for 6 months! He was found dead in his room apparently due to heart attack. He was an old single man. No family. No friends. A very introvert guy. Even when he was still alive he never said Hi or Hello to anyone even if you greet him. And he would always go out alone anytime he wants. Probably to just eat out or keep himself entertained. He was such a loner. It was during Fall season when we noticed something’s off because when the leaves fell off the ground, nobody cleaned & he usually does every year. And so that time all the leaves piled up. And that’s when the neighbor beside his house called 911.

[@psalms1163]

Wow..

[@nicktoussaint5501]

this makes me as an introvert want to start changing my ways

[@Jeff-xy7fv]

What a damn shame. Unfortunately, that same scenario is highly likely for me when my time comes. I am in the same life situation as that guy was.

[@OnceShy_TwiceBitten]

@@nicktoussaint5501 Don't have to be an extrovert to die alone. You either die first or outlive all your family and friends. We all die alone.

[@ProvenHueMan]

That’s how I wanna die, alone and unbothered lol

[@RoccosVideos]

Crazy times we’re living in.

[@JustJenReacts]

Not only is that disgusting and disrespectful af, but how the hell did he stand that smell for over a month?!!! Wow.

[@ItzAveragePlayz]

no nose

[@charliec.3518]

@Rowdy Jr or you know, the dead dude paid the rent

[@winros]

I never smelled the remains of a dead person rotten for months however I heard it was the most horrific smell of all! I guess you just get used to the smell like anything else! Sometimes people just don't know what to do they could be a little unstable themselves!

[@ComplexFantasiesIndustries]

mf probably used febreze lmao

[@winros]

@@ComplexFantasiesIndustries ODOBAN IS MUCH BETTER AND IT IS A DISINFECTANT! 😂

[@jackalanillar3530]

I am assuming that the guy that was living there had no sense of smell...? 🤷

[@natalietaylor9848]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@ertfgghhhh]

He musta had the rona, lol

[@thomaspritchard6571]

He was waiting for the guy to come out of his bedroom to take him to the Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist but.......... 😉

[@sexysenior8219]

RIGHT..🤢🤢🤢

[@divinefem8793]

More like sick with heavily mental issues like who lives with a rotting body just have somewhere to live smh

[@debbiemoore9104]

I remember when neighbors kept tabs on each other. Shoveling walks and mowing lawns for elderly neighbors. People cared about each other. Now I’m 65 and I’m blessed that we do that here in my neighborhood now. People should just be better neighbors.

[@WeedGrandma]

My neighbors are rude and racist, I absolutely would not help them.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Lol same. My neighbors are rude and always blast their tv late at night. I hope they have friends cause I’m not checking if they go quiet.

[@drstranger7430]

@@magesalmanac6424 😂

[@Kingsombra21]

@@WeedGrandma if you be kind to people are look down upon you, you will be greatly rewarded

[@nikkimcdonald4562]

I have 1 neighbor that is horrible absolute D bag. He is always dumping garbage on my property. And another neighbor that will either turn their heads when I give a friendly wave or give me the death stare. I guess if I see their homes being burglarized I shouldn't call the police or if their homes are on fire I shouldn't call the fire department.

[@ilovericelol]

When I was a kid there was a stench in a basement parking area in a mall we used to go to. It was a horrible smell but we really never thought much of it. A few weeks after they found a rotting body apparently a rape victim who was murdered and stuffed in one of the vents. Terrible. It's true, the smell of something dead is distinct and very unpleasant to say the least.

[@chubby_cheesecake_cheeks]

It’s really stinky. Had a similar experience but it was from a room being rented out by my aunt’s neighbor. We thought it was a dead rat or something then the next day we saw the cops coming and SOCO checking out the scene and a with a body bag. 😣

[@ilovericelol]

@@chubby_cheesecake_cheeksyikes scary! Soco? Are you pinoy? 😅

[@KatWoodland]

Mauled at the mall. This explains the increase in online shopping.

[@chubby_cheesecake_cheeks]

@@ilovericelol yup, I’m pinoy.

[@ilovericelol]

@@KatWoodland it was later discovered that one of the security guards was the suspect.

[@ScoobyDoozy]

There’s a not so small part of me which appreciates the awkward respectfulness. “I do know that he had a couple of _gentleman friends_ “

[@bicapricorn]

Right that comment sounded like something about His sexuality

[@petemavus2948]

Scooby it's reverence for the deceased and yes nothing judgemental towards those in his neighboring house.

[@dtfonmyballs8752]

This happened at a hotel my family owned. This old man lived there during the summer and paid 2 weeks at a time, then never came in to pay one week. Waited a couple days and knocked on his door, nothing. Waited another day and went into the room and he was laying dead on the bed.

[@petemavus2948]

It happens a lot in rooming houses too, some naturally, some by suicide. Globally suicide is highest amongst men.

[@lumberjack297]

Can't help but wonder the roommate's state of mind and how he could live with that amount of decomposition

[@joymcarthur5429]

Not playing with a full deck.

[@mordfustang1933]

He was probably playing elden ring it came out around that time.

[@petemavus2948]

Maybe he was into Necrophilia Eewwwww LoL

[@Notanks228]

Bum.

[@petemavus2948]

@@Notanks228 Bah

[@LourdesGzz]

My mother lost her sense of smell long ago and never recovered it, I still ask her to try to smell things but she replies saying she could be next to a dead person and not smell it, maybe this guy has that

[@enlightenedinterstellarbei8020]

Maybe he had Covid 🤔

[@Notanks228]

Bless your heart.

[@ElisiasEvolution]

He knew, even if he has no smell he has sight!!

[@rebeccalucas6063]

I was told from retired military medics that the smell of a rotting body is like no other smell you can imagine, worse that a cat's litter box, a Baby's diaper, ect, so how could he tolerate the smell? All because he was selfish, and didn't want to give up the free housing, that's just so disrespectful of the deceased man.

[@nicoleallen6792]

You turn the air down to like 60.. Pour bleach all over the body.. Wrap it in a lot of layers of plastic then pour lye and ajax and those downy scent beads ( the ones you put in the washer) on that.. Then wrap again. I remember a guy killed his wife and lived with her body laying in the living room floor for 3 months because he killed her so of course he didnt call the police... But he had a heart attack and had to call 911 and crawled outside to wait for em but they still went in and saw. Sick bastard. And thats how he said he lived with her. My guess.. The neighbor said he was half the man who died age.. And he was 74. So he probably had a 40 year old roommate who just didnt wanna be homeless and he could now live there rent free. Smfh.. That poor old man had a family. 💔

[@danniemikeey579]

Depending on how the person died. I lived in mexico. Seeing corpse just laying outside was a norm. And I worked at a flowershop and would deliver flowers to funerals. I was friends with morticians. The worst smelling decomposing body I've ever smelt is the one of a drowned person. It hits you so hard and stays in your mind. Husband asks how I can clean the puppy's poop and out kiddos without being disgusted. I get it from Mexico.

[@drunkenpirate3201]

Yes the smell is Horrible. We found 2 deceased people in my neighborhood on the hottest day of the year. 1 my neighbor, the other was a drug deal gone wrong. This with in 2 months of each other. We called it the summer of death

[@meggtokyodelicious]

I never smelled any corpse in my life, but I watched a documentary on lonely deaths where specialized corpse cleaning crew goes inside a house or an apartment for the services. Cleaning crew said the fatter the person was before their deaths, the fat melts and spreads onto the floor carpet, matt or floorings and the cadaver odor and the stains stay in it forever unless it gets replaced by new floor...... It must be horrific to deal with this kind of odor and cleanings afterwards......

[@kenhess2668]

A rotten pig smells close

[@ScarletBrimstone]

My father in-law had something similar happen. One of his tenants died and the police told him before the relative of the tenant did(mother/son relationship). The relative was hoping to use his dead mother's assets and name to essentially squat in the house.

[@chrisreed26]

My uncle in the mountains of WV passed away.. His neighbor noticed that his kitchen light had been on for 6 weeks straight so he called the police..He had died at the kitchen table doing a breathing treatment..All the blood from his body pooled then came out, onto the floor then through the wall into the basement..A huge mess to say the least!

[@chrisallen9154]

Little bit dramatic in your description don't you think? Your description makes it sound like the 6 litres of blood in the average human being suddenly multiplied into the contents of a swimming pool.

[@kak8895]

@@chrisallen9154 Lol... Blood is liquid. 6 litres can definitely mess up a kitchen floor with some draining into the basement

[@chrisreed26]

@@kak8895 Thank you!

[@chrisreed26]

@@chrisallen9154 I'm sorry but actually seeing him slumped over, the smell, the flies covering every window like a miniblind and the gunk all over the floor that stopped at the wall behind the old Caloric gas range...It was kind of dramatic for us to see..

[@catherinep2034]

Sorry for your loss.

[@junito1008]

The Roommate decided to live with a dead body and not to take a shower for months, just to live rent-free !! 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@westcoastorbust2462]

Did they say that was the only bathroom?

[@lunarlight3131]

What’s the problem with that? He got free housing.

[@almostheavenhomestead1680]

@@lunarlight3131 you're a crazy person right?

[@goredohkackz1599]

America baby 🇺🇸 🦅

[@bobhoffman5581]

@@almostheavenhomestead1680 Nah, just slightly "self centered." Smh...

[@-_Somebody_]

How in the hell could he nonchalantly live with a dead guy in his house?! Doesn’t it stink? Isn’t it creepy?

[@eckankar7756]

Fabreeze extra strength decay formula

[@-_Somebody_]

@@eckankar7756 😂

[@youmadbro7733]

I am a CSI Detective in South Florida. I was on a scene where a man in his mid 50's was living with his mother in her condo. She passed away and for approximately 6 weeks, she laid decomposing in her bed. He had a wash rag and bowl of water on the night stand that he would use to bathe her and a vacuum next to the bed he used to suck up all the maggots. Like all decomps, the smell was horrendous. The M.E. stated that she died of natural causes and no criminal charges were ever filed against the son.

[@ms.p5183]

Ugh!!🤮

[@MillennialMountainMama]

What in the actual f***

[@chris27163]

Was his name… Norman Bates ? 🤔

[@youmadbro7733]

Of course at first we had to consider that HE might have killed her, but on a decomp, it's difficult to see any obvious signs of trauma. Then we had to consider that she might have died on her own, and he was just keeping her death a secret in an effort to continue to collect some kind of financial benefit (social security, retirement pension, etc.). Turns out he was just "slow" in the head and really loved his momma. He understood she was dead, he just didn't want to send her away. Pretty sad actually.

[@mr.nightshade8465]

That is sad 😞

[@AllenHanPR]

My friend was an HOA president one time for a very large Korean building with 80 units I think. He told me someone had passed away in their tub a year ago and for months people wondered why the hallway smelled. They did everything to find out why the hallway smelled so bad. They changed the carpet and cleaned the vents. Until one day. You could hear buzzing coming from behind a door. So loud and they checked mail opening of the door and hundreds of flies came pouring out. Apparently the flies kept reproducing on the corpse for months and started filling the apartment. I always got the creeps when I passed by that unit. It was such a popular story that unit never sold, since then. It sounded like a horror movie when my friend told me.

[@gamej7946]

I'm loving the comments section. People are coming out will similar stories and there are a lot to learn.

[@whoisjohngalt4880]

This isn’t as uncommon as it should be. It happened in the small town I grew up in too. There was a father and son that lived together in a run down old house. The son was probably around 40 years old and neither of them ever had a job or did much of anything that anyone could discern. They were both on some form of disability and various other social programs. Eventually their neighbor noticed that he hadn’t seen the father for an extended period of time so he reported they discovered that the dad had died months earlier and his son never said or did anything about it. He got into some trouble for collecting his deceased father’s disability and social security checks as I understand it. The city condemned and tore down the house and the son now lives in some kind of government housing and just continues doing what he’s always done…which is nothing.

[@danielmorse4213]

Some people are just broken like that. Not a nuisance, just off and odd.

[@Moe_Preme]

You talk as if he should be chained up in a yard. Thank god the government has such programs because the world would be a much worse place if we spit on the less fortunate. You sir are the spitter. Do better

[@whoisjohngalt4880]

@@Moe_Preme Wtf are you babbling on about? I have zero problem with programs designed to help people that are truly in need of assistance. These 2 were definitely NOT that. The son (James) is on disability because he weighs over 400 pounds and can’t walk 10 feet without bitching about something. He also steals everything that isn’t nailed down and he’s no longer allowed anywhere near the school because he got in trouble for saying perverted shit to a group of elementary school girls. He’s a piece of shit and so was his dad. If you love him so much come and get him and move him into your community. He’s “less fortunate” due to his own pathetic choices in life. His nickname is Boar Tits and it’s probably the most fitting moniker I’ve ever heard.

[@pamelaliegh]

Therapy helps with that resentment your feeling.

[@Moe_Preme]

@@pamelaliegh therapy won’t help this guy. He is full of hate.

[@ferdinandh5103]

He was the quietest roommate ever but rarely took a shower for a month

[@blaquehippie]

*Everybody's a comedian*

[@100bgeagle]

Quietest roommate,but also the smelliest!

[@funwithFred]

Twice in SIX MONTHS ASKED TO DO A WELFARE CHECK!!!!! Disgusting....who the hell is running the show. Awful. I would find out who the hell did NOT do the welfare check THE FIRST TIME THIS NEIGHBOR CALLED!!!

[@karlashdown5228]

Im in NZ & i walk a lot a few years ago i was walking to a bus terminal near a motorway, it was the end of summer but still rather warm, walking over a small overpass to get to the bus station i smelled what i only knew to be rotten flesh (Roadkill was my thoughts), also strange was when i sat down i saw people coming out of the undergrowth near the bridge, Cue 2-3 years later & the same people i saw coming out of underbrush are on TV for disposing of one of them's wife & small child, why did i write this because i should have called it in & i still have feelings of guilt about not notifying someone & i hope there is not but if i smell that stench again i know death is near horribly distinctive.

[@brega6286]

So sorry...but unless you have a clue...it is hard to think of the worst.

[@karlashdown5228]

@@brega6286 And that means what, are describing yourself? As that would make some sense i think in this case unlike your apparent reply, or are you just a bottom feeding troll waiting for a reaction keep waiting as you mean so little to me its only boredom that makes me reply, or is you have some necro tendencies & are salivating at the thought of the rotten stench that is your daily perfume freak. I can be as nasty or nice as i am treated i would rethink whom you are trying to Troll more fool you i think which is being generous.

[@cosmicmuffin322]

Don't blame yourself. Hindsight is always perfect. Fellow Kiwi here, Auckland. Was it the Akoranga bus station, the one where the man murdered his ex partner and her daughter and was caught in an undercover investigation?

[@karlashdown5228]

@@cosmicmuffin322 Straight up that was it, I wasn't the only person at the station that day. Apparently it would seem from what i heard about these miscreants what i witnessed was the actual murderer & a relative checking the site after burial, it was only 2-3 feet underground which is probably why i smelled what i did. I was suspicious but weird shit goes on every day & it wasn't the first time seeing people around Akoranga lurking in the scrub as during winter autumn a particular type of fungi is known in that area or was, but this was about the end of February & it was unexpected but it wasn't until the guy was caught i finally knew what had happened. But that smell i still cant shake it & have basically been a vegetarian since & will only partake of meats at family gatherings to be polite. I have kept this very quiet until now but i feel enough time has passed that any relative who may read what i wrote won't take offence.

[@pendizzy6352]

Awe sad. The guy was probably scared he'd loose his place to stay, , but OMG , to not report a death , that's so not right. prayers for the poor old guy that passed.

[@LintoJackson]

U slow

[@stephaniemanchester-chermo3840]

I found my neighbor of 30 some years dead a couple years ago, he was a sick alcoholic so I wasn’t really surprised but he was a lifelong friend of mine so it was an experience to say the least. Seems like something new to deal with everyday anymore in this country.

[@GEAE_Denny_L]

He was probably tapping into the old man’s Social Security check deposits.

[@eddieb1995]

Most definitely was doing that, what a sick f********** (you happy YouWokeTube now can I comment? )

[@nicholaspatti1526]

Without a doubt

[@johnlewis3891]

"He had a couple of gentlemen friends" is this the polite way of saying that the homeowner had gay lovers?

[@brandyb2931]

Police "Why didn't you call and report his death?" Roommate "well, we had another bathroom so it wasn't a big deal."

[@Southern.Nappiness]

That's what I was thinking. There were probably 2 bathrooms in the house, so the squatter just used the other bathroom.

[@sherrysilveira2055]

LOL.

[@selwynlawson7596]

There are truly evil and weird people living among us.

[@daveman5860]

,,, you don't say! 🎉

[@megan893]

Yup, that's why you can't trust anyone

[@explaintomelikeimfive1367]

Is it really evil to not report a natural death? Its not like he killed the person. It is definitely weird.

[@17millionpercocetplease61]

eh evil suggests malice this fella was just ah....... deeply disturbed. Yeah or weird. Weird works too

[@synaesthesia888]

Amogus

[@elizabethg2715]

About 3 years ago, my neighbors an I were smelling awfulness coming from vacant house next door.. I called police to do check they never came so a week later my neighbor an I climb in window and found body's, i felt like I was going to faint from the smell and seeing people like that.. police said you should have called us, I showed him my phone log and said I couldn't wait no longer had to make sure, I was right!! The medical examiner said they were death for at least 3 months and when spring time came that's what we were smelling. Then that next winter there was a young brand new mom and her dog staying in this house, no heat no electricity or food.. I got her into a shelter. It took year for owner to finally clean up house and now ppl live in it.

[@margyb7469]

How many bodies and how did they all die?

[@RevolutionAndPeace]

Bless you for your kindness to that young mom

[@moneydontmakeyourich1916]

Thank God for Nosey Neighbors, I really love having 👃 neighbors they help keep the neighborhood safe.

[@ronboerste1813]

this world is just getting more batshit crazy everyday😲

[@j.103]

Didn’t want the mans pension to stop and no rent to pay. What have people come to these days.

[@charlesincharge.5161]

Well the guy wasn't lying he was permanently asleep. 📡👽🇺🇸 RUN!!!

[@Scratchingforcash]

Listen everyone, if you never smelled a body consider yourself lucky. That’s all I want to say in that subject.

[@vickiegveg]

It smells like nothing else.

[@penielperez8846]

Strongest smell ever 😵‍💫sinks into your nostrils for days. Could taste it and never forget it

[@Kingsombra21]

I never have and I hope I never will bc I heard they smell way worse then anything

[@ShiningSakura]

@@Kingsombra21 ever smelled potatoes that are so rotten that it turned liquid...... that comes pretty close. One of my seed potatoes went rouge while in storage for the next years plantings one time and that's how I know...... worked in a veterinary clinic so I know what death and parvo smell like to compare.

[@shlmel]

🧐 sounds like a homeless squatter.

[@LourdesGzz]

I've been coming back to read the comments and the stories people are sharing are terrifying

[@ilovegameslibb2917]

He was living there rent free. If he called then he would have to leave. Some people, I just don’t know humanity anymore.

[@Tryhardblackguy]

Makes me sad, a lot of people have roommates and never talk to them, not even a simple hi when in their presents. Kind of going through the same thing, I would hate for something like this to ever happen to someone in that position. It is hard to know this type of stuff or know what to do when you all dont talk.

[@ykjo5613]

Watch the NF miniseries on terrible roommates!

[@Tryhardblackguy]

@@ykjo5613 NF referring to Netflix?

[@jaysmoke1984]

How can you sit in there with a whole dead body and not report it? Probably was trying to get the free living

[@SKYREAPER30]

Damn the smell. 🤮 idk how he live with that must be that evil or that stupid to think it’s spoiled food. Nasty

[@jpl7693]

I like how dramatic the reporter is at the end saying the neighbours can't believe what going on and then it cuts to the guy casually "a little uneasy"

[@Wilders53]

This kinda thing happened here in Bristol virginia once! A lady's mother had passed away and her daughter didn't report her death for months after! She claimed she couldn't face it but later it was determined that she was cashing her mom's monthly checks! She was covered up in layers of blankets and car air fresheners!!

[@kimmyfreak200]

this made me think of another awful case where the roommate died on the couch and the roommate just put them inside the couch, unreported it and just lived in the house... its just sick...what made it SO TWISTED was they ate and sat on the couch with the body in there! i think criminally listed featured this

[@crystalcar6660]

How sad. May he rest in peace 🕊️

[@rose7531]

that’s actually so creepy… who tf lives in a house with a corpse for a month and answers the door saying the home owner is asleep??!

[@ballsackfart]

A thing like this happened to my aunt, we weren’t hearing from her for a few days so my brother went over and they weren’t letting him in the house. he ended up calling police and broke in and found her dead in her room before police showed up. she had been dead for a few days obviously, with a meth pipe in her hand :(

[@turkey4957]

Gosh I’m sorry man 🙁 I can relate to you when I was a kid my aunt died in her own bathtub after passing out from alcohol. Life is insane, we got to live every day fully

[@SinisterScoundrel6562]

It goes more unnoticed when it's someone who lives alone.

[@glazedguava7984]

How do you chill in a house with a dead body in the other room? imagine the smell.. good lord.

[@jasonmorgan661]

He will be charged for fraud obviously because that would be the only reason he wouldn't report it unless he had a warrant.🤔 Yup he was probably taking them checks.

[@byloyuripka9624]

meanwhile corporate CEOs screw the lower employees at their company enough to force the taxpayers to subsidize their behaviors through welfares of all sort but that is not worth noticing. just this homeless person who is probably loony but doesnt seem to be a harm to anyone. that makes sense.

[@g-dcomplex1609]

There was an old man who lived in his car parked in the woods by my home as a child i would travel back and forth past his car on the way to a friends house, i remember him sitting behind the wheel, silent, motionless, for days, i knew he died, but was too young to understand death

[@tae_jiminskookie8446]

May he Rest In Peace and sending my condolences to his family ❤️

[@itsruf1]

Observation: My neighbor's house looks like that but he is alive. His halloween stuff and xmas stuff is still up too. He's just lazy, likes Jethro Tull and sits in the park looking at people.

[@rhuttrho88]

Do you see him? If so, not the same thing!

[@rridderbusch518]

Sounds like your neighbor might have a bit of dementia going on.

[@freegame202]

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[@itsruf1]

@Donnell Okafor The song Aqualung is about a questionable guy. My humor doesn't always work at 5am.

[@ms.p5183]

Ugh!! Be careful he sounds creepy,if you hear a person screaming from his house call the police.😳

[@lisamarieashby2523]

I did not witness this, but I live in a housing complex, with individual houses, but they are small, with little landscaping between them. On the far side of complex, an elderly resident had gotten into his car and proceeded partway down the road - still in the complex. He apparently pulled to the curb, and was found deceased a couple hours later, behind the wheel, with the car still running. Heart attack. Thank Heaven he was not out on the main roads when it happened!

[@deedeewinfrey3181]

Thank god the neighbors called authorities.

[@Pooch.12.3]

No mam.

[@sarahporter9541]

I dont know how the living man could stand to stay there with the smell of death. Horrific. Sick.

[@kwmrlee]

Nosy neighbor, he sure was keeping an eye on them but when it counted turned the other way, and now he is speaking like he was an expert in the case.

[@raynemykels3416]

If the body was not tampered or moved in any way within the time of his death the young man will not face any life-changing charges. He may be charged for not properly reporting a deceased person but I'm sure the DA will drop all charges. It's natural causes, no one was hurt, no drugs, no theft. No prior criminal history, open-and-shut case dismissed

[@FLdancer00]

I love how his words say "gentleman" but his tone says they were anything but.

[@luckettt.]

Seems like that dude living there with his dead body had some issues of his own. It’s just heartbreaking knowing that this man wasn’t given the proper care that he needed. Glad that justice was served though. Condolences to this man and his family. I couldn’t imagine how potent the smell was. Not only causing health hazards inside the home but throughout the neighborhood.

[@C2Different]

1st my condolences to his family 😥This so sickening! People are so selfish .

[@JLummin]

But does the roommate actually know the homeowner or just stumbled upon a free home if a dead homeowner. Still weird because of smell but as of now he didn’t kill him and the whole time didn’t report so that he can continue living there for free. Feel for the homeowner’s family learning about all of this

[@saintfrancisobrianevangeli2793]

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS !!! WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY ??? LUKE:16:19-31. REVELATIONS 2O:11-15. YOU AINT SMELL NOTHING YET !!! PLEASE DON'T GO TO HELL !!! FOR GOD JEHOVAH SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING..... JOHN 3:1-21 THANK YOU

[@petemavus2948]

People often pray or " feel for the family " when oftentimes the family was part of the reason for isolation.

[@psalms1163]

That's sickening.. Any Animals don't do that.

[@byloyuripka9624]

yeah, the would have picked him apart, eyes and asshole first. you knew that already cause you seem to be a real nature buff and animal expert. sorry i mean "Animal"

[@staellie7089]

That would be very disturbing to me. What is the relationship between the man who answered the door and the dead man ???

[@Lisa.G412]

The smell of a dead body is sooooo bad idk how dude could live there with it....eww

[@journeymansmitty8283]

That is a whole new level of psychotic but this actually happened to a friend of mine his mother died in the house and you didn't reported she was decomposed on the bed where she laid on🤔

[@shawnjacks2072]

Guaranteed the roommate didn't have nowhere to go or was pocketing his money

[@eckankar7756]

he should have had the tree removed and mowed the lawn to keep living there for free

[@samuelfritz2446]

My mum (53) said back in the late 1970s they had an elderly widower neighbor down the road. Nice man. One spring they noted they hadn't seen him all winter. Mailman was the one who finally kicked opened his door after he realized the other mailmen had left piles upon piles of mail all winter and the man wouldn't answer the door. Well, turns out he was pretty much a blob of goo and bones when the mailman went in his house. Rodents had been at him, too. All winter. And no once noticed him gone until spring.

[@akompsupport]

This is very common. The guy was cashing the deceased Social security checks.

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

This guy did his neighborly duty. Not like those neighbors that ignored their neighbors and were dead for 18 months.

[@SnapszDuhh]

No. He waited A MONTH to check on his roommate. Especially an elderly one at that. So terrible.

[@jcbartman1618]

Man I hope when I’m old that they don’t only check on me twice in 6 month. Scary getting old.

[@dewantoroo]

Kinda remind me of greek movie called "boy eating bird's food". He got evicted from his apartment. Then found his very old neighbor lifeless on the floor, but instead calling the cops, he stay the night sleeping on his bed and eating whatever left on the old man's pantry.

[@mirandachristina3412]

Poor old man. Thankfully he has a good neighbour

[@peacefaith560]

so the smell didnt bother anyone ??

[@tysk5139]

Mooching off the dead guy. How sad . RIP

[@ac4498]

This is so very sad! No family to check on him

[@misstinahamilton5714]

Someone dying and having it not be know for weeks , months is not uncommon . Many dont have anyone checking on them on a regular basis-just happened to my moms neighbor . But to live with a corpse all that time? That just very disturbing .

[@christinemalloy-brooks7540]

Was the guy that desperate to keep a roof over his head or is he a little off? What are you gonna charge him with? We spend too much time looking for someone to pay for whatever happened.

[@DPLZNT]

How do you live in a house for a whole month smelling decomposition and know there’s a whole dead body in the next room!? 😷🤢

[@mattnaylor4491]

Yeap something like this happened in my old neighborhood. It was a pretty nice neighborhood but their is always that one person and it was a 50 year old dude who was a hoarder and he weighed about 500 pounds. One day I see a shit load of Cops, ambulances, fire trucks and a crane the guy was dead for over a month in his house but he was so big and they couldn't move through his house to get him out because he was a hoarder so they had to cut a hole in the top of his house and lift him out.

[@rominn2184]

I don’t understand. If there’s been a dead body there for a month, the stench of decomposition would be absolutely unimaginable and unbearable. How could the “roommate” stand that? How was there not the stink of death? Forget that the body, not properly embalmed or anything a month after death would be next to a skeleton in its physical state..