Morgue Employees’ Worst Nightmares Come True

You have to be a certain type of person to be able to work with dead bodies, but even the professionals get scared working alone in the morgue! Don't miss the scariest stories that really happened to morgue employees while surrounded by the recently deceased!
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[@monicahyland8641]

I worked in a funeral home I was there all the time by myself and nothing ever happened, it’s the living you have to be afraid of.

[@nikkirae9805]

Facts

[@hollyguillory8122]

That's what my mom use to say

[@LikeULongTime]

Depends how long you were there for too

[@Boyoj9]

You’re clearly a ghost

[@taylortanner37]

My sister's childhood best friend was shot through the back of the head by a crazy ex at age 15. Her parents had an open casket and the mortician did her best reconstructing Marine's features but she looked like she was related but not herself. I was 7 and thought we were burying the wrong person. Thankfully I stayed quiet and didn't ask where she was

[@ives3572]

"When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times." - Milo Ventimiglia

[@chuckshartz2722]

What if that stiff and ripened "life casing" I guess you could call it... ain't no WAY I'm shaking its hand if it's all half blackened and liquefied with maggots occupying where their eyeballs used to live as they look at you saying "HELLO!!!... HELLO!!!"

[@josetteandres]

The dogs that help grieving loved ones is just so wholesome. Seems to me that they're probably the pets of the funeral homes' owners. I have a dog, and she really helps when I feel upset about something. Just the feel of her warm fur is comforting.

[@kerncod22]

The story where the body FARTED during the trip down the stairs in the workers face, already funny, but with the sound affects included had me rollin!!! Perrrt peerrrt Perrt. Lol

[@Onlyonejonesy585]

Thank God for the people that do this line of work. Couldn’t be me

[@goodpuss]

Amen sis

[@Letstalkculture]

I couldn’t do that job much respect to people who do

[@mutilatedhatred4868]

Why not

[@Onlyonejonesy585]

@@mutilatedhatred4868 I would get freaked out. I don’t even think I could be a nurse I cry too easily and couldn’t see people in pain

[@mutilatedhatred4868]

@@Onlyonejonesy585 aww 🥰 you are too empathetic .I used to work at a cementary and for some reason it was peaceful for me

[@TheLongjohntim]

When my dad was young he attended a funeral where the deceased woke up in the middle of her funeral this was in the mid 1920's.

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

Death has a distinct smell and once you smelled it you'll never forget

[@TheMollyPitchers]

My mom had type ll diabetes which she refused to control. She didn't survive a quadruple bypass... My sister and I made the service arrangements, chose the coffin at the mortuary and went home. Next day the mortuary called and apologized, telling us that mom wasn't fitting in the coffin. We laughed and cried 😱😃

[@detectivedude8892]

oh

[@aboameir]

Rip:(

[@HypeJutsu]

The literal definition of this = 💀

[@Talia_4u]

✨story time✨ So this story comes from my cousin and his friend. They worked in a morgue. And they had to embalm this elderly lady. So once they finished her and were like sewing her up, my cousin went to get something and his friend went home because his shift was over. And when my cousin came back he put the stuff down and faced the body. But this lady was sitting completely up. At first he thought his friend was playing with him but then he remembered that he was gone. My cousin ran out of there and never looked back and quit the next day.

[@Not_your_mom1986]

I have a lot of respect for people who deal with the departed. I have seen a couple of dead bodies an smelled one that burned in a car accident. I couldn't get that smell out for the longest. I will be cremated.

[@danissdiary]

Me too I don’t want to put my family through the physical and financial pain of giving me a funeral if it becomes a thing in my lifetime though I wanna be put in the tree coffin that little tree seed pod thing so I can be a tree and help nature :)

[@Not_your_mom1986]

@@danissdiary thats a good idea. I never thought of the tree pod.

[@TheGreatBlub57]

knew a guy who worked at a morgue that said he never knew how to answer the question "how was work?" he said there really was no good way of putting it like "it was terrible 10 people were brought in" or you could go "it was great, 10 people died! business is booming) said those conversations were always a little awkward.

[@julianaylor4351]

In the UK we've just had the press, uncovering a case of a killer who had worked in hospital mortuaries interfering with bodies and confessing to it. Horrendous.

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Why the comma after “press”? That’s more horrendous than a killer molesting corpses.

[@rheschlechter2552]

i love this show so much and i’m never bored watching it! super educational and i don’t feel bad binging it

[@childwhipper]

@melissa smith wtf r u talking about

[@kyevlogz2847]

@@childwhipper right 😭😂

[@leoremon7385]

The clown family is so wholesome it almost brings a tear to my eye.

[@Datznet]

As a Medical Doctor I can state: Good work, Infographics Show Team!

[@_west33...]

As a MD I say not true. Worked in a morgue.

[@julianaylor4351]

After my late mother died it took my older brother and I about a month to sort out her finances, before we could get her buried. The hospital she died at, had complained to us, to come and pick her up, before we could afford to get a funeral directors to. Thoughtless.

[@hkchan1339]

Probably because she is occupying space other dead need to use

[@kittykat807]

Not thoughtless. Probably because the morgue isn't cold enough to prevent decay.

[@knockdowntdog6997]

Ok so I'm a body removal and transport technician and I can confirm basically everything in this video.

[@boredinternetuser2973]

The clown one?

[@knockdowntdog6997]

@@boredinternetuser2973 lol no but decomp is rough

[@dansetteameliawilson3227]

Death is my biggest fear...I get a little anxious when I hear my alarm going off in the distance of a dream. It feels like I'm going into the Further...

[@cedricmotivates713]

You must no fear the inevitable

[@charliejoson9145]

I went to a morgue once. It was in a funeral home and it was in the morning. I wanted to see how my grandmother looked. No one in our family dared to go to the morgue. Why didn't I looked around? And now I still remembered what I learned from the worker who took care of my grandmother's body

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

There's a pretty interesting horror movie about morgues called "The Autopsy of Jane Doe". Although the third act is kinda a disappointment, the first two are pretty neat, actually

[@Gunship888]

Loved that movie

[@bigmike9128]

👍

[@svddonny5335]

One of my favorite movies tbh

[@ThroneOfNyx]

I liked the movie ALOT, but the ending felt rushed and anticlimactic.

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

@@ThroneOfNyx My main problem with the third act is how the movie turned into a generic horror flick after two acts full of creativity and originality that really creep you out. I know concluding a story like that was difficult, but they sure could have made something better

[@donm5354]

Wow.. Being DEAD sure is GROSS !! Im glad I wont be around to see my corpse get all bloated and buggy.

[@traceyalex1722]

"Disco rice" is certainly a thing I haven't heard of before. Now, has anyone got any suggestions as to how I unhear it?

[@BrownSugaBabe]

Nope. Not one but if you find one please let me know because…😖

[@BrownSugaBabe]

I work in corrections and have for a very long time. I have seen many inmates that passed from natural causes, beaten to death, self harm, accidental and the list goes on. My husband and I who also works in the same line of work could write several books on the subject…

[@MadDog6945]

Morgue workers deal with dead bodies. Hospice workers deal with the living who pass away right in front of them, sometimes multiple times every single day. Hospice workers are the front lines of dealing with death. Forget ER nurses, forget trauma doctors, forget morgue workers, it’s hospice nurses that are truly exposed to death. My wife is a hospice nurse and early in her career she had so many stories that it boggles my mind. As the years have gone by, the things she sees have become part of her daily routine and she thinks nothing of them anymore.

[@MadDog6945]

If anyone is interested, I can share some of her stories with you without violating HIPAA laws.

[@schawnettarobinson8584]

You should share.

[@honeymustard3429]

All of them are exposed to death, rather, some more than others.

[@boodlesmcsvoodles]

All of them are exposed to death. It's not a contest and we need to be respectful of each profession.

[@ReddCinema]

Your consistency and quality of content never disappoints! ❤

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Ahhh Mom, knock it off

[@mehulkolambkar1549]

Now I don't want to eat.. but can't stop watching ur videos.

[@julianaylor4351]

I once handled files in a room at a hospital, that kept files on dead patients, when working as a filing clerk. The storeroom smelt odd, damp because it was near an outside wall and possibly the files have been in a mortuary and gotten tainted.

[@ryanclail800]

Love the vids

[@daveanderson3805]

One question. Why would you want to work at a morgue? I know it's steady, safe employment, but just look at type of work you do. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the people who do the job, it's an important job, but I wouldn't do it no matter how much they pay

[@thalmoragent9344]

@PressTV IR Fan 4 Ever Lol, you don't trust this Channel? Why? 😅

[@nicolasvitale4071]

@PressTV IR Fan 4 Ever like what?

[@arliesam948]

Perfectly said

[@arliesam948]

@PressTV IR Fan 4 Ever great answer and so true

[@thalmoragent9344]

@PressTV IR Fan 4 Ever Every mainstream channel? You sure about that? Many of them yes, but how many "false narratives" have they made in this channel, in order to deceive people, according to you? They even give some sources or references in thes videos as well, so that you can look around for yourself and learn more that way.... these aren't bad people behind this channel

[@procrastinator9]

In my professional life I've seen a lot of dead bodies. Couple of stories: One guy offed himself with a shot gun in the mouth. Oddly the family opted for an open casket and, God bless the funeral director, they did as the family requested. But it was not a good decision by the family. The body's face was intact, but the head/skull was splayed out from the ears on back as it was rested on a satin pillow in the casket. A graphic and grizzly reminder of the tragic circumstances of the death. Another family opted for an open casket for a baby who died in utero at 24 weeks. She looked like a Vietnamese spring roll with transparent skin. Also, a death scene where the deceased was, no exaggeration, well over 500 pounds. During a blizzard the fire department had to chainsaw an exterior wall out of the bedroom to remove the body and get it to the ME hearse which was too small. So we had to wait for a cargo sized delivery van to come from a rental agency so we could transport the body. The young man who OD'd while kneeling on the floor at the edge of his bed (like he was saying his prayers)and rigor mortis had firmly set in. He was in the kneeling and praying position and nobody could get him to fit in the body bag despite putting the full weight of a big man on the arms and legs. So we had to carry the kid out of the bedroom, through a narrow hallway, down a narrow stairway with a series of 90 degree turns the whole way and through the living room like we were carrying a 180 pound mannequin stuck in a kneeling and praying position that had to be angled and manipulated through the turns the whole way. There's more but those are the first off the top of my head.

[@atlas9716]

You guys should make more about pirates please, I watch all your videos instead of doing my school work, I figure it’s the most productive way to procrastinate!

[@JazzParrott]

Me watching this while about to start school for mortuary science 🙃

[@dolothedon6319]

You got this 😉💯💪🏾

[@JazzParrott]

@@dolothedon6319 Thank ya 🙌🙌

[@blindpilot3849]

Respect! I am glad there are brave people like you as I'll never be able to cope with this line of work😨

[@JasonSmith-eu4ng]

I worked with a guy who had been a cop for nearly 30 years he told me a story about a welfare check he did, the older woman was obese and had died while laying on her couch in the summer she lived in a trailer and there wasn’t any air conditioning going and it was in the height of summer, the trailer was boiling hot inside his partner not being certain she was dead poked her with his club at that point my coworker said no don’t! at the same time the woman exploded. My coworker said he still has that smell in his nose.

[@strange4change_6]

"Drained into the bag" is a mental picture that I pray to never physically see.

[@g_men2121]

Imagine working on a dead relative. Now that’d be hard

[@CloudyNight2156]

Depends on how you feel about the relative.

[@g_men2121]

@@CloudyNight2156 true

[@CassandraH18]

I have no doubt that the Undertaking LA quote is correct, but it's run by a woman (Caitlyn Doughty). She runs a KZbin channel called Ask A Mortician. Unless she's changed from an all female staff to hiring on men.

[@corriemcdonald874]

Thank you! Was just about to post a similar comment

[@GravityDefyingTiger]

I just made a comment saying the same. I found the Wired article they mentioned, and it’s literally an interview with Caitlin from 2014. There’s even a picture of her at the top. The Infographics Show just called her a guy for some reason.

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

There’s quite a few of us that noticed. Mother Mortician would be proud. 🎶THE MIDDLE AGES WERE MAGIC🎶

[@CassandraH18]

@@DarkbutNotsinister 🎶 Bentham's Head🎶

[@jmanj3917]

12:15, Given current obesity trends, mortuaries are going to have to do some renovating soon.

[@taj6048]

This video just made me appreciate my life.

[@howardoller443]

In all my years as a death investigator the absolute WORST smell was the decomposing body (~4 months deceased) found in the water (see 28:04 of video). It was horrid!

[@isaacgonzo]

According to my dad, my grampa (his dad) went to the hospital for gallbladder surgery, someone to grampa theyll pray for his heart in the surgery, he told them its not for his heart. He ended up dieing, and as the death certificate was being signed, he woke up. He was a pastor, and built his own church in guckeen in minnesota

[@GravityDefyingTiger]

The mortician mentioned at 23:31 is a woman named Caitlin Doughty, who runs the Ask A Mortician channel here on KZbin and owns Clarity Funerals & Cremation, formerly known as Undertaking LA. I’m curious as to why they refer to her as a guy in this video? I easily found the Wired Magazine article, it’s from 2014, and it’s definitely Ms Doughty they’re talking about. How hard is it to say “she”? Why go as far as to mention the business and the article but completely mess up the actual person? It’s not like “Caitlin” is a very masculine name, and there’s even a picture of her in the article. Why the need to say that she’s male?

[@chrossantvegas2694]

Bruh they probably made a mistake or the narrator did its not liek they meant any hRm by it.

[@TrickyNeverLaughs]

as a wise man from Asia, i have been to the mortuary during my college years

[@Jaxasourous]

Around 10:10 it says how a body can't fully sit up after death. This is a more special situation, so I don't know if this would still count, but I'll tell this story anyways. So my dad and uncle work at a cemetery together, and sometimes they have to assist the funeral directors with the bodies, caskets, and other things. I'm not quite sure how he got into this situation, but my uncle had to help bring a body to a crematory, and apparently got the scare of his life when he saw the person fly up as the flames started. Maybe the fire made the body contract in an unnatural way which caused it to sit up, but supposedly that's what he saw. I was told this story a couple years back, but it still sticks with me, especially since I'm considering going into that field. So to bring my point back home; bodies supposedly can sit up after death, it just takes a bone burning fire to make it happen.

[@eaphantom9214]

Death and decomposition is fascinating. Even so - Yuck! 🤢🤮⚰

[@michellezavala1355]

Gore and ghastly stories are my favorite! Happy Thursday 😁 everyone

[@ridingismymedicine941]

"To get eyes or parts of eyes to use for transplants, and that meant working with some pretty gory sights" Please give a raise to the person who came up with that clever pun!

[@Crimea_River]

I do not recommend listening to this episode while eating lunch.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

😂 That second-to-last story was FUNNY!

[@StonerOfGotham]

Okay but the clown funeral sounds pretty neat

[@honeymustard3429]

Another way to tell that the story of the guy sitting up is that a cop wouldnt shoot something at a crime scene just for moving, the cop would at least try to identify or warn before firing.

[@huhhuhhuhwood]

i have a friend from the knights who was a funeral director back in the day and a naval doc before that. now i want to pick his brain about all this stuff. for example what happens if the body is missing a head

[@joshuabradshaw9120]

I could never imagine working in a morgue. To me it would just be too nauseating.

[@slurpy_snake8330]

I love this hi I live your vidioes

[@qubonic]

I remember a show on HBO called autopsy. They had 1 episode where they found someone (I think it was a woman) in a bathtub of water, in the middle ofsummer. The water was dark, & all you could see was the ribcage. They might be talking about the same person

[@bryan418]

Grief dogs... that's the origin of the John Wick storyline lol😂😂

[@chrismayer3919]

The one about the cop shooting a zombie was HILARIOUS! (Poor Zed) 👮‍♀️+🧟‍♂️=🏅

[@thomasewing2656]

A coworker used to be a mortician's assistant and kept color Polaroids of his more interesting cases. A person who had their head run over by a bus looked like a large, deflated beachball. Skin can stretch.

[@arthurmartin4616]

For the sitting up thing, I've only heard that for mummies due to how the bandages dry over the body.

[@ashleighpay4171]

i usually watch these whist i eat but i really picked the wrong one today, 3.36 minutes in and i think ill save this one for later

[@brettengel8364]

28:47 If you're ever having a bad day, remember you could have been the guy who was in the way of her last wind. I would have had to bite my tongue off to stop myself from laughing If I was the other guy watching my co-worker receiving farts to the face from a dead person.😂

[@BrownSugaBabe]

These are disturbingly interesting but the one of the dead clown unnerved me to no end. I am PETRIFIED of clowns and there would have been 2 people needing to picked up. One for burial and the other would need to go to the ER because I literally would have had a heart attack.

[@sweetliesbittertruth]

I was eating while watching The part where they said "Dancing rice" I was eating rice lol

[@arliesam948]

I remember some yrs ago a man was sitting on a wall he probably was drunk he fell over the wall and broke his neck When my friends at the funeral home came for his body they place him in a body bag THIS guy was thin they were many workers from the funeral home carrying him AND I could see they were practically straining to carry him apparently the human body is very heavy when we die

[@cedricmotivates713]

Dead weight

[@candiceperry7916]

It is awesome to watch infographics show on youtube I like what would happen if you didn't brush you're teeth for 1 week

[@rileywatson4422]

Amen

[@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289]

Ask a mortician is amazing.

[@DingoNovember]

There even story from Thailand. thank for surprise a Thai fan here

[@rewind399]

The women at beginning was like: Yeah, you could hear my heartbeat. Turns out it was the « dead body »’s heartbeat 💀

[@lukejohnston7785]

I was hoping they would mention the alleged story from Texas chainsaw massacre director Tobe hooper about a doctor who took the face off a corpse and wore it to a Halloween party 😱. Yikes

[@user-hx2ip9lm9d]

One of the most talented male actors of the post-war, black-and-white Greek cinema, Pantelis Zervos, had a 9yo daughter in 1956. A strong earthquake happened at the island of Santorini, and the girl seemed to be one of the dead the local folks hastily burried. When her father had her excavated later, they found the skeleton turned to the side...

[@stickley9107]

This is a problem I swear I put this on to listen to while I go to sleep here I am 16 minutes and 45 seconds in and I'm staring at the screen wide-eyed interested and intrigued

[@Wonderwhoopin]

My grandma let some air out and man when the coffin was opened for last viewing it was rough

[@johnbillings5260]

My grandma was pronounced dead and woke up in the morgue after going through her windshield.

[@4eversight781]

The most nightmare night in the morgue Morgue employees: so a Monday then?

[@jay-jay133]

'Disco Rice'?! Learn something new everyday, not sure what use its gonna be.. but I'll Never forget that, X

[@Stardust_7273]

9:42 Not all families want their loved one buried and need an open casket. If your loved one was beheaded, why put yourself and everyone else through the pain of seeing the body again but knowing the head isn't really attached to the body? Just have the person cremated or have a closed casket... It's just making things much more painful and complicated to insist on an open casket after a bad accident or something.

[@mikehuff9793]

I attended a friend’s funeral once where a friend was in a terrible motorcycle accident with no helmet. His family insisted on an open casket. It was horrifying. That didn’t even look like Tom. It kinda did…but it made me cry that much harder. It was nothing less than traumatic for all who attended. Ironically, I believe his father wanted everyone to be as shocked and as traumatized as he was. If that was the case, he certainly succeeded. He was a very intense man. Edit: Tom was only 21 & was hanging out with his new fraternity brothers on spring break when he died. His dad assumed it was us, his close friends, that pressured Tom when none of us rode motorbikes and told Tom we didn’t think he needed a motorcycle in the first place. It was weird, but everyone deals with grief in their own way

[@Stardust_7273]

@@mikehuff9793 Jesus. That’s cold. I’m sorry but that’s just not right, if you know it’s gonna traumatize people. Idk what his family was thinking, sorry you went through that

[@mikehuff9793]

@@Stardust_7273 tell me about it. 22 years ago…I remember it like it was yesterday

[@Stardust_7273]

@@mikehuff9793 I'm sorry *hug*

[@Xokitten]

Bruhhh I watched this Netflix documentary on John Wayne and I don’t recall them talking about him working at a Morgue and what he did 😭😭😭 that seems like key info to me

[@BrownSugaBabe]

Right! I was sitting here thinking the same thing.

[@pembrokelove]

Oof. The ex trying to take off with the body sounds like the Julie Mott case.

[@davidjensen6002]

Can you do a video on cases were teachers who married their students.

[@mohamadmuqhrismohamadhatta8700]

No. 44 reminds me of a scene in Modern Family

[@marjoriepraile3958]

I am eating while watching this. 😬 bad idea

[@endersquiddyyoutube7999]

If bodies being too big for storage is such a problem why doesn't somebody do something about it?

[@Tarumarugan]

I’m just glad they didn’t talk about anything involving children

[@jefferyepstein9210]

There was a morgue worker in Cincinnati that was getit on with the dead.

[@isaacthecold3802]

Thanks Epstein for my daily fun fact

[@jefferyepstein9210]

@@isaacthecold3802 Most of the women in Cincinnati are dead lays anyway 😂😂😂😂

[@francisatta5590]

I WOULD RATHER STARVE AND DIE THAN TO WORK IN THE MORGUE!!!

[@Gaijin_shorts]

I don't think you've experienced real hunger to the level of dying from it before that's why Just saying 🤷‍♂️

[@akz4634]

Then you’d end up in the morgue but on the other side 😂😂😂

[@TheMxboy199]

It wouldn’t be that bad to work at a morgue

[@TouchofShunshine]

I can't work with dead bodies.

[@Onora619]

Omfg why did I watch this. Scarred for life lol

[@EmmanuelDavid75]

This narrator doesn't help matters at all, he always makes something creepy look or sounds more creepier. Nice voice though.

[@slickdewmaster]

I shouldn't have watched this while eating dinner ugh

[@venomxo4075]

John Wayne Gacy ? Oh I know that psychopath , 🙄 he's the one who killed teen boys for no reason and showed no remorse for it . Can you imagine him doing work on one of his victims bodies and then all of a sudden , his victim grabs him by the neck as a sign of revenge .

[@jushoek]

when you dont relize your '' early ''

[@memegod1586]

Your the best

[@robynsegg]

Okay... That's enough Internet for today. 😒

[@abumohammed8335]

Me and friends also lovers of infographics thinks you don't do justice to african history and stories. There were a lot of villains and serial killers too. Eg. Kanungu massacre in Uganda, deadly money ritualist all over Africa. We love the way u tell stories and hope u look into Africans continent too. Thank you

[@donm5354]

19:30 Babys "flesh was too dry to find PURCHASE" ?? Why would maggots try to find a PURCHASE? Its not like the baby could buy anything...

[@sassyinscrubs5206]

I've been ahospice nurse for years. Let me count how many incorrect statements are on here

[@shorty38]

I watch the lady who owns undertaking LA

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Made it to :14 seconds. Who will admit that they made it further?

[@BrownSugaBabe]

I finished the whole thing. Eating a bowl a popcorn no less.

[@forrestyt1302]

C'mon man where's my like its been super long since I've been asking you. . . Love your videos . . Can I get a heart ??? Love from MAURITIUS island