Funeral home becomes burial ground for 2 bodies – 08/26/05 — Good story for Holloween.
Neighbors say there was always something creepy about the abandoned funeral home on Detroit’s west side. They never imagined it was home to two long-dead occupants.
Police face a grisly mystery after Thursday’s discovery of the decayed bodies lying in caskets at the defunct Pope Funeral Home on Plymouth Road near Grand River.
After its owner died last year, the once-grand brick house with Greek columns became so ramshackle, some said it resembled a haunted house.
Police found the bodies about 11 a.m. while responding to a vandalism call.
One corpse, clad in a dark, double-breasted suit that had decayed to rags, lay in a coffin with chrome adornments and crushed velvet lining. The other was plainly dressed and in a cheaper coffin.
Who are they? What happened? Where are their families? How long had they lain, forgotten, in the first-floor embalming room? So far, police don’t know, and neighbors are spooked.
from A. Cole
Aahh, and I bet people were just dying to go there too. They must have been queers or muslims.
I didn’t say that!!! I’m being misquoted!!! You have it all wrong!!! There is no record that I ever said such a thing!!!
Just think what is left in the abandoned car factories…….
This wasn’t that uncommon at all years ago. After an embalming somebody didn’t claim the remains or show up to pay the bill. Most of the time the after a few months the remains got carted off to potters field, but some funeral home owners where stubborn. Many funeral homes in the South had, “mascots”, around. My Grandfather played poker for years in the back room of a funeral home with a player that never anted up. The body was sent to an address on a train, and was returned because no one claimed it on that end. The director could never find a family member. This would have been in the 1920’s.
I know of an abandoned funeral home nearby….. There’s a help wanted sign in the yard. I always thought it was funny. Now I want to offer my services.
yo dats is some crazy stuff but i dont beleive in all that
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