Morgue Employees Reveal Things That Would Scare Everyone 

When you're in a morgue, you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eyes, you shake their hands, and you hug your friends, your loved ones, and 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 realize and learn to cherish your life and never take it for granted.

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It's not the dead you have to worry about, it's the living

The guy surviving being in the fridge for 15hrs is more miraculous then him surviving the pesticide.

The sheer incompetence of people with the power to declare life or death is what the most scariest thing here.

I saw dead people for five years while working at a morgue. I still see them, even though I don't work there anymore. Some left an impression I would like to forget.

Kenyan doctor: His eyes are not open, therefore he is dead. I am sorry for your loss.

After binge watching so many Ask A Mortician videos, these stories don’t surprise me as much as they probably should.

I'm disturbed by how recent these stories are.

My friend was a nursing student (was) and she was accompanying a nurse to take a recently deceased to the morgue. They get on the elevator & as they go down the body is releasing air & the body jolted up a little. Well she didn’t know bodies did that & screamed in the elevator. She decided nursing wasn’t for shortly after

I was told the story by a girl that worked in the morgue, freshly out of medical school. She said that sometimes, they attach a small bell to the big toe or the leg of dead people, in case they are not really dead. Because mistakes do happen. She even asked her superior if the bell ever rings, to which he replied. "In all my years of working and from people I know, never has the bell been rung" Then one night that she was alone in the morgue, she heard the bell. But when she approached the morgue, the sound stopped and she could not remember any freshly died person being brought in.

As a young nurse I was asked my another nurse to help her move a deceased man to the hospital morgue. The morgue was in the basement and at the very end of a darkened corridor. I had done this a few times, but it was a part of my job that I never got used to. I don’t care what others may say, but it is an eerie feeling walking down a dark corridor wheeling a dead body and if you’ve ever watched scary movies, it doesn’t help. As we opened the door to the morgue we saw several bodies draped in sheets. We quickly moved the body we had to a space next to the last body. You can usually tell who was placed in the morgue first as they tend to be nearest the door. I secured the stop on the gurney and quietly made our way to the door. As I reached for the light switch to turn it off I heard the faintest “Help me.” The other nurse looked at me and asked, “ Did you hear that?” “Yes,” I replied and “I am not hanging around to find out where it came from.” When we reached our floor we told the charge nurse. She knew we were young and had been frightened. She sent one of our male nurses down to check. When he returned he told us that he couldn’t find anyone there who could have spoken.

*Next video: Dead People Scare Morgue Employees!*

I was talking to an alcoholic who someone called the rescue for. He remembered them saying something like this guy's too far gone. He woke up in the morgue and said he was afraid he was going to get in trouble for leaving.

Death asked life why does everyone love you and hate me , life replied ; because I am a beautiful lie, and you are a painful truth 💔

I hate it when I am getting fingerprints of the dead, and the body suddenly twitch

Witness “ I don’t believe in ghosts, except when I saw that ghost.”

My uncle used to work in morgue. Ive hear lots of stories from him but one story freaks me out. One day one of his friend from collage or highschool arrived at his work just to meet him during its breaktime of work. They had cup of tea in cafe etc, like normal and simple and she left for her work. 5mins later uncle got a work call said “we got new body coming up be ready in frontgate” He went there, and yeah it was his friend who left just 5-6mins ago. She left my uncles work and was heading to bus station like 50m away while she crossing road, bus just went through her (over her). Uncle said he couldn’t identify her from her face, body but from her clothes he noticed. (Sorry im bad at stories also english is not my first language)

I have a funny morgue story . I'm an electrician. A few years ago we were upgrading all the lighting in a hospital to led lights. We had to work at night to minimize disturbing normal hospital stuff. Including the refrigerated room they store bodies before they go to the funeral home. We had a laborer helping us load parts and trash as we worked. There was another electrician and myself working outside the room they kept the bodies. I waited until they were not watching and layed on a gurneys and threw a sheet over myself. Then they made their way to where I was and jumped up and yelled I never laughed so hard while working.

Actually the one person I worked with who used to BE the "eye guy" was the most disturbed person I have ever worked with. It took a huge toll on her. First working with the family to get permission. Then cutting off the cornea herself. Eyes are the window to the soul. She told us over and over and over again how important the work was to help others. Almost daily. Not everyone is cut out for it.

My grandmother in her medical school years said she enjoyed study alone in the morgue because its quiet and kept reminding mortality of human and her duty in future as a doctor, to save lives. She said wierd and strange things happened all but she just loving it lol.

You should talk about what happens when an astronaut dies in space

Imagine how many of them were not dead but was undiscovered and they had to be "buried alive". I once read an article where they had to relocate the dead to another cemetery. While doing so, they discovered that one of the coffin had scratch marks all over it. The only explanation was that person was wrongfully pronounced dead, and somehow woke up and tried to escape. I can't imagine the final moment of whoever that person was.

I can first hand say that I know bodies can sit up from the contracting in the muscles of the abdomen and the expelling of gases. And it's horrifying.

As a morgue keeper/body recovery specialist I have to say I really enjoy this work. It is something else when you are on a call and are talking so calm and casually to your work partner about work and day to day stuff while everyone around you is still reacting to and processing the fact that there is a dead person within the vicinity. People crying and emotionally reacting. As a body bagger you get really use to seeing all types of death in all shapes, smells, and sizes. Everyone reacts differently to death of a loved one, co worker, or just someone near by. One woman said, “are you sure he’s dead”. Like wtf, that’s so messed up and sad. The things I have the privilege of being apart of really humbles you. The best part is it’s completely random and you never know where you are going to get. I wish I had a body cam but there is too much personal information and laws between the dead humans. Not very many people can stomach this type of work, at least not for a long period of time. I want to make a career out of it but it doesn’t pay enough to. I recommend trying it but not if you are unstable and have poor mental health or are not mentally tough. You see things I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy to have to see or go through. But definitely a job for you thrill seekers. I remember what it was like to see my first body. Unreal

I read a “funny” funeral home story that occurred in the 50’s. Apparently at the time the funeral director had just hired a young man not 48 hours prior. They young man was understandably nervous. They got a call that a elderly woman just passes away and went to pick her up. Well, they put the body up to be prepped later...and the director had to do something outside, and told the young man to sweep up. As the young man was sweeping, he heard “groaning”. Initially spooked, he thought the funeral home director was pranking him by hiding by the old woman’s remains, under the sheet. He stormed over, pulled back the sheets to tell the funeral director to “cut it out”, but the woman suddenly opened her eyes, gasped and partially sat up. This terrified the young man so much that her ran out of the building, past the confused funeral director, past his parked car, and just ran home a few miles away. A few hours later the funeral director was able to reach him via the phone.....and the the young man made it clear HE QUIT. No word on what happened to that poor lady, who had a bit of a scare no doubt. I can see it now, an awkward phone call to the hospital,while an old older lady sits, wrapped in clean sheets, embarrassed in an office sipping tea. I bet it scared the life into her!

I'm from Kenya and have actually heard the rising from the dead story severally... Definitely true stuff

Ηmm.. morgues, forensics, undertakers etc. Well, this is a true story : About 20 or so years ago in Greece, there was a widely acclaimed university profesor of philosophy, named Dimitris Liantinis. He was hightly respected by his students and many other people for his depth of his thought and speech. Suddenly he disappeared leaving behind him a note, saying among other things : "No doctors, no forensics, no priests, no undertakers will touch me. Wild animals, birds and insects will be my pallbearers". His bones were found scattered in a cave on the Peloponesian mountain of Taygetos, about 6 years after his diappearence.

I’m a Body Removal Technician in a metropolitan city. I transport between 20-30 bodies a week and so far no one has “woken up”. If something like that happened to me the first thing I would do is transport the decedent-now-patient directly to the ambulance port of the closest ER. I love my job because I get to help families but hope that never happens.

People are hard to work with...hateful, gossiping, back stabbings, making you miserable, being unfair....its better to work with the dead.

If I was the guy that committed suicide I would think that I was reincarnated

The first time I went to a morgue to a dead see a dead friend, I couldn't erase his dead looks from my mind everytime I sleep I dream about him alive but with that dead look. It goes on for 3 months even after he was buried. Thankfully my mind learned how to ignore the thought but it was tormenting me. Never would I go inside a morgue again.

Note to self: do not die in Kenya or Venezuela

I will NEVER look at my dog the same way.

**now let’s get creepy* Me: 👁____👁

I worked at nursing homes and only experience a close call once. I tried to see if a resident was breathing cuz he was cold and stiff. When I didn't feel a heartbeat either, I started shaking him and yelling his name and he took a breath and immediately the warmth came back to him. I would have been in big trouble, otherwise, for shaking him.

Imagine dealing with morbidly obese severe decomp on 102° days in Georgia ..... Let me mention that these bodies are known for popping/slippage very very easily . The smell can linger for weeks or months even . And that used car you drive , could've been the last place a person took their last breath ..... very detailed professional cleaning and repairs and no one is the wiser . And no unlike real estate .... car dealerships don't have to inform you of death(s) occuring in a vehicle

Living people scares dead people in the morgue

Fun fact: just because there is a walking dead person doesn’t mean they are going to attack the alive people.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. - Jeff Goldblum.

Imagine just waking up from what you assume is a normal sleep and you're in a medical environment with loads of doctors running away screaming!

Doctor: "Oh, thank goodness you discovered he's alive before you cut him open!" Mortician: "...Yeaaah.... about that..."

Dogs and cats at the morgues: “It’s free real estate.”

Put down my crime novel and this is uploaded. Timing!

That man from Kenya was just unconscious..... But he later passed after one week

the infestation part is a no-go zone for me especially the roaches.

My grandma was terrified that she might "wake up in the grave" so demanded she be embalmed before being put in the ground so as to make sure she was dead first. This wouldn't be an issue if dead bodies were left out at room temperature until it was sure to begin rotting. Then you would know for sure they are absolutely dead.

The one about the pregnant woman was one of the grossest and the 😥 saddest.

That reference though 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 “I see dead people” 🤣🤣🤣

I worked as a delivery driver for years and on my route was the morgue. One time I delivered some boxes of body bags for children sizes. It had the size on the outside of the box.I said a quick prayer and delivered them . That was 😔 knowing that no matter who those children were they should of had more time on this earth..

My dad was an undertaker part time. He and and a coworker had to pick up a guy once. He was in. A recliner, box of Red Bull on one side, box of beer on the other, watching tv and he had been there for weeks. My dad was mostly upset because he was only in mid 30s. I asked what was on TV, and told my dad if he was watching Jerry Springer I wouldn't stop laughing

#5 was very disturbing and sad considering she had an unborn child.

Wait... The gun was firing inside her hooha? Is that what they're saying? How tf? Lol

When you just got a morgue custodian promotion--- and then you see this video

My biggest fear is getting 'locked in syndrome' and being declared dead when I'm not.

"This one will give you nightmares!" The add: *Cute Little Ducklings*

My friend worked on the morgue preparing bodies. When hired him they took him to the back to look At bodies that got progressively worse ending with decapitated baby. To see if he could handle the job. He worked a couple years but it got to him. And ended up in rehab from drinking to much.

Growing up in the ghetto I've witnessed death in front of me a few times never pretty still haunts me.. but respect to those in the mortuary and hospital business

It’s impossible to successfully transplant organs from a donor who has been dead, without blood and oxygen going to the organs. Harvesting is done in a hospital, not in a morgue.

It’s crazy how these “trained professions” are wrongfully declaring people dead like what if the person didn’t wake up in time and they got cut open for the autopsy while being alive

I would like to thank the Infographics Show 🧐🤔 for keeping me and my State of Texas entertained. We've been hit by the WORST Winter storm ever!! Binge watching my favorite show has helped morale!👍

Don't Fear The Dead , Fear The Living

I'm eating my lunch My brain: Perfect video

0:35 reminds me of Shorty everytime.

the green bubbles actually do a great job of representing that yummy miasma

"Look we are understaffed,what else can we do?" Proceeds to hand the janitor the scalpel. 😒🤷‍♂️

My biggest fear would be hitting the person 😂😂 i dont think id run WITHOUT throwing something at the thing that just scared me 🤣

Who TF would even dream of popping blisters on a dead person🤨

Cadaver dogs might come in handy at the morgues, they know if a body is still alive or not.

Ain't no amount of money that can get me to do this job lol

Can't have a doctor declare your dead if you don't have insurance to see him in the first place!

Humans about to die: Animals and insects: *DINNER TIME*!

Entomologist was my nickname in high school lol

If someone were to wake up in the mortuary and the janitor was a big Highlander fan with a dark sense of humour, maybe he could convince them they were immortal and start teaching them the sword...

The last one was a bit strange

My father in law, was a police officer he had one of those bathtub cases in where they died in the bath. He said when they opened the door to the apartment you knew that someone had died! The only way to transport such a person was to cut out the entire bathtub and transport it in the bathtub. If you try to lift the person you’ll just rip off their skin.

I didn't work at a morgue but at a university laboratory. It was right next to the gross anatomy lab where they keep the cadavers for medical school. For some reason, it always smells like orange juice in there. Now, I can't even drink orange juice without thinking about the dead bodies I've seen in there. Lol

I’ve seen pictures of the man soup that was mentioned; Easily one of the most disgusting things ever and one could only imagine what the smell was like. Years ago in my old town, the morgue got shut down after it was discovered that the internal organs were being tossed out in regular trash bags in alley dumpsters.

When my dad was a cop he got a call that an elderly woman was dead and been there for a few days she had a heart attack and dropped dead and when my dad showed up her body was chewed up her face was gone, no fingers at all, it was the little dog she had turns out when they needed the rings from her fingers the dog still had them in his stomach

I have a real story. My dad was in the army in a country in the middle east. A guy was shot 30 round ak in his chest from the rebels. When his parents came to claim the dead body they saw vapor in the bag that the body was in. The nurse was in shock they got the person out and got him surgery 20 hours straight removed half of the organs. The story is from the 1980. The guy now have a normal life with 3 kids.

I know a model who works at a morgue and I asked her why the F would she want to work there. It's not as if she needs the money and she replied that it's something she had always wanted to try. This is proof that lack of food and nutrients in the human body can cause strange aspirations.

I'm not scared of dead bodies and I might work in a morgue. I know after bodies did that they move but it would still be scary.

This is so much fun! Thank you!

Only people born in the 90's can relate with the sentence "I see dead people"😂😂

Why am i eating and watchin this...

Oh yes it can, does, & has happened here in the US. This happened to my aunt years ago, she gave the mortician's assistant a mild hear attack..

I once drove with the windows down in winter to survive the putrid odor of rude people smoking in my car. I could hardly wait to get rid of them.

Moral of the story: Don’t die in Kenya

Most times the dead are the best company, they never complain, they don’t have a honey do list, and they are mostly quiet

Great for dieting. Now I’m not hungry lol

The one with the gun: it fired not while being embalmed but while she was cremated. I just watched another video about this. Makes sense that heat would make it fire.

I wonder how many people are declared dead but come back to live and buried every year.

Reminds me of a story I once heard about a worker fresh out of college and working his first night in the morgue alone, a model who had been killed in a car accident and a piece of shrimp. It lead to a call to his supervisor late that night as a result of his confusion and an honest mistake that was finally cleared up when the supervior made the trip to the morgue to see with hs own eyes...

POV none of you guys are morgue employees.

Health and wealth to everyone

It was a mistake to click on this while eating

A mate of mine about 40yrs ago Died in a car crash, he was on the slab for about 2hrs, one of the workers went to lift him and noticed what he thought was a Pulse, got the doc back and had him checked, his pulse only beat about every 2 minutes, he was lucky.

I love infographic. You guys are awesome. Keep it going!!

I did a program In the Los Angeles's Morgue. As I walked in there it smelled strange. I walked by bodies of different people that once were alive.. They all looked like they were alseep just their private parts covered.. I will always remember that moment..

I stayed up all night watching this channel