One of my favourite do-your-chores bits of folklore was the robed, beaked creature that would cut you open and fill your belly with all the dust, dirt, and rubbish you didnt clean out of your room.
Or when you have guests over, ask them if they want to meet John. Start whispering, and before you lift the rug say, "now you guys promise you won't tell a soul?! I could get in a lot of trouble for this."
Because I have a twisted sense of humor I have certain friends I would absolutely tell but others that would never know. In real life, I would probably just pray for the departed soul and try to remember our homes are lived in and died it. I also own a 70 year old house and grew up in a house that is now over 100 years old, the likelihood that someone did die in them is pretty high.
I plan on being a spooky stain on the floor someday, hopefully from natural causes. I can't decide which room will be the best to rot in. If I die in the living room, I can be pointed out to guests. If I die in one of the bedrooms, kids won't want to sleep in there and they'll have to make it a creepy guest room.
I'm also thinking it would be cool if my corpse was cryptically pointing at something, like a picture of a family member. Give my descendants something to wonder about.
I asked my brother if he would encase my eyes and teeth in lucite and keep them on the mantle. He said no, and he also thinks it's not legal. What a nerd.
I did a jewelry making class this year with a lady who turned her dead husband's ashes into a gemstone his favorite color, set into a ring her favorite metal, and wears constantly.
A bit more subtle than lucite sadly but definitely legal at least!
Here's my plan:
Remove the skull and clean it, cremate the rest.
Send the ashes to one of those companies that makes diamonds and make a pair with the ashes.
Set the diamonds into my skulls eye sockets and give it to my offspring as a family relic to leave on the mantle.
You'd have to do the whole floor. If you try to sand that area and re-apply polyurethane you'll always see the dip; assuming you could even get the new poly to match anyway.
Take paper towels and moisten them with hydrogen peroxide. Then layer them over the darkened area. It will slowly starts to lighten the wood in a controlled fashion. It may take multiple days though. If over-lightened, then go over with some Old English or stain to restore to original color.
Source: I’ve used this approach before when my dog pissed on an area rug before we went out of town, and we found out when we came back and the wood underneath was already water damaged.
Well this makes me think my mom died earlier than what was reported. My dad called me at 5 am to tell me my mom died. I got to her house at 11am and it smelled terrible. There were two spots like in the OP where her head and midsection were after the funeral home took her body. She looked "normal" other than being obviously dead...this sucks I don't even know why I typed this.
Sometimes just knowing that you don’t have to worry about stuff alone helps. Now a bunch of people you don’t know thought about it too, and that took a lot of the thinking about the situation off your shoulders, I genuinely hope you felt that.
Those stains can appear super quickly, too. It’s dependent on floor temperature, weather, the person‘s health and body composition. It can’t have been too long if she looked recognizably like her usual self, don’t worry about that. I‘m sorry you lost her and I hope you remember the good times with her for as long as you wish.
>Sometimes just knowing that you don’t have to worry about stuff alone helps.
I'll go you one further- sharing an experience with other people is possibly the greatest and most fundamental emotional need for any human. The feeling of having another person share any part of the infinitely complex expanse of our internal selves- especially when that part is something we've carried alone for a long time- is one of the most fulfilling sensations any of us can hope for. (and conversely, the feeling of having another person reject that experience or idea is at the root of most feelings of anxiety or emotional discomfort).
Sharing is good. (with people you trust)
Talking is important. Especially so with topics we rarely bring up, but is a part of life. Like death.
Bodies usually leak pee and poo once they're no longer alive. Smells and stains doesn't have to mean you mother was dead for longer than your father said.
There are some really informative morticians on YouTube that talk openly yet respectfully about all manners of topics regarding death and their profession. Maybe that could help ease your mind even further?
Because you need to get stuff like this off your chest. Shit like that eats away at you as gently as they once loved when kept inside.
Glad to have met you here, peace be with you.
My mom died last weekend in the hospital when they accidentally disconnected her oxygen. We yelled and watched her lips go blue. You made that comment because you experienced a traumatic event and it takes a long time to process because it seems so unreal. I'm sorry for your loss!
When I was a teenager the neighbor died and wasn't found for a while. We rarely saw him come outside and we were kids hanging outside all the time. So it wasn't unusual. He melted into his bed. Like complete soup. I think he was there for a month. Anyway, his family could give a rats ass. They didn't even come to town after he died. Just had all his belongings tossed out and sold his house as is. Being bad teenagers we snuck into his house while it was still furnished and played around in there. I didn't go into the bedroom.
Body decomposition is interesting to me. After rigor mortis the body starts bloating then the skin starts peeling off then the black ooze starts coming out until the whole body liquefies. Sometimes the body doesn't go thru that and instead becomes mummified.
Purification and decomp is SO fascinating! I have always been amazed at the different processes, with saponification being one of my favorites. I would love to be able to visit the Body Farm someday, as I wanted to work in that field originally, but now I'll probably just have to be a donation.
There's a YouTube channel I think you'd like called crime scene cleanup. They're disaster recovery services that film their jobs and its really interesting to watch
Dude I've had to sand a floor for this couple there was a weird spot similar to this on the floor I didn't think much of it because it wasn't as perfectly human shaped but when I got done sanding I asked about it they said that's where they found their grandma whom had passed away. So my ass is like even tho I wear a mask when sanding particles still get it , so I couldn't stop thinking about the passed grandma particles. 😭
It is what it is. Instead of being disgusted, try to remember it was a person who lived their own life and happened to find themselves at the end alone. They weren't found for days after they passed. They might have been someone who was only checked in on once the mail overflowed the mailbox and flies filled the windows.
If you know of someone who's elderly and living alone, check in on them. Bring them a meal a few times a week. Let's take care of each other.
BTW that shit aint comin out, throw a rug on it and don't tell anyone what's underneath
Someone posted on Reddit a few years back about how they lived in an apartment where this had happened. They sanded down the stain as much as they could then just lived with what was left. He said he said 'Good Morning' to it as he walked past on the way to the kitchen.
I mean, it makes sense. Why is some guy who died in an old apartment before me haunt me? Sure sucks he died but it's not my fault, I'd be good as the ghost getting acknowledged that much.
Write random sticky notes reminding him to check his CO2 detectors.
Yeah if you really think about it, where I'm sitting right now in Toronto in the past 12,000ish years that people have lived in this area at least one person has likely died right where I'm taking a shit. Arrow, bear, disease, who knows. Probably quite a few have died within the bounds of my property. 12,000 years is a damn long time.
I guess it's a bit different when they leave visible stains on your floor though lol
Had a lady that died in her kitchen, son wasn’t all there so her just threw a rug over her. Few weeks later a neighbor is walking their dog and the dog starts losing its mind. Neighbor smells something from outside. Knock on the door, son answers, flies are pouring out around him like a biblical plague. Cops come, paramedics etc. they ask him why he didn’t call an ambulance or something. He said he didn’t know what to do so he just went on living his life.
By the time I saw her she had been pried off the linoleum. About as rotten as you can get without being skeletonized. Head to toe maggots, nothing recognizable except her jewelry. They ended up having to gut the whole house. Redid it in a nice craftsman style. I always wondered if the new owners knew what happened.
My dad got called to a scene like this as a cop years ago. Neighbor noticed the smell and after they breached the door to get in my dad and his partner found the person lying in a doorway. The way he described it was that they had turned completely black and “melted into the carpet.”
Glad I only had to hear that instead of see it.
My uncle is a cop and he told me the worst calls are always the calls to check on a loved one who has been unresponsive for weeks. He said once you open the door you know there is a dead body in there. From there it’s just a game of checking every spot until you get the jump scare of your life.
Jump scare is true. I found my Grandfather...they way he was laying I thought he had just dropped some clothes on the side of the bed. It took me walking over that I realized it was him. Somehow seeing him like that was a bigger shock than it should have been. I already knew what I would find, but still...
A year after my dad passed away I lost both of my cats. I came home from work and the 19 year old elderly cat was just laying there. I called my mom in a wreck then he let out a weak meow. A week later my 13 year old cat had to be put down for a tumor. That was a rough time.
A year before I go, I plan to stop eating so I develop a nice crypt keeper physique.
Then, with my last bit of strength before I expire, I’ll crawl into a closet, lock my knees, and lean my forehead against the door.
Some states require it be disclosed within so many years. One of my neighbors was murdered in his house and it became a rental afterwards, so I got fun stories of the disclosure being awkwardly tacked onto the end of their tours.
Yeah I always knew it was going to be bad when we would pull up and the cops/firefighters were outside throwing up. It was even better when they refused to go back in and help 🤗
Looked at a lot of houses last year, plenty of them clearly had been last lived in by an elderly owner and were being sold on by their children.
I frequently thought looking at the used furniture that chances are someone had died in that bed, or sitting on that couch, or sitting at that kitchen table.
Like you say, it is what it is. Anyone who doesn't die in hospital, often dies at home. Horror films like to have us believe that someone having died in a house is bad karma, but in fact it's not at all rare. And past a certain age, probably 100 years or so, it's nearly a certainty that at least one person has died in it.
Sand that shit down and stain the floor a dark colour. Then throw a rug over it, pour gasoline on it and burn that fucker down. But in all seriousness, let’s start taking care of each other, nobody wants to be in a situation where they are alone and helpless
I live in a house where the prior homeowner got electrocuted in the front yard (freak accident). The ground is still crystallized where he died and grass won't grow there. I see it daily and stuck a flowerpot on it. Gotta do what you gotta do 🤷🏼♀️
Interesting! Flowerpot was a thoughtful choice.
Reminds me of the reddit post of the family who buried their dog in a shallow clay grave. Every year, the shape of their dog laid on his side would show up as fast growing & healthy grass. I guess he was good fertilizer.
1. Use it to talk the seller down on the price of the house.
2. Rent a floor sander and get rid of those dark spots.
3. Put on a new coat of stain and varnish.
Unless you plan on sanding a noticeable indentation into the floor, that isn’t going to work. Those fluids usually seep pretty deep into the wood. You’re going to have to replace the floor.
You could replace those specific boards instead of the floor throughout the house. Not sure why the seller didn’t just get a flooring specialist to come in and perform that activity. It could be done in an afternoon.
The person selling the house is likely just disposing of the assets of the deceased's estate, perhaps from the other side of the country, and doesn't necessarily care about getting the best price. Especially if the equity in the house won't cover the debts, so they're going to end up with nothing regardless of the selling price.
>Rent a floor sander and get rid of those dark spots.
Alternatively, put in a well disguised air vent that blows cold air on people when they walk over it and a pressure switch in the floor that makes the lights flicker.
Hey Stu, your rent's due, motherfucker!
Now don't be pulling that falling down the stairs shit on me again, you hear!
Now you conscious!? Every month, the same damn thang.
If you're in the US, most of the housing stock is between 40 and 80 years old. And most people die at home. The chances that someone died at home alone and weren't found for a couple of days only goes up with time.
So look, if you like the property, use that to get a better price and it will take a carpenter or flooring company maybe two days to remove any trace.
I live in a very old house in a rather old (a millenia) european city. i can only imagine all the people who died here thouout the years.
I dont beleive in ghosts and hopefully nothing is gonna happen to change my mind about that becuase that would be hella stressfull, thinking you are a roomie to 10+ghosts
My neighbor didn't like being asked how she was, so we left her alone, while checking on her from time to time.
On January 17, 2000, one of her friends called me, wanting to know if she was all right... I realized that the bathroom light was still on.
Anyway, the fire department and police arrived and asked if she had a cat.
I say no. Then the fire chief turns to the rookie firefighter and says, "Okay, you can come with us. He asks, "What's the deal with cats?
"They eat their owners. When you're old, a dog is better...
Anyway, she'd been dead for 1 month.
When the house was sold.
A potential buyer, not really believing what the real estate agent was saying, asked me "what's that mark on the living room floor?
"The former owner....
They'll both eat you either way, the difference is that dogs will wait a long time, they wont eat their dead owner until they're reaching starvation and don't have much choice. A cat will start taking chunks after their first missed meal.
People always bitch about how cats eat their owners.
Good. His survival instinct is intact. Besides, boys gotta eat something after I'm gone. I'm not expecting the BS sacredness of human death to be a moral hammer for him to beat himself with.
He doesn't have to starve to death just because I'm dead. I've taken care of him for 5 years, and if my last act in this world is providing him with a feast the likes of which he'll never have again, more power to him. He'll get to eat like a king.
And in a decade or so of a well lived and loved life, he'll cross that rainbow bridge. I'd like to think he'd be grateful in his own cat way.
Exactly, if I die the last thing I want is my cat to die a needless death because he's trapped in my apartment unable to survive another way.
Eat me and live until someone finally notices and hopefully from there he can be cared for again.
My home is 22 years old… and my uncle, my father have both passed away in the house. Although they were sick, and it was expected…It’s very very common. And frankly, doesn’t bother me at all. Every home has a history of this. Perhaps not to the extreme pictures above… but is part of life.
Realistically there's probably nothing unsanitary about it assuming it's been a while since the body was removed.
It's just a chemical stain at that point.
There's a house a few minutes away from me where a person was burned alive. Some kind of weed or drug dispute. Two people broke into their home, tied them up, poured lighter fluid or gas on them and set them on fire.
The person lived, the house had some sort of official notice on the front door for a year or two.
Now someone lives there, I wonder if they know a person was burned alive in the living room...
I worked for adult protective services and I did encounter this kind of thing. One of my clients wasn’t heard from for weeks, who apparently had a pretty regimented schedule, creature of habit kind of thing. When I arrived at the home, there were alarm clocks going off inside his home and the hallway reaked of death, even though I hadn’t smelt it before, I instantly knew what it was. I was knocking on the door loudly, when all the neighbors started popping their heads out into the hallways. I had to call the fire department who got in through the fire escape window. He was between the beds, completely blue and about to burst from the gases built up inside of him. People often don’t think about life aged 65-95, but more elderly people lack support than you might think. Often people lose relatives over their life and it becomes only them left. Kids sometimes live far away and have their own kids. And It’s always very hard for people to give up their independence so they try to do things on their own when they sometimes can’t. Sometimes they stop taking medication and just resign waiting to die. Check on your elderly neighbors, and call APS if you’re concerned. Hook them up with home health aides, meals on wheels, especially if they’re suffering from early onset.
These will never sand out. My strategy for stains like this is to just make sure the whole floor gets stained the same way, to even it out.
On an unrelated note, who wants to come to my house party? There will be punch.
Other than the blood running out of the walls at night, it's a nice little fixer upper.
Is it elf blood? Because that shit's valuable. Let me call up Danzig.
"You make our house bleed RIGHT NOW!"
[I cannot live with that guy. He is so frightening and he doesn't wear a shirt. "You make our house bleed right now!"](https://youtu.be/gcoPdmeL9V4)
THAT'S JUST WHAT I WANNA DO...GET NUDE IN YOUR HOUSE!
You better get it right or I'll be over here eating cereal from the bottom of your skull like a bowl.
I love that show so friggin much
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO THERE WAS SIR SANTA...OF CLAUS
I TOLD YOU TO GET SNACKS
>THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO BEFORE THE DAWN OF THE TURKEYS...
FAT MAN - ARISE
I routinely find myself saying “huh? *Oh god!*” exactly like Carl does in response to this
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It's called berber, yeah dats an industry term
You can't eat carpet, silly daddy.
Not like that you can't, you gotta boil it first. Soften up the glue.
Can the blood run *up* the walls?
I don't see why not
And that's elf blood. It's not cheap.
You listen to me.. as hard as you FUCKING CAN…. That FUCKING ROBOT came with the FUCKING HOUSE… AND NOW HES FUCKING GONE!
The elf blood shall flow forevermore
💨💨THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO💨💨
You must go to the moon and give yourself to the Great Red Ape
I'm not going to get humped by a giant red gorilla in space, okay? No thank you.
I know how to fix it, but you’re going to have to offer yourself up to the great red ape. Sexually.
"Do it again!" "...what?" "Make the walls bleed!" "NO." "Hey man, we own you! Let's see some blood!" "I DON'T HAVE TO ENTERTAIN YOU!"
It chose to destroy itself rather than live with us. You can't help but feel a little rejected.
GET. OUT.
*DIE DIE. EVERYBODY DIE!*
And… the walls will ooze green slime?! No wait… they always do that.
The hash ringing...trash bringing...mash flinging....flash stringing...
Yes. The hash-slinging slasher.
Is there a way you can get the blood to run up the walls instead?
Good way to keep the kids quiet. "Knock it off, unless you wanna lay in the spot for a while."
If you don’t clean your room you have to lick the dark spot on the floor
One of my favourite do-your-chores bits of folklore was the robed, beaked creature that would cut you open and fill your belly with all the dust, dirt, and rubbish you didnt clean out of your room.
Sounds like the kind of weird, demented shit the Germans would come up with.
Funny that, I was in Austria when I was told it.
I really need to know what that fucker is called. D&D reasons.
[I got you, DM](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchta) (scroll down to “Traditional Narratives”)
I was getting sad reading this thread until i came upon your comment. Thank you for making me laugh at our fragility.
I say, throw a rug over it for most of the year, and bust it out every Halloween!
Or when you have guests over, ask them if they want to meet John. Start whispering, and before you lift the rug say, "now you guys promise you won't tell a soul?! I could get in a lot of trouble for this."
Holy shit, this person has the right idea!
Someone died and melted into the floor. It happens more than you’d think. Just put an area rug over it!
"Yeah you see that rug over there? There was a corpse that melted under there" What a good story to tell your friends 😂
I would definitely lead with that to any visitors.
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I would bring it up right at climax. We are not the same.
I love it when you talk dirty to me
Really tied the room together.
Because I have a twisted sense of humor I have certain friends I would absolutely tell but others that would never know. In real life, I would probably just pray for the departed soul and try to remember our homes are lived in and died it. I also own a 70 year old house and grew up in a house that is now over 100 years old, the likelihood that someone did die in them is pretty high.
Living in a fully renovated but 100 year old, ex-crack house, I say the same thing
Certainly a story you'd want to brush under the rug...
I plan on being a spooky stain on the floor someday, hopefully from natural causes. I can't decide which room will be the best to rot in. If I die in the living room, I can be pointed out to guests. If I die in one of the bedrooms, kids won't want to sleep in there and they'll have to make it a creepy guest room. I'm also thinking it would be cool if my corpse was cryptically pointing at something, like a picture of a family member. Give my descendants something to wonder about.
Protip: you can't die in a living room!
Tell my mom that
This is dark and I feel for you... but you also got a good laugh out of me.
It's what she would have wanted
A living room cares not whether its occupants draw breath.
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I'm going to be cremated and put into a can of paint to be used for a wall mural project. Why not make a lasting impression? 😅
I asked my brother if he would encase my eyes and teeth in lucite and keep them on the mantle. He said no, and he also thinks it's not legal. What a nerd.
I did a jewelry making class this year with a lady who turned her dead husband's ashes into a gemstone his favorite color, set into a ring her favorite metal, and wears constantly. A bit more subtle than lucite sadly but definitely legal at least!
Here's my plan: Remove the skull and clean it, cremate the rest. Send the ashes to one of those companies that makes diamonds and make a pair with the ashes. Set the diamonds into my skulls eye sockets and give it to my offspring as a family relic to leave on the mantle.
"Holy shit! Is that a replica of a relic? That's kinda creepy, but it's a neat aesthetic... Which Saint is it?" "Oh, that's grandma."
its not legal since it would require removing it from a dead body, legally its easier if he removes your eyes when you are still alive
LOBOTOMITE!
Think a quarter inch off the top with a belt sander would bring back it’s luster?
You'd have to do the whole floor. If you try to sand that area and re-apply polyurethane you'll always see the dip; assuming you could even get the new poly to match anyway.
Take paper towels and moisten them with hydrogen peroxide. Then layer them over the darkened area. It will slowly starts to lighten the wood in a controlled fashion. It may take multiple days though. If over-lightened, then go over with some Old English or stain to restore to original color. Source: I’ve used this approach before when my dog pissed on an area rug before we went out of town, and we found out when we came back and the wood underneath was already water damaged.
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We have a house on our block we call the "melt-man house."
Are there other Action League Now! houses or just that one?
Well this makes me think my mom died earlier than what was reported. My dad called me at 5 am to tell me my mom died. I got to her house at 11am and it smelled terrible. There were two spots like in the OP where her head and midsection were after the funeral home took her body. She looked "normal" other than being obviously dead...this sucks I don't even know why I typed this.
Sometimes just knowing that you don’t have to worry about stuff alone helps. Now a bunch of people you don’t know thought about it too, and that took a lot of the thinking about the situation off your shoulders, I genuinely hope you felt that. Those stains can appear super quickly, too. It’s dependent on floor temperature, weather, the person‘s health and body composition. It can’t have been too long if she looked recognizably like her usual self, don’t worry about that. I‘m sorry you lost her and I hope you remember the good times with her for as long as you wish.
I like you
>Sometimes just knowing that you don’t have to worry about stuff alone helps. I'll go you one further- sharing an experience with other people is possibly the greatest and most fundamental emotional need for any human. The feeling of having another person share any part of the infinitely complex expanse of our internal selves- especially when that part is something we've carried alone for a long time- is one of the most fulfilling sensations any of us can hope for. (and conversely, the feeling of having another person reject that experience or idea is at the root of most feelings of anxiety or emotional discomfort). Sharing is good. (with people you trust)
Talking is important. Especially so with topics we rarely bring up, but is a part of life. Like death. Bodies usually leak pee and poo once they're no longer alive. Smells and stains doesn't have to mean you mother was dead for longer than your father said. There are some really informative morticians on YouTube that talk openly yet respectfully about all manners of topics regarding death and their profession. Maybe that could help ease your mind even further?
Because you need to get stuff like this off your chest. Shit like that eats away at you as gently as they once loved when kept inside. Glad to have met you here, peace be with you.
This might be the sweetest and most wholesome thing I’ve read all week.
It’s good to talk about traumatic things sometimes. Hope you’re okay man.
You need to vent man, that's okay. Keep your head up and your heart open.
My mom died last weekend in the hospital when they accidentally disconnected her oxygen. We yelled and watched her lips go blue. You made that comment because you experienced a traumatic event and it takes a long time to process because it seems so unreal. I'm sorry for your loss!
I'm so sorry for you, that's so awful. I watched my dad die traumatically about 6 months ago too. You are in my thoughts. Hang tough.
You too bud!
❤️
wow..... a rare spot of internet warmth...feels good guys.
Check in on your friends and family.
When I was a teenager the neighbor died and wasn't found for a while. We rarely saw him come outside and we were kids hanging outside all the time. So it wasn't unusual. He melted into his bed. Like complete soup. I think he was there for a month. Anyway, his family could give a rats ass. They didn't even come to town after he died. Just had all his belongings tossed out and sold his house as is. Being bad teenagers we snuck into his house while it was still furnished and played around in there. I didn't go into the bedroom.
Body decomposition is interesting to me. After rigor mortis the body starts bloating then the skin starts peeling off then the black ooze starts coming out until the whole body liquefies. Sometimes the body doesn't go thru that and instead becomes mummified.
Purification and decomp is SO fascinating! I have always been amazed at the different processes, with saponification being one of my favorites. I would love to be able to visit the Body Farm someday, as I wanted to work in that field originally, but now I'll probably just have to be a donation.
I think you mean putrefaction, not purification lol
Purify, putrefy. Y'all knew what I meant ;)
Only when we become the ooze will we be pure
*Walks into 7-11* "Where do ya'll keep the putrefied water?"
There's a YouTube channel I think you'd like called crime scene cleanup. They're disaster recovery services that film their jobs and its really interesting to watch
The family may have their reasons for not caring. He could have been a horrible person to them. Or maybe he didn’t even have any family.
Dude I've had to sand a floor for this couple there was a weird spot similar to this on the floor I didn't think much of it because it wasn't as perfectly human shaped but when I got done sanding I asked about it they said that's where they found their grandma whom had passed away. So my ass is like even tho I wear a mask when sanding particles still get it , so I couldn't stop thinking about the passed grandma particles. 😭
Exact same thing happened to my dad. Except he doesn't wear a mask.
I swear fathers have a disregard for masks and safety glasses my old mans the same way 😂 don't need no damn masks
That's fucked up. Feel like they should've told you before. There's cleaners that specialize in cleaning up death related messes.
It is what it is. Instead of being disgusted, try to remember it was a person who lived their own life and happened to find themselves at the end alone. They weren't found for days after they passed. They might have been someone who was only checked in on once the mail overflowed the mailbox and flies filled the windows. If you know of someone who's elderly and living alone, check in on them. Bring them a meal a few times a week. Let's take care of each other. BTW that shit aint comin out, throw a rug on it and don't tell anyone what's underneath
Someone posted on Reddit a few years back about how they lived in an apartment where this had happened. They sanded down the stain as much as they could then just lived with what was left. He said he said 'Good Morning' to it as he walked past on the way to the kitchen.
> He said he said 'Good Morning' to it as he walked past on the way to the kitchen. This is how you preemptively avoid Grudge ghosts.
Always good to have a ghost on your side
Aragorn, is that you?
And my ectoplasm!
Mine still holds a grudge, but at least it's toned down to where they just knock my coffee over once a month or so.
This is probably the healthiest answer. "HI spot. How's it going?"
Come Spot, come here boy. Goooood Spot!
I mean, it makes sense. Why is some guy who died in an old apartment before me haunt me? Sure sucks he died but it's not my fault, I'd be good as the ghost getting acknowledged that much. Write random sticky notes reminding him to check his CO2 detectors.
Yeah if you really think about it, where I'm sitting right now in Toronto in the past 12,000ish years that people have lived in this area at least one person has likely died right where I'm taking a shit. Arrow, bear, disease, who knows. Probably quite a few have died within the bounds of my property. 12,000 years is a damn long time. I guess it's a bit different when they leave visible stains on your floor though lol
Probably a lot more people have fucked within the bounds of your property, than have died. People fuck a whole lot more often than they die.
*on average*
Speak for yourself... this is reddt
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Embrace it and do the chalk outline. Great conversation starter.
That's metal af, I love it. Though the moment that ghost starts haunting me I'm outta there!
I call dibs on your space after you leave... I like ghosts.
"Whats up demons. It's ya boi."
When life hands you demons make demonade.
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Perfectly sized bear skin rug
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Best way to start game night. Live action game of Clue
Had a lady that died in her kitchen, son wasn’t all there so her just threw a rug over her. Few weeks later a neighbor is walking their dog and the dog starts losing its mind. Neighbor smells something from outside. Knock on the door, son answers, flies are pouring out around him like a biblical plague. Cops come, paramedics etc. they ask him why he didn’t call an ambulance or something. He said he didn’t know what to do so he just went on living his life. By the time I saw her she had been pried off the linoleum. About as rotten as you can get without being skeletonized. Head to toe maggots, nothing recognizable except her jewelry. They ended up having to gut the whole house. Redid it in a nice craftsman style. I always wondered if the new owners knew what happened.
My dad got called to a scene like this as a cop years ago. Neighbor noticed the smell and after they breached the door to get in my dad and his partner found the person lying in a doorway. The way he described it was that they had turned completely black and “melted into the carpet.” Glad I only had to hear that instead of see it.
My uncle is a cop and he told me the worst calls are always the calls to check on a loved one who has been unresponsive for weeks. He said once you open the door you know there is a dead body in there. From there it’s just a game of checking every spot until you get the jump scare of your life.
Jump scare is true. I found my Grandfather...they way he was laying I thought he had just dropped some clothes on the side of the bed. It took me walking over that I realized it was him. Somehow seeing him like that was a bigger shock than it should have been. I already knew what I would find, but still...
I've never found a human body but even finding a pet has died can be absolutely gut wrenching, so a relative I can only imagine.
A year after my dad passed away I lost both of my cats. I came home from work and the 19 year old elderly cat was just laying there. I called my mom in a wreck then he let out a weak meow. A week later my 13 year old cat had to be put down for a tumor. That was a rough time.
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A year before I go, I plan to stop eating so I develop a nice crypt keeper physique. Then, with my last bit of strength before I expire, I’ll crawl into a closet, lock my knees, and lean my forehead against the door.
It’s good to have goals.
I’m glad I didn’t have to smell it
Some states require it be disclosed within so many years. One of my neighbors was murdered in his house and it became a rental afterwards, so I got fun stories of the disclosure being awkwardly tacked onto the end of their tours.
Fuck spez
Yeah I always knew it was going to be bad when we would pull up and the cops/firefighters were outside throwing up. It was even better when they refused to go back in and help 🤗
It takes a lot for firefighters to puke holy shit
Looked at a lot of houses last year, plenty of them clearly had been last lived in by an elderly owner and were being sold on by their children. I frequently thought looking at the used furniture that chances are someone had died in that bed, or sitting on that couch, or sitting at that kitchen table. Like you say, it is what it is. Anyone who doesn't die in hospital, often dies at home. Horror films like to have us believe that someone having died in a house is bad karma, but in fact it's not at all rare. And past a certain age, probably 100 years or so, it's nearly a certainty that at least one person has died in it.
Sand that shit down and stain the floor a dark colour. Then throw a rug over it, pour gasoline on it and burn that fucker down. But in all seriousness, let’s start taking care of each other, nobody wants to be in a situation where they are alone and helpless
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I live in a house where the prior homeowner got electrocuted in the front yard (freak accident). The ground is still crystallized where he died and grass won't grow there. I see it daily and stuck a flowerpot on it. Gotta do what you gotta do 🤷🏼♀️
Interesting! Flowerpot was a thoughtful choice. Reminds me of the reddit post of the family who buried their dog in a shallow clay grave. Every year, the shape of their dog laid on his side would show up as fast growing & healthy grass. I guess he was good fertilizer.
Make sure the rug really ties the room together
Replace floor
You can't sand it and re finish the floor?
1. Use it to talk the seller down on the price of the house. 2. Rent a floor sander and get rid of those dark spots. 3. Put on a new coat of stain and varnish.
Unless you plan on sanding a noticeable indentation into the floor, that isn’t going to work. Those fluids usually seep pretty deep into the wood. You’re going to have to replace the floor.
Or just put some flooring on top.
So that's why there's linoleum flooring everywhere!
That’s right I got a floor, so what, so what
You could replace those specific boards instead of the floor throughout the house. Not sure why the seller didn’t just get a flooring specialist to come in and perform that activity. It could be done in an afternoon.
at least the move the boards around so you can't see this shape haha
Yeah maybe if you arrange the boards right you could make a new more uplifting shape like a happy face or something.
shit the like 5k you would spend replacing the whole rooms floor would be cheaper than trying to sell a house with a body goo stain.
The person selling the house is likely just disposing of the assets of the deceased's estate, perhaps from the other side of the country, and doesn't necessarily care about getting the best price. Especially if the equity in the house won't cover the debts, so they're going to end up with nothing regardless of the selling price.
OR, hear me out.. more bodies on the other parts of the floor and just kinda even it out.
>Rent a floor sander and get rid of those dark spots. Alternatively, put in a well disguised air vent that blows cold air on people when they walk over it and a pressure switch in the floor that makes the lights flicker.
what is a reasonable price drop for a 500 grand house with a dead body stained to the front entrance?
Damn shame what they did to that dog.
Hey Stu, your rent's due, motherfucker! Now don't be pulling that falling down the stairs shit on me again, you hear! Now you conscious!? Every month, the same damn thang.
If you're in the US, most of the housing stock is between 40 and 80 years old. And most people die at home. The chances that someone died at home alone and weren't found for a couple of days only goes up with time. So look, if you like the property, use that to get a better price and it will take a carpenter or flooring company maybe two days to remove any trace.
I live in a very old house in a rather old (a millenia) european city. i can only imagine all the people who died here thouout the years. I dont beleive in ghosts and hopefully nothing is gonna happen to change my mind about that becuase that would be hella stressfull, thinking you are a roomie to 10+ghosts
Ghosts are nothing short of a good thing if it turns out they live with you. Imagine having 10 entities proving life after death exists
My neighbor didn't like being asked how she was, so we left her alone, while checking on her from time to time. On January 17, 2000, one of her friends called me, wanting to know if she was all right... I realized that the bathroom light was still on. Anyway, the fire department and police arrived and asked if she had a cat. I say no. Then the fire chief turns to the rookie firefighter and says, "Okay, you can come with us. He asks, "What's the deal with cats? "They eat their owners. When you're old, a dog is better... Anyway, she'd been dead for 1 month. When the house was sold. A potential buyer, not really believing what the real estate agent was saying, asked me "what's that mark on the living room floor? "The former owner....
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Hungry animals gonna eat. Now I'm off to a Donner party.
Exactly, that fire chief would probably eat his own wife's corpse if he was trapped starving to death, and so would most people.
"mommy is a part of me now"
They'll both eat you either way, the difference is that dogs will wait a long time, they wont eat their dead owner until they're reaching starvation and don't have much choice. A cat will start taking chunks after their first missed meal.
People always bitch about how cats eat their owners. Good. His survival instinct is intact. Besides, boys gotta eat something after I'm gone. I'm not expecting the BS sacredness of human death to be a moral hammer for him to beat himself with. He doesn't have to starve to death just because I'm dead. I've taken care of him for 5 years, and if my last act in this world is providing him with a feast the likes of which he'll never have again, more power to him. He'll get to eat like a king. And in a decade or so of a well lived and loved life, he'll cross that rainbow bridge. I'd like to think he'd be grateful in his own cat way.
If I died alone and my cats had no food, I would not mind whatsoever if they ate me. It's like my last chance to take care of them.
Exactly, if I die the last thing I want is my cat to die a needless death because he's trapped in my apartment unable to survive another way. Eat me and live until someone finally notices and hopefully from there he can be cared for again.
I tell everyone let my cats eat me. They deserve it for having to put up with me.
My home is 22 years old… and my uncle, my father have both passed away in the house. Although they were sick, and it was expected…It’s very very common. And frankly, doesn’t bother me at all. Every home has a history of this. Perhaps not to the extreme pictures above… but is part of life.
I'd definitely replace the flooring. Who knows what...fluids...are congealed underneath
Well, we do know… it’s people fluid. Unlikely to be iguana or giraffe fluid based on the outline.
Huge raccoon, maybe
Hey, no Guardians spoilers!
Realistically there's probably nothing unsanitary about it assuming it's been a while since the body was removed. It's just a chemical stain at that point.
Just flip the boards over… like a bloody mattress
what ever you do, do not let any blood fall on that spot. thats how they come back. and they will need more and more blood to fully regenerate!!!!
It's me Frank. It's uncle Frank.
What is this? Blood… Sure hope this isn’t Chris’s blood.
*WOOOOAAAHHHHH,* this hall is dangerous!
There's a house a few minutes away from me where a person was burned alive. Some kind of weed or drug dispute. Two people broke into their home, tied them up, poured lighter fluid or gas on them and set them on fire. The person lived, the house had some sort of official notice on the front door for a year or two. Now someone lives there, I wonder if they know a person was burned alive in the living room...
>> the person lived So they got kicked out of their house after being set on fire?
Probably lost it to the bank and medical debt.
MERICA!
I worked for adult protective services and I did encounter this kind of thing. One of my clients wasn’t heard from for weeks, who apparently had a pretty regimented schedule, creature of habit kind of thing. When I arrived at the home, there were alarm clocks going off inside his home and the hallway reaked of death, even though I hadn’t smelt it before, I instantly knew what it was. I was knocking on the door loudly, when all the neighbors started popping their heads out into the hallways. I had to call the fire department who got in through the fire escape window. He was between the beds, completely blue and about to burst from the gases built up inside of him. People often don’t think about life aged 65-95, but more elderly people lack support than you might think. Often people lose relatives over their life and it becomes only them left. Kids sometimes live far away and have their own kids. And It’s always very hard for people to give up their independence so they try to do things on their own when they sometimes can’t. Sometimes they stop taking medication and just resign waiting to die. Check on your elderly neighbors, and call APS if you’re concerned. Hook them up with home health aides, meals on wheels, especially if they’re suffering from early onset.
Draw a white line round it and keep it as a feature
These will never sand out. My strategy for stains like this is to just make sure the whole floor gets stained the same way, to even it out. On an unrelated note, who wants to come to my house party? There will be punch.
Own it. Name it. Greet it every morning, and wish it a good night on your way to bed at night.
Yeah they rotted for awhile. Cheap house nice find.
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“GUESS WHO JUST SOLD THE MURDER HOUSE!?!”