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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
These stories from real coroners onAsk Redditare creepy AF.
They did a CT and something looked funny about his gut.
Hundreds of pennies, nearly six dollars worth inside the skin all over the arms and legs.
Scott Rodgerson
The deceased was a hermit, lived alone, ordered out for every meal.
Apparently hed been surgically implanting pennies in his skin for years.
No fucking clue why.
3.My friend who does autopsies found barbie doll heads in the intestines of a 21-year-old woman.
Yes barbie dolls, ken dolls, that stuff.
The weird part is she died from COPD.
5.My brother in law was in his early 60s and passed away from a heart attack.
During his autopsy, it was noted he only had one kidney.
He never had a kidney removed and the only surgery he ever had was to have his appendix removed.
And the mortician said that it was in fact removed and not just a birth defect.
The appendix surgery happened when he was very young.
The weirdest part is she died of a heart attack while in the shower.
There was no possible explanation other than she was suffering from pica.
7.An 88-year-old grandma died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
During the autopsy, we couldnt initiate the back of the cranium.
She was fully functioning and never seemed affected by it in the slightest.
Ive never seen anything like it.
8.When I was a student I saw an autopsy of a man who had hanged himself.
When we checked the main arteries in the heart he had a huge blockage.
He was basically just about to have a huge heart attack so probably would have died anyway!
9.Back in the 90s, I worked for the company that was contracted to move bodies for the coroner.
We picked up the body of a lady who had worked as a tailor in her youth.
There was also a pin lodged in her lung.
The coroner thought she must have inhaled it.
Shed suffered a pulmonary embolism back in the 60s which had forced her to retire.
Maybe the pin was the cause of it.
The cause of death was a stroke.
10.I worked as a pathology assistant.
My boss once found a 6-inch builders nail in a chaps thigh.
I am unaware of what happened afterward but it was definitely referred higher.
12.Incidental finding of a toothpick lodged in the small intestine.
13.Accessory spleens were super common, but one lady had 14 of them, but no actual spleen.
Just 14 little blueberry-sized accessory spleens.
14.Elderly female with five very old tampons in her vaginal canal.
15.Buddy told me he found a pair of dentures in someones thigh.
Didnt say a word to anyone about it for a couple of years either.
We couldnt believe it either.
17.An old shut-in died from natural causes, and his body was found a few weeks after he passed.
The man had no family, so no one had a clue how the wires got there or why.
19.While completing the post-autopsy repair for a gentleman, I found a plastic ladle tucked under the ribs.
It was probably left by some poor autopsy technician who got yelled at for losing the good ladle.
Apparently she was swallowing the same necklace for years and I can imagine why someone would do that.
