Have you ever found a dead body?

[SteveSS]

I came upon a scene Monday night that really scared me. Our group was testing some new Ram trucks on a lonesome dirt road about a mile off the interstate. It was about 2 am. We came upon two stopped cars.

A man was standing outside the car toward the back and the car in the front had its driver's door open. A pair of bare women's legs were sticking out of the car, She had on shorts but everything from about her waist was out and limp. Stomach down. I stopped at what I thought was a safe distance and looked. The was NO movement from the woman for about a minute. I got out and told the guy, "She's not moving." Then I saw a little movement from inside here car. The guy said she was fine and thanked me for stopping. We called the police but who knows what happened.

I watch all the gruesome crime shows but when it comes down to being real I was scared.

 

[Photon440]

I found one at work once, back in the '70's. I came to work for the 7am shift, parked and sat in the car waiting for a friend to show up so we'd walk in together. He arrived, came over to me, and said (about another car) 'hey, there's a hose in the exhaust'. I looked in the car, saw it was occupied, tapped on the window then opened the door.

Full of exhaust fumes, the guy was cold and stiff. Turns out it was a guy who worked the afternoon shift, he rigged his car up and checked out when the shift was over so his car was probably running for almost 8 hours when we found him.

We went in, reported what we found.

 

[Badvert65]

I married one, if my first wife counts.......

 

[Budnicks]

Yes I have, it's a very delicate/personal subject

I won't go into gory details
a friend/golf buddy of mine had committed suicide
I was the 2nd person on scene
police were on there way

I also saw my step fathers mother, beloved Gramma Jo
with my stepdad attempting CPR on his deceased mother
the ambulance was there some 10 min.'s later

I also saw a friend die in a drag race,
we think that his throttle stuck (?) Blown Inj. BBC in a rear engine dragster
the parachute was deployed & drove thru the sand-trap & catch-net,
into a extremely bad placed dirt mounding, of the old track debris
right behind it, off the end at Fremont/Baylands Raceway

all had very profound affects on me

 

[Durandal25]

......sadly, more than one. My former room mate in college, 30 years ago heard screens and followed them to an upstairs apartment.....20 year old man hung himself from a fan. Girlfriend found him first and screamed so loud we could hear her 300 yard away with their door closed.....we got him down and called police. Been dead for hours

 

[slimt]

I used to help recover downed small Aircrafts from the mountains. It wasnt unusual to find parts. Also encountered a few head-on collisions. Where bodies were thrown out in a field or the steering columns and wheels pushing up a persons head into the roof. Pretty gruesome.

 

[alfaitalia]

Yep....just a few months back. I was in a traffic queue in a busy area when I saw this old guy in a stationary motorised wheel chair near a bus stop, hundreds must have driven past...but he looked for all the world like he was asleep. I knew something was not right so I parked up...not sure why. He was dead...sadly his grand daughter had been sent out by his daughter to see where he had got too and walked up as i waited for the Police..... not something any 10-12 year old girl needs to see. Ive seen a few bodies over the years for various reasons....one or two pretty mangled....never nice.

 

[moparedtn]

I've written here before about where I witnessed a lady decapitated right in front of me....
not up to typing that all again right now, sorry.

 

[eldubb440]

I was in 5th grade, 11 years old I think.

my oldest brother's wife (SIL)……..her younger brother, early 20s, killed himself with a shotgun. Two of my friends and myself were walking on a trail through the woods, on our way to an area where a lot of construction materials were dumped. We wanted to scavenge up some things to build a fort with.

when we got there, there was a pickup truck; and a dead guy lying next to it. didn't get close enough (25 ft?) to see the shotgun, or that half his head was missing (evidentially held the gun under his chin). We didn't know who it was and didn't care.

my first thought was that we stumbled onto a murder, and the murderer was very close by...….. We high tailed it out of there pronto, I was running like OJ Simpson

it rarely comes up in conversation, it has always been a bit weird for me

 

[Dennis H]

On the job. Not unexpected, but first on scene. Several times.

 

[dryheat]

I discovered someone floating in a large fountain that I could see from my 3rd floor office window. Called 911 ... I named him Bob.

 

[eldubb440]

I discovered someone floating in a large fountain that I could see from my 3rd floor office window. Called 911 ... I named him Bob.

must have been a white guy

 

[myk r sanchez]

Only dead body I've ever seen is my mom's when the hospital wanted me to confirm her identity. Pretty gruesome stuff...

 

[Dennis H]

Usually on arrival mine were reconfigured.

 

[sxarnold]

Went into work on a Saturday and found a guy dead on his desk. He was working late Friday night alone, heart attack.

 

[WP29440SE]

guy at work dropped right in front of the sink in the bathroom while washing his hands. his heart stopped, medics took their sweet *** time getting there. they casually walked in like they were at Burger King. probably could have saved him had they really given a ****.
had a friend that was drunk trying to be cute and took a flying leap off the couch and out of the living room picture window. he caught his foot on the window sill and landed face down on a seven inch shard of glass that went directly into his heart. the cops were thoroughly convinced one of us pushed him out.

 

[Pikser]

To many.....

 

[w.Hudson]

I have never found one.
I have unfortunately watched several loved one pass away. Most recently my step son was killed in a motorcycle accident.

When I was a teenager, a young girl went missing. Kidnapped and later murdered. Naturally we thought that we could find her in our then small rural town. We didn't find her but had walked through the area where her body was dumped. It was unclear if she was there when we were there or not.

My brother and I have own rental properties. We believe it is only a matter of time before we find a tenant dead.

In September of 2018 I had a near death experience. It was like the lights were turned out.
It always amazes me. Death. There is no fanfare. No parade. No nothing. One minute you are here
and the next you are gone.

 

[Sahara]

About twenty years ago I was looking at buying a used snowmobile. Obviously it’s winter. Dark and cold all the time. My buddy finds one in the next town, two hours from here. We work until 05:00 and drive over. We get there just as the family is finishing their supper. I pay, and while the guy is writing out my bill of sale two kids come running in. “There’s a dead body on the hiking trail!” they shout.
Buddy and I get directions from them, and jump on the snowmobile that I just bought. We go to where they said. In the headlight, off to the side of the trail, you could see what looks like a black plastic garbage bag in the snow. Further investigation shows that’s it’s a young girl, approximately 14 years old, wearing a black leather jacket. ****. I grab her wrist to check for a pulse. Nothing. And she is cold. That’s the part I had the hardest time with; just how cold she was. While we are deciding what to do next, I glimpse a wisp of steam coming from her nose. You could just barely see it in the headlight beam. It wasn’t even a breath, it just sort of drifted out of her like smoke off of a smouldering cigarette. She is breathing, barely. Without further thought we grab her and jump on the snowmobile. Buddy drives, I sit behind him with her on my lap. She is cold, and limp as a dish rag. We drive down the trail, through town, right to the front door of the hospital. We carry her in. Hospital staff show up and whisk her away. Nobody asks us who we are, or how we came to have a dead looking young girl with us. They literally take her, and ignore us. After about a half hour of standing around we load up the machine and drive home. Definitely one of the strangest things that I’ve experienced, mostly because nobody seemed to care how we came to have her.
We heard weeks later that she survived, a failed suicide attempt. But she was so cold. It was very unsettling.
Wife works the very front line of health care. Hands on patients, every day for almost thirty five years. She generally works on living patients but there’s been a few dead ones that she had to take samples from. But some of the (barely) living have been bad. PTSD bad. Trauma. Rape. Burns. She is the strongest person I know, but it’s very, very hard sometimes.

 

[Bad B-rad]

Only found one, my father, passed in his sleep.(he was 44)
Went to wake him for work, as soon as I touched him I knew.
We had 66 Charger street/strip car we built, and daily drove to work.
It took a LONG time before I had any fun driving that car after that.