Video Essay: Storm Scatters Caskets

[ZX2ManDave]

This is actually kind of common in extreme flooding situations. One of those things you just dont want to think about. Its horrible, but it happens.

[ibaneziceman2007]

This is why I'm being cremated.

[zayne570]

how deep did they not bury them like all of them up basicly

[24KevinMatthew]

thats safe to walk in and I love him saying the old black people lmao wtf dude

[xvoy2002]

What's with all the negative comments. This is the resting place of people's loved ones. It was a natural catastrophe. Massive surge of water forced the graves open. I don't understand how people take something like this and make rude comments about.

[cdlish03]

It's episodes like this that burial should cease and cremation made law. All of the chemicals pumped into dead bodies pollutes the soil and environment.

[Normpercy]

shit how deep are they buring them two feet i thought they buried them deeper

[GeBagger]

@Normpercy normally it's 6 feet

[olivefallopian]

hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah­ahahahahahahahaahah

[elmopimp35]

@olivefallopian Really, what fi this happened to you, you wouldn't laugh and i fucking hell know you wouldn't laugh, one of my friends family members was buried here in this same cemetery, if he seen you laugh he would have fucking DdoS'ed you off the bat, IMO, you should be banned for laughing at this.

[kmedina06]

soooner or later burial will be the no more you gotta buy land uno farmers arent going to give them up so cremation is gonna be the only way

[Chaoitcme]

BRAINS!!!!!!!

[Walkermemorial]

Terrible



[Jessica141996]

This is sad:-(

[pocketdrummer84]

Thats scary!!

[TheGreasepit]

Cremate me, let my ashes blow in the wind.

[TopJimmyWinn]

maybe cremation is best.

[NawtyAngel911]

@XxDannyxXxJennyxX i hope its a toy!

[apscorpeo]

man the people living there must have been scared as hell t find the caskets every where

[TheDullahan]

Now the mark the caskets and put vials on the inside with the deceased's name and information.

I'd still be robbing those graves, maybe take a nice casket if I found one.

[justusleejolliffe]

@TheDullahan! I hope you're joking about stealing from the dead!

[TheDullahan]

@justusleejolliffe Hell no. Ever see some of these rich bastards when they get buried? They never got along with The Irish back in The Northlands, mostly because we weren't rich, out-of-state snobs. They tended to be buried with incredible signs of wealth and since we were burying these bastards anyway, each of us little Pikey kids working the grounds (Since we were FIVE) has all kinds of lovely items poor kids like us normally wouldn't. I have a collection functional watches from the 1800's.

[justusleejolliffe]

@TheDullahan! You really are fucked up! You stole from the dead! That is sooooo low!

[TheDullahan]

@justusleejolliffe Gravesites are also perfectly formed that you can park your Cadillac over them, hop into said hole and change your oil without even needing a jack. Isn't the world just awesome. Gallowglass were funded in the early days by robbing from the rich and donating to the poor from the gravesites of wealthy barons. This is why Gallowglass, even today, function out of Cemeteries. Considering all the good such a society has done for you behind the curtains of history, be grateful.

[justusleejolliffe]

@TheDullahan! Gallowglass? I'm listening. You're still fucked up though!

[TheDullahan]

@justusleejolliffe We're the people you would probably refer to as a "Secret Society" almost any major [older] cemetery in the world that you would visit, you could find some connection to us, through an inscribed symbol above a tomb, a riddled epitaph or one that you may need a translation from an obscure language to decipher. Came you across such a tomb, I would bet you it is actually empty inside, in spite of it's being there for 100 years already. Well, not EMPTY, but it would have no corpse

[justusleejolliffe]

@TheDullahan! What you're saying would make for a great horror movie. The whole idea of stealing from the dead is so wrong though! I consider myself pretty morbid having worked in a funeral home, owned a hearse in the past and getting one tattooed on my arm but no way in Hell would I steal from the dead. Now if that dead person had something on them that I knew belonged to me then it would be a different story.

[TheDullahan]

@justusleejolliffe I'm sure the Gallowglass have been referenced in amny films (Especially since the things they have done are often attributed to other people) and Lovecraftians have a group called "Delta Green" that was largely based off of The Gallowglass. Funny you worked in a cemetery and never heard of a Gallowglass. Hell, you even owned a Hearse as a person vehicle, like any good Gallowglass would, they've been doing that since the 1920's.

[Hlejames]

I'm sure its not, but that looks like a child's body @ 00:28.

[SeanDnATL]

This is awful. Hope the caskets didn't open

[Tassle101]

This is awful!!! I feel badly for the friends and family of those who are buried here. I pray that they'll be restored to a new burial place and be able to rest. Floods can cause very bad damage, and it's worse when it's to a cemetery.

[Tassle101]

My God, this is awful! I would be devastated if it were some of my family buried there. I hope they can fix this somehow and get them re-interred. My heart goes out to the families.

[rrbond07]

WOW, you would think that putting the casket in a concrete vault would have kept the casket from sufacing, but I guess not. What a horrible thing to witness. How do you tell what casket goes into what grave?

[jajohnson7809]

Don't a lot of cemeteries today require coffins to be buried in vaults? Wouldn't that prevent something like this from happening (hold the coffin below ground in a flood)?

[pahoboye]

sad affair... is that a doll beside coffin at 29?

[sideshow856]

that is a my buddy doll,i think his name is tony LOL!

[shnoby]

arizonadelrio shut the fuck up that shit iz true cuz i live in orange,texas get yo factz striaght!real talk!): that really happened && lotz of people lost their love ones!some caskets was even found behind some houses that live by that cemetery!

[BloodyRedemption]

haha niggers

[kerry5101971]

Blargh! The smell had to have been horrendous & you couldn't pay me enough money to go sloshing around in that flood water with all sorts of grody stuff in it as well as body parts/fluids & formaldehyde & other chemicals used to "preserve" the dead. I wonder how polluted the ground & groundwater in Orange, TX still is today because of Ike & this incident. I you live near this cemetery, please do not let your kids play in the dirt & if you garden, buy new soil & place it on top of the ground.

[krisish00d]

Yeah but the caskets should be sealed airtight right?

[NawtyAngel911]

@kerry5101971 hahaah sloshing around!!

[obieezx11]

@kerry5101971 Don't worry its only running into your drinking water wont take you long to drink all the shit floating everywhere. add's a nice twist to a cup of tea.

[seand67]

My God....;~(

[DanOblacksmith]

Unfortunately this is not fake. I remember seeing a picture in a magazine after the big flood on the mississippi in '93 taken from a plane flying over the river weeks after. It showed a tugboat headed upstream towing a huge raft of dozens and dozens of caskets from several states. Some of them had drifted several hundred miles. They have serial numbers on them but I don't know how far back that practice goes. I hope all those families got their loved ones back and none unaccounted for.

[Gracie05452]

This is why we should stop burying people. And start coming up with a better way. Like cremation.

[tcb23]

well said Gracie

[krisish00d]

At 1:00 the coffin label says PUPPY wtf?

[Lockbar]

@krisish00d That was my cousin "puppy". When we got really pissed at him we would call him "Fido".

[ArizonaDelRio]

This isn't real. This is the movie set of 'Poltergeist'.

[ZX2ManDave]

Those saying this isnt real dont know what they are talking about.

This is very real, and somewhat common in extreme flooding situations such as hurricanes.

[ycocho]

Yeah Im from Orange, and this cemetary is next to my house. My parents lost everything. A lot of people did not even mention the devastation Hurricane Ike did to my city. Things are better now.

[justusleejolliffe]

This is so fucking cool!!!

[kafrikios]

fuck man thats bad

[luvgirlsfeet]

That is sad i hope something like that never happens again

[OSTARAEB4]

This is why many caskets now have areas where a little scroll with the name of the deceased is placed inside. Many states require caskets to be place within vaults to prevent cave-ins. Some do not. If you want to pay for a "SEALER", there is a knob on casket that makes it airtight to "guarantee" your loved ones remains stay intact. However, nature will unearth anything.

[neinsudtexas10]

This is terrible. I never knew that this happened. I wanted to cry.

[jdoggg1119]

@neinsudtexas10 it happened in 2005 during katrina, the newspapers nationwide had pictures of caskets in the middle of the road in downtown new orleans

[breakaliciouskid786]

i loved how he said older black ppl

[pmpknking]

Well some caskets were probably buried in shallow graves without vaults. Even if they were kept in vaults the soil (especially during a flood) would be saturated enough to just push upward out of the ground. Yes, gasses play a hand in it, causing the casket to be some what buoyant. This is a terrible scene. I had nightmares about this sort of thing countless times. Notice that there was a casket with no lid, full of water, and nothing inside. Again, it's all very sad.

[namezryan]

how'd dey resurface?

dazz creepy!

[TheJediCharles]

During the hurricane of 1900 that hit Galveston, pretty much the worst hurricane in terms of damage and life lost (3,000 killed and the entire island was submerged) it ranks as one of the worst natural disasters in history, caskets washed out to sea and were carried in the Gulf Stream current as far as New York.

[TheNiceMeanMan]

Does anyone know why they surface? It's because they're air-tight and under extreme pressure! And do we know why they're under all that pressure? That's right! Because they're full of rotting human remains! Remains whose gases have no place to go! They say that the deceased is perpetually bathed in his own foul rotting juices in a sortuv `greenhouse` effect. Every day they try to escape but simply cannot. Until the seal on the coffin is compromised! Then it's like the spray from an aerosol can!

[cpostmortem]

Concrete Vaults will float in 8 inches of water. Live people float with their small lung ingulf with air. All I can say is remember the warrenty. they do seal...

[DanielR305]

I have seen on the internet a specialist mausouliem company donated nine mausoliuems to this crematary also helped restoring gravestones of familys that could not afford or around anymore replace the one lost in ike that is charity

[cowboy121520]

I work for a cemetery service working to re inter the bodies at hollywood cemetery. The smell is awful. snakes everywhere. it will be a long process to repair the damage done by Ike. But, This is the reason you DO NOT Bury Surface! This is the risk you take.

[johndoe590]

This is the reason you DO NOT Bury Surface. 

stupid question on my part- what does bury surface mean?

[cowboy121520]

A surface burial is when the Outer Container(the Vault) is burried above the ground. only the lid is visible. the remaining part of the vault is below surface. This makes it possible for the vault to be damaged. or float off.

[justicerobbie67]

@cowboy121520

HOW BAD DO THE BODIES LOOK,

[dawnrun911]

If the caskets were made to degrade over time and not air/water tight then they would not have popped up.

[cpostmortem]

Yes, they wouldn't pop up. But when grandma died and you dug next to grandpa. if it was wet and hot. It wouldn't be pretty.

[ycocho]

This is a very old cemetary, some of those graves have been there since the 1900's.

[TheDullahan]

@ycocho Hey dumbass, the "1900's" was only a decade ago.

[drshagstein]

Wow! I worked as a cemetery maintenance worker throughout my college days and took part in several exhumations. Even under the best of circumstances, having contact with an exhumed casket can be a extraordinarily gruesome affair. This, however, is like something out of a horror movie. It's simply incomprehensible.

I absolutely do not envy the poor souls who will bear the responsibility of sorting, identifying, and then re-interring all those caskets.

[slimydick23]

At 0:42 it sounds like someone took a break from talking so they could take a hit off a bong.

[spnlthaxton]

mind blowing

[flowerladytmt]

This is so sad :( I hope they can figure out who belongs where and get them back into their resting places.

[eventide925]

That is so cool that you can laugh even when it looks like sh*t. You are awesome. Stay positive. :D

[eal1011]

Wow, I cant belive it. The weight of coffins and the Heavy cement still cant hold the coffins to the ground. Mother nature is 100 x more powerful than an atomic bomb. Even water can lift it out. Amazing. My heart goes out to families who have to re bury them. Yikes.

[eventide925]

The Devil's gumbo... It's an old Louisiana term for cascets floating to the surface. Very disturbing...

[geppebrillo]

Signs. We are all waiting, just sitting and wait.

[eventide925]

But signs of what? This is nothing new...

[kendrahlynnmae]

wow how they gonna get them back by the right grave marker. just not right

[oslexarkun]

This is just beyond sickening

[TJNC1976]

i could imagine what some of the caskets that were broken open during the flood look like.....sickening to even think about it. one of the many reasons why i want to be cremated when i die

[sweetboy81]

Damn... one expects to have a peaceful resting place once dead, but this?.. just awful

[bandboy3000]

damn

[shiddamuffin]

so sad

[LU29UN99]

wow, Undertaker came alive. LOL