r/abandoned • u/tp_urbex • Oct 04 '24

Exploring an abandoned funeral home with everything left behind

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u/GordenRamsfalk Oct 04 '24

Damn hella Money in caskets there

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

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u/Critical-Weird-3391 Oct 05 '24

Also the limo and hearse...

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u/southernmamallama Oct 05 '24

Ohmygosh I’m so glad someone else through that, too.

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u/Responsible_Nose6262 Oct 05 '24

I was thinking the same thing, or at least just take some for yourself so you don’t have to buy one when you older relatives start croaking.

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u/rochey64 Oct 05 '24

Damn, business is dead there.

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u/pancakebatter01 Oct 06 '24

For real.. anyone that’s had to do the much dreaded and painful casket, funeral, and cemetery shopping experience will know this is one of the priciest parts.

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u/NativeQueen83 Oct 06 '24

As soon as I saw them I said same thing!

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u/deathbyswampass Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

You thinking about stealing one…for later?

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u/AnimeChica3306 Oct 04 '24

Suprised their are so many coffins in good condition, and they haven't been sold off. Coffins are expensive it makes this creepier to me.

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u/CovetousWitch Oct 05 '24

Caskets can’t be resold in most states unless by a funeral director or in an official capacity.

At least my state is like that

Also Funeral law is federally recognized and pretty strict about misleading customers with prices so you’d have to research each casket (which i’m sure some of those aren’t even in production anymore) to find their selling price, and don’t even bother with shipping one of those bad boys to anyone, you’re looking at more in freight than you’d get from the casket.

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u/seeclick8 Oct 04 '24

Why do people just walk away from things like this?

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u/editfate Oct 05 '24

For real. It looks like a decent piece of real estate. Wild.

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u/Moose-Fish Oct 05 '24

I’m wondering if the owner(s) died and didn’t have any family to pass it on to

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u/DebThornberry Oct 05 '24

Poltergeists usually

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u/Mammoth_Repair_8281 Oct 04 '24

I need those caddies / I want those caddies

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u/TheSouthernSaint71 Oct 05 '24

You've seen barn finds, now get ready for funeral home finds!

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u/JFLbyDesign Oct 04 '24

Slang those coffins on eBay. 100% profit

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u/Bree9ine9 Oct 04 '24

Looks identical to six feet under, also looks identical to the funeral home I had to go to last year when my mom died.

Weird, I don’t understand how these people live with death everyday but I was glad they could when I needed them.

I can’t imagine what happened here. How’d they just leave and not sell it off? There’s cash to be made here with caskets and well everything.

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u/Moose-Fish Oct 05 '24

I’m wondering if the owner(s) died and maybe didn’t have any family to pass it on to?

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u/the_atomic_punk18 Oct 05 '24

Then the state or local govt takes possession and it gets sold at a sale, properties don’t just sit like this for years, as romantic as that may seem

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u/Moose-Fish Oct 05 '24

Perhaps. What’s your theory then?

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u/the_atomic_punk18 Oct 06 '24

Idk. Maybe a family member inherited it and keeps up on taxes but is letting the building fall to pieces.

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u/Bree9ine9 Oct 05 '24

That would make sense.

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u/Tomcat_419 Oct 04 '24

That's gotta be at least ten thousand dollars worth of caskets right there. Holy crap.

Also those Cadillacs are fantastic! That hearse would be so cool cleaned up.

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u/limefork Oct 05 '24

These kinds of videos always make me wonder what happened. What happened that the people who lived/worked here just got up and left? Its so odd. It makes me ask so many questions. Whats the name of this place? I'd love to do some digging and research on it.

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u/FinnValkyrie Oct 05 '24

I would 100% move my family in and fix it up and get the hearse up and running and be that weird family down the street!

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u/PersistentGoldfish Oct 05 '24

With your kids, Weddnesday and Pugsley

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u/Actual_Appearance246 Oct 05 '24

I’m sure your family would love that!

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u/thisisjedgoahead Oct 04 '24

Can anyone make out the year on the news paper. I can make out Monday July 25th

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u/amberh2l Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24

7/25/1984

Zoomed in for confirmation after determining Bruce Sutter played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1981-1984 and won against the Dodgers in July 1984.

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u/fakehalo Oct 04 '24

7/25/1984 was a Wednesday, it looked more like a 23 to me anyways so it still seems like the right month/year maybe?

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u/penywisexx Oct 05 '24

The baseball game was from July 22nd 1984, the newspaper is from the following day. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN198407220.shtml

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u/SirPanmartheProtogen Oct 04 '24

Judging off the name Chris Speier, somewhere around 1970-ish. I'm not a sports person, so I wouldn't know much about him.

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u/spoung45 Oct 05 '24

He played for the cards only one year 1984.

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u/SirPanmartheProtogen Oct 05 '24

Oh I see. Interesting

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u/1easybear Oct 04 '24

that's so creeeepy! Nice vid :)

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u/Shen1076 Oct 05 '24

It’s a shame he died from bee stings.

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u/FoxMaverick Oct 05 '24

HE CAN’T SEE WITHOUT HIS GLASSES! ! !

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u/ArtistAmantiLisa Oct 04 '24

Nice furniture. Too bad nobody gets to use it.

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u/KikiMoon Oct 04 '24

There was a CNBC documentary from the 2010’s (I think) about how a business did a ponzi scheme where people would pay for their funerals in full instead of monthly payments, and in turn paid a lower costs when their time came to be buried.

The company would take the money, and change the paperwork to monthly payments. When they were found out, it was the funeral homes who would be on the hook. People expected to get buried as they had already paid their costs.

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u/Dear-Computer-7258 Oct 05 '24

Why was this place left like it is?

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u/XAlEA-12 Oct 05 '24

It looks like the funeral home in Walking Dead

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u/GrandmaesterHinkie Oct 05 '24

People live in the funeral home? Idk if I could do that as a kid (or maybe even an adult).

It looks like a beautiful space though.

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u/Puthonlvr1963 Oct 09 '24

Still is common in smaller towns the mortician and family live in the upstairs of the funeral home. The one I work in has an apartment upstairs though now no one lives there

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u/ibleedtexas9 Oct 05 '24

I would like these so much more if they didn’t add the shit music

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u/Turkish_Starwars Oct 05 '24

That embalming table is giving me the ick

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u/circles_squares Oct 04 '24

That furniture!

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u/blondeshady2001 Oct 05 '24

atleast it was everything and not everyone. 😬

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u/July251964 Oct 05 '24

Funeral Homes are were once one of the wealth pillars of every community, behind only the doctor and lawyer of the town, not sure this isn't still true...

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u/Richard-Innerasz- Oct 05 '24

That business died……years ago. I’m sorry…I’m a dad.

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u/GumboTed Oct 05 '24

Nice ass hearse

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u/Novel-Weight-2427 Oct 04 '24

Do you think it's haunted?

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u/HawkCee Oct 04 '24

Move in

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u/Mazzpp98 Oct 04 '24

With the newspaper headline about the Cardinals, can I assume this is located in St Louis?

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u/LaOnionLaUnion Oct 05 '24

Not a bad bet. Lots of abandoned places in the region

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u/artygolfer Oct 04 '24

This is so cool!

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u/AngryMimi Oct 05 '24

No no no never never no not no how! I abhor the smell of formaldehyde.

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u/generichumanoid666 Oct 05 '24

We’re all like, ‘damn, those caskets got some money in them’. I’m here for it.

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u/SionnachRouge Oct 05 '24

I would buy this place

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u/Amazing-Ask7156 Oct 05 '24

Im pretty sure some of that stuff could be repurposed, resold, or donated. Wasteful.

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u/Darkcrypteye Oct 05 '24

Bodies & alll!!!

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u/SpiritualLychee3760 Oct 05 '24

This needs to be a horror movie plot..

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u/Weather0nThe8s Oct 05 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

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u/CAK3SPID3R Oct 05 '24

How is this all just still standing here when this place was abandoned decades ago though? Who owns it? I'm just surprised that it's not torn down or repurposed yet.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Oct 05 '24

Whoa…when you said everything you meant EVERYTHING…..

well not stiff but almost!

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u/ThwackBangBlam357 Oct 05 '24

What, did people stop dying or get raptured or something?

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u/Aztowman Oct 05 '24

Spook central.

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u/RaisinBrain2Scoups Oct 06 '24

Why does it have a bedroom

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u/Sad-Corner-9972 Oct 06 '24

Would like to know the story here. Siblings jamming each others over family business inheritance?? Potential irony.

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u/SplitNorth5647 Oct 06 '24

Where is this?

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u/-TommyBottoms- Oct 07 '24

Yeah where is it

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u/rapedbyawookiee Oct 08 '24

EVERYTHING?!

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u/mikess484 Oct 08 '24

This the funeral home from My Girl?

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u/ReadingRainbow5 Oct 05 '24

Why is there food and pantries next to coffins???

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u/High_stakes00 Oct 05 '24

One former owner… now deceased

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u/sealbombearrings Oct 04 '24

and idea on an approximate location?

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u/rayraygoesnuts Oct 04 '24

Bet you wanna get them bargain caskets huh?! Lol

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u/spizzle_ Oct 04 '24

Next to the place by the road. Ef off with this bs.

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u/penywisexx Oct 05 '24

St Louis area- newspaper is St Louis Globe July 23, 1984.

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u/GroundbreakingShip88 8d ago

did you ever figure it out lol? ive been searching everywhere. l know im in the same city but i cant find ANYTHING on it

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u/Anegada_2 Oct 04 '24

I dare you to use the context clues in the video to make the roughest of judgement

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u/TheMightyShoe Oct 05 '24

I figured this one out a few months ago. I won't reveal, but the owner had a few properties and stopped maintaining and paying taxes. The city is fed up and tore down a house they owned on the same block. Not sure what will happen to the funeral home.

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u/Anegada_2 Oct 05 '24

Nice! I was more just being smart to the commentator then anything else