ROTTING DEAD Bodies Found in FILTHY Conditions in US Funeral Home

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Woman Walks Into Abandoned Funeral Home in Michigan US...Immediately Calls Police After What She Finds

Years after the closure of a funeral home, three friends ventured into the grimy, dilapidated building to find a grisly scene of death...

ROTTING DEAD Bodies Were Found in FILTHY Conditions

MailOnline 6 AUG 2025







Swanson Funeral Home hid a terrifying secret







The abandoned hearse is covered with graffiti


A group of urban explorers visit to an abandoned funeral home ended with police being called after they made an horrific discovery.


The Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, Michigan, US had been closed by the authorities after unrefrigerated human bodies were found in filthy conditions during an inspection in 2017


Neighbours had been complaining about a general smell of decay from the building. When inspectors from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs visited the facility they found maggots crawling over floors and work surfaces and nearly a dozen human corpses that had been left unrefrigerated and were simply stacked up along the walls in cardboard boxes.

It comes after a mum left 16 month old home alone to die when she went on holiday.

When the three explorers ventured into the dilapidated building five years later in June 2022, they found something that chilled them to the core.








Photographer April Vertucci told The Mirror A lot of people knew about the funeral home so we thought we wouldnt have luck? But I walked up to the door and pulled and the door opened. Lock had been previously cut it looked like. I walked back to the car and told the guys the door was open.


When the funeral home had finally closed its doors, staff left behind embalming chemicals and equipment and even a Cadillac hearse in the garage.

Over the years since its closure, vandals had broken in, leaving graffiti on the walls and looting the various syringes and sets of PPE left behind by the former staff. But on the day they visited April and her friends Nick and Matt believed they were alone in the building.

So when they came to a creepy stairwell that appeared to lead into the buildings basement, it seemed safe enough to venture down into the gloom. Matt is ahead of me going down the stairs, April recalled. He yells out Is that real

In the centre of the otherwise virtually-empty basement stood a metal structure that resembled a jail cell. And, lying crushed beneath it was the body of a man. I am standing above the casket lift next to the stairs and hear them confirm that the body is in fact real and dead

The jail cell was in fact a large goods lift used to ferry coffins from the basement to the ground floor. The dead man is believed to have been a scavenger who had been trying to steal scrap metal from the site. A mobile phone lay just inches from the dead mans outstretched arm.

We were interviewed by police and during that time the coroner came and stated the body had been there for six days making us impossible of having anything to do with the incident and we're sent on our way

Police did not release the name of the accident victim, who was believed to have died several days before the gruesome discovery.

Neil D. Swanson II, owner of the funeral home, told reporters that the man had been crushed because he cut a cable to steal metal wire from the building, causing the lift to fall on top of him. Its unfortunate that this happened, he added. But he had no business being in my facility

He said that since the business had been closed the building had been ransacked by intruders Unfortunately, criminals and thieves have come into that building, and they destroyed the electrical system, destroyed the plumbing system, took out wire took out, copper piping

Swanson has also gone on record to reject the findings of the LARA inspectors, claiming We didnt have a bunch of decomposing bodies inside of our facility when the state came in, he says

They absolutely were not decomposing. They were absolutely unrefrigerated, but waiting to be processed




Investigators reported finding maggots crawling over floors and work surfaces