Guess what lives a block from my house

[FlippyD]

A 90 year old lady and her three dead siblings.

Read the article (it's short), here's the topic: how or why would this woman do such a thing? Most of the people around here have been saying it's cause she's forgetful (despite what that article claims.) And wouldn't the smell get to you after a while?

Not to mention one of them has been supposedly dead since the 1980s >_>;;

It's hard to believe since everyone here is pretty friendly and house parties are sadly common.

 

[moog]

ew

 

[Despain]

moog while i agree with "ew" maybe comments in the future could have some more content to them??

this article just makes me thing WHERE where they inside the house. like did they have bedrooms and were just creepily decomposing on their beds or where they preserved inside fridges or like just CORPSE CHILLIN ON THE COUCH

creepy as balls but that's old people for you. i absolutely hate all old people

 

[Xaixis]

. . .whoa... reminds me of the story "A Rose for Emily"

 

[moog]

moog while i agree with "ew" maybe comments in the future could have some more content to them??

sry dude your right

i dont understand how she could just live with them. that seems totally unsanitary on so many levels, i mean wouldnt she get sick off of the rotted flesh?

1980 corpse....thats beyond fucking gross

 

[mawk]

That article seems pretty lacking. They must have asked her at some point why she was storing cadavers in her home, and they really don't say what they were doing. The thing that interests me most about this is her motives (senility? inability to cope? something more sinister?) but that article misses so many key points that I really don't know what to do but conclude with a Mr. Owl-esque "the world may never know."

Kind of sucks, too, because now I know I won't be able to get all this speculation out of my head for a while.

 

[Incognitus]

Forgetfull?! Did she forget that she was living with three other lodgers, that she has three siblings or that she hadn't seen them for a while?

Did she just notice that they died, and each time she picked up the phone to call the hospital forget what she had entered the room for?

 

[arbiter]

;D

 

[Xaixis]

Or she was interested in the Social Security checks?

 

[Ellie]

Weird.

'S like a restaurant in my town was shut down when they found the manager's friend had died several weeks ago and was just lying in the corner of the kitchen with rats and maggots. (Expensive place, too).

 

[arbiter]

;D

 

[FlippyD]

Well, she lives on the 'hella hella' expensive side of the block, so ss checks sounds right.

 

[Venetia]

Actually it sounds to me more like she was too afraid of letting them go, or admitting they were dead. There was a case similar to this in a city around Tampa about a year ago, a son living with his dead mom in her room for like 5 years. He wasn't mentally capable of letting her go. There really wasn't anything legally wrong with what he did. He didn't mistreat the body, the woman died naturally, no one else lived with him, and he wasn't cashing the SS checks. Weird.

The only way anyone found out is because some guy was like in his backyard for some reason and smelled rancid dead body :X

 

[alexis]

thats what you get for living in minnesota

 

[FlippyD]

Err, the article is from a Minnesota newspaper (the only one I could find online that didn't require signing up to read). I actually live in Evanston, two blocks from Chicago and Lake Michigan.

 

[Tindy]

Sometihng kinda like that happened in my neighborhood.

Dead guy found in the basement of the house I used to live in.  Dead for a couple weeks!  Still trying to figure out a)What he was doing down there (he was apparently a friend of the owner), b) How he died, c) How they didn't notice.

What a wierd world we live in.

EDIT: Y'know, it's bad enough that she's been living with her 3 dead siblings for however long, but it says that the last two were last seen alive in 03 and 08.  HOW DID THEY NOT DO ANYTHING? O_o

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Man, 5 blocks from me they excavated this guy's lawn, and found (from the previous owners - not the old man living there now for the last 4 years) several dogs buried in the yard.  But the part that freaked people out was that there were like 5 human corpses buried in the back yard, which is really heavily fenced (we're talking a wooden fence, a chain link - with privacy slats, and those huge bushes between, and then another wooden fence :X).  The only thing I found out was that the oldest was four years old - about.

What tipped everyone off, was when the owner was finally getting to cleaning the attic, he found a dead dog and what he thought was part of another pet - and ended up being a small kid's arm.  The joke was that the dog dug up part of the body, and hid it in the attic... and somehow died or something up there too.

When it comes to death, crazy exists.
You can become overly psychotic.  If these people, when alive, where the only means for one of the major needs in life - acceptance, communication, or dependency (as in, she depended on them - or the other way), you can go do crazy things.

The former owner of the house I talked about, when finally tracked down merely stated "His wife couldn't let her daughters be buried with strangers" it broke her heart, and when she died - he moved and didn't say a word.

 

[Venetia]

oh god imagine living in a fucking house for 4 fucking years and not even knowing you're surrounded by a million corpses of all these people, including dead bodies in the attic

oh god i'd fucking barf and get out of that house asap

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

To his defense...
Old Mexican man in a wheel chair thanks to a bullet, who moved into the best house he could afford - which happens to be in one of the poorer neighborhoods.  Considering that he only started walking again 3 years after he moved in - it's kind of understandable.  I left that out because I didn't really think that was important.

I mean your all alone in a house with your only viable motor skills being a chair on wheels.  You really going to go into the attic and start rummaging for human corpses?

 

[Venetia]

yeah but it's required by law for a building inspector to inspect a house before it's sold. meaning that the building inspector was either uninvolved (read: no bank would finalize a loan without their approval), or he didn't do his job. So yeah I'm thinking the latter.

:/ poor old dude