re: Anyone stumbled upon a dead human body

As a police officer yes on suspects we were searching for.

As a civilian no.

The first I "stumbled upon" was a suspect that had robbed a pawn shop at gunpoint and flep after the owner shot him once in the right eyeball.

Looking and never finding him--no dog back then--on a hunch walked down to an area we had searched prior with no luck and be dammnit if he was down there. How he made it that far I will never know.

Found a dead homeless guy in a burn barrel rear end first and animals had started eating south to north.

Thats all I got.

Not me, but had a buddy who found his dad dead the day after Thanksgiving last year. He had Thanksgiving with him at his house the day before and called him the next day and got no answer He said he knew something was wrong and went to his dad's house and found him dead on the kitchen floor.

My friend is a pretty tough, no feelings kind of guy but said that shook him up really bad and it will be an image he'll never forget.

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Picked up a dead body in a shrimp trawl in north west Lake Ponchartrain in the mid 1960's. Dragging it to the boat launch and dealing with law enforcement really ruined our day.

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But how were the crabs?

Dead vagrant along the railroad tracks in Shreveport. He died a natural or OD death. Not hit by train

Stumbled upon? No. For some reason though, when I'm fishing and hang up on something kinda hefty and reeling it up I always wonder if it's gonna be a blue bloater. Have every since I've was a kid. Just tree limbs and shite so far. Got a pair of jeans once.

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Davant, sigh. I unfortunately worked at UBT for a while. Rough environment

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Worked there one summer for a survey company. Amazing how the ground sank when it was full of coal.

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RULE #1 on floaters: Do not attempt to recover them, they fall apart and really REALLY stink.

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I saw a body in the Mississippi River in Memphis. Turned out to be a fairly famous musician, but for a bit we weren’t sure if it was a human. He’d been in the river several days.

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I found my mom.

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Me too. She’d been dead for almost 2 weeks. That’s an odor you never forget ..

My wife’s uncle was visiting her mom and died on the shitter. She called us in a panic so we haul arse over there. Getting a dead dude’s pants pulled up then moving him out to the living room with two wailing ladies is not the best of times.

My brother and I were hunting in some woods and we were in the middle of nowhere just across the state line road in north Louisiana near Jefferson. We discovered an old graveyard with about a dozen headstones when my little brother was walking alongside me and found himself standing next to a sunken grave with what looked like a kneecap sticking out of the ground. All but one of the headstones were unreadable and the one that was readable was barely readable and we read a date from 1846. We noted where it was and notified the land owner, then after telling my dad, he had us take him out to it. He then went to the county courthouse and filled out some form at the clerks office to notify the coroner. Lost track of it after that.

Never did see an actual body, but the place creeped me out