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re: What Does a Dead Body Smell Like?
Posted on 2/18/17 at 7:09 pm to Mr Personality
Posted on 2/18/17 at 7:09 pm to Mr Personality
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I watched a Forensic Files where someone bought a house and found a 50 pound drum in their basement. They tried to move it, but it was too heavy. Turns out a dead body was in there for 30 years.
I hope that they got a very good price for the house.
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Posted on 2/18/17 at 7:11 pm to shutterspeed
4 days old NOLA East, black guy, bloated and covered in maggots. I puked my rectum out.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 8:10 pm to shutterspeed
Worked at a hog farm in HSand summers in college. The smell was always awful, but never made me sick or grossed me out too much. One day I went to fix a fence on the back lot where I discovered a huge sow that had died a week earlier. I told the owner, my boss about it and he was like yeah I was waiting for you to get back from school to help me bury it.
We got the tractor, tied chains around the front legs and head, and proceeded to drag it off. At some point the hog split in half. Guts, maggots, and the most unspeakable smell came from that gut. I puked for the first time on the farm and couldn't bring myself to look at it. We got some diesel and cremated that sucker.
I never want to smell a dead human or any other large dead animal again.
We got the tractor, tied chains around the front legs and head, and proceeded to drag it off. At some point the hog split in half. Guts, maggots, and the most unspeakable smell came from that gut. I puked for the first time on the farm and couldn't bring myself to look at it. We got some diesel and cremated that sucker.
I never want to smell a dead human or any other large dead animal again.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 8:13 pm to shutterspeed
It's a smell you won't ever forget. Neurologically speaking, olfaction is more directly associated with memory than any of the other senses.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 8:32 pm to shutterspeed
I worked at the LSU golf course in the early- mid 80's. A female student was jogging and disappeared for a month before her body was found in some high brush between the railroad tracks and the 18th green. The odor was horrific, but it kinda smelled like it was coming from a cow pasture across Nicholson. Never heard if that case was ever solved...
Posted on 2/18/17 at 8:49 pm to shutterspeed
Rotten shrimp. The sweet smell is probably formaldehyde.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 8:58 pm to shutterspeed
I've smelled hundreds of bodies from dead within minutes to completely decomposed, natural deaths to charred. There's no one smell. Newly dead don't really have a smell until you remove the intestines, then they smell like poop or partially digested food. The burned ones can have a BBQ smell to them. Some decomps smell more like cheese. Like anything else, you'll get used to it after a while.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 9:35 pm to shutterspeed
I have heard that a burned human body smells just as bad.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 9:40 pm to shutterspeed
Bbq baked beans
Posted on 2/18/17 at 9:41 pm to Darth_Vader
i for real loled.
Posted on 2/18/17 at 10:24 pm to shutterspeed
I don't want to know.
I buried my dead dog (maybe 10 lbs. max) in the yard - I'm guessing about 2-2.5 ft. deep. A couple months later a bird flew into the window glass and died. I went to bury him around the same area, dug about a foot deep - had to be at least a foot clearance over the dog - and got a big whiff of dead dog smell . I was shocked that It smelled that strong through that much dirt that much later. Almost barfed. Don't want any part of smelling a dead body.
I buried my dead dog (maybe 10 lbs. max) in the yard - I'm guessing about 2-2.5 ft. deep. A couple months later a bird flew into the window glass and died. I went to bury him around the same area, dug about a foot deep - had to be at least a foot clearance over the dog - and got a big whiff of dead dog smell . I was shocked that It smelled that strong through that much dirt that much later. Almost barfed. Don't want any part of smelling a dead body.
This post was edited on 2/18/17 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 2/18/17 at 10:44 pm to shutterspeed
the other night...lady been dead sine October and her house was spotless. Not much of the usual death smell but her face came off cause it was stuck to the pillow
Posted on 2/19/17 at 6:53 am to Lawyered
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His mom would drive 30 minutes and pick his dirty clothes up and wash them..
I see the problem.
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