|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 10,286 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
OP
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 10,286 Likes: 1 |
I had a nurse at work who grew up in Cleveland tell me they found a body hanging in a patch of woods. Suicide probably. What went into unbelievable was she said the body had hung so long before it was found that it had stretched to almost 10 feet.
How the hell could that happen? Urban legend or something?
The older I become the more I am convinced that the voice of honor in a man's heart is the voice of GOD.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,159 Likes: 1
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,159 Likes: 1 |
I’ve seen bodies in cars basically melt / decompose into the seats during hot weather. One turned black on a sofa (smelled that one from the parking lot). Never had one stretch. I would guess the spine severed and the skin slowly stretched. Just a guess my .02.
Last edited by Mike_S; 09/20/18.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46 |
A body will stretch until the head comes off. Didn't happen.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 18,354 Likes: 2
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 18,354 Likes: 2 |
This need to be forwarded to the writers of The Walking Dead.
Carpe' Scrotum
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 10,286 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
OP
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 10,286 Likes: 1 |
A body will stretch until the head comes off. Didn't happen. That's what I figured. The neck muscles and ligaments decompose until they can no longer hold the weight. I'm sure the death did happen, but people seem to need to embellish such things.
The older I become the more I am convinced that the voice of honor in a man's heart is the voice of GOD.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 69,579 Likes: 26
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 69,579 Likes: 26 |
It's possible that the tendons, etc stretched and/or broke as they aged. As the joints came apart, the body would have stretched. I suppose it could happen but 10' sounds like a 'stretch'.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,460
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,460 |
As a physician....umm, no...
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,922 Likes: 13
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,922 Likes: 13 |
I wouldn't believe 10 feet, but my Dad found a suicide one time that had been hanging for a month. Everything was still attached. The guy was 5'10 in life, and over 7 feet when they cut him down.
While it's true that all liberals are crazy people, not all crazy people are liberals.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46 |
We better start hangin' those deer in taller trees... At the rate we're going, we're gonna need a 30 footer.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,326
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,326 |
I'm a retired funeral director. In my early years, I was called in one evening to embalm, which was a common occurrence. However, upon arrival, I found the young man's body to be frozen solid, and his neck maybe three times the length a normal person's would be.
He had hung himself in a shed out back, and no one had found him. They presumed it took place in January, it was early March when he was found. I went home, as there was nothing that could be done until he thawed. I think they reimbursed my time and gas.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 9,195 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 9,195 Likes: 1 |
10 feet? Maybe he was just "well hung".
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,671 Likes: 78
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,671 Likes: 78 |
Have to size em down to fit in standard coffins Haha photo upload site
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,442
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,442 |
Well, how tall was he to start with?
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!" --- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 31,670 Likes: 10
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 31,670 Likes: 10 |
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
WS
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,612
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,612 |
Nope.....just nope.
Seen more hanging bodies than any one person should. Typically any added height/length is confined to the neck, and even then only until decomp makes the neck to weak to support the the weight....or until animals get involved.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 6,690 Likes: 1
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 6,690 Likes: 1 |
I have heard the stories before never seen one.
Salt water and crabs work wonders on a bloated floating body.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,442
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,442 |
Well, a guy had a heart attack in a tub at Bagby Hot Springs in the Oregon Cascades with the 140ish water running in....
Paramedics called him Stew.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!" --- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 69,813 Likes: 46 |
To get the entire experience, on has to smell it as well.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 6,690 Likes: 1
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 6,690 Likes: 1 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 10,343 Likes: 4
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 10,343 Likes: 4 |
Black Cows Matter!
|
|
|
|
509 members (12344mag, 1234, 17CalFan, 160user, 10Glocks, 10ring1, 48 invisible),
13,433
guests, and
932
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,195,116
Posts18,542,193
Members74,057
|
Most Online21,066 May 26th, 2024
|
|
|
|