It was about 13 or so years ago. I had went over to my father's to help him with building a deck he had started in the backyard. Besides helping him that day, I had also been helping out one of his neighbor's with cutting the lawn. She lived across the street and was a widow on her late 50s or early 60s.
She had poor health and mental issues. She lived off of her husband's pention and was a full blown hoarder, but we to what extent, we didn't really know….Yet.
So, I spent the afternoon helping my old man and we finished and had dinner. After eating, O got the lawn mower and other crap I needed to do her lawn. I went over and began cutting. When I finished, my father asked me to open her side door and let her know that I had cut her grass. One of us usually did this in the past and it wasn't normally a big deal, but he hadn't seen any movement from the house in close to a week.
Keep in mind, this is June, which is why I was cutting grass to begin with.
So, I head back over, knock on the door and wait a couple seconds before opening it. I didn't even begin moving my head towards the inside of the open door when it hit me.
A smell that I can't even begin to put into words smacked by nostrils head on. The bile started teaching the back of my throat as I yanked my head back on shock. Obviously, I knew something was very wrong.
I ran back to my dad's and told him and asked him to call the police. I went into his shed and grabbed a couple of those simple white masks that you find at Home Depot. Thinking somehow that they'd work.
They didn't. I held my breath as we went back into her house and headed downstairs to her basement.
Holding my breath sent shot to help either by the way, the smell just burned its way into my lungs. And sure enough, there she was, a role, 4–5 day old fatality sprawled out on her couch. I'm not going to go into details, but it's beyond anything I had ever seen before.
Not too mention, “other things” that we quickly noticed. Bottles and bottles of urine that she apparently used as well as shower towels and wash cloths filled with feces.
We got outta there and waited for the cops and later, the coroner. She had died about 3–4 days before of a heart attack.
To add even more insult to this story is how the condition of the rest of the house was. When the coroner came and took the body, they had to close the house off as a hazardous material location . Plywood boards went up on all of the windows and entrances until the following day when a HAZMAT recovery company came to start going through the house.
She hoarded EVERYTHING. You couldn't even get into the kitchen because it was literally filled to the ceiling with trash bags filled with just about anything you could imagine. Clothes, DVDs, shoes, boardgames, video games, rotting food, canned food and so much more.
It took this five person team almost two weeks to sort and clean the house and almost another two months before it was able to be put in a sellable condition.
Some things found;
- 13 TVs of varying sizes
- Over 300 pairs of shoes
- 180 various types of TV remotes.
- Over $3,000 in LOOSE CHANGE!
And much much more.
But all of it failed in comparison to that smell of a human being have been virtually “cooked” in her own basement. Did I mention that her AC wasn't on when we found her?
But, on the other hand, sometimes I'm not sure what was more gruesome, how she died? Or how she lived?
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