Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Contact    |    RSS icon Twitter icon Facebook icon  
Unexplained Mysteries
You are viewing: Home > News > World of the Bizarre > News story
Welcome Guest ( Login or Register )  
All ▾
Search Submit

World of the Bizarre

Woman sues after being sucked into a grave

By T.K. Randall
March 18, 2019 · Comment icon 18 comments

The experience was understandably traumatizing. Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Jim Linwood
Joanne Cullen had been visiting her parents' grave in Long Island when the ground swallowed her up.
The 64-year-old, who is from North Bellmore, had bent down to fix a bow on a wreath at the headstone when a sinkhole opened up beneath her, causing her to sink in to the ground up to her waist.

As the hole opened she also fell forward, hitting her head on the tombstone and cracking a tooth.

She recalls crying out for help however there was nobody around to assist.
According to her lawyer, Cullen became an 'emotional wreck' after the incident and now suffers from nightmares and headaches as well as a fear of walking through open fields.

"Getting sucked into your parents' grave when you go to visit them on a cool December afternoon with the sun going down... it's terrifying and traumatizing," he said.

The St. Charles Resurrection Cemetery has since been sued for a whopping $5 million.

It is believed that the sinkhole opened up due to an issue with how an adjacent grave was filled in.

Source: Fox News | Comments (18)




Other news and articles
Recent comments on this story
Comment icon #9 Posted by Captain Risky 5 years ago
...domestic violence may be grounds to sue. 
Comment icon #10 Posted by Impedancer 5 years ago
Is she suing her dead parents? 
Comment icon #11 Posted by Tatetopa 5 years ago
One might consider that a definitive message. I would mend my ways real quickly and not go about suing people and being a general nuisance. I hope this doesn't result in some new rubber bumpers on all the corners, child safe gravestone legislation.
Comment icon #12 Posted by psyche101 5 years ago
She is suing the graveyard. The sinkhole was caused by how an adjacent recent grave was filled in recently. 
Comment icon #13 Posted by Jon the frog 5 years ago
Sure, one of their skeleton was groping her !
Comment icon #14 Posted by MWoo7 5 years ago
AAAAAAh great thread, have to love these comments hahahahahahaaa! AAAH! TOOOO FUNNY ! 
Comment icon #15 Posted by freetoroam 5 years ago
Over time graves can collapse,at the cemetary where many of my ancestors are, there are collapsed graves. They have been neglected over the few hundred years . In this case we are not talking about hundreds of years, it was her parents grave. Yes the cemetary are to blame. Pretty horendous seeing your parents resting place collapse beneath your feet. Obviously the adjacent grave was not filled in as much as it should have been. Wow! Hmm, thats a wopper. I could handle a couple of broken ribs and a dip in with my forefathers for that.   
Comment icon #16 Posted by freetoroam 5 years ago
St. Charles Resurrection what were they trying to do, make it easier for the corpses to get out by putting less soil in the ground?  
Comment icon #17 Posted by Black Red Devil 5 years ago
That's what I call having both feet in the grave.
Comment icon #18 Posted by MissJatti 5 years ago
And she comes back from the dead, as a obnoxious sueing zombie 


Please Login or Register to post a comment.


Our new book is out now!
Book cover

The Unexplained Mysteries
Book of Weird News

 AVAILABLE NOW 

Take a walk on the weird side with this compilation of some of the weirdest stories ever to grace the pages of a newspaper.

Click here to learn more

We need your help!
Patreon logo

Support us on Patreon

 BONUS CONTENT 

For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you can gain access to a wide range of exclusive perks including our popular 'Lost Ghost Stories' series.

Click here to learn more

Recent news and articles