Abandoned Funeral Home Shut Down After Rotting Bodies Found
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Published 2021-09-19
Problems first started for the Flint Swanson Funeral Home back in 2004 when it was first fined for repeated business violations. More problems surfaced for Flint Swanson Funeral Home in 2015 when it was fined yet again and their license was suspended. At that time, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) suspended the funeral home’s license, however, funerals continued to operate out of Flint Swanson Funeral Home. The final “nail in the coffin” for Flint Swanson Funeral Home was in 2017 when neighbors began to report a foul stench of decomposing human flesh coming from the funeral home. These reports prompted LARA to come back for another inspection of Flint Swanson Funeral Home. Inspectors had found the funeral home to be in deplorable and unsanitary conditions. They found maggots crawling all over the floor and the maggots led them to nearly a dozen human corpses that were unrefrigerated and stacked up along the walls in cardboard-boxes. After this was the second time that LARA had visited the funeral home and discovered rotting human corpses and even more horrific conditions inside, they were left with no other choice except to permanently close Flint Swanson Funeral Home. Although this seemed to be the end for Flint Swanson Funeral Home, it was not the end for owner, O’Neil Swanson II. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) learned he had been advertising and selling prepaid funeral contracts without a proper license. Investigators from LARA also found that he illegally deposited prepaid funeral funds into his business account that was used for personal spending, instead of depositing that money into an escrow account, which is required by law. O’Neil Swanson II eventually was sentenced to pay $75,000 restitution to avoid prison time.
Swanson Funeral Home still sits abandoned today. The neighbors continue to keep an eye on the former funeral home and will certainly notify the police if anyone is seen near the property. Luckily, the police at the end of this video were extremely nice and let us go without getting in trouble. All they wanted was a tour of the abandoned funeral home.
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All Comments (21)
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not abandoned you drama queen you don't leave 100'0.00's of equipment behind the place would be striped & looted in a few days
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When my grandfather passed, we found during the viewing, stains on the casket bedding. They said it was from makeup powders. We refused that. Then as the pallbearers went around, we found the residue of fluids leaking out. Finally, a sticker under a handle indicated another person. Apparently, they used that casket several times before him. The name on the sticker traced to someone buried weeks earlier. They had to exume that person, and found her in a cheap cardboard box normally used for cremation. Her family too had been charged $4000 for the casket......they found the funeral homes lawyer in Florida....
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I work at Hospice and death is death and it doesn’t discriminate. I’ve told my family to be good to me while I’m alive and not cry after me in death. I’ve requested cremated with no viewing, no service and no burial. I don’t want no one starring at me saying oh she looks so good or she just didn’t look like herself. Screw that if I’m dead what would you expect!!!
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This is absolutely disgusting. I hate seeing peoples loved ones being disrespected like this, let's hope the old owners are doing jail time!
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Odessa S Jackson born Feb 12, 1921 & died Aug 28, 2013 was a French & English teacher for over 20 yrs at Northern HS. A devout member of Dozier Memorial Church. Mrs Jackson is resting peacefully beside her husband Dr. Leo Jackson Sr
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I'm being cremated.. no way I wanna be dolled up dead so others can glare.
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Why wasn’t there a cleaning crew sent there when it was closed down.
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You would think that the coroner's office or health department would have made sure all the corpses were properly buried or something.
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We took my grandma here shortly before it was shut down and had soooo many problems. I’m so glad they got shut down.
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When we were kids running around, we never trespassed on anybody’s property. We would never think of spray painting a hearse
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This is so sad😥 some people are very disrespectful towards the dead
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The neck brace you keep referring to is called a head rest
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That place sure looks creepy, spooky, eerie and scary.
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Honestly my Friend passed and this company handled his funeral. (May 2012) This makes me seriously ill...His funeral went okay; but just knowing "whats behind the curtain"...
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Where's OSHA and EPA when they're needed?
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I've learned of a recent update in regards to this. In June 2021, state officials shut down Tri County Cremation Services in Ypsilanti due to allegations of improper storage of human remains and unsanitary conditions. O'neil Swanson II, who ran Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, just so happened to be the owner of the establishment as well as another cremation service provider and that he had been running operations without a license; Swanson's mortuary science license was revoked back in April 2018 in connection to the allegations against his funeral home. What I find interesting/ironic is that Swanson's in Flint outsourced their cremations to Tri County Cremation Services, a connection between the two facilities before the latter came under the ownership of O'neil Swanson II.
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This is so sad Awww I feel so bad for the families and friends , very tragic.
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Am I the only one who googled the names of the deceased from this video and attempted to read their obituaries?
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Wow these type of things do happen. There was a situation here in Baltimore MD who was closed for years with bodies in the walls lile skeleton remains and tons of cremains in the basement. Neighbors for years complained until the funeral board went in there and saw for themselves. Very sad.
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David Allen Jones Sr.. born Jan, 8 1951 in Kansas City MO & died Jan, 1 2006...son of Tom Nathan & Elizabeth Jones. Mr Jones died at Hurley Hospital & his viewing took place Jan 13, 2006 at Sanctuary of the Great Holy Temple. Mr Jones graduated from Okalona High was a basketball 🏀 player & retired from General Motors. He leaves behind 7 children & 3 grandchildren. Where ever you are Mr Jones I hope you are RIP
