seemerot.com? Is this coffin webcam REAL?!

Factual Questions
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I recently visited www.seemerot.com which is a live webcam inside a coffin that is taping a woman in her 40’s who passed away from “natural causes” something isn’t right here… they claim its real but there is very loose wording under the disclaimer.

also according to the site this woman was buried close to a year ago. From the common knowledge i learned growing up, hair continues to grow after death. however her eyebrows are perfectly manicured still.

Someone please help clear this up. Is it a hoax? There seems like there are too many loose ends here. there has to be MORE to the story than this. I’d oblige everyone impressing me with their vast knowledge and fill in the holes.

Thanks!

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No, it is not a hoax. It is 100% real. It is an honest to goodness joke.

3

On this point, common knowledge is wrong.

http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.htm

4

thank-you… I was just about to say that :slight_smile:
why do people believe that?

5

thank you for clearing that up. I hate being ignorant about these issues. I had learned that from a junior high science teacher. god bless US education.

Can anyone tell more about the site?

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Well, the page that supposedly shows the “cam” is merely a .gif which switches between a clear picture and a blurred picture to make it seem as if the cam is updating. What more do you need to know?

7

Isn’t it obvious that hair and fingernails don’t just grow? Dead cells just don’t form themselves into shafts.

8

How Stuff Works has a bit about cause for this common misconception:

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If she’d really been buried more than a year ago—with a little spotlight turned on her the whole time, to boot—I’d think that the corpse would be in a little worse shape. It should have at LEAST changed color by now.

10

Cecil’s own words.

After six months (under the best of conditions) there would be discoloration and mold. If the coffin were sealed/airtight, it would be partially liquified.

The site’s a hoax, it’s a “lure” site to do exactly what it’s doing- get people to post the URL and talk about it. There appears to be a gay porn site attached, that’s probably the one they’re trying to get the traffic to.

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And now this thread is internet famous.

12

Interesting that this is a zombie thread.

13

The video calls The Straight Dope “a now outdated message board”. Hey, I resemble that remark!

14

I hated that..and here I thought defunct was the term nowadays.

15

The website in the op is the exact same idea as David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds.”

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I once lost a few hours on a better website than the one cited, of funerary arcana. Lavishly illustrated, including catacomb open burials that went on well into the 19th century in Mediterranean countries. A very Catholic display that earthly vanity is but a fleeting thing.

Remember Man as you go by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so shall you be,
Prepare yourself to follow me

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You win the internet today!

18

That occurred to me as well.

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“Here, the dead delight to teach the living.”

  • saying posted in some forensic pathology examination rooms

“Our day begins when yours ends.”

  • sign seen on the walls of homicide detective squad rooms
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:rabbit: what a rabbit hole to go down.

Why did I look?

I have a weird curiosity of death, funeral and morgue-ish things. I like to believe it’s from watching all those Dracula and Zombie movies. But, I don’t really know.

I hope. :skull: