It's now time for just the terror with Nick Guerra. Pick up and drop. I used to pick up people who passed away and drive them to the medical examiner's office.

I once picked up a woman who had been deceased and undiscovered for over six months.

She mummified and dried to her carpet.

She had been kind of a and dried to her carpet.

She had been kind of a hermit up to that point, no socializing, no family, no friends.

So when nobody had heard from her in six months, it didn't trip any alarms.

I believe the mail carrier had tipped off the police

to perform a welfare check. The whole house was covered in a half inch thick layer of dust.

It looked like a set from a horror film. The power had been cut for

some time, though the water was still running, oddly enough. When it came time to pry her

from the carpet, I started by lifting her shoulders. I should mention that people

who mummify don't really do so in a consistent manner. Environmental conditions are everything.

Some people freeze or dry rapidly, preserving everything quite

well. This lady did not. She bloated, started to decompose, then dried out slowly.

In the process, her face sort of melted and collapsed into itself,

so she was covered in leathery skin, but it had hollowed eye sockets and no nose.

I started to lift her shoulders very carefully, peeling her up from the carpet.

As I did, dozens of spiders darted out of her empty eye sockets, nose slits, and mouth.

I always try to be professional.

I swear, I respect the dead as much as the living.

But I have to admit, I drop this woman immediately and sprint it out of the room.

The first thing I thought was of that scary stories to tell in the dark picture of the girl with the spiders

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