BALTIMORE, Md. – One Maryland household acquired a spooky shock that left them each shocked and infuriated after ordering a prop casket for his or her annual Halloween celebration. 

When the Wozniaks opened up the casket they’d ordered this yr so as to add to their Halloween decorations, the household found private gadgets inside belonging to a lady who had handed away. 

Brooke Wozniak informed FOX 5 that the casket was ordered from Fb Market. After discovering a useless lady’s private belongings inside it, Wozniak mentioned that she would not need that to occur to her personal mother. So, she determined to create a TikTok video — which has now gone viral — hoping social media might assist return the belongings to the deceased lady’s household.

“Everybody was in shock. And we didn’t actually know how you can really feel about it,” Wozniak mentioned. “My first response was, we’ve acquired to seek out the household. We gotta discover whoever the subsequent of kin is or whoever is aware of her.”

Within the TikTok video, Wozniak exhibits among the delicate paperwork her household discovered taped beneath the cardboard inside the casket. There is a dying certificates for an Edith Crews that features her social safety quantity, the George Washington College Hospital bracelet she wore, a photograph of her – and an envelope containing what the Wozniak’s believed to be Edith’s ashes. 

When the deceased lady’s granddaughter stumbled upon the viral TikTok video, she confirmed her mother.

Sabrina Jones says she was shocked. She informed FOX 5 that her mom, a 74-year-old neighborhood pastor named Edith Crews Meriedy, died in January. 

And since she died of COVID, she handed away struggling to breathe and wasn’t allowed to have household at her facet. Her members of the family now should relive this horrible expertise over again.

“It doesn’t ease the ache of her being gone, you understand? She was my greatest buddy. I beloved my mother dearly,” Jones mentioned. “I’m the one woman. I’m the one who took her to George’s Washington College and left her there.”

“I imply I’m grateful that [the Wozniak family] stored it, and we do have it again. I thank God for that,” Jones added. 

FOX 5 was with Edith’s youngsters as they met the Wozniak household to thank them and retrieve their mother’s paperwork.

FOX 5 additionally traveled with the household — however was not allowed inside — once they went to confront the funeral enterprise proprietor.

Edith’s daughter mentioned they’d rented the casket by Freeman Funeral Providers in Clinton, Maryland, and had their mom cremated after. 

The proprietor wouldn’t go on digicam. Nonetheless, Jones mentioned the proprietor was empathetic and took duty for the paperwork subject. She requested to present them till Thursday to additional examine.

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Freeman Funeral Providers proprietor, Glenda Freemen, mentioned they despatched a number of caskets to a scrap metallic enterprise for destruction.

FOX 5 has reached out to that firm. However the households concerned each mentioned no less than one different particular person’s data was discovered on this casket. 

Jones needs solutions earlier than later. 

It is a growing story. Examine again with FOX 5 for updates.