10 Ghoulish Corpse-Eating Creatures
Every year, there are countless cases of animals devouring human corpses. It’s not just an urban legend that pets are forced to feed on their owners, rotting remains after tragedy. Occasionally, these are horrific cases of infestations in what should be sterile clinical settings like hospitals and morgues. Other times, wild animals scavenge human remains. In rare instances, eaters of the dead are even encouraged to do so. It may be an affront to our presumed human dignity, but when all is said and done, flesh is flesh.
10Cadaver Rats
On July 18, 2014, Doris Kennard won a $237,000 judgment for emotional stress she suffered from corpse-eating rats at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC. Contracted to clean the deceased, Kennard faced flesh-mad rodents that would chew through body bags and seethe through cadavers’ nether regions. In 2010, she landed in the hospital from a rat attack suffered after pulling a tail she believed to be a feminin