A grieving family's eulogy and a prayers at graveside turned into something you'd expect to see in a horror film when a decaying food emerged from the ground as they buried their grandfather.
It came about after a corpse from an adjacent grave spilled out into where 85-year-old Cleveland Butler was about to be laid to rest.
Mr Butler's daughter Sandra told the New York Daily News: "This was a very traumatizing situation, first dealing with losing my father and then this.
"I couldn't even look at it. It was too much and no one said anything to us. It was like business as usual for them.
"They just dumped the dirt in the plot like it was normal, like it's nothing to them."
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Mr Butler died after suffering a stroke at a nursing home in Brooklyn. He had four children, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
His son, Alonzo Butler, 53, said: "We all looked down and we were looking at what apparently was a human foot and leg wrapped in plastic, with cloth wrapped around it, sticking out on top of my father's casket."
One of the mourners photoed the foot on their phone and relatives alerted workers at the cemetery. however they claim cemetery workers ignored the foot and simply filled in the grave.
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The incident has raised fears that other body parts could now by lying around the cemetery.
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Rev. Kevin McCall, crisis director with the National Action Network: "This is beyond heinous for anyone to witness during their time of grieving over a loved one."
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He said that New Jersey officials and police should 'investigate this despicable act immediately to uncover who is responsible'.
Although police say no laws have been broken in the incident, the family is now considering filing a lawsuit.
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