Swanson Funeral Home was a family owned and operated funeral home located in Flint, Michigan. The funeral home was a long-standing staple of the local community as it had performed hundreds of funeral services over the years, many without any problems or issues. The original owner, O’Neil Swanson II, opened his funeral home in Flint, Michigan more than 20 years ago. He was following in his father’s footsteps as his father, O’Neil D. Swanson, had successful funeral homes in both Detroit and Pontiac. The Flint Swanson Funeral Home and the other Swanson Funeral Homes around the area are not connected in anyway. They are complete separate entities of one another. Problems first started for the Flint Swanson Funeral Home back in 2004 when it was first fined for repeated business violations. More problems surfaced for Flint Swanson Funeral Home in 2015 when it was fined yet again and their license was suspended. At that time, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) suspended the funeral home’s license, however, funerals continued to operate out of Flint Swanson Funeral Home. The final “nail in the coffin” for Flint Swanson Funeral Home was in 2017 when neighbors began to report a foul stench of decomposing human flesh coming from the funeral home. These reports prompted LARA to come back for another inspection of Flint Swanson Funeral Home. Inspectors had found the funeral home to be in deplorable and unsanitary conditions. They found maggots crawling all over the floor and the maggots led them to nearly a dozen human corpses that were unrefrigerated and stacked up along the walls in cardboard-boxes. After this was the second time that LARA had visited the funeral home and discovered rotting human corpses and even more horrific conditions inside, they were left with no other choice except to permanently close Flint Swanson Funeral Home. Although this seemed to be the end for Flint Swanson Funeral Home, it was not the end for owner, O’Neil Swanson II. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) learned he had been advertising and selling prepaid funeral contracts without a proper license. Investigators from LARA also found that he illegally deposited prepaid funeral funds into his business account that was used for personal spending, instead of depositing that money into an escrow account, which is required by law. O’Neil Swanson II eventually was sentenced to pay $75,000 restitution to avoid prison time. Swanson Funeral Home still sits abandoned today. The neighbors continue to keep an eye on the former funeral home and will certainly notify the police if anyone is seen near the property. Luckily, the police at the end of this video were extremely nice and let us go without getting in trouble. All they wanted was a tour of the abandoned funeral home.
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