Halloween is just around the corner, and you might be looking to go pick up some spooky treats for the kids at the door – but good luck outdoing fudge made on a tombstone.
That’s what happened to the grave marker of one Peter J. Weller (pictured, image screen-captured from WZZM 13), a 19th-century businessman from Lansing, Michigan, which was lost when moving his body and those of his family between cemeteries in the mid-1800s.
The stone finally turned up this year, 146 years after it went missing – following decades of being used by a family in nearby Okemos to make fudge.
As it turned out, the cold, hard, flat marble back of the gravestone was perfect for pouring hot fudge on to cool down; it’s speculated that the family had assumed the stone was a reject or a misprint, and so had thought nothing of using it as a cooking aid for so many years.
The slightly discoloured stone has now been returned to its proper place next to Weller’s family’s monuments in Mount Hope Cemetery, with fudge (of course) on offer for all who attended the rededication.
It is as yet unknown whether the fudge made with Weller’s gravestone was in any way cursed and/or haunted.
