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Decomposition Cam
The folks over at SeeMeRot.com have engineered something rather unusual: a webcam set up inside a coffin so that you can see their friend's body decompose. At least, that's what they claim. The 'webcam image' appears simply to be an animated gif that cycles between a blurry and an in-focus image to simulate how a real webcam might behave. Plus, they have rather odd sponsors for a project of this kind... sponsors offering 'live sexy girl cams'. I suppose the logic is that once you get tired of watching the dead girl (they say it's a woman in the picture), you can head over and watch some live sexy girls. The site is registered to someone at 7985 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. No suite number is given, so it's impossible to tell which business there registered it, but most of the stores in that area are in the 'adult entertainment' business. I suspect that SeeMeRot.com is a weird promotional gimmick dreamed up by someone selling porn. In other words, it's fake.(By the way, the idea of a decomposition cam isn't unique to seemerot.com. Joey Skaggs included this concept in his FinalCurtain.com cemetery hoax. Skaggs's fantastical cemetery theme park was going to include a grave constructed by an artist named Joseph Sullivan that would show Sullivan's decomposing body on an above-ground monitor.)
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In The Netherlands there was a movie about this subject some years ago. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297307
It was about a girl with terminal cancer, whose friends thought up the idea to put a camera into her coffin, to honour her.
Posted by Marten in Amsterdam on Thu Feb 05, 2004 at 04:26 AM
It was about a girl with terminal cancer, whose friends thought up the idea to put a camera into her coffin, to honour her.
Sick,sick, sick and sick !
Posted by Emily de Saint Jores in London on Thu Feb 05, 2004 at 06:35 AM
Corrollary to Abe Lincoln's Famous Saying.
You don't have to fool all the people all the time, or even a large portion thereof, to make loads of money.
Posted by Alan Kellogg in San Diego on Fri Feb 06, 2004 at 01:14 AM
You don't have to fool all the people all the time, or even a large portion thereof, to make loads of money.
I am a breast cancer patient and if watching an alleged cancer patient who has died decompose is suppose to honor them heaven help us all!
And if you check out the website they alleged that this person died of natural causes.
Posted by Toni Riss in Dallas, Tx on Tue Feb 10, 2004 at 12:32 AM
And if you check out the website they alleged that this person died of natural causes.
This is a hoax!
Hit file then save as in IE and then load up the pic called headcam1.gif into a fresh run of IE. You can see that it's an animated gif made to look like what a live cam feed would look like.
Posted by Zack on Wed Feb 18, 2004 at 12:43 AM
Hit file then save as in IE and then load up the pic called headcam1.gif into a fresh run of IE. You can see that it's an animated gif made to look like what a live cam feed would look like.
I don't care if it's a hoax...English is not my mother language....but...see me rot? Come on lovely friends and see me rot. Gotta learn some more English...I'm amazed
Posted by Gabriel on Mon Jun 28, 2004 at 09:05 PM
Self-proclaimed "Super-masochist" Bob Flanagan had hoped to actually pull this one off. He was one of the longest living individuals suffering with cystic fibrosis. Along with sadomasochism, Bob pursued performance and video art (with his wife, Sheree Rose). He actually did some tests for a decomposition cam, but I guess he didn't pull it off. He passed away in 1996, and to my knowledge, doesn't have his postmortem performance televised.
Posted by Joey Rocket in Pennsylvania on Wed Nov 10, 2004 at 03:05 AM
It is a fake for sure. If you download the image headcam1.gif to your computer and then create a html-file and put an image src tag showing that picture it will look exactly the same. Therefore it is impossible that it is a live cam.
Posted by Nisse in Somewhere on Sat Nov 13, 2004 at 06:35 PM
That's a fake picture. That corpse doesn't rot.
Posted by User in Belarus on Fri Jul 15, 2005 at 07:39 AM
Besides...who would be buried in an ugly denim shirt?
Posted by Anne in Dallas, TX on Thu Nov 24, 2005 at 09:54 AM
In a way I'm a little disappointed that it's fake, but in an almost bigger way I'm relieved lol. I do have a morbid curiosity often and it would have surely been interesting to see a real process of decomposition. But, oh well. In the end I'm sure it's better that it was a fake.
Posted by Cinder in Florida on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 08:20 PM
Darn...I surely thought the seemerot was for real..I had first seen it on watch me rot...really think its fake?
Posted by DEB in Fort Worth,TX on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 08:58 PM
It's supposed to be a 41 year old man. There are messageboards with comment from this from 2004- surely he's start to get black/ blue flesh or have some of that 'soapy- looking' deposit on him by now. For sure it's fake.
Posted by Nat Lockwood in BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE on Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 11:51 AM
It's 2009 Aug 19 and the lady looks just as fresh as 5 years ago. Also, you can time the two fads by counting to three when it starts fading. nice fake though, funny.
Posted by Paul in Iowa on Wed Aug 19, 2009 at 03:54 AM
ummm- hate to tell ya'll, but it is a fake site...same image has been up there for several years now, and somehow she has never changed...hmmm- embalmers can be good, but not that good! FAKE!!! It's a great subject, but is not real, wouldnt be possible anyway, cameras need a certain environment in which to function, including either cables connecting it to a power source/etc. batteries and or/dry and temp. controlled conditions- this is not possible in a closed grave- sorry folks...a waste of webspace.
Posted by callie in nowhere on Thu Oct 01, 2009 at 03:49 PM
I found the site from QI with Steven Fry
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Posted by kenny in uk on Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 05:18 PM
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I came across the site because of QI too, I agree, pity the researchers didn't research into it more before putting out the 'facts' on the show, because it kind of undermines the show.
Posted by Chris Sneesby in York, UK on Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 05:31 PM
i am yet another person to be sent here by Qi! very dissapointed in the researchers also.
Posted by saha in Cardiff on Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 11:30 PM
arnt dead people meant to be pale?
Posted by joo in jhhk on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 05:14 PM
I have also done my own research into this issue after hearing about it on QI. It's astonishing how little research the "research team" did in preparation for this to be deemed a fact and subsequently aired.
It lets the credibility of the show down.
A startling concept, which in the age of fame, does not surprise me all that much. It does however pique our morbid fascination. However, as mentioned above, the environment casing a decomposing body certainly would not be suitable for a webcam feed.
I'm relieved it's a hoax.
My initial thought - regarding the pornographic advertisements was - "wow, this is really unsuitable" - but indicative of the sites affiliates.
Posted by empathy in England on Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 01:45 AM
It lets the credibility of the show down.
A startling concept, which in the age of fame, does not surprise me all that much. It does however pique our morbid fascination. However, as mentioned above, the environment casing a decomposing body certainly would not be suitable for a webcam feed.
I'm relieved it's a hoax.
My initial thought - regarding the pornographic advertisements was - "wow, this is really unsuitable" - but indicative of the sites affiliates.
omg we're in Porth county community school and we're gutted see me rot .com is fake lol holla to all the awesome people who read this :D
Posted by Chealsea in wales on Wed May 05, 2010 at 07:14 AM
This has to be fake. I stumbled onto this "video feed" at least 5 years ago and it hasn't changed in the least. One would think there would be dust, deterioration of the body to some degree and at least a little clouding of the camera lens.
Posted by 0ldman in Colton, N.Y. on Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 09:58 PM
totaly fake, checked it out over a year ago, then again now, some picture, or there is no decomp in over a year
Posted by mary in ohio on Thu Sep 30, 2010 at 05:01 PM
Thats not right to put a camera in a coffin. 
Posted by olly on Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 02:04 PM
I first saw this about 5 yrs ago and i have to say the live ( no pun intended) pic looks EXACTLY the same now as it did then !
Sorry to disappoint anyone but its clearly a hoax
though the idea to me has merit .... seeing the usually unseen has a certain morbid fascination !
Posted by pagan UK in UK on Sat Nov 27, 2010 at 05:49 PM
Sorry to disappoint anyone but its clearly a hoax
though the idea to me has merit .... seeing the usually unseen has a certain morbid fascination !
was so obvousley fake as soon as you see the sort of ads scattered around the site. Quite sick really! And ys me too found this site after watching steven fry last night.
Posted by sonia in manchester uk on Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 07:43 PM
Oh dear. I too came here as a result of QI thinking Oh No that can't be true. At first it looks genuine, but then I thought its a bit of a cheap looking site for some sort of after life service. I also found it intriguing the adverts they had on the site and the fact that the adverts had geo-location as it offerred services in my local area. This led me to look at the picture again even just on my BlackBerry I could see it was just a sequence repeated. So I managed to realise it was a fake in 5 mins on my smartphone, so why couldn't the BBC researches do so. Mr Fry should tweet apologies forthwith. Thanks to all those on this site that more accurately confirmed my initial suspicions.
Posted by rael in Guildford on Sun Mar 06, 2011 at 05:57 PM
Please tell me how you would wire a cam in a coffin in a grave yard? if remote how would it stay charged anyway?
of course it's fake.
Posted by joe on Thu Apr 21, 2011 at 05:59 PM
of course it's fake.
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