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It's not necessarily the weirdest, but it has a pretty great story behind it
I have a relative, I believe he's like a second cousin or something along those lines who has an actual coffin that he uses as a Halloween decoration.
He decided he wanted a coffin, so he goes to one of the local funeral homes to see what they have around that's not too expensive and looks a bit spooky.
It just so happens that he's has a pretty nice wooden coffin that's just been kicking around in storage for a couple decades.
Why has this coffin been kicking around in storage? Because some local guy died back in the late 80s while visiting family in Poland. They had to scramble a bit to figure out how to get his body back to the US and pretty much got the cheapest wooden box they could find to ship him back in, and then buried him in a different casket. And it had just been kicking around since then since he had no use for it but also didn't want to get rid of it.
And that guy that died in Poland was my grandfather.
My mom's a bit salty about the situation, she thinks it's disrespectful or something. I personally think it's a cool piece of family trivia, and although I never had the opportunity to meet him, from what I know of him I think my grandfather would have gotten a kick out of it.