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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Freya Coombes & Chiara Fiorillo

Inside abandoned funeral home's 'crying room' where children mourned loved ones quietly

Chilling photos have emerged of a so-called "crying room" in an abandoned funeral home where kids mourning their dead relatives could be seen but not heard.

The room allowed children, who were normally excluded from funerals over fears they would cause noise and commotion, to pay their respects to their loved ones without disturbing adult mourners.

Over the years, several additions were added to the funeral home, transforming the haunting Alabama building into a complex maze.

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