Haunting images show the inside of a funeral home which has been untouched for years.
The pictures were captured of Century Funeral home, by urbex photographer Leland Kent, also known for his blog, the Abandoned Southeast.
His photographs show that the property in the US hasn't been touched for several years, everything seeming to be left exactly as it was.
The funeral home was set up during the Civil War and is one of the first among its neighbourhood to be black-owned.
The property has an alarming amount of disturbing artefacts found untarnished.
Items including human ashes as an image shows a box marked 'handle with care of human remains' and another shows a bag containing ashes stating they are the 'cremains' of Miss Susan, cremated in 2016.
The original owner passed the funeral house down to his son, and it remained a family-run business until the home closed.
The family were all laid to rest, together with the owner's wife and their children, who were all employed there. The last funeral to be conducted here was that of the owner.
Despite the owner having passed away for several years now, pamphlets from the owner's funeral remain scattered in the chapel today.
Several other chilling images were taken, one including a hearse covered in dust marked 'funeral' despite the interior being in immaculate condition.
Kent explored the deep history of the building explaining that “During the Civil War, African-American soldiers were responsible for removing dead bodies from the battlefields and keeping records for burial sites of soldiers killed in combat.
These experiences prepared many soldiers for work in the burial industry. After the Civil War, funeral parlours were among the first businesses opened by African-Americans.
For decades, formerly enslaved people and their descendants were excluded from a spectrum of trades, and higher education remained mainly out of reach.
One notable exception was the profession of a mortician, a specialised field for African-Americans that managed to thrive despite a culture of racial division.
Concerns about how black bodies were being laid to rest by white undertakers fueled the desire by African-Americans to have their family members buried by black undertakers whom they believed would bury their dead with care and dignity.
A willingness to meet this community need while earning a comfortable living led would-be entrepreneurs to the funeral business.
At the turn of the 20th century, African-American churches began forming Burial Societies, which collected money from church members to pay for their funerals, coffins, and graves.
In these rural communities, the deceased were often casketed and viewed in the family home. The first hearses were four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages."
Items that are left that reflect the history of this property can be seen in the dated instruments and chemicals that were used to deal with the bodies of the deceased.
Fans of Leland's blog were impressed by the primitive condition of the photos, and took to the comments expressing: “These photos are utterly impressive… This funeral home was way behind in time. I’m surprised to see the embalming solutions and the hearses still left behind after the closing of its doors.”
