Kentucky grave digger issues warning on funeral homes. He says not everyone is getting buried: ‘We are being “recycled’

A grave digger from Kentucky is making a substantial claim on TikTok. According to him, some funeral homes and grave digging services are not “burying people.”

A content creator who goes by the name Bigshipoppinn on TikTok (@bigshipoppinn) posted a video that received more than 4.2 million views. In it, he claimed that some funeral homes are not actually following through with burying those that passed.

‘They're not burying everybody'

Bigshipoppinn said on his account he's been digging graves for “11 years.” For that reason, he says he has inside knowledge as to how grave digging works and what it exactly entails.

The content creator has made videos on various TikTok accounts since 2025. On one such alternate account, Bigshipoppinn posted a video where he said, “ I [came] out last year and told y'all graves [were] empty. Since then, they have been blocking me at every turn. Y'all, I have plenty of proof of what they're doing. They are not burying people. I'm not saying every funeral home, every cemetery is doing this, but a lot of them are.”

In one of his videos, he explained that things in the burial industry changed in 2019.

“Me and a lot of other people that [were] in this industry [were] noticing that things were getting weird, that people [weren't] getting buried, that people that paid for cremation [were] getting back ashes that [weren't] really ashes,” he said. “ A woman was just caught in Florida selling parts on Facebook Marketplace. You know, a funeral home in Colorado had 190 bodies stored. This stuff's not uncommon, y'all.”

He claimed that colleges buy the remains of deceased individuals for research. He also said that corporations buy remains to test products. The content creator even said that schemes to purchase dead bodies are available in the Epstein files. As of this writing, there hasn't been an explicit connection made between any desecration schemes and what's currently published in the Epstein files. However, investigators in New Mexico did look into a claim that Epstein had two girls buried at Zorro Ranch. In addition, some tipsters have stated that there are alleged “grave-like plots” on the property.

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Is any of this real?

The situation that Bigshipoppinn described—people desecrating burial sites—is not unheard of. In 2009, Burr Oak Cemetery, which is located in Illinois, became a hotspot for controversy. Some members of the cemetery's staff dug up old graves, dumped human remains, and reportedly resold grave plots for profit.  Four employees were found guilty of desecration, according to WTTW.

In Sicily, Italy, a gravedigger allegedly resold burial sites after “removing the corpses already interred in them,” according to CBS News. The gravedigger was later arrested.

Bigshipoppinn's personal experience, however, is unverifiable. As of this writing, it appears no other news outlets have corroborated the content creator's personal experience working in the gravedigging industry. And while Bigshipoppinn references real news stories on his account, his claims regarding what companies do with allegedly purchased human remains are, as of this writing, unprovable.

Buzz News reached out to Bigshipoppinn via TikTok direct message for comment.