Funeral-goers reveal their most SHOCKING experiences at memorial services - from horrifying mishaps with ash spreading to a full-on family BRAWL

Even the best laid plans can go horribly awry, and sadly the somber day thoroughly planned to remember a loved one isn't exempt.

Brittany Schmitt and Brittany Furlan Lee, from the This Is The Worst podcast, shared some of their listeners' worst funeral stories - ranging from a full-on family brawl mid-service to wandering accidentally into the wrong funeral. 

Schmitt kicked things off with an ash-spreading mishap after her mom died in 2017.

She revealed her mother's dying wish was to have her ashes spread at the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin - on horseback.

Brittany Schmitt and Brittany Furlan Lee, from the This Is The Worst podcast, shared some of their listeners' worst funeral stories

Despite best laid plans, the somber day thoroughly planned to remember a loved one can go horribly awry (stock image)

'My sister's scrambling to get a horse,' she explained to her co-host. 'My dad's best friend Brian, his sister had a horse [so] my sister was going to go spread [the ashes] and it was freezing outside so she borrowed one of Brian's hunting jackets and put the ashes in the pocket.'

Schmitt described her sister effectively spreading the ashes by shaking out the sleeves of her jacket. 

'My mom was like: "It's going to be so beautiful, my ashes will be spread on horse back at the state park," but it's like b***h, your ashes are going to be spread at the dry cleaner,' Schmitt joked.

Elsewhere, one woman shared a funeral she attended with her entire school when she was 15, after a basketballer player's heart stopped in the gym and he passed away. 

'Me, being an angry 15-year-old thought attending a funeral without knowing the person would be a perfect excuse to get out of school, so I went to his funeral with some friends,' the woman's story read.

'It was the saddest f***ing thing ever,' the woman wrote, with Furlan Lee reading it out loud. 'I bawled the whole time and I literally never even met the dude.

'Such a huge regret and life lesson,' she concluded the story.

The next tale was a family affair, with a woman telling the tragic story of her stepson passing away at 23 from a drug overdose in 2020. 

Brittany Schmitt (pictured) shared the story of her own mother's memorial and spreading her ashes 

The stories ranged from full-on family brawl to being in the wrong place at the wrong time (pictured Brittany Furlan Lee)

The podcast hosts had asked their listeners to share their worst funeral stories, which they read on the podcast 

'This happened a few years after a 10-year long, very horrible, angry divorce,' Furlan Lee read out. 'During the funeral planning, my husband and his ex fought over every detail and it took a week and a half before they could agree on arrangements.'

The woman said the ex-couple were constantly blaming each other, with the ex-wife reportedly an alcoholic who knew about her son's addiction, and the woman's husband walking out over it.

The day before the funeral, the woman's husband had arranged for both of them and their seven-year-old son to got to the funeral home where her stepson's body was - but, when they were there, his ex-wife's sister walked in.

'Once she saw me she lost it she started yelling at me calling me names and blaming me for her nephew's death,' the woman recalled in her story. 

'She backed me into a corner screaming at me while my husband and the funeral home workers came to help physically pull her away from me.'

After the incident, she decided not to attend the funeral with her son, not wanting their presence to take away from remembering her stepson's life.

She said at the funeral, her husband's eldest daughter refused to acknowledge him, and eventually ended up 'exploding' at her grandmother - her husband's mom - and pushed her in the middle of the service.

'My mother-in-law fell to the ground. My husband and brother-in-law intervened and the police were called, charges were pressed against the ex-wife, and my husband and in-laws were escorted out of the funeral home,' she shared.

One mortician shared a sketchy tale of a woman who was getting her husband's remains cremated - but had an odd urn to take them home in. 

'So when I get back to my desk there's an empty beat up used box [containing his ashes],' Furlan Lee read out.

'I would check whether or not she killed him,' Schmitt interjected.

'For real - the life insurance policy,' Furlan Lee agreed.

Their final funeral mishap was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

A listener described going to a church on a Thursday morning - noticing the other church-goers were unusually dressed up in suits. 

'I asked an a nice old lady in front of me what what was going on and she said hopefully not a funeral,' the person's story read.

'Immediately following that statement the casket came in,' Furlan Lee read out, relaying the story. 

'I stayed for the funeral because I thought it would be rude to leave.'