Toddlers played with dead grandpa's ashes — and may have eaten them, shocked mom says: 'The boys got PawPaw!'
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Ashes, ashes, we all chow down?

A Colorado mom was shocked when she found out that her sons may have consumed their grandfather’s ashes. The bizarre incident was shared in a TikTok video that has garnered over 2.4 million views. The video has a darkly humorous tone to it.

“The boys got PawPaw!” Monica Long exclaimed in the clip while describing their alleged grandpa slam breakfast.

The single mother of three claimed she left her two toddlers, ages 3 and 2, alone for a moment in early January so she could use the bathroom while prepping for a birthday party, People magazine reported.

The Coloradan was only in there for several minutes, but when she returned she saw that the boys were playing in what looked like white dirt. During the four minutes she’d been gone, the two hellions had managed to smear the soot all over their faces, bodies and the floor.

“I was like, ‘Where did this dirt come from?’” recalled Long, who vacuumed up the mess.

Then, days later, she discovered the empty container that had housed their grandfather’s ashes, and the horrifying truth dawned on her — the “dirt” was his cremated remains.

“They got him and they dumped him out all over my carpet,” wailed the distraught mom in the TikTok video while holding the cross-shaped urn. “And I didn’t realize it was PawPaw and I vacuumed him up.”

She even speculated that the tiny terrors may have engaged in postmortem cannibalism, claiming: “They may have eaten some of him too because [one of them] had the cap in his mouth. Jesus Christ. F–k!”

The scene evoked the similar horror of the cat using grandma’s ashes as a litterbox in Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro’s 2000 comedy “Meet the Parents.” (Perhaps “Eat the Parents,” in this case.)

As for how her children accessed the ashes, Long said: “PawPaw was on a shelf, out of their reach, but they’re climbers. They climbed their little way up and got ahold of him.”

She speculated that the little ash-holes then used their mouths to unscrew the cap.

“They’re just getting into everything these days,” said the mortified mom, who said she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

By contrast, “PawPaw” would’ve seen the humor in her sons’ remains desecration, Long claimed.

“Would he have found this story funny? Absolutely,” the parent said in a follow-up video. “He would have definitely gotten a kick out of this whole ordeal.”

The TikTok commenters also saw the funny side, with one viewer exclaiming, “I’m sorry but the snort laugh I let out when you zoomed in on what’s left of pawpaw.”

Another wrote, “I don’t know pawpaw but I bet he would find this hilarious.”

“Pawpaw is somewhere laughing his tail off,” said a third. “And he’s not in ashes. He lives on in those who knew & loved him. And now us because you shared him with us all. Sprinkle that dust bucket somewhere lovely.”

Long’s father, who passed away in 2020, also had “shenanigan stories of his own from being a principal,” she said.

“He was a Vietnam War veteran and a school teacher for many, many years,” recalled Long, adding that he was a “follower of Jesus” as well.

Fortunately, that’s not the last of her late dad’s remains, either; the rest are buried in a veterans’ cemetery in Texas, she told People.

Long said that when she alerted his wife, MawMaw, of what had transpired, she assured her, “‘Don’t worry — we have more PawPaw.’”

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