A four-year survey of more than 800 embalmers across five countries found that 75.2% reported encountering large white fibrous structures in deceased individuals, prompting calls for independent laboratory and forensic investigation into their composition and origin.
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A newly published study surveying embalmers and funeral professionals in five countries found that three-quarters of respondents had observed unusual white or off-white fibrous structures inside the blood vessels of deceased individuals, with reports becoming substantially more common beginning in 2020 and 2021.
The peer-reviewed study, published this month in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, compiled results from four annual cross-sectional surveys conducted from 2022 through 2025. Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Thomas F. Haviland, a mathematician and data analyst, conducted the research with independent investigators Lauro Kasner and Dr. Daniel Santiago, a doctor of pharmacy.
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Active embalmers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand were asked anonymously whether they had encountered the structures, what percentage of bodies appeared to contain them and when they first began noticing the phenomenon. The surveys produced 808 responses across the four-year period.
Respondents described the material as large, durable and rubbery, with a white or off-white appearance that distinguished it from conventional postmortem clotting. The structures were characterized as “larger, more extensive, tougher, and different in color and handling from traditional chicken-fat or currant-jelly clots.” Some reportedly measured several inches, while others extended more than a foot and occasionally approached the length of a limb.
Across the individual surveys, between 66% and 83% of respondents said they had encountered the structures. When all four years were combined, 75.2% reported seeing them at least once. The embalmers estimated that the material appeared in an average of 23.4% of the bodies they handled, while yearly estimates ranged from 19% to 27%.
The reported timeline also showed a marked change beginning early in the decade. Among embalmers who said they had seen the structures, only 14% to 17% recalled encountering them in 2018 or 2019. That proportion rose to 37% in 2020 and reached 80% in 2021.
The timing overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic and the international rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, but the surveys did not establish what caused the structures or demonstrate that vaccination was responsible. The findings were based on anonymous professional observations rather than laboratory testing of tissue samples, medical records or verified vaccination histories.
The researchers called for the material to be examined directly by forensic pathologists, histologists and biomedical specialists. Such work would be necessary to determine its chemical and biological composition, distinguish it from known forms of clotting or postmortem tissue and evaluate whether infection, vaccination, medication, underlying disease or another factor contributed to its formation.
The publication adds a formal survey record to observations that embalmers and funeral directors began publicly discussing in 2020 and 2021. Its results document the prevalence of those reports among the participating professionals, but further controlled research would be required before broader conclusions could be drawn about frequency across the general population or possible health implications.
The findings arrive amid continued political scrutiny of the federal government’s handling of COVID-19 vaccine safety signals. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., renewed his criticism in a June 18 statement on X, writing, “There has not been a bigger government scandal during my lifetime, and yet even now that we have documented proof of corruption, most of the legacy media refuses to report on it.”
Johnson was referring to an interim investigative report connected to an April 29 hearing examining allegations that federal health officials during the Biden administration failed to act appropriately on COVID-19 vaccine safety information. The report addressed adverse-event concerns that included sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke and agonal rhythm.
“How many deaths and injuries could have been avoided had federal health officials simply done the job we paid them to do?” Johnson asked in the same public post.
Johnson called the alleged failure to address safety warnings one of the greatest government scandals of his lifetime and said it was “one that is crying out for full media attention and coverage.”
The embalmer survey does not independently verify those broader allegations, nor does it identify a cause for the reported fibrous structures. Its principal contribution is a multi-year record showing that a substantial majority of participating embalmers across five countries reported encountering material they considered different from familiar postmortem clots.
Determining what the structures are, how frequently they occur and whether their apparent rise reflects a genuine biological change will require collection of preserved samples, microscopic and biochemical analysis, comparison with traditional clots and access to complete medical histories. Until that work is performed, the survey’s results provide evidence of a widely reported professional observation but not a confirmed explanation for the phenomenon.
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