Bodies hung by the neck in Ontario city park for TV scene spark horror, humour [Video]

Visitors to Oshawa’s Memorial Park were met with a chilling surprise this week, with five bodies seen hung by the neck on the Bandshell stage.

The ‘bodies’ were mannequins and the occasion was a scene from The Testaments, a television series based on the 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel by Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood and the sequel to The Handmaids Tale – which was also filmed in Oshawa and other areas around Durham Region.

Television scene or not, the scene was shocking to some, though many people saw it as a source of humour and took to Reddit to have their say:

• Pretty good setting for a dystopian city lmao – Winged Icarus
• OMG just walked through here and the ‘bodies’ are all down now. Not what I expected to see in the park today – justabitcrazee
• Who has time to hang around like this. Tsk tsk – soviet toster
• I see dead people. – robjeffrey

Others used the scene …