Here's a creepy and salacious love story that surely would have gone viral on the internet, if it hadn't happened in 1911. A pretty young woman named Marie Bondi developed a crush on the local undertaker. Leonardo Grasso was married, however, so how was she to get his attention discreetly? Her solution was to dress as a man and apply for a job as the undertaker's assistant. She not only got the job, but Grasso's attention, as he became close with his assistant "Mike."
Shielded by the disguise, the two weren't particularly discreet. The affair was uncovered when a client caught the couple displaying affection right there in the funeral home in a room with a row of coffins. Mrs. Grasso had "Mike" arrested for masquerading as a man, which was apparently against the law at the time. As a result, Bondi went back to dressing as a woman, but that didn't stop her affair with Grasso. Read how all these shenanigans played out at Strange Company.