(CNN) - It's not something you see or hear everyday. A coffin floats away in Louisiana. But, it happened after rising waters flooded part of a cemetery.
"They didn't know the coffin was out until we walked on the hill and saw it," says Bennett Ford. Ford was part of a group that helped locate this coffin. It floated away from the magnolia Baptist church cemetery.
Floodwaters from rains on Sunday and Monday swept across the cemetery moving this casket and damaging several other grave-sites. "I was out of town during the weekend when it happened. We're going to do our best to get everything back right," says Rev. Larry Pate, Sr.
A West Feliciana Parish inmate crew was called in to lift the coffin out of a small pond left from the flood. They carried it back to the cemetery. Reverend Pate says the church will start contacting people for help on the cleanup.
"What we want to do is get in touch with the families of these people. Whatever it takes to get it back corrected, we're going to do it," says Pate.
For some, the flood problems are hard to believe. "I've heard of that happening in other places. Never thought it would happen in this neighborhood," says Ford. "We walked up the hill just looking at the brush. We wound up seeing the casket down there." "It's just one of those things, you know. We can't control nature," says Pate. "We just have to do what we can do when it happens."
Some of the coffins and caskets date back to the 1950s.
