FOX NEWS - A woman visiting her parents' Long Island burial plot descended into more than despair -- she sank hip-deep into their grave, a lawsuit claims.

In the real-life horror show, Joanne Cullen bent down to fix a bow on a wreath by the headstone when a sinkhole formed and began to "swallow" her up, according to court papers.

"It caused her to fall forward and smash her head on the tombstone," cracking a tooth, her lawyer, Joseph Perrini, told The Post.

She then tried to "bounce back and she started sinking into the ground and grabbed the sides of the tombstone," he said.

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