corpse of ghost failing to bury

[JayBird]

The corpse is in the tomb area but dwarves keep failing to haul it into the actual coffin. There is a ghost of the corpse. Any help would be good. Game is unmodded

[Fel]

Make a stone slab, remember the name of the dead dwarf/ghost, engrave the slab for that name and build it somewhere.
It will get rid of the ghost.
Ghosts can end up claiming tombs, making it impossible for a body to be burried there.

Also, make sure you have one tomb zone per coffin (you mentionned "tomb area", so just to be sure).

[JayBird]

Thanks

[vortex_13]

They have to be individual tombs. You can't do one big mass tomb.

[JayBird]

It is an individual tomb the corpse is just sat outside the coffin and they keep trying and failing to put it inside

[Fel]

Was the coffin already built before you made the tomb zone?
There are weird bugs that happen when you make a zone before the furnitures are built, tombs are among those.

[JayBird]

If I remember correctly there where some tomb zone with coffins and some without so I guess they chose poorly and now that body can't be buried

[amade]

Remove the coffin and rebuild it (possibly in a different tile within the zone). That should prompt the dorfs to relocate the corpse.