In this paper, we study the residual Julia sets of meromorphic functions. In fact, we prove that if a meromorphic function f belongs to the class S and its Julia set is locally connected, then the residual Julia set of f is empty if and only if its Fatou set F (f) has a completely invariant component or consists of only two components. We also show that if f is a meromorphic function which is not of the form α + (z − α) −k e g(z) , where k is a natural number, α is a complex number and g is an entire function, then f has buried components provided that f has no completely invariant components and its Julia set J(f) is disconnected. Moreover, if F (f) has an infinitely connected component, then the singleton buried components are dense in J(f). This generalizes a result of Baker and Domínguez. Finally, we give some examples of meromorphic functions with buried points but without any buried components.