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How often do you lie awake at night thinking about what it’s like to get buried alive?
For me....?
It's never.
At my age, I'd have a heart attack.
But for you, I'm sure it gives you great anxiety.
These 10 people didn't have to imagine it, though, they actually lived it..
Here are 10 People Who Woke Up After Being Buried!
10.
The Sleeping Beauty Octavia Hatcher, who died in 1891, was from
Kentucky and actually suffered from an unknown epidemic.
Her son had passed away and she fell into a deep depression, later falling into a coma.
Doctors pronounced her dead and she was quickly buried to avoid spreading of disease in the
Kentucky heat.
Since many in the state suffered from the disease, others in town started falling into
comas and awakening, leading Octavia’s husband to doubt whether she’d really died.
They exhumed her body to find she had woken up and torn her coffin, and her nails, to
pieces trying to escape before suffocating to death.
He eventually built a monument over her grave, but I can’t imagine he ever forgave himself.
9.
The Shoemaker Perhaps one of the luckiest on this list,
this 40-year-old shoemaker from Germany woke up while he was being buried.
It was 1822, and his family had declared his passing after several attempts to wake him.
There were doubts from the beginning, as his body didn’t decompose nor go rigid, but
the funeral must go on!
The gravedigger was finishing up the last bit of dirt when he heard knocking.
He didn’t think twice before undoing his freshly-finished grave and found the shoemaker
in perfect condition, moving around.
Unfortunately, it seems the gravedigger was still too late and the physicians' attempts
to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
8.
Brazilian Man Survives Tomb So, you’re at the cemetery with your family
visiting a family tomb.
Everything feels very ceremonious and normal until, from the corner of your eye, you see
something strange.
It seems like something is moving among the grass.
It’s not weeds, nor even a gravedigger.
A man is trying to escape his own grave!
This is what happened to a man in 2013 in Sao Paulo.
Rescue workers came to help and they rushed him to the hospital where doctors suspected
this was all the result of a bad fight.
After being beaten nearly to death, his attackers buried him.
7.
Six Year Old Girl Survives Sometimes, you should follow those hunches
that tell you something isn’t right.
That’s what villagers did in India in 2014, and it resulted in a saved life.
Unknown to them at the time of her rescue, 6-year-old Uttar Pradesh had been tricked
by her neighbors, a couple who took her, promising her a trip to a fair.
Instead, they took her to a sugar cane field, tried to strangle and bury her, and walked
away.
The field wasn’t deserted, however, and they were spotted coming in with the girl,
and out alone.
The villagers found her unconscious and rushed her to get care.
When she woke up, she identified her attempted killers, but they were never caught.
6.
She’s a Survivor Much less violent than a few on this list
is the 1615 story of a Northern Irish woman named Marjorie McCall, who was pronounced
dead after an illness.
Whether what happened next was lucky or unlucky truly depends on how you look at it.
The same night she was buried, a group of grave robbers exhumed her body to steal what
was buried with her, namely a ring she had on her finger.
The robbers cut her finger to steal the ring and to their surprise, she woke up.
They were so scared they ran away and Marjorie climbed out of her coffin, walking herself
home where she frightened her grieving family so much, they fainted.
5.
The Smiling Corpse In 1915, a South Carolina woman named Essie
Dunbar had an epileptic attack that left her as good as dead.
At least, that’s what doctors thought.
They would have buried her right away were it not for her sister’s request to wait
for her.
Still arriving too late, the pastors moved forward with the service, burying the coffin
entirely.
This is when Essie’s sister arrived and insisted she had to say goodbye to her sister
properly, demanding they exhume her.
They opened the coffin and Essie sat up to smile at her.
It wasn’t exactly a moment of embrace as everyone assumed she was a ghost, but after
chasing them into town, Essie was able to convince them she was totally real.
She lived almost 50 years longer after the incident, probably telling this story more
than a few times.
4.
Matthew Wall Imagine that you were almost buried alive
and the town was so happy to have you back that they actually made a holiday for you
about it.
That’s what happened to Matthew Wall, who on October 2nd, 1571, was almost buried alive.
He was preparing to get married when they declared him dead.
Instead of heading to the church for a wedding, he was taken in a coffin, carried by pallbearers.
One of the pallbearers was particularly clumsy that day and fell after stepping on wet leaves.
The sound of the coffin hitting the ground shocked everyone, including Matthew, who woke
up and started knocking on the inside of the coffin, screaming for help.
He ended up getting married in the end.
3.
3-Year-Old Boy Shocks Grandma Burying a child is never easy, and we have
to assume it certainly wasn’t for Mrs. J. Burney in 1913, who was saying goodbye to
her 3-year-old son.
It seems the boy had other plans, though.
He sat up and looked directly at his grandmother, who was so shocked she died immediately.
Then, the boy slipped back into unconsciousness and fell back into the coffin, actually dead
this time.
Strangely, it’s not the first time this has happened.
A two-year-old boy in Brazil sat up and asked his father for water, just to lie back down
dead once more.
I can’t imagine how heartbreaking it is for parents, but perhaps they’re grateful
to just have one more moment with them.
2.
Insurance Company Saves the Day In 1937, Angelo Hays was the posterboy for
“don’t drive motorcycles”.
He was 19 when he wrecked his motorcycle, and was thrown headfirst into a brick wall.
The damage was so severe that his family wasn’t allowed to see the body.
All funeral arrangements were made as usual, but the local insurance company opened an
investigation that then required the body to be exhumed.
To their surprise, the young man’s body was still warm.
The coma he was in lowered his body’s need for oxygen so he was able to survive underground.
He had surgeries and rehab, and made a full recovery.
1.
Birth in The Grave In 1901, a pregnant woman contracted yellow
fever in Western Africa and returned to die at home.
She was buried, though a nurse later commented that the body wasn’t cold and the abdomen
showed muscle movements.
She worried that the woman, named Madame Bobin, was buried too soon.
Her father heard of this and had her exhumed, just to find that it was true.
Not only had Madame Bobin still been alive, she’d also given birth and then died with
her baby in the coffin.
In the end, the yellow fever diagnosis was wrong and her father sued the hospital.
Thanks for watching!
These cases remind of Edgar Allen Poe’s story, The Premature Burial.
Very frightening!
Nowadays, it may be a good idea to bury a cell phone with a loved one so they could
call for help.
Just make sure the battery is fully charged.
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