10 People That Survived Their Own Burials

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5 – Natalya Pasternak,

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  • Natalya from Siberia often went on walks with her dog in the woods, but one day when she was collecting birch sap she came across a bear, who initiated an attack against her.
  • She tried to defend herself with the birch branches but was soon rendered unconscious, later on she woke trapped under rubble and dirt.
  • Luckily two hunters stumbled upon the site, apparently the bear did this to save her for later, the hunters later went out and killed the bear.

4 – George Hayward,

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  • While he was hauling straw in 1904, Marshville England, George was stuck in the head by a pitchfork, a prong penetrated his skull and bore into his brain.
  • Two weeks later his eyes shut in apparent death, but he was still painfully conscious and very much alive, but he had no way of letting those around him know.
  • He was buried not long after, but luckily grave robbing by doctors was a common practice back then and two such grave robbers came across his body and George managed to make a slight motion to indicate his being alive before they began dissecting him.

3 – Brazilian Man,

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  • A women from Ferraz de Vasconcelos was visiting her family tomb when she noticed a man’s head and hand above the ground and was struggling to escape his own grave.
  • Rescue workers arrived on the scene and excavated him, then paramedics took him to the hospital for a medical check-up.
  • No one knows why he was buried in the first place, but they think it was because he lost a fight, according to his nephew he, quite understandably, suffered severe psychiatric problems after this event.

2 – Chinese Baby,

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  • In May of 2015 a middle-aged women in the Guangxi province of southern China was collecting herbs for her traditional medicine when she heard a baby’s crying.
  • Police managed to pull the baby out and it was rushed to the hospital, forensic and medical analysis revealed that it had been trapped in the grave for eight long days.
  • Apparently the parents buried the child because he had a cleft lip and they didn’t want to raise a child with any disfigurements.

1 – Essie Dunbar

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  • In 1915 Essie from South Carolina suffered from an epileptic attack that seemed to kill her, the funeral service was requested to be delayed because her sister wished to see her off.
  • This request was listened to for a day, but her sister still hadn’t arrived so they buried the body, but she arrived not long after and asked for the body to be brought up so she could have one last look.
  • Once the body was removed Essie sat up and smiled at her sisters and everyone at the service fled.
  • It took Essie some time to convince them that she wasn’t a ghost, but eventually she got through to them and she lived 47 years after her own funeral.

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