Short Horror Stories and Urban Legends

Buried Alive

My great-great grandmother, ill for quite some

time, finally passed away after lying in a coma

for several days. My great-great grandfather was

devastated beyond belief, as she was his one true

love and they had been married over 50 years. They

were married so long it seemed as if they knew

each other's innermost thoughts.

After the doctor pronounced her dead, my great-

great grandfather insisted that she was not. They

had to literally pry him away from his wife's body

so they could ready her for burial.

Now, back in those days they had backyard burial

plots and did not drain the body of its fluids.

They simply prepared a proper coffin and committed

the body (in its coffin) to its permanent resting

place. Throughout this process, my great-great

grandfather protested so fiercely that he had to

be sedated and put to bed. His wife was buried and

that was that.

That night he woke to a horrific vision of his

wife hysterically trying to scratch her way out of

the coffin. He phoned the doctor immediately and

begged to have his wife's body exhumed. The doctor

refused, but my great-great grandfather had this

nightmare every night for a week, each time

frantically begging to have his wife removed from

the grave.

Finally the doctor gave in and, together with

local authorities, exhumed the body. The coffin

was pried open and to everyone's horror and

amazement, my great-great grandmother's nails were

bent back as if trying to dig her way out of

something, and there were obvious scratches on the

inside of the coffin.