Is it true that some people have woken up in thier coffins back in the 1800's?

Answer 1

This is precisely why I want to be cremated!!

Answer 2

I think that is true. In the old days, medicine was not as advanced and the diagnosis of death was sometimes wrong. People were in coma-like conditions. This comes from the fact that some coffins that were exhumed had scratch marks on the inside. For a while, in Europe at least, some coffins were buried with a string that led up through the ground to a bell. The dead person, if not really dead, would pull on the string to call for help.

Of course a few years ago I recall reading a story about a woman attending her mother's open casket funeral in England. In the middle of the ceremony her mother sat up and awoke, evidently she was not dead. Unfortunately her daughter than had a heart attack and died.

Answer 3

yep, happened all of the time. They did not have EKG machines and if someone was in a coma and had suppressed life signs they were often buried alive only to wake up later. they used to put a pipe in the casket to allow air to get in through the ground and to check for life signs and after a couple of weeks remove the pipe if no one yelled out from the hole. They have dug up coffins with the insides scratched up with victims trying to claw their way out.

Answer 4

THERE ARE THE TALES OF THIS, THE EERIE EFFECT CAUSED BY SOME PLANTS CAN GIVE DEATH LIKE SYMPTOMS, AND THE STORY WENT THAT IT STARTED PEOPLE BUILDING COFFINS WITH AIR LINES UP TO THE SURFACE AS TO AID SOMEONE WHO WAS BEYOND THE GRAVE, LOT OF OPIUM AND MEDICINE MAN STUFF HAD IMPORTED DRUG THAT I FORGOT BUT CAN RENDER U TO PASS AN AUTOPSY AND COME BACK LATER IN THE DAY

Answer 5

YES DEFIANTELY!!! Ive heard of about 10 cases where someone "died" and woke up and tried getting out of the coffin and couldnt and in one case he actually did get oyut and the entire town thought he was something akin to a zombie and there was pure chaos

Answer 6

yeah happened many times ,they had no way of hearing a heart beat or pulse..many of the people had certain diseases that you can appear to be dead and not be..its almost impossible to tell..they have moved coffins many of them that were opened from that time period that this happened and actually the people passing by graveyards would hear the screams of the people thus giving the legend of vampires a boost and also of ghouls and ghost..

Answer 7

Yes, and in more recent times peole have woken up in the freezer. Once the mortuary gets done with you you have nothing to worry about because if you weren't dead before you'll be dead after.

Answer 8

yes, this was prevalent in new england in the 1600s during the salem witch trials..In fact, there are scratch marks from the victims who tryed getting out.

Answer 9

Yes i was not there but the stories are real even happens today.Hope i don`t see one tho

Answer 10

yes - because they were really in a coma - and woke up -

so they put a string tied to a bell above the ground - hence
a dead ringer !!!!!

Answer 11

It's certainly recorded earlier