A children's horror story about those buried alive has very real confirmation. That is why it is customary among some peoples to wait a few days before burial.
The lethargic sleep is to blame. This is the state between death and sleep. At such moments, all life processes slow down. In the modern world, thanks to scientific developments, it is almost impossible to be buried alive. But looking at the beginning of the last century, in coffins dug by builders. The remains of people were found, whose postures spoke of attempts to get out of the coffins.
Blavatsky collected information on cases of lethargic sleep.
So the wife of a Moscow merchant fell into a dream that lasted seventeen days. During this time, the city government tried several times to carry out a burial, and only the lack of decomposition did not allow it to be done.
In 1773 in Germany, a monstrous incident occurred. Passers-by heard groans on one of the graves. It turns out that a pregnant girl was buried there. Who woke up and even gave birth in a coffin. Unfortunately, while the coffin was being dug up, the girl and the child died.
In 1964, an American pathologist was about to start autopsy on a man found on the street when he jumped up. The pathologist died on the spot from fright.
In the cultures of many peoples of Siberia and the north, there are rituals of burial of the living. There are peoples who cure diseases by burying themselves in the grave.
The famous writer N. V. Gogol suffered from frequent falling into a lethargic sleep. In this case, he always carried with him instructions, which indicated what to do so that he would not be buried alive.
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One worker said that when moving the old cemetery in Odessa, they very often found coffins with remains in unusual positions, and many well-preserved coffins were badly scratched from the inside.
In some countries, it has become a habit to put a mobile phone in a coffin with the deceased. Although no cases of calls from the coffin were recorded, these people do so as a safety net. Although today such cases are extremely rare, but in undeveloped countries, such a phenomenon as zombies still occurs.
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