Suspecting a grave robber, he opened the casket and discovered scratch marks on the inside. Rufina had been buried alive, awakened in her tomb, and made an escape attempt, smashing and scratching ...

Coffins were sometimes found with unsettling scratch marks lining the inside. By the 19th century ... would be run underground and through a hole into the coffin. This way, the dead could ring ...

Mourners at a wake in Peru were stunned when the man suddenly began to twitch in his coffin and then – despite having been declared dead by doctors – came back to life ...

A WOMAN believed to have been buried alive scratched and clawed inside her coffin for ELEVEN days before passing away, it has been reported. Relatives of Rosangela Almeida dos Santos, 37 ...

A woman is believed to have been buried alive by mistake and lay conscious inside her coffin for 11 days before trying to fight her way out of the stone tomb. Rosangela Almeida dos Santos ...

The coffin appeared to have been moved. When it was opened, scratch marks were found on the inside of the lid and the girl's face. It became clear that Rufina had been buried alive. The reason for ...