Irish Mirror on MSN

Woman pronounced dead at 30 found alive in coffin after sister opened grave

Essie Dunbar was declared dead after an epileptic seizure but when her late-arriving sister opened the coffin, she was ...

'My sister died, was buried, then sat up and got out of her coffin and lived for 47 years'

Essie Dunbar was declared dead after suffering an epileptic seizure but when her sister arrived late for the funeral ...
Daily Star on MSN

'We buried my dead sister then she came back to life in her coffin'

Essie Dunbar was pronounced dead after an epileptic seizure in 1915, but when her sister arrived late to the funeral and ...
The Mirror US on MSN

South Carolina woman pronounced dead at 30 found alive in coffin after sister opened grave

Essie Dunbar was pronounced dead after suffering an epileptic seizure but her family discovered she was still alive when they ...

Woman lived 47 years after 'dying' and being buried at her own funeral

Essie Dunbar was declared dead after suffering an epileptic seizure in 1915 and was buried in a wooden coffin in South ...

Woman pronounced dead at 30 and then buried was still alive and lived another 47 years

Essie Dunbar lived a quiet life in South Carolina until she 'died' from an epilepsy attack in 1915 and her sister ended up ...

Killing the Dead by John Blair review – a gloriously gruesome history of vampires

Shroud-chewers, lip-smackers and suckers populate this fascinating study of ‘the unquiet dead’ across the centuries ...

The Woman Who Lived Once And Was Buried Twice: The Story Of Margorie McCall

A chilling Irish legend from Lurgan, Margorie McCall’s story blends history and folklore, telling of a woman mistakenly ...
An-Nahar

Mourning across cultures: How peoples commemorate their departed

A journey through global funerary traditions reveals how cultures across the world honor the dead in ways that reflect their ...

Body of Texas veteran suspected of killing as many as six women to be exhumed from his military grave

Fernando Cota, who was convicted of rape in 1975 and released in 1983, took his own life and was buried at the Fort Sam ...

Alleged serial killer’s body will be exhumed from Texas grave. Here’s why

Fernando Cota, a Vietnam War veteran and a prime suspect in the murder of six women, will be disinterred from Fort Sam ...
The New Yorker

The Perils of Killing the Already Dead

Women who died in childbirth, young men who died in war, infants who died before baptism—these especially pitiable dead were ...