9 Places That Will Freak You Out

[Little Star]

In the small town of Lurgan, Ireland, a woman named Margorie McCall died of a fever in 1705. As it was a time when widespread illness was greatly feared, she was buried swiftly. And because so, her husband could not remove a valuable ring from her swollen finger. The next night, her body was dug up by robbers. They tried to get the ring off her finger, but finding it impossible, decided to cut her finger off. As the knife cut into her flesh, Margorie suddenly awoke, sat straight up and screamed. The terrified robbers fled. A weak Margorie managed to pull herself out of her grave and made her way home.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/findery/9-places-that-will-freak_b_6030234.html

More spooky stories: https://findery.com/MadameSpooky/notemaps/a-haunting-in

[Xyzse]

1. I'm amazed that she was able to live through that box for a day.

It is one of the reasons that they put a bell in graves back then.
Medicine just wasn't good enough to tell if someone was alive or not.

So some people get buried alive. They place a bell, just so that if by any chance the person finds themselves underground, they ring it, so that they could be dug up.

I wonder if that is how the term "Saved by the Bell" came up.

[Little Star]

2. Well dang! I learn something new everyday....

I wouldn't doubt that's where "Saved by the Bell" originally came from. I didn't know they put a bell in graves back then.

Here~
There is a widespread notion that the phrase is from the 17th century and that it describes people being saved from being buried alive by using a coffin with a bell attached. The idea being that, if they were buried but later revived, they could ring the bell and be saved from an unpleasant death. The idea is certainly plausible as the fear of burial alive was and is real. Several prominent people expressed this fear when close to death themselves
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/saved-by-the-bell.html

[closeupready]

4. Yes, this practice figures in The Great Train Robbery,

a terrific book by Michael Crichton.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. And here all this time I thought it came from a school sitaution

Like, when you're supposed to present a report that you haven't done, and the bell rings before it's your turn, then you're "saved by the bell".

[orleans]

3. saved by the bell came from this practice

also the phrase "dead ringer"

[Yavin4]

5. So that's the Republican replacement for Obamacare

just give people bells. If you can ring it, then you're okay. If you can't, well....

[sakabatou]

7. One of the worst places...

Island of the Dolls