Banshee in a Red Shirt: A Puzzle
While exhuming bodies from a Kentucky graveyard, a mysterious knocking from inside a coffin spooks the diggers. What lay inside was the key to the mystery. Or was it?
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The Sitting Dead – Bizarre Burials and Curious Coffins
The Sitting Dead – Bizarre Burials and Curious Coffins A cavalcade of curious coffins and bizarre burials: standing, sitting, on horseback, in a whiskey barrel, or a brick…
The Phantom Coffin-Maker – A Death Omen
The Phantom Coffin-Maker – A Death Omen There are many noises believed to presage death: birds tapping on windows, the death-watch beetle, howling dogs, crashes or knockings–and the sounds of a coffin being made. We’ve previously discussed the sights and sounds of the phantom funeral. Today we look at the sounds of the phantom coffin makers–well-known as a death omen.