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AFTER THIS MAN HAD DIED AND WAS BURIED, HIS DOG KEPT HOWLING
AT HIS GRAVE, SO SOME PEOPLE DECIDED TO UNBURY THE MAN.
WHEN THEY DID, THEY FOUND THAT HE HAD BEEN ALIVE AND USED
ENOUGH FORCE TO PUSH HIS KNEES THROUGH THE COFFIN.

Submitter comment: THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED IN VERONA, VIRGINIA.

Where learned: VIRGINIA ; VERONA

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: 03-07-1969

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