Posted on 02/28/2014 11:46:42 AM PST by PaulCruz2016
LEXINGTON, Miss. - Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.
Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.
The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.
Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.
Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.
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Edgar Allen Poe had a fear of being buried alive.
As do I. But he put his fear into stories. I don’t know how to do that without my mainspring going, “SPROING!”
The cat is a nice touch.
parsub
I’m afraid of becoming a horrifically reanimated abomination.
Imagine being in an accident, letting go, then waking up a technological horror of science.
“We saved you!” - beaming doc/mad scientist who has zero idea what he has created.
Medical science is remarkably close to “six million dollar man” meets “RoboCop” scenario.
If that happens could I be your hench-person? I’m already an experienced minion.
The catz like to sleep in it every Halloween. Scared fool out of the teen twins when they bumped the coffin and 2 catz shot out of it. ;)
/johnny
/johnny
I’m sure I would have been startled, too.
Really?
Lol.
Sure!
Great. First thing we do is pick a small town for takeover. I’m thinking offee-cay in the eservoir-ray.
no not really
reely
zombie apocalypssse
good thing you dint pick a small minds for a takeover
no one has that much ammo
WHOA! ping
Sounds like a plan.
Lol.
No, homebuilt coffin.
“It has a periscope and a rated test depth!”
He incorporated that fear into "The Premature Burial", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Berenice", and probably other writings.
I don't know what caused his obsession. Public obsession with vivisepulture comes and goes. The incident of obsession closest to Poe's life was from the 1870s to 1900, long after Poe's 1849 death.
My family is always on me about getting handles put on it.
I'm holding out.
My passing should be awkward for them.
/johnny
It’s possible there was a single incident of which he became aware during a formative period of his life.
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