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General Category => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Alsatian on January 14, 2019, 02:51:17 PM

Title: Interesting fact #6
Post by: Alsatian on January 14, 2019, 02:51:17 PM
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave.

When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying people alive.

So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell;

thus someone could be, ''Saved by the Bell'' or was considered a ''Dead Ringer''.