When a 16 year old girl was rescued out of the rubble in Haiti in January 2010 she had been buried alive for 15 days. How she survived nobody seems to know because she had no food and no water. Photos of her depict somebody looking more like a corpse than a living woman. None the less, alive she was and even that much alert to her surroundings that she thanked those who saved her.
Also it is well known that some corpses in cemeteries who have been deterred obviously must have been buried alive. They have moved as their limbs are not in the position they were put in at the burial. They have died an awful death, detained in their coffin, and maybe aware of their situation. In Denmark we have had a case from 1796 which only too well fits the descriptions of such a tragedy. At the tender age of 16, Giertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff married her relative, the exceedingly rich merchant and shipowner Andreas Bodenhoff. Five months later he died and left her a very rich, young widow, actually the richest woman of Europe at this time. Everything is going fine for her and for her large inheritance as she proves to be a rather clever business woman. However, disaster strikes when she falls ill with excruciating pains in her ears. These pains make it likely that she is over treated with morphine. This kills her, or so it seems, but one of her elder half-brothers is worried by seeing her in her coffin with "red cheeks". To him she does not look dead although all life functions seem to have stopped.
Giertrud Birgitte was her mother's only child and she grieves her so deeply that she is not interred until several days after her presumed death. She still looks alive, but the doctors assure the grieving mother and the half-brothers that she is dead. On the 23rd of July 1798 the young woman is brought to her final resting place in the family mausoleum at the famous Assistens Kirkegard (: the Assistens Churchyard) which also houses e.g. Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard.
For several years I lived near this churchyard and I often took a stroll among the graves, sometimes in the company of a friend, sometimes with a pet. No matter what, whenever I went to the churchyard I stopped at Giertrud Birgittes Bodenhoff's magnificent mausoleum. It is very elaborate and indicates much of her inherited wealth. Nonetheless, the unfortunate inhabitant of it has been reputed to have turned into a ghost which I find fully understandable after such a harsh ending of her life. As it is, she may not only have been over dosed and maybe even buried alive, but it is also very likely indeed that she was murdered after being revived in her grave.
When an old, decrepit, but repenting scoundrel who had been a sexton at the churchyard many years prior to his own death asked to see a priest nobody could imagine all the sins he wanted to confess before dying. The priest was told of his and his friends' diligence as grave robbers where they had dug into the new graves to steal coffins for woods to their furnaces, clothes or whatever they could find buried with the dead. As to Giertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff it was well known that her grieving mother had dressed her in a rich necklace or ear plugs and this jewelry the grave robbers wanted to get their hands on. When they ripped it off the presumably dead woman woke up and started to plead for her life, but in vain. They dared not let her live to report on them so they killed her. This is sad, but it may not be anything but a legend as it has never been conclusively proven. However, when her remains were examined some years ago it was found that her legs were in a strange position as if she had moved them in her coffin.
Like the young woman from Haiti who survived the earthquake Giertrud Birgitte was not suffocated by being interred in the ground. Both of them were in a sort of room, i.e. a place with oxygen, but neither food nor water. The metabolic system of the Haitian girl may have slowed down so that it did not demand the intake of either of these life preservers, and Giertrud Birgitte was not in her grave for more than some days and she was unconscious. That means that she did not need as much as she would otherwise.
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Also it is well known that some corpses in cemeteries who have been deterred obviously must have been buried alive. They have moved as their limbs are not in the position they were put in at the burial. They have died an awful death, detained in their coffin, and maybe aware of their situation. In Denmark we have had a case from 1796 which only too well fits the descriptions of such a tragedy. At the tender age of 16, Giertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff married her relative, the exceedingly rich merchant and shipowner Andreas Bodenhoff. Five months later he died and left her a very rich, young widow, actually the richest woman of Europe at this time. Everything is going fine for her and for her large inheritance as she proves to be a rather clever business woman. However, disaster strikes when she falls ill with excruciating pains in her ears. These pains make it likely that she is over treated with morphine. This kills her, or so it seems, but one of her elder half-brothers is worried by seeing her in her coffin with "red cheeks". To him she does not look dead although all life functions seem to have stopped.
Giertrud Birgitte was her mother's only child and she grieves her so deeply that she is not interred until several days after her presumed death. She still looks alive, but the doctors assure the grieving mother and the half-brothers that she is dead. On the 23rd of July 1798 the young woman is brought to her final resting place in the family mausoleum at the famous Assistens Kirkegard (: the Assistens Churchyard) which also houses e.g. Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard.
For several years I lived near this churchyard and I often took a stroll among the graves, sometimes in the company of a friend, sometimes with a pet. No matter what, whenever I went to the churchyard I stopped at Giertrud Birgittes Bodenhoff's magnificent mausoleum. It is very elaborate and indicates much of her inherited wealth. Nonetheless, the unfortunate inhabitant of it has been reputed to have turned into a ghost which I find fully understandable after such a harsh ending of her life. As it is, she may not only have been over dosed and maybe even buried alive, but it is also very likely indeed that she was murdered after being revived in her grave.
When an old, decrepit, but repenting scoundrel who had been a sexton at the churchyard many years prior to his own death asked to see a priest nobody could imagine all the sins he wanted to confess before dying. The priest was told of his and his friends' diligence as grave robbers where they had dug into the new graves to steal coffins for woods to their furnaces, clothes or whatever they could find buried with the dead. As to Giertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff it was well known that her grieving mother had dressed her in a rich necklace or ear plugs and this jewelry the grave robbers wanted to get their hands on. When they ripped it off the presumably dead woman woke up and started to plead for her life, but in vain. They dared not let her live to report on them so they killed her. This is sad, but it may not be anything but a legend as it has never been conclusively proven. However, when her remains were examined some years ago it was found that her legs were in a strange position as if she had moved them in her coffin.
Like the young woman from Haiti who survived the earthquake Giertrud Birgitte was not suffocated by being interred in the ground. Both of them were in a sort of room, i.e. a place with oxygen, but neither food nor water. The metabolic system of the Haitian girl may have slowed down so that it did not demand the intake of either of these life preservers, and Giertrud Birgitte was not in her grave for more than some days and she was unconscious. That means that she did not need as much as she would otherwise.
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