After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.
The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.
The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.
Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.
Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.
Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”
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GUYS I WAS AT THE LEAFS GAME WHEN THIS HAPPENED I WAS CRYING
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Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary with Grumpy Cat
I give up forever
DONE.
Hannibal Boss Talks Casting Lee Pace and Kristin Chenoweth—and a Pushing Daisies Kickstarter Campaign!
You know what goes best with a dinner of liver, fava beans a nice Chianti? A dreamy piemaker, of course!
Hannibal and Pushing Daisies boss Bryan Fuller just told E! News exclusively that he’s planning to cast Daisies star Lee Pace—as well as (fingers crossed) Kristin Chenoweth and maybe even Anna Friel—in the second season of his insanely riveting new horror drama on NBC. And, even better, and you Daisies fans better sit down for this: Fuller is also considering launching a kickstarter campaign for a Pushing Daisies movie.
Universe. Make. It. So.
Read the rest here. (The article also talks about the possibility of S2 and when we will find out if it has been picked up for a new season (May 12th))
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So here is 4 pieces that I’ve done pretty recently, and you know the one thing they have in common? Besides being comic book characters. They take me about 10 minutes.
I’m going to Tokyo on Holiday in 2 weeks,so I’m opening up a special $5 commision special. $5 - 10 minute digital character sketches. Whatever, whoever. Imagine the impossible, A leprechaun Warewolf, Rule 63 Uatu, Leonardo DiCaprio holding an academy award. Or how about just your favourite comic person rendered by yours truly (ask for that, it’s probably easiest for me).Just send the details to Mike.Kevan(at)gmail.com. (also the paypal) I will do them on a first come, first serve basis, whenever I get the time (You will usually get them with 5 days at the very latest.), and I will email you the image. Thanks.
So I’m posting this up again, as you may or may not be aware, finances are soon going to be an issue for me. So I figured I would see if I could drum some more sketch commissions, which are super cheap and fun, but could mean a lot to me in the coming months. Currently spending a lot of my time trying to find somewhere to live that will work for me, so I’m trying to keep commissions down to little easy ones that I can do when I need a break from the trudgery of real, shitty life. So yeah, Hit me up if you want a sketch. Personalized, whatever, my pen is yours to command, for 10 minutes, for $5.
