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Joe Graham
Aug 26, 08 - 8:13 PM |
The Woman Who Was Buried Twice
In the old Shankill graveyard at Lurgan there is a curious stone,(left) it mentions a Margorie McCall who is said to have been a mother and a wife some 300 years ago in the town. As a young mother she apparently died and as her family prepared her for burial they found it impossible to remove a rather valuable ring from her finger, her favourite ring, so decided to let it go to her resting place with her. The funeral over the family returned home to mourn, after a few hours, night having crept in, a knock was heard on the family door. The legend is that Mr. McCall, remarked as he stood to answer the knock said, “Do you know, if we had not just buried your mother I would swear that that is her knock”, on opening the door he found Margorie standing there. The sad and horrific story later unfurled, on the night of her funeral thieves, probably aware of the valuable ring having been buried with Margorie, dug her up and unable to get the ring off her finger they took a knife to cut the finger off, as the knife broke flesh Margorie sprang to life , the poor lady had merely been in a coma. The graveyard ghouls raced away as fast as their legs could carry them, Margorie made her way home to her family. Some years later Magorie eventually died and is it said she was buried in the same grave as she was before, and the records stated the two dates of her interments. It is not unusual for people to have been pronounced dead and suddenly come out of their coma like state, one woman, in the 1950’s was actually being carried along in her coffin when she came out of her coma, the poor lady was never ‘mentally right’ after the frightening ordeal. There actually are people who have a phobia, taphophobia, about being buried alive under such conditions, Apparently the writer, Edgar Allen Poe was one such person and he wrote much on the subject. I have heard the story about Margorie many times through the years but on closer investigation I discovered that there are two identical stories of the same happenings around the same time recorded in Scotland AND both ladies concerned in the burials were named MARGORIE, so whether true or false it still makes a good story but rings a bit like the “Kilroy Was Here” legend. |
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