From http://listverse.com/2014/05/23/10-creepy-internet-stories-that-are-disturbingly-believable/
TheLittleFears returns to this list with a story that takes curious but real historical facts and asks a rather creepy question. The first section is about historical novelty deaths, like Jim Fixx—the man who popularized jogging—dying while jogging in 1894. The story seems to be included to get the audience's defenses down. The history lesson then transitions to the unusual life and the even more unusual burial of Major Peter Labelliere. Labelliere was buried in a grave 100 meters (330 ft) deep, facing downward, and he insisted that children should dance on his grave. He is also said to have prophesied his own death and had his coffin sprinkled with twigs and leaves that were traditionally used to aid the transition to the afterlife.
After Peter Labelliere's odd passing, the story describes the burial arrangements for American general Anthony Wayne, known by the nickname "Mad Anthony." TheLittleFears mentions that both men were present at the obscure Battle of Paoli, then informs us that Anthony Wayne's bizarre funeral and burial arrangements called for his bones to be removed and for him to be buried in two parts. She concludes by asking us what these two figures saw at the Battle of Paoli that forced them to arrange burials that would prevent them from ever returning to life.
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