Short Scary Stories :)

Buried Alive

An old man's wife had been in a coma for many months, and eventually the doctors told him they would have to turn off her life support. She showed no signs of recovery and it was doubtful she would wake up. The man was against this vehemently, but eventually the nurses persuaded him it was the kindest thing to do for her; she was very old.

After her life support stopped, the doctors checked her over and declared her dead. The old man was heart broken and began to go crazy -he argued and shouted at the doctors that she couldn't be dead, as he could "feel her presence." when he stood next to her body. The doctors tried to calm him down, but he was uncontrollable.

Now in those days, the body was not drained of fluids -it was simply put into a coffin and buried.

During the wife's funeral, he had to be restrained from running over and opening the coffin. He was screaming and fighting the whole time, and was eventually take away. The coffin was lowered into the ground and buried.

That night, the old man had a dream -he saw his dead wife, buried under the ground in her cofin, screaming and scrabbling at the coffin with her nails. He woke up quicklu, sweating and gasping.

The next day, he arrived at the funeral directors and begged them to take the coffin out, but achieved only the same results.

A week passed, and the old man had the same dream every night. Finally, he returned to the funeral house. This time he threatened to get the authorities involved if they didn't check his wife over. The funeral director debated about this, and decided this was probably an empty threat; the authorities would most likely refuse this mans plead as well, but he didn't want to get a bad reputation for his company. He wearily agreed to take out the coffin

The next day, the old man, the funeral director, and a doctor went to the graveyard and had the woman's grave dug up. They lifted the lid of the coffin up. 

They were terrified to find that there were long, bloody scratch marks on the inside lid of the coffin, and the wife's fingernails were torn and bloodied. Her eyes, which had been closed when she was lowered in the coffin, were open, and her mouth was stretched wide in a terrified, silent scream.

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I actually found this one scary because one of my worst fears is to be buried alive...

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