After suffering a fever of some kind in 1705, Irish woman Marjorie McCool was hurriedly buried to prevent her pain from spreading. Marjorie was buried wearing a precious ring that her husband could not remove due to swelling, making it an excellent target for body robbers, who could benefit from the corpse and the ring.
The night after Marjorie was buried, before the soil settled on her grave, grave robbers appeared and began digging. Then they decided to cut the finger due to their inability to remove the ring and as soon as the blood appeared, Marjorie woke up from her coma, sat upright and screamed.
And the fate of the grave robbers is still unknown, as one version says that the men fell instantly from the horror of the situation, while another claims that they fled and never returned to the profession they chose.
Marjorie jumped out of the hole and made her way home.
Her husband, Doctor John, was in the house with the children when he heard a knock on the door. He told the children, "If your mother was still alive, I swore that was her knock."
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in burial clothes, blood spilling from her finger but she was alive, he fell dead to the ground where he was buried in the same pit Marjorie had vacated.
Marjorie then remarried and had several children. When she finally died, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lorgan, Ireland, where her grave is still standing with inscription on it.