To prevent them from rising from the grave, they would perform rituals on their bodies. The most well-known case was that of Mercy Brown. When the townspeople dug up her body in the middle of ...

"We came here to put decorations for Christmas, and then we saw the grave open," said her son Presciliano Machado. Roughly two feet of dirt had been dug up, Machado said, and they found a woman's ...

Despite searching the entire graveyard, police could not find a grave that had been dug up or desecrated. "You know we've scoured that entire cemetery last night looking to see if there was any ...