My great-greatgrandmother, ill for quite some time, finally passed away after lying in a comafor several days. My great-great grandfather was devastated beyond belief, asshe was his one true love and they had been married over 50 years. They weremarried so long it seemed as if they knew each other's innermost thoughts. After the doctorpronounced her dead, my great-great grandfather insisted that she was not. Theyhad to literally pry him away from his wife's body so they could ready her forburial. Now, back inthose days they had backyard burial plots and did not drain the body of itsfluids. They simply prepared a proper coffin and committed the body (in itscoffin) to its permanent resting place. Throughout this process, my great-greatgrandfather protested so fiercely that he had to be sedated and put to bed. Hiswife was buried and that was that.
That night hewoke to a horrific vision of his wife hysterically trying to scratch her wayout of the coffin. He phoned the doctor immediately and begged to have hiswife's body exhumed. The doctor refused, but my great-great grandfather hadthis nightmare every night for a week, each time frantically begging to havehis wife removed from the grave. Finally thedoctor gave in and, together with local authorities, exhumed the body. Thecoffin was pried open and to everyone's horror and amazement, my great-greatgrandmother's nails were bent back and there were obvious scratches on theinside of the coffin. 
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