The Mystery of the Moving Coffins

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Mystery of the Moving Coffins
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Today we’re going to take a look in some burial vaults to see what the heck those dead people get up to in there.

The story goes like this: A family builds a burial vault, which is a kind of underground tomb, a chamber that’s typically large enough to hold several coffins and is reached by a set of stairs that lead down to the door. So the family inters their dead, the tomb is sealed by a heavy stone door, and presumably everyone inside rests in peace until the next time the tomb is opened, when somebody else in the family dies.

But to their shock, at the next funeral, the family finds the huge, heavy lead coffins have been tossed around the vault, as if a giant hand had flung them. Some coffins have tipped over, some lie on top of each other, and some lean against walls, upside down so the head is at the bottom, which is extra creepy.

Naturally, no one has a great explanation for this.

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some writing prompts!