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Chilling is widely known in the US state of South Carolina. blood story about a girl named Julia Lehar who is terrible a misunderstanding was buried alive in the family tomb. No wonder taphophobia – the fear of being buried in life – is one of the most powerful and common phobias.
This is terrible in itself, but the story has at least creepy sequel. The urban legend says that the restless spirit the child is still huddled in a crypt and can be seen or hear if you come to the cemetery in the dark. Used to be an entrance in the crypt was securely locked with a heavy marble slab, however after a series of mystical incidents the tomb was decided to leave open to avoid casualties.
Julia’s death and funeral
Oh miserable, besides the fact that she died during the nightmarish In circumstances, very little is known for certain. Eyewitnesses what happened was long dead, and lost in the cemetery archives all records are earlier than the middle of the last century.
Little Julia was 6-10 years old when her parents brought her to 1847 relax on the island of Edisto. There is a rich family of Lehar had a luxurious estate, as well as numerous cotton and rice plantations that were required to be visited periodically with revision.
Soon the girl fell ill – presumably with a fever. The medicine in those days was quite primitive, and thorough no one was examined by corpses. When the baby stopped show signs of life, the family doctor concluded that the baby died. Autopsy and related procedures in such they didn’t conduct the wilderness. In addition, the funeral should organize as quickly as possible because the heat and humidity in the lack of refrigerators, which were not yet invented, quickly led to the decomposition of corpses.
Julia, dressed in her favorite dress, was buried in a small family mausoleum. According to rumors, family members heard before leaving a silent cry coming from the tomb, but heartbroken native girls for some reason all at once felt that it was just it seemed.
After a decade and a half, another death in the family again demanded the opening of the crypt. When the marble slab was pushed back at the entrance to the tomb they found a skeleton for children in that very dress. Has become obviously the child was buried alive. Waking up inside girl obviously tried to get out, but the baby wasn’t able to move heavy door. One can only guess what physical and Julia experienced mental anguish, dying in the crypt from thirst.
The unfortunate remains were reburied there. Over time from the tomb began to hear at night children’s sobs, cries and screams about help. The crypt was repeatedly opened, but inside, like it was to be expected that only the coffins with the dead turned out to be.
Famous meeting with the ghost of Julia
At the beginning of this millennium, a cemetery near Presbyterian Edisto’s church was visited by a group of young people. These teens studied different places where phantoms can be found and other evil spirits. Knowing perfectly the story of Julia Lehar, young men decided to come to the cemetery at night and look into the crypt.
So they did. Novice ghostbusters joint effort pushed the stove from the entrance, and one of them went into the tomb. Then the comrades decided to play a trick on this daredevil and pushed in the input plate. The guy began to pound her fists, shout out the most formidable curses and demand that he immediately released, but the rest of the young people only laughed and left somewhere.
Our hero unsuccessfully tried to move the plate on his own. Desperate to get out on his own, he reconciled with his position and realized that he would probably have to sit in absolute darkness until the morning, pondering whether it is worth continuing such crazy friends.
The American says that it was difficult to frighten him with anything, and in all paranormalism he did not believe too much then. Not less, finding yourself indefinitely in a dark and cramped indoors, and even in the company of the dead, a young man felt genuine fear. The black walls started morally put pressure on him, the air began to run out. The young man slowly sank on the floor and sat near the entrance, waiting for salvation. Every minute lasted for him, like an eternity.
Suddenly, our hero heard someone scratching the stone not far from him. At first the guy thought it was a mouse, however then his hair stood on end on his head when he realized that the rattle is rhythmic and is published clearly by man. These sinister sounds getting louder. The teenager, drenched in cold sweat, crawled away to the side and hid in the farthest corner from the noise source. is he I wanted to close my ears, but it turned out even worse, because, if an invisible person wanted to approach him, the young man would not would hear that.
Then suddenly a heartbreaking cry of children came filled with inconceivable pain and horror. After that until young came the frantic, insane cry of a girl. Baby sobbed desperate, choking and choking on tears. At that moment, our hero despite all the supernatural and horror of what is happening, suddenly ceased to be afraid, instead feeling strong sadness and pain. The suffering of a girl who simply could not be there, how much touched the guy that he wanted only one thing – to regret miserable and make her stop sobbing. However, get closer to he didn’t become a guest from the other world, pretending to be there absolutely not.
Soon the teenager, without noticing it, fell asleep – apparently, affected by emotional overexcitation. He woke up from the fact that the crypt was opened, and it was filled with a faint morning light. On the doorstep stood the comrades of our hero, white as chalk. They started vying screaming about how they tried for several hours I’ll move over the plate blocking the entrance to the crypt, but something isn’t let them do it. Their weakened friend over whom they so cruelly joked, did not even begin to swear – just waved his hand, got up and headed for the exit. Leaving the tomb, he noticed on the inside of the door has bloody streaks as if someone had ripped off imagine all the fingernails, scratching the stone.
The friends of our hero continued to look at him in dismay. When the company approached the car, one of them finally said: “Listen, we didn’t tell you about this right away. Look at yourself.” The guy looked in the car mirror and saw red spots on his face and stripes, as if someone had touched him in a dream, bloodied fingers …
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The American still recalls this case with a shudder, although he claims that his main emotion that night was not fear, but sympathy for the ghost.
Other anomalies of the crypt Lehar
The cemetery administration claims that the stone door with Lehar’s family crypt was removed only because no one was here. locked, as in the above case. However, there is another, more significant reason. The fact is that workers repeatedly tried to completely block the entrance to the mausoleum, close it at least on a chain with locks, but every time the door was broken from the inside. This could be done only with the help of a special technicians, however the cemetery watchman never noticed here such violators. In the evening, the marble slab is still intact, and in the morning lies a few meters from the tomb …
In a cemetery near the Presbyterian Church, Edisto is often wandering lights notice. Most often they appear around infamous crypts, however, can occur in other parts a small churchyard. They even tried to make a report about this phenomenon. local journalists. In the fall of 2010, they arrived at the cemetery and tried to shoot greenish lights above the ground, and also record on the audio cry of ghost Julia. Unfortunately, the staff the TV channel did not work, and they refused this report. Although some locals report that journalists were something scared to death and simply ran away from the graveyard, as they say, sparkling heels.
Near the mausoleum several times noticed a translucent figure tall man in old fashioned clothes. Believed to be a ghost Jeremy Legara – maternal grandfathers of Julia. Old man, according to legend, he loved his granddaughter very much and was so saddened by her death from illness that died on the same day from cardiac arrest.
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