Body Double

By Lee Vander Boegh –

Example of a bad omen: while visiting your favorite local cemetery, you find a body in YOUR pre-bought grave. That’s what recently happened to an Ohio man, according to an Associated Press story picked up by the Lewiston Tribune.

Read it here.

Apparently it’s a case of mistaken identities. The man purchased the spot next to his mother several years ago, but in the process the cemetery accidentally buried somebody (har!) by the same name in the contested lot. It sounds like the cemetery is trying to resolve the issue, but the man seems hesitant.

Who can blame him? He’s probably so shaken up he can’t sleep at night. I can’t think of any situation that would creep the bejesus out of me more than finding my own grave already occupied. I’d eventually assume that I’m already dead and don’t know it, a ‘la The Sixth Sense. Then I’d try walking through walls and possessing my neighbors, and probably discover a debilitating fear of the names Ray, Peter, Egon and Winston.