The Strange Story Of Essie Dunbar, The Woman Who Was Allegedly Buried Alive In 1915

The 1955 article does not name the ministers or indicate that any of them were still living and available to provide testimony.

The absence of ministerial testimony is perhaps the largest gap in the evidentiary record.

Three men who witnessed a woman sit up in her coffin, who fell into the grave, who suffered physical injury — if any of them were living in 1955 when the story was first published, their accounts would have been the most powerful possible validation of the story.

Their absence from the record is not evidence that the story is false, but it is a notable gap.