The Strange Story Of Essie Dunbar, The Woman Who Was Allegedly Buried Alive In 1915
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Hammond, the physician who provided the account to the reporter, was sixty-six or older in 1955 — he would need to have been roughly twenty-five or older in 1915 to have been a practicing physician treating the injured minister.
His account was already a memory of forty-year-old events, filtered through four decades of living with the story as a piece of local legend.
The specific details he provided — the broken ribs, the stampeding mourners, the zombie rumors — may have been as vivid in his memory in 1955 as if they had happened yesterday, or they may have been colored by the years of retelling.
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