The Strange Story Of Essie Dunbar, The Woman Who Was Allegedly Buried Alive In 1915
Her death was reported in local papers with the headline “Final Funeral Held for South Carolina Woman” — a headline that acknowledges the story of the earlier alleged funeral while also marking the actual end of her life.
The second funeral, the reports indicate, proceeded without incident.
Forty-seven years between her alleged first death and her actual second death.
Whatever happened in 1915 — whether she was clinically dead and returned to life, whether she was deeply unconscious and misdiagnosed, whether the story has been embellished beyond all recognition of whatever small kernel of truth it contained — she lived for nearly five decades after it.
Why the Story Persists
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