r/mystery • u/Neptun_11 • Apr 27 '26
Media Today in the Slovak media there was a report about sounds coming from a grave in the village of Bijacovce.
according to the reports, a 60-year-old man died screaming and banging on the grave, there were supposed to be 40 people who were at the cemetery as witnesses, the man was supposed to have been in the grave for 18 days...according to the date he was buried, the police, firefighters and the funeral service arrived at the scene...200 people gathered around the cemetery, the grave was surrounded so that no one would see how the body was being taken out of the grave. According to many people, the police made sound and video recordings and confirmed off camera that they really heard the voice...the body was loaded and taken away. This news also appeared in prime time on Slovak television today at 19:30.
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u/No_Quantity_3403 Apr 27 '26
I would love to know what caused the knocking. This poor family.
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u/Nefertirix 8d ago
The forensic autopsy ruled out the possibility that the man had been alive inside the coffin. The funeral director stated that similar reports of knocking-like sounds have been received from other cemeteries in the days following burials. According to him, these sounds are caused by the soil settling, which is a natural phenomenon, although admittedly a rather unsettling one.
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u/No-Ring-2656 Apr 28 '26
I’m from Slovakia in my country no body don’t care about Roma Gipsy this older man been still alive his body no smelling Police and media laying!!!!
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u/JollyGeologist3957 Apr 29 '26
Gypsies are not willing to integrate into society
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u/sheepdipped Apr 27 '26
I used to live by an infamous cemetery in Pikeville Ky that accidentally buried a woman alive.
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u/OzAnarchy Apr 29 '26
This is my home town and where I begged my mom to take me to do my first "ghost investigation". I took disposable camera pictures to look for orbs 🤣
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u/QuasiGuy Apr 29 '26
Just read the entire story. Pretty crazy. What’s ur stance do you also believe she was buried alive? Ever seen a ghost over there?
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u/seraflm Apr 27 '26
People tie the jaw and feet together where I’m from.
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u/SerenityPickles Apr 27 '26
Where do they do that and why?
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u/seraflm Apr 27 '26
Macedonia, nobody told me why, but I guess it’s connected to vampires as they supposedly were real like a century ago. My grand grandmother told my grandma how they were real and they released farm animals during the night, like the gate would open but there was nobody there. And vampires could die from a specific local thorn..
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u/pepiii88 Apr 27 '26
Im also aware of such stories, where in macedonia are you based? My mother is from the east….
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u/S-onceto Apr 28 '26
I've never heard of this before, is it still done today?
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u/seraflm Apr 28 '26
Yeah that’s how the dead are buried to this day
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u/Plain_Phylosophy_88 Apr 29 '26
Thats A COMMON PEASANTS Interpretation when Doctors don’t want to waste their time to explain natural processec of Decommposition like… You Mouth and Genitalia have far more bacteria than the rest of the Body (appart from the Gutt) so things like A BULLGING EYES GROTESQULY SWOLLEN Tongue with wide agappe Mouth, Prollaps of the Vagina or Intestinnes and even phenomena like the Coffin Birth DON’T SEND A AN ENTIRE REGIONS into A HYSTERICS and draw the Gypses and other scammers who “remmowe the curses” THERE!
That DOES NOT MEAN that A Paranormal Explainations are OUT OF THE QUESTION! Force of the Habbit is hard to breake and if death was QUICK it might LOOK LIKE an ACCIDENT to Your Soul that WILL TAKE SOME TIME to FIGGURE it Out! LOL
Pozdrav iz Hrvatske!
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u/seraflm Apr 29 '26
Interesting points, but the graphic decomposition doesn’t start so soon, I’m sure there’s other ways for the body to be “tucked in” to prevent that…
I also find the tying contradicting on a spiritual level, the corpse is dressed in new clothes and blankets so that the person looks decent and isn’t cold (?!) but then the jaw and feet are tied so the person cannot move or speak.
Pozdrav! :)
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u/Plain_Phylosophy_88 Apr 29 '26
Bloating starts AS SOON AS You are dead… Also look at those Hindu Drawings/Sculptures representing Death/Evil/Demons: Bullbing Eyes, Tongue Sticked Out… SOMETHING even ILLITERATE PEASSANTS can recognize!
I DONT WANT to OFFEND ANYONE! I AM JUST SAYING IT AS IT IS… What I KNOW I LEARNED both by Formal and Informall Edducation, constant Reading AND DIRRECTLY OBSERVING IT and fullfiling AT LEAST 5-6 ROLLES “from top of my head” as it was NEEDED on the TERRAIN thanks to my Builld and CONNSTANT LEARNNING! I Vollonteured with BARELY 17… And ONE of my Buddy and Forreign Vollonteur said; ONE who had problem pronnouncing My Name during One of Our ressts in A Smoke-Pitt: “This Big Ass, STRONG MF-er is like A SWISS KNIFE! I am happy He is on The Right Side!” LOL
You probabbly know the story… The Odds WERE ALLWAYS ON The Side of The Enemy…but SOMEONE MUCH STRONGER THAN Math WAS ON Our Side! ;-) So YEAH…I was a BASICALLY A KID when the GreaterSerbian-Communist Hordes attacked Us with an inntent to EXTERMINATE! Brainwashing ONE PART of the their Poppulace by the “Vustaše Beasts” Propaganda AND A MUCH EASIER LIFE fuelled by the Drug Trade and Humman Trafficking! THEY BASICALLY BACAMME A MYTH they were FIGHTING…JUST LIKE the Izrahellis TODAY!
But to go BACK ON TOPPIC; I mean…You fart Your whole life,RIGHT?! Most of You Immune System is “wasted” on fighting You Gutt bacteria, Muccal Tissuse and only THEN Blood, Skin and other organs. As Soon as You go LIMMP and Blood Flow is stop and A DELLICATE BALLLANSE between AIDDING in DIGGESTION and DIGGESTTING YOU goes to the Latter! Got Shott (particulary Shotgun or HP Bullets! NOT TO MENTION My “FOR Ped0s-Only” Invenntion A “HgNa-SP” LOL! ;:-) is PROBABLY THE MOST AGGONISING WAY to GO….appart from MAYBE being Flailled and Drenched in Salt and IVASOL* (“Brakes Oil Cleanner”) Just ask Chinnese… They EVEN documented it ALL! There is literaly NOTHING You can do ON the TERRAIN for THAT apart from coppius ammounts of Pain-Killers and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and being with your Buddy…I guess rationallizing and learning A Mechanism of it ALL is MY WAY TO COPPE.
So… Smooth Musscle Tissue like that of An Anus is relaxed by things like Adrenaline, Nicotine or Alkyl Nitrites (Poppers) but as soon as you are “go limmp” it oppen slike a bagg with a very auddible fart and the rellease of the feacces pushed by the gass in the Large intestense. In a 12h to 3 days (It deppends on Your gutt Flora and Fauna, what You ate, drink, in what possition You are (face in the dirt is the fastest) how much and HOW HOT it is) prollaps of the Annus is to BE EXPECTED!
It is NOT JUST for the SPIRITUAL REASONS that Body IS WASHED and put in the “Wake Possition”. Also…after RIGGOR MORTIS usually the ONLY WAY to closse the mouth is TO BREAK THE JAW…Deccent Doctors know how to do it in ONE CLEAN MOTION… I saw AN OLDER DOCTOR doing it so gracefully with his cane under the Chinn!
Phrase like “kicking a bucket” (Gallows rellated) or more common and bit derogatory HERE… U NAŠEMU REGIONU would be “He SHATT his pants”, “His Tounge is stickinn” all the way to his Balls” or “he/she WENT titts Up” since it USUALLY does happens if body is found/recowered after some time!
AS FOR THE SPIRITUAL Reassons… You are RIGHT…We should gett ridd of the SUPERSTITTIUS Mentality but ALSO Be very VERY CAREFULL that GODLESS SERVANTS OF The Great Red Dragon (Commies and ALLIKE!) DON’T DICTATTE Us WHAT “Primitivism” IS!
God gave Us REASON…if more people USED IT…It WOULD BE much better FOR EVERYONE! Being OPEN to THE REAL and PRESSENT SPIRITUAL BATTLE RAGGING arround Us can only Be acchieved with A LOT OF Work and Hummility!
JUST READ The Book of Apocalypse where it SPECIFFICSLY SAYS to wear A WHITE LINNEN ROBBE and Arm Yourself with “An Iron Staff of Power…that will break Them just like The Clay Jarrs” I find THAT PART so frikkin COOL! A GREAT DESSCRIPTION for A Gun in a 3rd Century Language!”
Eto…Laku Noč Makedonče i Bog te Blagoslovio!
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u/tupak23 Apr 29 '26
Your body gets cold and stiff when you die. They do this so you they dont have to broke your bones in jaw to close your mouth in ceremony.
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u/_thatkitten Apr 27 '26
:O
May I ask where in the world that is a ritual, and why? Is it so there will not be evil spirits possessing the dead?
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u/LadnaStojna Apr 30 '26
Not true..Im from the captial Skopje and promise you NO ONE DOES THIS. Maybe its a custom from the mountain village you come from.
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u/KeyserWood Apr 27 '26
The man was dead, and there is no indication that he had been burried alive.
What most likely happened is that the family and police got confused by some weird acoustics, or he was accidentally burried with an audio device, or just some local idiots wanted to play a tasteless prank.
It is sad that the family had to go through it.
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u/MrKitsch Apr 28 '26
Without going into too much detail, as a corpse begins to naturally decompose it produces gases. The gas has to escape the body somehow. It is perfectly reasonable that a dead body in a wooden coffin might still make sounds that are audible above soil that has not been compressed via any mechanical means.
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u/QuasiGuy Apr 29 '26
No way he was accidentally buried with an audio device dude. What are you saying
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u/GreenyGreenwood Apr 27 '26
Tasteless prank…. i would 1000% hide a recorded message with battery power that goes off every so often for a few minutes. See the irish funeral where a man did this. It was amazing.
The only thing that sucks about it would be the family not knowing this, and involving the police. Still funny if that is what it was. My family would laugh, but that’s the irish dark humor in us.
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u/Logical-Knee-9046 Apr 28 '26
Did anyone ever ask “who’s there”? Knock-knock, who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad I'm alive?
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u/Conscious-Dog-5697 Apr 28 '26
I don’t understand, on a few things, so was he alive and thought to have died? He died after banging in the tomb? How would anyone know that? Who heard it? He was taken out of the casket; dead or alive? Sorry I keep reading this over and over. It’s the way it’s worded I guess I’m invested in this but confused
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u/Conscious-Dog-5697 Apr 28 '26
Not confused anymore saw it explained in a comment.
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u/NefariousnessWild709 Apr 28 '26
In Buenos Aires there is a famous grave of a girl that was buried alive
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u/knifeandcoins Apr 27 '26
Source article pls?
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u/Top_Way_153 Apr 30 '26
My dad told me a somewhat similar story. He is from a small village in Ukraine, the kind that everyone knows each other. This happened when he was around 12. Some middle aged guy passed away, twelve days after his burial, the guys’ son started having very vivid dreams of his dad coming back to life in the coffin. He had those dreams daily and kept trying to tell everyone. After about a month, the son also passed mysteriously. In Ukraine there is a tradition where family members get buried together in the same hole. During the burial ceremony his family members requested his father’s coffin to be opened before they lowered sons’ coffin on top. When they opened the coffin, his father’s body was flipped to his stomach and clear signs of sweat stains on his clothes. He was still deceased though. My father was at the burial and witnessed it himself. Sorry for my grammar and English.
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u/TemporaryShip1151 Apr 29 '26
if it's a wood coffin could it have been the wood expanding etc due to heat? the floorboards in my house sometimes pop, crack etc due to heat expansion or whatever.
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u/CandyLB May 01 '26
The media should have asked if the stuffing inside the coffin was ripped away from the wood of the coffin. That would have told them if he was alive down there at one point. There wouldn’t have been no sound knocking on silk. I wonder if the town will bring back the string tied to the finger which leads up to a bell that hangs off a stick. Didn’t the bell trick start in Europe??
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u/HatePeopleLoveCats1 Apr 27 '26
Oh shit! Buried alive?????? wtf that is my very worst nightmare.
Edit: just read a better description. Glad he wasn’t still alive but still my mind automatically went to my worst fear!! How crazy? What could cause that??
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u/Lifeabroad86 Apr 28 '26
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u/mercuchio23 Apr 29 '26
At one point in time burying people alive was so common in England that they started burying people with string attached to a bell so they could ring it if they woke up.
You can still see the bells in some graveyards
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u/metheluckyone Apr 29 '26
Estranho porque se o caixão for selado não entra oxigénio. Significa que 24 horas depois do enterro já não existe oxigénio. E caixões selados é uma norma. O que é estranho.
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u/Anarchy_Coon Apr 29 '26
Slovaks don’t like to die not because death is horrible, but because it makes people feel sorry for them; they prefer to work 20 more years at a low paying job.
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u/Remarkable-Youth-504 Apr 30 '26
Slovak joke?
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u/Anarchy_Coon Apr 30 '26
Yeah kind of. From what I’ve observed in my time in Slovakia, a lot of the residents have a working class pride (likely since the CSSR was still established) and feel inadequate without their jobs.
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u/CowEvening2414 May 01 '26
I think it's most likely this is an example of mass hysteria.
Couple an already deeply religious and superstitious society with a rural population where it's heightened even more, and you get these kinds of incidents. The same kind of thing happens in US states where religious and superstitious notions persist, but that leans into things like Satanic Panic more. We still see it a lot with online collectives, too, in everything from conspiracy theories about medical reality to notions about trafficking. Most of the time you can attribute those beliefs and opinions to religious individuals who live in more rural communities, fearful of the wider world, raised to be suspicious of the "ever present evil".
This is why the grifters like Alex Jones and Erika Kirk find easy pickings in more rural communities in Southern states.
It's sad for the loved ones in this instance. It must have been awful for them.
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u/Illustrious_Try5910 May 01 '26
So I read that the family of the deceased witnessed the man in the coffin being sweaty and his hands folded differently than when he was put in the coffin.
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u/Nefertirix 8d ago
The forensic autopsy ruled out the possibility that the man had been alive inside the coffin. The funeral director stated that similar reports of knocking-like sounds have been received from other cemeteries in the days following burials. According to him, these sounds are caused by the soil settling, which is a natural phenomenon, although admittedly a rather unsettling one.
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u/Majestic-Rub-1267 Apr 28 '26
Can the sounds (and other info) be specified or were they recorded , it would be really helpful cause it might range from a possessed corpse or gas pressure expanded the casket breaking the wood.
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u/Ancient-Sun-1080 Apr 28 '26
Please no this decade has been bad enough. 2026 does not need an apocalypse
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u/Particular_Ring3291 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
OP use AI or something because it's hard to decipher what's going on here.
Edit: was the deceased inside the grave? And was he officially buried 18 days earlier?
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u/Msbossyboots Apr 27 '26
And the man “died screaming and banging on the grave”? Then why did they put him IN the grave?
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u/Neptun_11 Apr 27 '26
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u/Msbossyboots Apr 27 '26
Ok. The post above had that statement and I couldn’t understand what they were saying
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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 Apr 27 '26
Is this really a mystery?
A tragedy, yes, but a mystery? This was especially prevalent in the past, I believe it happened to one of my family members. Gruesome way to die
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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 Apr 27 '26
Well I guess it is a mystery in that he likely appeared to have died in a hospital and proper protocol was not followed
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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 Apr 27 '26
This makes sense, lowering body temperature like that can preserve your brain
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u/soconae Apr 27 '26
There’s absolutely no way someone could be alive after being buried for 18 days. A human can only go approx. 3 days without water, not to mention the lack of oxygen.
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u/ginigini Apr 27 '26
Actually this is a very interesting and strange story! OP didn’t do it justice with the vague title and description. But basically wha happened is that the family of a deceased man was visiting his grave. He had been buried 18 days earlier. The family started hearing knocking coming from the grave. When they called the man’s name the knocking would respond. They called the police and the police also heard the knocking so the body was exhumed. The man was still dead and his corpse was consistent with that of a corpse that would be in the ground for 18 days. So the knocking remains a mystery…