In the village of Bijakovce (Levoča district), the police ordered an extraordinary exhumation of a grave. To this step, which was watched with interest by hundreds of residents at the local cemetery, the authorities approached 18 days after the funeral of the deceased on the basis of testimonies of possible banging from the underground, informs .
However, after opening the coffin, the dire scenarios were not confirmed. After a thorough visual inspection, the experts concluded that the body showed no signs of movement and that the deceased was in exactly the same position as on the day of the burial.
Despite the fact that nothing suspicious was found in the coffin, the police ordered the body to be transported for a forensic autopsy. Only after the results of this examination will definitively rule out or confirm whether the deceased could have displayed any vital functions after the burial, will the reported phenomenon be definitively clarified.
The newspaper addressed doctor Milan Kulkovský from the Považskobystrica hospital, who considers the case of a possible burial alive highly improbable. He draws attention to the strict hospital processes after death, through which a living person would simply not get to the funeral. He also argues that the body was in the grave for more than two weeks in an unchanged position.
The sounds from the grave could be, according to him a bad joke, so the police should thoroughly search the place to see if someone intentionally left a sound-emitting object there. Otherwise, only a collective hallucination comes into consideration. “There are simply no more options,” concludes the expert.
