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.
According to experts, the sounds coming from the grave, which recently frightened the relatives of the deceased, most likely have a natural explanation. Tomas Striža representative of the fourth generation of the funeral family, explains that if placed in a crypt, it can be the sounds of the earth settling and the tombstone moving. The well-known celebrity jeweler, who creates various memorials for the families of the deceased, strongly rejects the possibility that someone was buried alive.
“We have top doctors these days, so it’s highly unlikely that someone was buried alive. Maybe in countries where health care is not so advanced. I personally have not encountered anything like that,” he explained to the Slovak daily.
However, the expert does not completely rule out the spiritual dimension of the whole situation either. From the point of view of things between heaven and earth, it could be a manifestation of a dissatisfied soul. He himself has a lot of experience with similar phenomena, which he encounters not only at work, but also in his private life – from spontaneous switching on of lights to inexplicable phenomena to extremely tragic cases.
