Marjorie McCall

A strange tale of a zombie woman in Lurgan, Ireland, is the subject that many still wonder about today. In the early 1700's, a young woman named Marjorie McCall died of a fever and was buried in the Shankill Church of Ireland Cemetery. Her funeral was swift and it was agreed that she should be quickly buried so that the fever doesn't spread. Marjorie's grieving widower, Doctor John McCall, felt concerned that grave robbers would steal his deceased wife's expensive gold wedding ring. He tried to pull it off her cold dead finger but it just wouldn't budge. So she was buried anyway still wearing a valuable ring, and people talked about it.

Eventually the news of a corpse wearing a gold ring reached the wrong ears. One night the cemetery was visited by grave robbers who heard about dead Marjorie's expensive ring. They were quick to dig into her grave and thought about the riches they would get from the ring itself. Once they opened the coffin, they failed to pull off the expensive wedding ring from her corpse so they all agreed to cut off her finger instead. Once they began to cut her finger and draw blood, the deceased woman sat up and screamed. The terrified robbers ran away and we know nothing else about them! It's understood they were too scared to go back. Marjorie crawled from the dirt and staggered through the cemetery while bleeding.

She wandered back home and knocked on the front door. When her husband answered it, he saw his wife standing there, who was back from the dead. The doctor instantly died of shock. Soon he had a funeral and was buried in the same plot where Marjorie had been buried in before! She then moved on with her life, eventually remarried and had children. Many years passed when she died the second time and she was buried at the same cemetery as she was buried in previously. Her gravestone is still there to this day and it reads: "Lived Once, Buried Twice." People living in Lurgan have claimed to have witnessed seeing Marjorie's ghost wandering around in the cemetery as if she was risen from the dead a second time.  

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Wildlife picture of the month

Each month for a year I shall post interesting pictures of animals. For a year I posted amusing photos of wolves and this time it's any animal picture that looks amazing, adorable and funny. 

Here is a picture of a two baby rabbits sitting inside a huge cabbage in a garden. It looks so fairy tale and cute like something out of a Disney animation. Those rabbits look very cosy inside there, probably doing their school homework or just chilling. 

"No, we're just staying close to our meal!" the rabbits said.

Imagine being the photographer when finding this. That would've been awesome.

The photo comes from Pinterest.  

Spring-Heeled Jack

Out of Victorian London is a strange legend of Spring-Heeled Jack. Long before evil Jack the Ripper murders, was Spring-Heeled Jack, who was described as a tall fire-breathing man who could jump extremely high. He mainly attacked women but it's not certain if he killed anyone. The public were frightened of this bogeyman appearing and then disappearing without warning. He leapt so high and breathed flames that many thought he was a demon. 

First appearing in 1837, a neighbourhood in London were getting scary visits from a demon shaped like a large white bull. An historian Mike Dash uncovered this around the time of Spring-Heeled Jack, that looked like a monster to the residents who called it "ghost" and "imp". Others  described him as wearing a suit of armour, red shoes, metal claws and helmet, while some said he looked like a bear. 

This entity used to ring doorbells and then attack those who answered, such as the case of a young woman named Jane Alsop, who opened the door to Spring-Heeled Jack. He spewed flames then tore at her clothes and body, then fled when her family came to her rescue. He liked to give surprise attacks to people out walking in the streets. Two teenaged sisters were walking outside when a shadowy figure jumped in front of them. He blew blue flames at one of the sisters and blinded her.

Many more violent incidents of Spring-Heeled Jack happened across London. This made headlines in the national newspapers, and the stories of Spring-Heeled Jack spread across the country. Many anticipated Spring-heeled Jack turning up anywhere. Soon this unknown fire-breathing assailant didn't show anymore and eventually he became the stuff of legends.  

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