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Saved by the bell |
 England
is an island. The local folks started running out of places to bury people. So
they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse
the grave.
 When
reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on
the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would
tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up
through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift")
to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was
considered a "dead ringer." |
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