Here's a Creepy Fact for Your Halloween

-Hundreds of years ago when there wasn't enough room in the graveyards, old graves would be dug up and reused, Sometimes they found scratch marks iside the coffins left by people who were burried alive and had tried to claw their way out. The reason for this is that before they knew lead was poisonous, beer and whiskey had been drunk out of lead cups. The combination of alcohol and lead sometimes made people unconscious for days. They were often mistaked for dead and quickly buried. The fear of being buried alive led to the idea of tying a string to the deceased's wrist. The other end was pulled out of the coffin, through the ground, and attached to a bell. Someone then sat out all night-the graveyard shift- to listen for the bell. This is where the term "saved by the bell" comes from.