This one is sort of a legend, but Margorie McCall's experience is remembered not only in the town where she lived, but also on her tombstone.
According to the BBC, McCall lived in northern Ireland, and sometime around 1705 she got sick and died. At least, that's what everyone thought. She was wearing a ring when she died — a valuable one, as it turns out — and her family was concerned that grave robbers might desecrate her final resting place in order to remove it. They tried to pry it off her, but her fingers were swollen and they had to abandon the effort.
After the wake, Margorie was taken to Shankill Graveyard and buried. As predicted, grave robbers dug her up and tried to remove the ring. When it wouldn't come off, one of them decided to just cut off the whole finger. That's when she woke up and gave the would-be thieves the most effective criminal rehabilitation lesson of all time.
After scaring the grave robbers straight, Margorie climbed out of her coffin, walked home, and knocked on the front door. Her husband answered and then fainted (in some versions of the story, he had a heart attack, died, and was buried in the same grave his wife had just climbed out of).
When Margorie died for real a few years later, she was taken back to the same cemetery. Her tombstone reads: "Margorie McCall — Lived once, buried twice."
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