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Grave Robber
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You and you and you and you. Give it with me. Believe it or not. Colonel Peter Jefferson, who was the father of President Thomas Jefferson, could simultaneously upend two hogs heads of tobacco each way, one thousand pounds.
They leave it or not. In a moment I'll tell you about one of the strangest robberies in all history. In Lucerne, Switzerland, a grave robber in the mausoleum of General Ludwig Feiper's wife got the scare of his lifetime.
The general's wife, who'd been interred in the mausoleum the night before, suddenly sat up in her coffin and screamed at him. The lady was still very much alive. Madam Pfeiffer clad only in a shroud, walked all the way home, and lived another twenty years.
But she never smiled again. Believe it or not.
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