Imagine finding a casket in the river and then, as you pull the casket out, having a body slip out of it and back into water. That’s what happened in 1911 after a fisherman made this unnerving find.
Corpse Found in the River is Lost Again
A fisherman discovered in the Chattahoochee River a casket containing the body of a young woman.
In removing the casket from the stream, the lid became unfastened, allowing the body to fall back into the stream.
The officers at once began a searching investigation into the mystery.
The body had been in the water probably a week.
The casket is a costly one, being trimmed with exquisite material.
So far as could be learned, no woman is missing from the community who would fit the description of the body given by the man who made the discovery.
In draining a fish basket from the stream, the casket became enmeshed with a lot of driftwood hanging to the line, and was dragged to view.
Intent on pulling the uncanny find ashore, the fisherman, with difficulty, got hold of one end of the casket. In drawing it up a steep bank, the weight of the body forced the lid off, allowing a form, handsomely clad in white, to drop back into the river.
The fisherman says he got a good view of the body.
Source: The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.), 30 March 1911.
