The Pensacola Journal Pensacola, Florida March 11, 1906 Nailing The Ghost An extraordinary instance of rustic superstition has been brought to light in a Hungarian village. Owing to sinister rumors as to the cause of death the authorities had the body of a peasant exhumed and were horrified to find the hands and feet nailed down to the coffin, while a long nail had also been driven through the heart. An inquiry was held at once, with the result that an old woman confessed that the act had been perpetrated under her directions. The man had died a sudden death, and, there being a superstition in Hungary that persons dying under such circumstances haunt the house in which they die, the further superstition has grown up that postmortem reappearances can be prevented by nailing the body in its coffin. The old woman further admitted having done the same thing in all similar cases for many years. London Globe