“You don’t understand — I saw my son alive in a dream!” the poor mother screamed, but nobody believed her. So she grabbed a shovel and went to dig up his grave.
Only a month earlier she had been different — energetic, sturdy, smiling. After bu:rying her only child, however, she seemed hollowed out from the inside.
In a few short weeks everything changed. Her hair went nearly white, her hands trembled, and her eyes lost their spark. She quit eating, stopped chatting with neighbors, and rarely left the house. Days crawled by, and getting out of bed became a battle.
Then one night everything shifted. She dreamed of her son — not as a pale, otherworldly figure but alive, standing in simple clothes, bewildered and a little afraid. He took her hands and whispered:
“Mom, I’m alive. Help me.”
She woke up sweating, heart racing. It wasn’t an ordinary dream. There was something in his voice, in his gaze — an unbearable certainty that he was out there and calling her.
She begged the cemetery officials, the police, and the forensic team for an exhumation, explaining that she’d seen him in a dream. No one took her seriously.
“It’s grief,” they said kindly. “You need time and support, not digging up graves.”
But nights only made it worse — every night she heard his voice again, calling.
So at dawn one morning she took the shovel she’d once used with her son to plant trees. She messaged a friend and walked to the cemetery.
The dirt came away easier than she predicted. She dug slowly, gasping, aching, yet driven by a strange, stubborn strength.
An hour later she hit the coffin lid. She paused, pressing her hand to it as if she might feel a breath.
She opened it — and froze.
The coffin was empty.
No body, no clothes, no sign of anything.
At first she feared she was losing her mind. But an inquiry followed. The police reviewed CCTV, funeral records, and witnesses.
The more they uncovered, the stranger it got. The son’s body had never been taken to the morgue. Documents were forged. One orderly resigned the very next day. The young man had last been seen near a private clinic beyond the city.
Weeks later the horrifying truth emerged: he hadn’t died. He’d been made to vanish at someone’s behest — a staged d3ath.
They had faked his d3ath to collect insurance and to place him in a closed psychiatric trial run by a clinic working with a pharmaceutical company. He’d been abducted and declared d3ad.
The mother became a heroine. She refused to be crushed; her maternal instinct would not be silenced. Thanks to her persistence, her son was found alive — badly hurt, but alive. Now they are together.
She still says:
“I didn’t bury my son in that grave. I buried my fear — and dug up the truth.”