Whether any other manipulations were carried out with Julia Pett’s body is not indicated anywhere, only it is known that in the end she was still recognized as dead (perhaps this was proved by the called doctor), and then it was decided to bury the coffin back along with her dead body.
They began to touch her face and hands and then reported that her skin was soft and Julia’s cheeks were pink, not deathly pale. Her mother was shocked after what she saw, and she took a photograph of Julia Petta in her coffin, which was then placed on her gravestone.ĭuring the exhumation, a few more people were present and they wanted to make sure that Julia was really dead, and not fast asleep (no matter how strange it may sound). Interestingly, at the same time, the body of her newly born son, which was wrapped in a blanket and placed next to Julia’s body, had decomposed into a skeleton. It showed no signs of decay, not even cyanotic (cadaveric) spots. The body looked so fresh as if it was buried only yesterday. Shockingly, when the cover was removed from the coffin, they saw Julia’s completely undecomposed body inside. The coffin was buried for 6 years, so it was already damaged on the outside. Her request was approved and her coffin was exhumed. She suspected that Julia might have been buried alive and her daughter’s restless ghost would stop haunting her in dreams if she checks her grave. The dreams continued to haunt her for a year, as she could not stand it any longer, she came back to Chicago and requested that the body of her daughter be exhumed.
Julia was dressed in a beautiful white wedding dress and then placed into a coffin, as in the tombstone photo, so she later received the nickname “Italian Bride”.Īfter Julia’s funeral, her family moved to Los Angeles, 5 years later, and suddenly her mother, Philomena began to see the same recurring dream, in which Julia came to her and said that she was still alive. In 1921, Julia Petta died while giving birth to her child at the age of 29, however, the child did not survive either and was buried right next to her in the same coffin.
However, one of the most popular and memorable grave in this cemetery belongs to a humble Italian-born housewife, Julia Petta.