Furious mourners have demanded the scrapping of high-tech talking tombstones where the dead can send messages from beyond the grave.The headstones — fitted with screens and speakers — play recordings of their life when their loved ones come to pay their respects.
But spooked visitors have asked graveyard officials at Linz, Austria, to ban the gadgets.
Eva Langer, 67, said: "I was beside my husband's grave saying a prayer when I heard a voice, and then laughter and music.
"When I looked round I saw a dead man's face talking to me from the tombstone next door."
Inventor Wolfgang Gollner defended the speaking stones.
He said: "Talking tombstones are very popular in America already and it won't be long before they are a common site in European graveyards so people will have to get used to them."
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2 comments:
Now that would be spooky!
Even spookier was a wish a history teacher of mine had: he wanted to come alive for 5 seconds during his wake, so when someone he hated came up to pay their respect, he could come alive, flip them off, then die again.
Imagine the nightmares the enemy would have the rest of their lives.
Actually, I thought his wish was pretty funny.
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