Note: Borderline speculative, dealing as it does with fear, strange mental phenomena, and premature burial. First published in Le Gaulois, 14 July 1883.

Synopsis: At a spa, the narrator notices two patients, a sickly-looking woman and an older man who has a strange repeated habitual gesture of his hand as if pushing something away. He learns their story: She's his daughter, and once died and was buried. A few days later she showed up at his door. He was so shocked he could only feebly push her away. She explained that she'd been buried alive and dug up by grave robbers. But he kept the gesture ever after.