Everything was as usual when Margreth Persson was to lay a rose at her husband Bert Persson’s grave before the weekend.
– I usually do it and then take a picture and send it to my children so that they can see how nice their father is, Margreth Persson says.
But she didn’t have time more than to pick up the phone before she felt the ground give way under her feet.
– It was pure shock when I felt that I was sinking. And when I didn’t feel like I could pull myself together and get up, I thought I was going to die of fright, she says.
Luckily, she managed to get one knee up on solid ground and crawl out of the hole after a while.
Now Margreth Persson wants to warn others not to visit the cemetery herself during times when there are few people at the site.
– It was completely empty when I left here, no one had heard if I had called for help, she says.
Nothing unusual with sinkholes
– It is common for there to be subsidence in cemeteries, but usually we have time to remedy it before visitors notice it, says Paul Henriksson, parish priest in Mjällby parish.
Hear more about Margreth Persson’s experience in the clip.
