![Marie Josse Pfyffer-d’Hemel is said to have had 20 years added on to her life because of a grave robber.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-scheintote-300x225.jpg)
The undead lady of Lucerne
Marie Josse d’Hemel was a distinguished lady who married a Lucerne patrician. She is also said to have died twice. The first time a gravedigger wanted to steal her expensive clothes, which prompted her to return from the dead and live on for another 20 years – a cautionary tale for any would-be grave robbers.
![The lady valued her exquisite wardrobe: Marie Josse Pfyffer-d’Hemel.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/marie-josse-pfyffer-188x300.jpg)
![Portrait of Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, 1775.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/franz-ludwig-pfyffer-239x300.jpg)
![Hofkirche cemetery Lucerne.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hofkirche-luzern-friedhof-300x158.jpg)
![Emma Edgcumbe, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, captured on canvas by James Rannie Swinton.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lady-edgcumbe-258x300.jpg)