Susan L. Omaha, Ne.
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The above exchange is placed in England in the 1980s. But it’s hard to visualize that this saying gets much use in modern times. However, surprisingly, a Google search on the various combinations (someone/someone’s/somebody/somebody’s, walked/walking/is walking/was walking) produced around 150,000 hits (at my space-time coordinates).<1988 “‘Time of death was put at between ten and midnight . . . Something wrong Sergeant?’ ‘Nothing, sir. Someone walked over my grave.’”—A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George, page 95>
______________________<1879 “‘You are cold, my love? You shivered.’ ‘I am not cold,’ said Clara. ‘Some one, I suppose, was walking over my grave.’”—The Egoist by G. Meredith, page 246>
<1924 “Really, I don’t know why I shivered. Perhaps someone is walking over my grave.”—Evening Tribune (Providence, Rhode Island), 24 July, page12>
<2000 “The loss of body heat from emptying my bladder caused my body to shiver momentarily - one of those ‘somebody is walking over my grave’ shivers.”—Thorns to Kilimanjaro by Ian McCallum, page 161>
<2007 “All of a sudden, a chill goes down my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck and my hands and arms are standing on end. I shivered but thought nothing of it. Just someone walking over my grave, as we say.”—Liverpool Echo, 10 November>
<2009 “A thought suddenly struck me which made me shiver like somebody walked over my grave.”—scribd.com, 29 August>
<2012 “My body shivered – someone walking over my grave? I don't believe in ghosts. . . This is ridiculous, get a grip! I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.”—North Devon Journal (England ), 26 April>
<2013 “I felt a shudder up my spine, as if someone was walking over my grave, I turned to see no one.”—wattpad.com, 26 January>