How to pronounce “linger”(noun) in English

depredation. And she dies and after three days of saying prayer over the body something horror happened, the coffin opens and she jumps out but she's half an ox and this horrible monster sortof lingers for a few days and the family panics and is trying to give back all the money that they'd extracted from people hoping she'll just mercifully die and the whole episodewill be over, which eventually she does.