It is not for nothing that in almost all countries of the world, it is customary to carry out funerals not immediately after death, but only after a few days. There are many examples when the "dead" suddenly came to life before the funeral, or, worst of all, already directly in the grave, being buried alive ...
Imaginary death
The ritual of "pseudo-burial" occupies an important place among the attendants of shamanic cults. It is believed that, lying alive in the grave, the shaman is given the gift of communication with the spirits of the earth, as well as with the souls of dead ancestors. Some channels seem to open in his mind, through which he communicates with other worlds unknown to mere mortals.
Naturalist and ethnographer E.S. Bogdanovsky was lucky in 1915 to witness the ritual funeral of a shaman of a Kamchatka tribe. In his memoirs, Bogdanovsky wrote that before the burial, the shaman fasted for three days and did not even drink water. After that, the assistants made a hole in the crown of the shaman's head with a bone drill, which was then sealed with beeswax. Then the body of the shaman was rubbed with incense, wrapped in the skin of a bear and lowered into the grave, which was arranged in the center of the family cemetery, accompanied by ritual singing. A long reed tube was inserted into the shaman's mouth, which was brought out, and his motionless body was covered with earth. A few days later, during which ritual actions were continuously carried out over the grave, the buried shaman was taken out of the grave, washed in three running waters and fumigated with incense. On the same day, the village celebrated the second birth of a respected fellow tribesman, who, having visited “ realm of the dead”, took the top step in the hierarchy of the ministers of the pagan cult ...
AT recent times there was a tradition to put a charged mobile phone next to the deceased - suddenly it’s not death at all, but a dream, suddenly a dear person comes to his senses and calls his relatives - I’m alive, dig me back ... But so far this has not happened - in our time, with perfect diagnostic devices , in principle, it is impossible to bury a person alive.
However, people do not trust doctors and try to protect themselves from a terrible awakening in the grave. In 2001, a scandalous incident occurred in America. Los Angeles resident Joe Barten, who was terribly afraid of falling into Sopor, bequeathed to make ventilation in his coffin, leave food and a telephone in it. And at the same time, his relatives could receive an inheritance only on the condition that they call his grave 3 times a day. It is curious that Barten's relatives refused to receive an inheritance - the process of making calls seemed rather creepy to them ...
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The tradition of burying the dead with things that may be useful to them in afterlife, already existed in ancient egypt. Ten and a half years ago, several residents of the South African Cape Town, who were afraid to fall asleep under the influence of the witchcraft of ill-wishers and be buried alive, asked to put phones with spare batteries in coffins in the hope of waking up and calling for help.
In America, cases have been recorded when corpses were even cremated with phones. Fulfilling last will of the deceased, relatives and friends stuffed their cell phones into their pockets without informing the workers of the crematoriums. This arbitrariness can lead to trouble, because batteries tend to explode at high temperatures.
Fears of eccentrics being buried alive are not groundless. No one knows exactly how many people who fell into a lethargic sleep were buried. No one has ever kept such statistics, but without much risk of making a mistake, one can assume that the number goes into the thousands!
Sailors have long had the custom of sewing up the dead man in a shroud and throwing it into the sea. In order not to accidentally bury a living person, the last stitch was made through ... the nose of the deceased. If there was no reaction, the body was thrown into the water.
Mummy in the museum
People have always been afraid of being buried alive, but in XVIII-XIX centuries this fear turned into a real hysteria. Panic seized not only illiterate peasants, but also very educated people. First President of the United States George Washington, for example, demanded to bury himself no earlier than two days after the doctors declared him dead.
There were originals who insisted that before burial they ... cut off their heads. All, perhaps, outdone Miss Beswick, a Manchester resident who died in late XVIII century. She wrote to her doctor in her will 20,000 guineas, very large money for those times, but set one condition: her body should not be interred. The old woman wanted the doctor to embalm her, put her in his operating room and carefully examine her every day for signs of life. For several years, the poor fellow honestly fulfilled a terrible condition. When his patience came to an end, he hid the mummy in a huge grandfather clock. After the death of the doctor, the embalmed body of the eccentric was kept for some time in the Manchester Museum, after which it was interred.
The fear of being buried alive reached its apogee in mid-nineteenth century. In 1846, a competition was even organized, the participants of which competed in the invention of a reliable way to determine whether a person died or fell into a lethargic sleep. One Frenchman made pincers, which were to pull the corpse with all his might by the nipples. Wild pain, in his opinion, should have raised even the dead from the grave. An inventor from Sweden advised launching insects into the ear of a dead person. The French doctor Bosho was recognized as the winner of the competition. He received 1.5 thousand gold francs for a completely reasonable offer - to check shortly before that with a stethoscope invented, whether the heart of the deceased is beating.
The coffins were equipped with a wide variety of devices and devices that allowed the "living" dead to report that they were alive. The bell tower of the British engineer was very popular Bateson. A rope with a bell was tied to the hand of the corpse. When a person came to his senses, he pulled the rope, resulting in a ringing. The Bateson bell tower was such a success that its inventor even received the Order of the British Empire from the hands of Queen Victoria. Alas, further fate the engineer himself turned out to be sad. By the end of his life, he went crazy from the same fear. First, Bateson stopped trusting his own invention, then asked to be cremated. Fearing that his request would not be fulfilled, he doused himself with linseed oil and set himself on fire.
The Germans approached the solution of the problem with their inherent pedantry. They were in no hurry with the funeral and kept the coffins in the mortuary until the bodies began to decompose - until late XIX For centuries, decomposition was considered the main evidence of irreversible death.
The fashion hobby did not bypass Russia either. In 1897 Count Karnissky, a former chamberlain of Nicholas II, presented a modernized coffin to the Parisians. It was equipped with a long tube that went to the surface, a bell and a red flag. When the deceased came to his senses and began to move, the tube automatically provided oxygen access. At the same time, the bell began to ring loudly and the flag to sway.
The inventor thought of everything but one detail. He did not take into account the fact that during decomposition, some “stirring” also occurs. The result of this omission was hundreds of cases when cemetery workers ran to the ringing, dug up the coffin and found a half-decomposed body in it.
Super coffins of the 20th century
Although at modern development medicine, the probability of being buried alive is practically reduced to zero, such cases still occasionally occur today.
In the late 90s, a British doctor mistakenly declared dead Daphne Bank, the wife of a farmer from Cambridgeshire. It is not known how the case would have ended if it were not for the observant undertaker. Arriving at the morgue for the body, he noticed that the corpse's leg was twitching slightly, and heard a barely audible snoring. In the case of Daphne, who is now alive and well, everything ended well. Alas, tragic stories much bigger.
Two days after the funeral, the Guinean Mbaswa woke up from sleep and with all his might began to beat on the lid of the coffin. The poor man was saved, but the “second birth” did not bring him happiness. Considering him "marked" with death, not only friends and acquaintances turned away from him, but also relatives with the bride.
Ali Abdel Rahim Mohammed, teacher Arabic from Egypt, suddenly lost consciousness while relaxing in the Mediterranean. The doctor from the first-aid post on the beach did not find any signs of life in him and decided that he died suddenly from sunstroke. Five hours later, Ali's body was removed from the refrigerator and taken for an autopsy. On the operating table, the teacher... woke up. After spending several hours in the refrigerator, he was so cold that he could not speak. The pathologist, whom the “dead man”, like a vise, grabbed by the hand, ran out of the operating room in horror. Ali stood up with difficulty and hobbled to look for a phone to inform his family that the rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.
The pathologist from Alexandria was lucky. The same cannot be said about another Egyptian doctor who heard screams coming from the mortuary refrigerator. The heart of a doctor who saw the resurrected corpse could not stand it, and he collapsed dead. In February 2000, a businessman James McCarthy suddenly got sick. On the way to the hospital, he fell into a coma. Deciding that James had died and now they had nothing to do in the hospital, the relatives turned around and went to the morgue.
When McCarthy was taken out of the refrigerator the next day, he was dead, but his entire body was bruised. Waking up, James tried to get out of the refrigerator, but could not free himself and eventually froze to death.
Of course, people who were afraid of being buried alive did not stop fighting in the 20th century. In the 70s, fancy coffins worth $7,500, which had almost everything necessary to sustain life, gained popularity among wealthy Americans. An impressive supply of provisions made it possible to live underground for a long time. A complex control panel regulated the air supply. If the "deceased" was stuffy, he could even turn on the fan. For the administration of natural needs, the supercoffin was equipped with a chemical toilet. In addition to these vital things, ingenious undertakers provided an electric alarm clock, a shortwave transmitter, a telephone and a small television. Particularly demanding customers were offered for an additional fee not provided for in standard set miniature oven, refrigerator and even a tape recorder.
Not a single case of rescue of the owner of the supercoffin was recorded. There is nothing particularly surprising here. On the one hand, all the owners of super-coffins most likely did not fall asleep, but died for real. On the other hand, it is not very clear why a person who wakes up in such a coffin should strive back to the sinful earth?
It is no coincidence that in almost all countries and among all peoples it is customary to bury the body not immediately after death, but only after a few days. There were many cases when the "dead" suddenly came to life before the funeral, or, worst of all, right inside the grave...
Imaginary death
Lethargy (from the Greek lethe - “forgetfulness” and argia - “inaction”) is an almost unexplored painful condition, similar to sleep. Signs of death have always been considered the cessation of the heartbeat and the absence of breathing. But during a lethargic sleep, everything life processes also freeze, and distinguish real death from imaginary (as lethargic sleep is often called) without modern equipment is quite difficult. Therefore, earlier cases of burial of people who did not die, but fell asleep in a lethargic sleep, took place quite often, and sometimes with famous people.
If now burial alive is already a fantasy, then even 100-200 years ago, cases of burying living people were not so uncommon. Very often, gravediggers, digging a fresh grave at ancient burial sites, found twisted bodies in half-decayed coffins, which showed that they were trying to get free. It is said that in medieval cemeteries every third grave was such a terrible sight.
Fatal sleeping pill
Helena Blavatsky described strange cases of lethargic sleep: “In 1816, in Brussels, a respected citizen fell into deep lethargy on a Sunday morning. On Monday, when his companions were preparing to drive nails into the coffin lid, he sat down in the coffin, rubbed his eyes and demanded coffee and a newspaper. In Moscow, the wife of a wealthy merchant lay in a cataleptic state for seventeen days, during which the authorities made several attempts to bury her; but since decomposition did not occur, the family rejected the ceremony, and after the expiration of the said period, the life of the allegedly dead was restored. In Bergerac in 1842, the patient took sleeping pills, but ... did not wake up. They let him bleed: he did not wake up. Finally he was declared dead and buried. A few days later, they remembered taking sleeping pills and dug up the grave. The body was turned over and bore signs of a struggle. ”This is only a small part of such cases - a lethargic dream is actually quite a frequent occurrence.
Terrible awakening
Many people tried to protect themselves from being buried alive. For example, the famous writer Wilkie Collins left a note by his bed with a list of measures to be taken before he was buried. But the writer was an educated person and had the concept of a lethargic dream, while many ordinary people did not even think of something like that. So, in 1838 in England there was incredible case. After the funeral of a respected person, a boy was walking through the cemetery and heard an indistinct sound from under the ground. The frightened child called the adults who dug the coffin. When the lid was removed, the shocked witnesses saw that a terrible grimace had frozen on the face of the deceased. His arms were freshly bruised and his shroud was torn. But the man was already actually dead - he died a few minutes before being rescued - from a broken heart, unable to withstand such a terrible awakening to reality. An even more terrible incident occurred in Germany in 1773. A pregnant woman was buried there. When screams began to be heard from under the ground, the grave was dug up. But it turned out that it was already too late - the woman died, and moreover, the child who had just been born in the same grave died ...
crying soul
In the fall of 2002, a misfortune happened in the family of Irina Andreevna Maletina, a resident of Krasnoyarsk - her thirty-year-old son Mikhail unexpectedly died. A strong athletic guy who never complained about his health died at night in his sleep. The body was autopsied, but the cause of death could not be determined. The doctor who drew up the death report told Irina Andreevna that her son had died of sudden cardiac arrest. As expected, Mikhail was buried on the third day, a wake was celebrated ... And suddenly the next night the dead son dreamed of his mother crying. In the afternoon, Irina Andreevna went to church and lit a candle for the repose of the soul of the newly deceased. However crying son continued to appear to her in a dream for another week. Maletina turned to one of the priests, who, after listening, said disappointing words that the young man might have been buried alive. Irina Andreevna had to make incredible efforts to obtain permission to carry out the exhumation. When the coffin was opened, heartbroken the woman turned gray in an instant with horror. Her dearly beloved son lay on his side. His clothes, ritual veil and pillow were torn to shreds. There were numerous abrasions and bruises on the hands of the corpse, which were not present at the time of the funeral. All this eloquently testified that the man woke up in the grave, and then died long and painfully. Elena Ivanovna Duzhkina, a resident of the city of Bereznyaki near Solikamsk, recalls how once, in her childhood, she and a group of children saw a coffin floating from nowhere during the spring flood of the Kama. The waves washed him ashore. Frightened children called adults. People opened the coffin and were horrified to see a yellowish skeleton dressed in decayed rags. The skeleton lay prone, legs tucked under it. The entire lid of the coffin, which had darkened from time to time, was dotted with deep scratches from the inside.
Live Gogol
The most famous such case was the terrible story associated with Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. During his life, he several times fell into a strange, absolutely immobile state, reminiscent of death. But great writer always quickly came to his senses, although he managed to pretty scare others. Gogol knew about this peculiarity of his, and more than anything in the world he was afraid that one day he would fall into deep dream for a long time and he will be buried alive. He wrote: “Being in the full presence of memory and common sense, I state here my last will.
I bequeath my body not to be buried until they appear clear signs decomposition. I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness found on me, my heart and pulse stopped beating. ”After the writer’s death, they did not heed his will and buried him as usual - on the third day ...
These terrible words were remembered only in 1931, when Gogol was reburied from the Danilov Monastery on Novodevichy cemetery. According to eyewitnesses, the lid of the coffin was scratched from the inside, and Gogol's body was in an unnatural position. Then another one was discovered. terrible thing, which had nothing to do with lethargic dreams and burials alive. Gogol's skeleton was missing... a head. According to rumors, she disappeared in 1909, when the monks of the Danilov Monastery restored the grave of the writer. Allegedly, they were persuaded to cut it off for a considerable amount by the collector and rich man Bakhrushin, with whom she remained. This is a wild story, but it is quite possible to believe in it, because in 1931, during the excavation of Gogol's grave, a number of unpleasant events occurred. famous writers, who were present at the reburial, literally stole from the coffin "as a keepsake" some pieces of clothing, some shoes, and some Gogol's rib ...
Call from beyond
Interestingly, in order to protect a person from being buried alive, in many Western countries there is still a bell with a rope in morgues. A person who is considered dead can wake up among the dead, get up and call him. The servants will immediately come running at his call. This bell and the revival of the dead are very often played out in horror films, but in reality such stories almost never happened. But during the autopsy, the "corpses" came to life more than once. In 1964, a New York mortuary performed an autopsy on a man who died on the street. As soon as the pathologist's scalpel touched the "dead man's" stomach, he immediately jumped up. The pathologist himself died of shock and fright on the spot... Another similar case was described in the Biysk Rabochiy newspaper. An article dated September 1959 told how, during the funeral of an engineer of one of the Biysk factories, while delivering mourning speeches, the deceased suddenly sneezed, opened his eyes, sat down in a coffin and “almost died a second time, seeing the situation in which located". A thorough examination at the local hospital of the man who had risen from the coffin did not reveal any pathological changes in his body. The Novosibirsk doctors, to whom the resurrected engineer was sent, gave the same conclusion.
Ritual burials
However, people are not always buried alive against their will. So, among some African tribes, nationalities South America, Siberia and Far North there is a ritual in which the healer of the tribe buries a relative alive. In a number of nationalities, this rite is also carried out as the initiation of boys. In some tribes, it is used for and for certain diseases. In the same way, the elderly or the sick are prepared for the transition to another world. The ritual of “pseudo-burial” occupies an important place among the ministers of shamanic cults. It is believed that, lying alive in the grave, the shaman receives the gift of communication with the spirits of the earth, as well as with the souls of dead ancestors. Some channels seem to open in his mind, through which he communicates with unknown mere mortal worlds. Naturalist and ethnographer E.S. Bogdanovsky was lucky in 1915 to witness the ritual funeral of a shaman of one of the Kamchatka tribes. In his memoirs, Bogdanovsky writes that before the burial, the shaman fasted for three days and did not even drink water. Then the assistants, using a bone drill, made a hole in the crown of the shaman, which was then sealed with beeswax. After that, the body of the shaman was rubbed with incense, wrapped in the skin of a bear, and lowered into a grave arranged in the center of the family cemetery, accompanied by ritual singing. A few days later, during which rituals were continuously performed over the grave, the buried shaman was taken out of the ground, washed in three running waters and fumigated with incense. On the same day, the village celebrated the second birth of a respected fellow tribesman who, having been in the “kingdom of the dead”, occupied the top step in the hierarchy of pagan cult ministers...
AT last years there was a tradition to put next to the dead charged Cell phones- suddenly it’s not death at all, but a dream, suddenly a dear person comes to his senses and calls his relatives - I’m alive, dig me back ... But so far such cases have not happened - nowadays, with perfect diagnostic devices, in principle it is impossible to bury a person alive. But nevertheless, people do not believe doctors and try to protect themselves from the terrible awakening in the grave. In 2001, a scandalous incident occurred in the United States. A resident of Los Angeles, Joe Barten, who was terribly afraid of falling into a lethargic sleep, bequeathed to make ventilation in his coffin, put food and a phone in it. And at the same time, his relatives could receive an inheritance only on the condition that they call his grave three times a day. Interestingly, Barten's relatives refused to receive an inheritance - the process of making calls to the other world seemed too creepy to them ...
Recently at the cemetery in the municipality of Riasan das Nevis, in northeastern Brazil, there was a horrific incident. For several days, people who lived nearby complained of muffled screams coming from the churchyard. Only later it turned out: all this time in one of the graves a living person was fighting death!
Only 11 days after the funeral, relatives came to the aid of the unfortunate Rosangelo Almeida dos Santos. However, by that time the woman could no longer be saved ...
The people who tore up the grave said: Rosangela's body was still warm, and the forehead, hands and feet of the deceased were completely covered with abrasions and bruises. The nails on the hands were torn off, the nails in the upper part of the coffin were partially pulled out, and on the lid itself, the relatives saw stains of recently dried blood.
According to her unfortunate mother, at the age of seven, Rosangela began to lose consciousness frequently. Since then, the woman has been taking antiepileptic drugs. Attacks of sudden weakness did not leave the poor fellow until last days her life.
And a week before the funeral, the relatives hurried 37-year-old Rosangela to the hospital. Complaining of extreme fatigue, the patient survived two cardiac arrests but died from septic shock. At least, this is what was indicated in the document issued by the doctors to the mother of the deceased.
Isamara, the sister of the woman buried alive, examined the opened coffin, and is sure: at the time of the funeral, Rosangel was still alive. Alas, the unfortunate woman who woke up in the grave could not get out of the concrete tomb on her own, and help arrived too late.
Relatives of the deceased are sure that the cause of the monstrous tragedy was the criminal negligence of doctors. However, they are not bringing charges against the doctors yet - they are waiting for the final verdict of the police.
First, Rosangela's body must be examined by law enforcement officers. Well, you can see how the grave of the unfortunate was opened in the video below.
It’s scary to even imagine what a woman buried alive went through, realizing where she found herself. I wouldn't even wish for such a fate. worst enemy! But some, they say, of their own free will fit into the graves alive ... After such incidents, it is difficult to understand such people!
Probably, each of us remembers from school times the frightening stories of literature teachers about Gogol buried alive, who suffered from periodic falling into a lethargic sleep.
And around this terrible story there were so many mysteries, rumors and other tales that it is not completely known whether this was true, or historians embellished a little. But today we will tell you not about the sad fate of Gogol. We will tell you real stories people who experienced the full horror of the enclosed space under the lid of the coffin. You don't wish this on anyone. Terrible, not the right word!
1. Octavia Smith Hatcher
There was an outbreak in Kentucky in the late 19th century unknown disease which claimed many lives. But the most tragic case happened to Octavia Hatcher. Her little son Jacob died in January 1891 of an unknown cause. Then Octavia fell into a depression, spending all her time in bed in a supine position. Time passed, but the depression only worsened, and, in the end, Octavia fell into a coma. On May 2, 1891, doctors officially declared her dead, without specifying the cause of death.
At that time, embalming was not practiced, so Octavia was quickly buried in the local cemetery due to the sweltering heat. Just a week after the funeral, an outbreak of the same unknown disease was recorded in the city, and many citizens fell into a coma. But with only one difference - after a while they woke up. Octavia's husband began to fear the worst and worried that he had buried his wife too soon, while she was still breathing. He had the body exhumed, and his fears were confirmed. The top lid of the coffin was scratched and the fabric was torn to shreds. Octavia's fingers were bloody and torn, and her face was contorted in horror. The poor woman died conscious in a coffin at a depth of many meters.
Octavia's husband reburied his wife and erected a majestic monument over her grave, which has survived to this day. Doctors later suggested that a similar coma was caused by the bite of a tsetse fly and is known as sleeping sickness.
2. Mina El Houari
When man goes on a date, he always thinks about how everything can end. Being prepared for the unexpected is great, but no one is prepared to be buried alive. A similar story happened in May 2014 with Mina El Houari from France. The 25-year-old was chatting online with her lover for months before she decided to visit him in Morocco for a face-to-face meeting. She arrived at a hotel in Fes on May 19 to meet the man of her dreams, but she was not destined to fulfill her plans.
Mina, of course, met with her lover, but, suddenly, she became ill, and she lost consciousness. The young man, instead of calling the police or an ambulance, made a hasty decision to bury his beloved in a small grave in the garden. The only problem was that Mina hadn't actually died. As is often the case, Mina had undiagnosed diabetes causing bouts of diabetic coma. Several days passed before her family filed a missing persons report. They flew to Morocco to try and find her.
The Moroccan police tracked down the unfortunate groom and broke into his house. They found soiled clothes and a used shovel, and then discovered a horrific burial in the garden. The man confessed to his crime and was convicted of manslaughter.
3. Mrs Boger
In July 1893, a tragedy struck the family of Charles Boger: his beloved wife, Mrs. Boger, suddenly died of an unknown cause. Doctors confirmed her death, so the burial went very quickly. This could have ended this story if Charles's friend had not told him that before meeting him, Mrs. Boger suffered from hysteria. And this could be the reason for her sudden "death".
The obsessive thought about the living burial of his wife did not leave Charles, and he asked his friends to help him exhume the body. What Charles saw in the coffin shocked him. Mrs. Boger's body was turned face down. Her clothes were torn to shreds, the glass lid of the coffin was shattered, and pieces were scattered all over her body. The skin was bloodied and covered with scratches, and the fingers were completely absent. Presumably, Mrs. Boger chewed her fingers in a fit of hysteria, trying to free herself. What happened next to Charles Boger is unknown.
4. Angelo Hayes
One of the most scary stories premature burials are those in which the buried victim miraculously manages to survive. This is what happened to Angel Hayes. In 1937, the carefree 19-year-old Angelo rode his motorcycle. Suddenly, he lost control and crashed into a brick wall, hitting his head.
The guy was buried 3 days after the accident. If not for the suspicions of the insurance company, no one would have known real truth. A few weeks before the accident, Angelo's father had insured his son's life for £200,000. Insurance Company filed a complaint and the inspector began an investigation.
The inspector exhumed Angelo's body to establish real reason boy's death. And what was the surprise of the inspector and the doctors when, under the shroud, they found the warm body of a boy with a barely perceptible heartbeat. At the same moment, Angelo was taken to the hospital, underwent several operations and the necessary resuscitation to put the guy on his feet. All this time, Angelo was unconscious due to a serious head injury. After the rehabilitation course, the boy began to produce coffins, from which one could easily get out in case of premature burial. He toured with his invention and became a kind of celebrity in France.
5. Mr. Cornish
Cornish was the beloved mayor of Bath, who died of a fever 80 years before the publication of Snart's work. As was customary at the time, the body of the deceased was quickly buried. When the gravedigger had almost finished his work, he decided to take a break and have a drink with acquaintances passing by. While they were talking, suddenly there was a heart-rending groan coming from a freshly filled grave.
The gravedigger realized that he had buried a man alive and tried to save him before the oxygen supply in the coffin ran out. But by the time the gravedigger had dug out the coffin from under the layer of covered soil, it was too late. Mr. Cornish's elbows and knees were bloodied and worn away. This story is scary stepsister Cornish, so she asked to be beheaded after death so that she would not suffer the same fate.
6 Survivor 6 year old
The very thought of premature burial seems dreadful, not to mention the burial of a still-living child. In August 2014, a little 6-year-old girl found herself in such a situation in the small Indian village of Uttar Pradash. According to the girl's uncle, the neighbor married couple told the child that her mother asked to bring the girl to the neighboring village to the fair. On the way, the couple, for some unknown reason, decided to suffocate the girl and immediately bury her.
Luckily, locals who were working in the fields at the time became suspicious when the couple walked out of the bush without the child. They found the place where they found the girl's lifeless body in a shallow grave. The girl was immediately taken to the hospital, where, thanks to a miracle, she woke up and was able to tell about her captors.
The girl did not remember that she had been buried alive. The police do not know the reasons why the couple wanted to kill the child. Moreover, the suspects have not yet been caught. I'm glad this story didn't end in tragedy.
7 Buried Alive Of His Own Will
Mankind knows cases when people tried to deceive fate and even challenge it. Today, you can even purchase practical manuals to help you get out of the grave if you've been buried alive.
Moreover, many people like to tickle their nerves, believing that after that they will be happy for the rest of their days. In 2011, a 35-year-old Russian man decided to play with death, but tragically died.
Asking for help from a friend, the man dug a grave for himself outside Blagoveshchensk, where he placed a makeshift coffin, a piece of a water pipe, a bottle of water and a mobile phone.
After the man lay down in the coffin, his friend threw earth over the coffin and left. A few hours later, the buried man called a friend and said that he was feeling great. But when the friend returned in the morning, he found a corpse in the grave. It probably rained at night, which blocked the access of oxygen, and the man simply suffocated. Despite the tragedy of the situation, such “entertainment” was popular in Russia at one time, and it is not known how many people died in this way.
8. Lawrence Cawthorne
There are many stories of premature burials that seem to be nothing more than a legend that is hard to believe. Similar is the story of a London butcher named Lawrence Cawthorne who was terminally ill in 1661. The landlady where Lawrence worked was expecting him speedy death because of the large inheritance she wanted to receive. She made every effort to have him declared dead and quickly buried in a small chapel.
After the funeral, mourners heard squeals and groans from the freshly dug grave. They rushed to tear up Chowrne's grave, but it was too late. Lawrence's clothes were torn, his eyes were swollen, and his head was bloody. The woman was accused of premeditated murder of a man, and the story was passed down from generation to generation for a long time.
9. Sipho William Mdletshe
In 1993, a 24-year-old South African boy and his fiancée were involved in a serious car accident. His fiancée survived, and Sipho, who received extensive injuries, was presumed dead. The guy's body was taken to the Johannesburg morgue, where they were placed in a metal container for burial. But in fact, Sipho was not dead, he was only unconscious. Two days later he woke up in prison. Frustrated, he started screaming for help.
Fortunately, mortuary workers were nearby and were able to help the guy get out of prison. Having got rid of the horror of the death chamber, Sipho went to his bride. But she decided that Sipho was a zombie, and drove him away. Not only was the guy buried alive, but the girl also rejected him. Unlucky poor fellow
10. Stephen Small
In 1987, wealthy media corporation heir Stephen Small was kidnapped and buried alive in a makeshift coffin near Kankakee. Denny Edwards, 30, and Nancy Rish, 26, planned to kidnap Stephen, bury him underground and demand a $1 million ransom from relatives. The kidnappers took care of Stephen's minimum needs for air, water and light with pipes. But despite this, the man suffocated.
The police managed to find Mr. Small by his maroon Mercedes, which was left near the burial site. Despite the fact that Danny and Nancy were condemned, for a long time there were discussions about whether it was a premeditated murder or not. In any case, this crime is terrible, and the kidnappers will spend another 27 long years behind bars.
