The Chances are there that at one point of life you wake up and find yourself in the coffin feets under the ground. The situation is so hard to imagine and terrifying to think if it ever happened to anyone but this happened so many times in the history.. lets witness some of the occasions where dead men found themselves alive and how they should've survived it,
Octavia Smith Hatcher
In the late 1800s, the city of Pikeville, Kentucky was shaken with an unknown disease, and the most tragic case of all was that of Octavia Smith Hatcher. After her infant son Jacob passed away in Jan 1891, Octavia went into a bedridden depression where she gradually became very ill and slipped into a coma. On May 2 of the same year, she was pronounced dead of unknown causes while still in her bed. Embalming was not yet a practice, and Octavia was buried very quickly in the local cemetery due to the sweltering heat. Barely a week after her burial, many of the townspeople had been stricken with the same debilitating illness and fallen into a comatose state. The difference? After a time, the townspeople began to wake up. Octavia’s husband began to fear the worst and worried that he had prematurely buried his wife while she was still breathing. He procured an exhumation of her grave only to find that his worst fears were in fact true. The lining on the inside of the coffin had been scratched and torn to pieces. Octavia’s nails were bloodied and broken, and her face was contorted with horrific fear. She had died in the ground after being buried alive.Octavia was reburied and her husband erected a lifelike monument over her grave site. The monument still stands today. It was later speculated that the mysterious illness had been caused by a Tsetse fly, an African insect that can cause a disease known as sleeping sickness.
Mrs. Boger
In July 1893, a farmer named Charles Boger and his wife were living in Whitehaven, Pennsylvania when Mrs. Boger suddenly died of unknown causes. Doctors confirmed her death, and she was promptly buried. That should have been the end of the story, but sometime after her death, a friend told Charles that his wife had suffered from hysteria before Charles had met her, and it was possible that she hadn’t actually been dead. The very thought of Mrs. Boger having been buried alive haunted Charles until he became hysterical. Unable to live with the thought of his wife dying in her casket, he employed friends to help him exhume her body for confirmation. What he found was shocking. Mrs. Boger’s body was turned over. Her shroud and robes were shredded to pieces and the glass of her coffin lid was broken all over her body. Her skin was bloodied and scratched, while her fingers were missing entirely. It was presumed that she chewed them off while attempting to escape. Nobody knows what happened to Charles Boger after the discovery.
Mr. Cornish
John Snart published the Thesaurus of Horror in 1817. In it he recalls a gruesome tale of premature burial involving a man named Mr. Cornish. Cornish was a beloved mayor of Bath who died of an apparent fever some 80 years or so before Snart’s work was published. As was customary at the time, Cornish’s body was buried fairly quickly after he was pronounced dead. The gravedigger was halfway done with his work when he stopped for a quick drink with some visitors who where passing by. While they were having a chat, they heard the sound of stifled moans coming from the general direction of Mr. Cornish’s half-buried grave. It dawned on them that he had in fact been buried alive, so they hurried to try and save him before he ran out of oxygen in his casket. But by the time they had removed the dirt and were able to open the coffin lid, it was too late—Mr. Cornish had suffocated in his own grave and left his knees and elbows bloodied and beaten. This story scared Cornish’s half sister so much that she told her relatives to behead her when she was thought to be dead so that she wouldn’t suffer the same fate.
Buried Alive Voluntarily
For as long as humans have been alive, there have been cases of those trying to defy fate. There are now tutorials on what to do if you find yourself six feet under with no means of escape, and people have gone so far as to be voluntarily buried alive to try and escape death. In 2011, a 35-year-old Russian man did just that, only to succumb to a tragic death. For whatever reason, the man in question believed that burying himself alive for 24 hours would make him lucky for the rest of his life. With some help from a friend, he dug a grave outside of the city of Blagoveshchensk and inserted a makeshift coffin complete with air piping, a single bottle of water, and a cell phone. Once the man got inside the casket, his friend covered him with nearly a foot of dirt and left. The man called his friend just once to say he was fine, but when the friend returned to relieve him in the morning, he was dead. It seems that an overnight rain might have blocked the air pipes and left the man to suffocate in his own casket. While this story is tragic, the more disturbing thing is that being buried alive was a popular Internet trend in Russia at the time, so who knows how many more suffered the same horrific fate.
Sipho William Mdletshe
In 1993, a 24-year-old South African man named Sipho William Mdletshe and his fiance were involved in a severe car accident. Although Sipho’s fiance survived, Sipho was so badly injured that he was declared dead by responders following the accident. Sipho’s body was taken to the Johannesburg mortuary and placed in a metal box for burial. But Sipho was never actually dead—he had just become unconscious in the wake of the crash. For two days and nights he remained in the box until he awoke in a confused daze and began to scream for help. Luckily, some of the workers at the morgue were around to let him out of the box, and he survived the whole ordeal. The unfortunate part of the story came when Sipho tried to return home to his fiance, only to be sent away because she thought he was a zombie. As if being buried alive wasn’t horrific enough.
HOW TO SURVIVE?
In stories up there, unfortunately we only read about people who didn't survived the scene. But the survival tactics are there to learn.
1. DON'T Panic!
The first and the most important thing is not to panic, the volume of an average person is 66 liters and the volume of the average cofins holds 886 liters meaning there is around 820 liters of oxygen present in the coffin for you. An average adult uses 23 liters of oxygen an hour giving you 30 hours countdown to escape from the coffin. The more you panic the more rapidly you use that precious oxygen reducing your time to survive. keep yourself as calm as possible.. although this is the worse that could happen to you.
2. Hit at the middle of the coffin to produce a crack
Yes, Hit at the middle of the coffin because it is the weakest part of it. If you are fortunate enough to get buried in a low quality, less thick and easy to break coffin. you will find the dirt comming in the coffin soon. You should cover your face with your shirt or something to prevent dirt to go in your eyes or nose. The dirt coming in the coffin will reduce the pressure of ground on the coffin then you could increase the size of the crack big enough to pass you head and body from it.
3. Try to stand up and crawl to the surface
Now you have to stand up through the crack you made and swim to the surface. You have to crawl like a worm to get to the ground, better convince him right now to teach you.
If you are lucky enough to be buried not more than 6 feet under the ground, you might feel the air soon.
4. RUN from anyone who has a gun
That is a personal advice for you. people might mistake you with a Zombie or a ghost. A person with gun could instantly attempt to kill you.
( if you find someone without any weapon just say ," Man! there is so hot down there, I just came out to get some air.")
so these were some stories and surviving tips.. come back to the post and comment if you ever get escaped using these tips..
I would like to mention that listverse.com helped me finding these cool stories and saying these stories cool is not cool i know..
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