Now everyone has their own fears, from the fear of spiders to the fear of heights, to
even the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Yeah that’s a thing it's called arachibutyrophobia (a-rack-e-bu-tro-phobia)...I researched it.
However, today we will be discussing something more on the darker and deeper side…
literally deeper.
Like buried in the ground deeper.
Hey everyone and welcome back to another video!
I’m your host Lindsay Ivan, whats up, nice of you to tune in again.
Today I will be sharing with you the top 10 people who woke up in their coffins.
Taphophobia (taff-o-phobia), is known as the fear of being buried alive.
Now for those of you that have this fear, I wouldn't worry as the chances of you actually
being buried alive are super slim.
However, there have been some horror stories of individuals who have been mistakenly presumed
dead and have woken up in their coffins.
Starting off at number 10 we have Essie Dunbar
This story dates back to 1915 when 30 year old essie dunbar was declared dead after a
fatal seizure….
Or so they presumed.
South Carolina doctors analyzed Essie’s body and declared her dead, and had made the
arrangements for a funeral and burial the following day.
Now Essie’s sister was completely devastated because she didn’t arrive in town quick
enough to say goodbye to her sister one last time.
she felt so bad that she ordered for her coffin to be dug up and open.
When the coffin was opened to her surprise, essie was alive and sat straight up and gave
her sister a big smile.
She continued to live for another 47 years.
First off...how did essie remain so calm.
Like she was just buried under ground and she is all like oh hey sister, missed you..
Totally not phased by this at all.
Terrifying, but also, shes super lucky for her sister.
It could have ended much worse.
For number 9 we have Matthew wall.
Now Matthew Wall was a young farmer that passed away unexpectedly in 1571.
The town was filled with grief as matthew was so young and tremendously loved.
On the day of Matthews funeral he was placed in a coffin and was carried down to the burial
site.
However, one of the men carrying the coffin accidentally slipped on a wet leaf, and fell,
causing matthews coffin to come crashing down.
Everyone was shocked at this horror, however, the drop actually caused Matthew to wake up
in his coffin, and he started banging on the lid.
Still to this day on October 2nd, the village of Braughing has a celebration called old
man's day where they commemorate matthew and this event.
After this incident he lived for 24 more years.
Wow, i think this is the only time that someone would be happy being dropped on the ground.
In our 8th spot we have Angelo Hays Angelo Hays was a French inventor who loved
to ride his motorcycle.
One day while riding his motorcycle he crashed head first into a brick wall.
His head and body were quite disfigured after this accident and he didn’t have a pulse.
He was then quickly buried, until the life insurance company thought he was the victim
of foul play and wanted a further investigation.
Angelo was in the ground for 2 days until he was brought back up and found that his
body was still warm and that he was alive.
Apparently Angelo was just in a deep coma, which slowed down his breathing, and made
his pulse harder to detect.
It is said that this slow breathing actually helped keep him alive while he was underground.
After this incident Angelo invented the security coffin that had a built in radio transmitter
and toilet, just in case this happened to him again.
I mean..
Might as well add a tv in there too and some snacks.
At number 7 we have John Duns Scotus.
John Duns Scotus was a very influential philosopher and an expert in theology.
In 1308 John was declared dead, however it is believed that he was just in a deep coma.
In fact, one of john servants new of john’s comas however was not present when this happened.
This resulted in him being buried alive.
When they went to the tomb where John was buried, they found him laying outside of his
coffin, with bloody torn hands.
As a result of this, safety coffins were made to prevent this from happening again.
Basically safety coffins allow individuals being buried in them to signal if they are
still alive.
Why is this even a thing!?
Can’t the doctors just do a better job at detecting whose still alive!
moving our way down the list we have Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov (moo ham- etz -yanov) at number
6
Now this frightening tale takes place in kazan russia, and surrounds 49 year old Fagilyu
(fa-jil-ou).
In 2011, fagilyu was surprise surprise wrongly pronounced dead due to a heart attack.
A few days later she woke up in her coffin to people praying and crying around her.
This was terrifying for her and she began panicking and screaming.
She was then rushed to the hospital where she sadly only lived 12 more minutes before
truly dying of heart failure.
People believe it was a result of the stress from waking up at her own funeral.
For umber 5 we have Rosangela Almeida Dos Santos.
Now this story occurred fairly recently in 2018.
Rosangela Dos Santos was a 37 year old brazilian woman.
It was said that she passed away from septic shock followed by two cardiac arrests.
After her burial, people claimed to have heard screams and moans coming from around her grave.
This led to the family unburying her coffin, and what they found was quite disturbing.
They believe that Rosangela woke up in her coffin and tried to escape.
There were wounds on her hands from her trying to pry the lid open, even the screws on the
coffin appeared to be loosened.
Her fingernails were also found detached and in her coffin.
They believe that she spent around 11 days trying to escape her coffin.
Coming it at number 4 we have Mrs. Boger.
Now this next story happened in july of 1893 in pennsylvania.
Charles boger and his wife Mrs. Boger lived happily on a farm together.
However, one day, mrs. boger abruptly died of causes that were unknown.
Doctors analyzed her body and confirmed her death.
A few days later she was buried.
Now after that Charles was informed by his friend that his wife has experienced hysteria
before, and that she might just be in another episode.
Turns out this friend informed him too late because when they opened the coffin, he found
his wife's body had been turned over, her clothes were all shredded.
There was also broken glass from the coffin lid being broken.
Her skin was badly scratched, covered in blood and her fingers were missing completely.
After finding out what happened to his wife charles boger disappeared and was never heard
from again.
For number 3 we have Anna Hockwalt.
Now wedding days aren’t typically scary..
Actually I take that back the name bridezilla was created for a reason.
But anyways, in March of 1844 Anna Hockwalt was getting ready for her brother's wedding
when she decided to take a rest in the kitchen.
However, when individuals found her she had her head leaning against the wall, was unresponsive,
and appeared lifeless.
Shortly after she was declared dead when attempts to revive her failed.
Anna was buried the next day, but her friend wasn’t convinced that anna was dead.
She observed that annas ears looked pink as if blood was still flowing through them.
Anna’s friend finally convinced others to have anna dug back up.
When the coffin was open her friend was sadly correct.
Anna was on her side, her fingers so badly destroyed they showed exposed bone, and her
hair was torn out by the handful.
No one knows why Anna slipped into this coma like state.
In our second spot we have Octavia Hatcher Octavia smith hatcher was well known in the
small town of pikeville kentucky, for many reasons.
She was a 20 year old wife, and was a mother to her baby boy jacob, who sadly passed away
a couple of days after birth.
As a result, Octavia was overpowered with extreme sadness.
Her body even entered a coma-like state.
She was pronounced dead on may 2, 1891, when no one could wake her.
She was buried shortly after.
However, a few days later, other town members began to seep into the same coma type state
as Octavia, and they would wake up several days later.
When her husband, James, heard of this news, he dug up Octavias grave, being fearful that
this was the case for her.
Unfortunately, he was correct.
Octavia had woke up in her coffin and was found with bloody fingernails, with parts
of the coffins interior destroyed.
He described her face as being frozen with terror.
James went on to develop a phobia of being buried alive, after this accident.
And coming in at number one we have Alice Blunden
Alice Blunden was apart of a well established family back in 17th century england.
It is said that alice was presumed dead after drinking a large amount of poppy tea.
Now poppy tea is made from dried unwashed seed pods that contained morphine and codeine.
So basically she was just heavily sedated for a long period of time.
The doctor that declared her dead,simple just held a mirror to her nose to detect any breathing..
Not the best method in my opinion.
Alice was then quickly buried, infact, they didn't have a coffin big enough for her, and
the family insisted on having her buried quickly, so they crammed her into a small coffin..
She awoke a couple days later when children heard noises coming from around her grave.
They found that alice was indeed alive however it took another day to dig up her coffin.
After Alice was finally unburied, she was indeed alive, covered in bruises and blood
from trying to escape.
Alice then quickly passed out from the experience….
She was then buried alive AGAIN!
And they just put her back into her coffin, instead of taking her to the doctor.
She awoke again back in her coffin, and died a couple of days later.
Pretty scary stories.
I definitely now understand why people have the fear of being buried alive.
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I know i’m definitely creeped out by some of the stories.
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