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if one of your deepest fears is being
buried alive
this might not be the video for you but
at least there is a happy ending they
all survived
but let's be honest being buried alive
is probably something we all
fear right if you don't well then good
for you
i'm glad that you're with me to curb my
anxiety
as we cover the top 10 people who
survived being
buried alive and to get into the mood
i want to know what would you do if you
were buried alive
number 10 angelo hayes angelo hayes was
in a horrific
accident on his motorcycle which sent
him head
first into a brick wall he was declared
dead when he arrived at the hospital
and his face was so badly disfigured
that the parents weren't even allowed to
see the body
three days later they decided to bury
him
normally that would have been the end of
a very tragic story
but sometimes truth is stranger than
fiction
two days after that he was exhumed for
an insurance investigation
and the examiners found that his body
was still
warm and that he was actually just in a
coma
he made a full recovery and would later
invent his own
security coffin with a chemical toilet
and radio transmitter
number 9 michelina lewandowski
michelina was originally from poland
before moving to the united kingdom
something she might have regretted after
this experience
in 2012 she described in front of a
british court
how she was buried alive with her hands
and feet bound
stuffed into a cardboard box and four
inches underground
with a 90-pound tree branch on top of
her
the man who had buried her was no less
than her fiancee's father
marcin koprasak he didn't commit the
crime alone
planning the whole thing with his
friends after
having grown tired of her they tased her
for long periods of time
tied her up then took hours to finally
decide
to bury her alive she cleverly
and ironically used her engagement ring
to cut her bonds loose
and then clawed her way out she now
lives with post-traumatic stress
disorder but her testimony was enough to
sentence the culprits to
20 years in prison for attempted murder
number eight a morning walk turned
rescue
in 2015 on a brisk november morning
two women were walking down a bike trail
in compton california
when they heard baby cries nearby and
not from a stroller
but from underground they immediately
called the police
who found a baby girl buried under a
pile of asphalt
they rushed her to a hospital where they
identified her hospital bracelet
and the mother 33 year old porsha
laronda washington
it had been an unwanted pregnancy and
she didn't want anyone to know
so she had buried the helpless infant
alive
when it was just one or two days old
number seven unknown six-year-old girl
a six-year-old girl in india survived
being buried alive
after a strange turn of events the
couple who buried her were her neighbors
they approached her with a story that
her mother had asked them to take her to
a fair in another village
she joined them obediently and when they
reached the sugarcane field
the woman choked her until unconscious
then proceeded to
bury her alive field workers grew
curious after seeing three of them
walk into the fields but only the couple
walked out
so they decided to go investigate local
police put out a search warrant for the
neighbors
and the girl's mother it was also
missing
but it's still unclear if any of them
have been found
luckily the little girl survived without
any serious injuries
number six harry houdini though done
intentionally to himself it doesn't make
things any less
scary houdini would perform stuns
similar to this often
testing the limits of his mortality and
of his strength
of course it wasn't always successful
but
usually very impressive in this case
houdini was buried under six feet of
dirt with no
protective case or casket at all
somehow he managed to overcome the
weight of the dirt
and pushed one hand above the surface
before passing out
his assistants pulled him out and he was
lucky to still be alive
it wasn't the last time he did something
of this caliber
either he was also buried alive in an
underwater coffin
where he survived for 90 minutes
number 5 essie dunbar
back in 1915 essie dunbar of south
carolina had an
epileptic attack so bad the doctors
declared her dead
and prepared her for burial her sister
who lived out of town
tried to delay the services for a day in
order for her to be present
however they started before her sister
could arrive
though pastors tried to stall waiting
for her
still they had to move forward with the
burial
it wasn't until the gravediggers had
finished burying the coffin
that essie's sister arrived and insisted
they exhumed the coffin
so she could see her one last time
luckily she did otherwise her sister
would have died
from being buried alive they opened the
coffin
and dunbar sat up and smiled at her
sister
it sounds sweet now but at the time it
was
terrifying to everyone dunbar ended up
chasing the panicked people into town
trying to convince them
she was alive for years people wondered
whether or not
she was a zombie but she was able to
live another
47 years after her own funeral
number four surviving trauma in nigeria
this boy named ibraham saw his father
murdered by armed men who raided their
village in nigeria
as he was mourning over his father's
corpse the armed men
hit him over the head with a machete he
crawled into the shade
and the men grabbed him assuming he was
dead or dying
they buried him under sand where he
stayed for two days
until his sister found him and pulled
him out and carried him home
she only noticed him after a bunch of
flies had gathered in the area
everyone thought she was crazy for
touching a corpse
but the boy lived and went on to make a
full recovery
albeit with both physical and mental
wounds
number three the tian dong county baby
in 2015 a woman in southern china
went out to pick herbs and came upon a
very unexpected sight
much like we saw with the baby from
compton she too
heard infant cries coming from the
ground
she found the baby buried alive in a
cardboard box
buried a few inches below ground and
called the police
who dug him up and took him to the
hospital
the boy was born with a cleft lip and
the parents didn't want him anymore
the infant boy spent eight days
underground
and was coughing up dirty water after
being rescued
it was likely that rain and oxygen found
their way through the dirt
enough to keep him alive number
two natalia pasternak
natalia lived in siberia where she often
took her dog out on walks
on one of these walks she was collecting
birch sap with a friend
when they encountered a bear
unfortunately
the bear attacked and mauled natalya's
legs as
her friend ran for help she lost
consciousness
and the bear dug a hole to bury her not
out of ceremony but likely so it could
come back later
and eat her hunters stumbled upon the
half-buried body
and quickly searched found and killed
the bear that attacked
natalya funny enough upon waking up
natalia's first question was did you
kill the bear
she had a long road to recovery but
thankfully survived her nightmarish
ordeal
number one mike meaney there are those
who go
for a 10-day silent retreat away from
anyone
and there are those who stay alive for
two
months underground much like houdini
mike meaney was set on blowing minds and
breaking records
manny knew the record of 45 days could
be beaten
so he was buried in a coffin with holes
for air
he also had access to food water and a
telephone
reportedly while underground he spoke to
boxer joe lewis
perhaps to ask about his mental strength
61 days later with sunglasses on
he came out looking a bit weaker but
healthy thanks for watching
hmm all this reminds me of fleeing a
theater in fear
while watching a 1962 film the premature
burial
based on the short story by edgar allan
poe
it was chilling to say the least what
about you
do you fear being buried alive perhaps
you'd like to have
a safety coffin as they were called in
the 19th century
so you could ring a bell to let others
know to rescue you
or perhaps have your cell phone buried
with you
just be sure your family liked you
enough to add some minutes to your plan
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