6 “Buried Alive” Newspaper Stories to Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Neatorama has posted about the wacky inventions developed to protect one from being buried alive. There's no evidence that any of them worked, or ever needed to, but there was a time when the fear of premature burial was understandable, because it happened occasionally. Newspapers.com has a list of six such stories, with links to the full newspaper accounts from as far back as 1729. Of course, just because something was printed in a newspaper doesn't make it factual, even more so in the 19th century. However, it does make them part of the historical record.  -via Strange Company