"Country Bill” White was a country music sin...  ...o;living corpse,” a stunt man who was often buried underground for weeks at a time. Those stunts don...  ...1966, he married a woman who was also into being buried alive , so they had something in common. But when they d...

Painting entitled Premature Burial by Antoine Wier...  ...lic to suffer from taphophobia (the fear of being buried alive ) during the 18th and 19th centuries. Outbreaks of...  ...nd smallpox were events in which many bodies were buried in a short period of time; sometimes victims of i...  ...nked article below l...

No matter how remote the possibility, the thought...  ...how remote the possibility, the thought of being buried alive is ghastly. It’s not so much the fear of de...  ...ns Christian Andersen was deathly afraid of being buried alive . He spent his final days at the home of his frien...  ...dersen was more...

(Image: Warner Bros.)It may seem like an odd question, especially on a first date. But under certain circumstances, the answer could be really, really important. Christina Cala of Popular Science did some research on the...

Atlas Obscura continues their 31 Days of Halloween...  ...a church in the Czech Republic in which a man was buried alive . The Church of St. James the Greater (Kostel Sv....  ...d is not recorded. But what about the man who was buried alive in the church? That happened about a hundred year...

Being dead at one's own funeral is not unusual, bu...  ...ed screaming after realizing she was about to be buried alive .Mukhametzyanov, a resident of Kazan, was rushed b...

Atlas Obscura continues with their 31 Days of Hall...  ...This post deals with the widespread fear of being buried alive , whether by mistake or by evil intent. That fear...  ...y evil intent. That fear has a long history.Being buried alive is a fear that has been with humanity for a long,...  ...ematurely prono...