Probably, each of us remembers from school times the frightening stories of literature teachers about the buried alive Gogol, who suffered periodic falls into lethargic sleep.
And around this terrible history there were so many riddles, rumors and other fables that it is not known until the end whether this was true or the historians have slightly embellished. But today we will tell you not about the sad fate of Gogol. We will tell you the real stories of people who have experienced the entire horror of the enclosed space under the lid of the coffin. You do not want anyone like that. Terrible, not the right word!
1. Octavia Smith Hatcher
At the end of the 19th century, an outbreak of an unknown disease occurred in Kentucky, which claimed many lives. But the most tragic incident occurred with Octavia Hatcher. Her little son Jacob died in January 1891 for an unknown reason. Then Octavia fell into depression, spending all her time in bed in a reclining position. Time passed, but the depressive state only worsened, and in the end, Octavia fell into a coma. On May 2, 1891, the doctors officially recognized her dead, without specifying the cause of death.
At that time, embalming was not practiced, therefore Octavia was quickly buried in the local cemetery because of exhausting heat. Just a week after the funeral, an outbreak of the same unknown disease was recorded in the city, and many townspeople fell into a coma. But with only one difference - after a while they woke up. Octavia's husband began to fear the worst and worried that he buried his wife too soon when she was still breathing. He achieved the exhumation of the body, and his fears were confirmed. The upper lid of the coffin was scratched, and the fabric was torn to shreds. Octavia's fingers were bloodied and torn, and her face twisted with terror. The poor woman died in consciousness in a coffin at a depth of many meters.
Octavia's husband reburied his wife and erected over her grave a majestic monument, preserved to this day. Later, the doctors suggested that such a coma was caused by a tsetse of the Tsetse fly and is known as a sleeping sickness.
2. Mina El Huari
When a person goes on a date, he always thinks about what all can end. Being ready for surprises is great, but no one is preparing to be buried alive. A similar story occurred in May 2014 with Mina El Huari from France. The 25-year-old girl was in Internet correspondence with her lover for months, before deciding to go to him in Morocco for a personal meeting. She arrived at a hotel in Fez on May 19 to meet the man of her dreams, but she was not destined to implement her plans.
Mina, of course, met her lover, but, suddenly, she felt sick and she fainted. A young man, instead of calling the police or an ambulance, made a hasty decision to bury his lover in a small grave in the garden. The only problem was that Mina was not really dead. As is often the case, Mina had no diagnosed diabetes causing diabetic coma attacks. Several days passed before her family filed an application for the loss of her daughter. They flew to Morocco to try to find it.
The Moroccan police tracked down the grief-groom and burst into his house. They found their soiled clothes and used shovels, and then they discovered a horrible burial in the garden. The man confessed his crime and was convicted of manslaughter.3. Mrs. Boger
In July 1893 in the family of Charles Boger, a tragedy occurred: his beloved wife, Mrs. Boeger, suddenly died for an unknown reason. The doctors confirmed her death, so the burial passed very quickly. On this one could put an end to this story, if Charles's friend had not told him that before meeting him, Mrs. Boger suffered hysteria. And this could be the cause of her sudden "death."
The obsession with the living burial of his wife did not leave Charles, and he asked his friends to help him exhume the body. What Charles saw in the coffin plunged him into shock. Mrs. Boger's body was turned face down. Her clothes were torn to shreds, the glass lid of the coffin was broken, and the fragments were scattered all over her body. The skin was bloody and covered with scratches, and fingers were completely absent. Presumably, Mrs. Boger sibbed her fingers in a hysterical fit, trying to free herself. What happened next with Charles Boger is unknown.
4. Angelo Hayes
Some of the most terrible stories of premature burial are those in which the buried victim miraculously manages to survive. This happened with Angel Hayes. In 1937, the carefree 19-year-old Angelo was riding his motorcycle. Suddenly, he lost control and crashed into the brick wall, hitting his head.
The guy was buried 3 days after the accident. If it were not for the suspicions of the insurance company, then no one would know the real truth. A few weeks before the accident, Father Angelo insured his son's life for 200,000 pounds. The insurance company filed a complaint, and the inspector began an investigation.
The inspector exhumed Angelo's body to establish the real cause of the boy's death. And what was the surprise of the inspector and the doctors when, under the shroud, they found the warm body of a boy with a barely perceptible palpitation. At the same time, Angelo was taken to the hospital, conducted several operations and the necessary resuscitation to put the guy on his feet. All this time, Angelo was unconscious because of a serious head injury. After the course of rehabilitation, the boy began to produce coffins, from which it would be easy to get out in case of premature burial. He toured with his invention and became a kind of celebrity of France.
5. Mr. Cornish
John Snart published The Horror Thesaurus in 1817, where he described a frightening story about Mr. Cornish.
Cornish was the favorite mayor of Bath, who died of fever 80 years before the publication of the work of Snart. As was customary at that time, the body of the deceased was quickly buried. When the gravedigger had almost finished his work, he decided to rest for a while and drink with acquaintances passing by. While they were talking, suddenly there were heartbreaking moans emanating from the newly buried grave.
The gravedigger realized that he had buried the man alive alive and tried to save him before the oxygen supply in the coffin had run out. But by the time the gravedigger dug up the coffin from under the thick layers of soiled soil, it was too late. The elbows and knees of Mr. Cornish were bloodied and worn out. This story terribly frightened the step-sister of Cornish, so she asked to be beheaded after death, so that she would not suffer the same fate.
6. Surviving 6-year-old child
The very idea of ​​premature burial seems terrible, not to mention the burial of a still living child. In August 2014, a small 6-year-old girl got into such a situation in the small Indian village of Uttar Pradash. According to the uncle's words, the neighbor's couple told the child that her mother asked to bring the girl to the neighboring village for the fair. On the way, the couple, for some unknown reason, decided to strangle the girl and immediately bury it.
Fortunately, the locals who worked in the field at this time, suspected something was amiss when the couple emerged from the thickets without a child. They found the place where they found the dead body of a girl in a shallow grave. The girl was immediately taken to the hospital, where she, thanks to a miracle, woke up and was able to talk about her captors.
The girl did not remember that she had been buried alive. The police know no reason why the couple wanted to kill the child. Moreover, the suspects have not yet been caught. Huge happiness that this story did not end in tragedy.
7. Buried alive at own will
Humanity knows cases when people tried to deceive fate and even challenge it. Today you can even get manuals on practical actions that will help you get out of the grave if you were buried alive.
Moreover, many people like to tickle their nerves, believing that after that they will be happy for the rest of their days. In 2011, a 35-year-old Russian man decided to play with death, but tragically died.
Asking for help from a friend, the man dug his grave outside of Blagoveshchensk, where he placed a homemade coffin, a piece of water pipe, a water bottle and a mobile phone.
After the man lay down in the coffin, his friend threw the coffin to the ground and left. A few hours later, the buried man called his friend and said that he was feeling fine. But when a friend returned in the morning, he found a corpse in the grave. Probably it was raining at night, which blocked the access of oxygen, and the man just gasped. Despite the tragedy of the situation, in Russia such a "entertainment" was popular at one time, and it is not known how many people died in this way.
8. Lawrence Cotorn
There are many stories about premature graves that seem no more than a legend that is hard to believe. A similar story is about a London butcher named Lawrence Cotorn who was mortally ill in 1661. The owner of the land where Lawrence worked, expected him to die as soon as possible because of the large inheritance she wanted to receive. She did her best to be recognized dead and quickly buried in a small chapel.
After the funeral the mourners heard squeals and moans from the recently buried grave. They rushed to break Kotorn's grave, but it was too late. Lawrence's clothes were torn, her eyes were swollen, and her head was bloodied. The woman was accused of deliberately killing a person, and the story was passed on for a long time from generation to generation.
9. Sifo William Mdletshe
In 1993, a 24-year-old South African guy and his bride got into a serious car accident. His bride survived, and Sifo, who suffered extensive injuries, was deemed dead. The body of the guy was taken to the Johannesburg morgue, where they placed him in a metal container for burial. But in fact, Sifo was not dead, he was just unconscious. Two days later he woke up in confinement. Confused, he began to cry for help.
Fortunately, the morgue workers were nearby and were able to help the guy get out of prison. When Sifo left the horror of the death cell, he went to his bride. But she decided that Sifo was a zombie, and drove him away. Not only that the guy was buried alive, so the girl also rejected him. Bad luck was not lucky ((
10. Steven Small
In 1987, the wealthy heir to the media corporation, Steven Small, was kidnapped and buried alive in a makeshift coffin near the city of Kankakee. 30-year-old Denny Edwards and 26-year-old Nancy Ric planned to kidnap Stephen, bury it underground and demand a ransom of $ 1 million from relatives. The kidnappers took care of Stephen's minimal needs in the air, water and light with the help of pipes. But despite this, the man suffocated.
The police managed to find Mr. Small on his burgundy Mercedes, which was left next to the burial place. Despite the fact that Denny and Nancy were convicted, discussions continued for a long time about whether this was a deliberate murder or not. In any case, this crime is terrible, and the kidnappers will spend 27 more years behind bars.