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The Creepy Mystery of Coffins That Still Haunts People Today 😱 _ Horror Mystery · The Mind of a Man

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Speaker 1: But did you know, Victorian doctors were so terrified of
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Speaker 1: premature burial that they invented coffins designed to rescue people
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Speaker 1: who woke up underground? Imagine opening your eyes and seeing nothing.
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Speaker 1: You're six feet beneath the earth, no sunlight, no way out,
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Speaker 1: just darkness. In the Victorian era, premature burial was a
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Speaker 1: genuine fear. Some people believed a person could be mistaken
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Speaker 1: for dead, buried, and wake up later. So inventors created
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Speaker 1: safety coffins. Some had breathing tubes, some had flags. Others
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Speaker 1: were fitted with bells connected to the surface. If the
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Speaker 1: buried person woke up, they could pull the rope. But
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Speaker 1: there was one horrifying problem. Someone had to be watching
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Speaker 1: the grave because if nobody heard the bell, the coffin
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Speaker 1: became a prison. And somewhere beneath the ground, a person
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Speaker 1: could be completely awake with no one knowing. Death wasn't
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Speaker 1: always the terrifying part. Sometimes, The nightmare was waking up
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Speaker 1: after it.