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
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