Dark Enigma - Terrifying Tales of Being Buried Alive

Summary: Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be disturbing, frightening and in some cases offensive. Listener Discretion is advised – there is very adult content ahead and you have been warned. Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... And on today’s Dark enigma well, either it’s my morbid curiosity or my sick sense of humor, I’ll let you decide, but tonight’s subject is very dark and terrifying. So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. The choice of libation is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say buried that will be a single shot and every time I say alive, that will be a double shot. Yep, I know you guys are just waiting on it… with baited breathe… but don’t forget the pay the ferryman to get us to the other side because now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… and terrifying true stories of being buried alive… mwah hahahaha Being buried alive ranks pretty high on the list of terrible ways to die, and it used to happen a lot more than it does now. In fact, in the earlier days of medicine it was much more difficult to determine if someone was actually dead – or just in a coma, emaciated, or paralyzed. Starting around the 18th century, suspected corpses were subjected to abusive tests to establish death. It ranged from the fairly benign nipple pinching all the way up to hot pokers inserted in their rectums. If no complaints registered on that last test, it must certainly be safe to presume them dead. Laughter ensued in 1846 when French doctor Eugène Bouchut suggested the use of new stethoscope technology to listen for the existence of a heartbeat. While we should feel thankful that the days of inferior medical equipment and lack of knowledge are mostly behind us, we haven’t rid humanity of this horrible experience quite yet. There is evil in the world that still makes the threat of being buried alive a valid concern, as some of these stories point out. Good luck sleeping tonight after hearing these – especially if you suffer from taphephobia: the fear of being buried alive.